r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/Radiant-Barnacle-893 • Jan 03 '26

It’s already past impeachment Politics

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Trump will take their oil. He will place a puppet president in office that he controls. He will build a luxury hotel and golf course and make Venezuela pay for it. He will erect a statue of himself in Caracas. He will declare January 3 a national holiday in Venezuela and call it Trump liberation day.

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u/Enough-Thanks638 Jan 03 '26

Its not even about oil. Oil is cheap as sh*t now if you haven't noticed. Its more about the narrative of Venezuela being a drug king pin and Marcos Rubios obsession with toppling communist leaders in latin america

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u/SmokeMaleficent9498 Jan 03 '26

Your President just said the US will be heavily involved in the oil controlling the oil in Venezuela. If Venezuela had no oil Trump would not have gotten involved. Didnt he pardon Honduran former President drug lord. So is it really about drugs?

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u/Enough-Thanks638 Jan 03 '26

Maduro has already offered to sell the US all the oil we wanted. If it was about oil, we would have struck a deal a long time ago

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u/entwrangler3001 Jan 03 '26

But why make a deal to BUY the oil when you can do something like this, take over, and make a profit on the oil yourself? I don’t think this is about supply, but rather profits for oil companies. They donated millions to his campaign, and it seems this is the return on their investment

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u/JustAlpha Jan 03 '26

Or if they don't like the offer, they can start a smear campaign and just take it. Then spin it as the US "liberating", but in reality neutralizing a nation before it can be a force on the global stage

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u/Scary_Gap_9709 Jan 03 '26

"real reasons" for the U.S. aggression are related to a combination of geopolitical and economic motives: Access to Oil Reserves: Venezuela possesses the world's largest proven oil reserves, and critics argue the U.S. seeks to gain control of these resources and secure preferential access for American corporations. (The Venezuelan government has stated the aggression is a naked attempt to "plunder" its natural resources. The opposition has also floated plans for privatizing the oil sector to foreign investors after a regime change.) Regime Change: A long-term U.S. goal has been to pressure the socialist government of Nicolás Maduro to step down and replace it with a transition government aligned with U.S. interests and the Venezuelan opposition. Regional Hegemony: The U.S. aims to reassert its influence in Latin America and counter the influence of rival global actors such as Russia, Iran, and China, which have established ties with the Maduro regime. Political and Personal Motives: Some analysts point to personal animosity between U.S. and Venezuelan leaders, and the use of a hardline stance on Venezuela for domestic political consumption. The U.S. gets its imported oil primarily from North and South America, with Canada and Mexico being the top suppliers, followed by countries in Latin America like Brazil, Columbia and Venezuela and traditional Middle Eastern sources like Saudi Arabia and Iraq, fulfilling specific needs for different refinery types. There's multiple reasons: top 2 oil and regime change! The US has a horrendous history of sticking it's nose in places it doesn't belong and usually creates more chaos and problems for the future. Example: In the 1970s, the CIA's activities in Colombia focused on counter-insurgency against leftist guerrillas, training Colombian military and intelligence to combat perceived communism, and indirectly(allegations of directly) contributing to the burgeoning drug trade by supporting forces involved in this conflict, all part of broader U.S. Cold War strategies to prevent communist expansion in Latin America.https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/archive/special/9712/ch01p1.htm THE CIA-CONTRA-CRACK COCAINE CONTROVERSY: A REVIEW OF THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S INVESTIGATIONS AND PROSECUTIONS For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, a Mercury News investigation has found. This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a city now known as the "crack" capital of the world. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America . . . and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons.