ExxonMobil tells Trump that Venezuela is uninvestable [sic], Trump stiffs ConocoPhillips, Chevron, already there, is ready to go go go

 What the Big Oil executives told Trump about investing in Venezuela

... “We’ve had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here,” Woods told Trump at the White House. “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable.” ...

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance congratulated Trump on ousting former President Nicolás Maduro. He said the banking sector will need to help restructure Venezuela’s debt and provide billions of dollars in financing for the restore [sic] the country’s infrastructure. ... Trump told the Conoco CEO that the U.S. government is not looking at recovering the assets the company lost during the 2007 nationalization.

“We’re not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault,” Trump said. “That was a different president. You’re going to make a lot of money, but we’re not going to go back.” ...

Vice Chairman Mark Nelson said Chevron has a way forward to rapidly ramp up its production, which currently stands at about 240,000 barrels per day.

“We have a path forward here very shortly to be able to increase our liftings from those joint ventures 100% essentially effective immediately,” Nelson told Trump. “We are also able to increase our production within our own disciplined investment schemes by about 50% just in the next 18 to 24 months.” ...

In November we get to remind Stephen Miller that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, whose duty it is to alter or abolish government when it attacks life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, abroad or at home

 

 

 Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman’s View of the World

 ... “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper of CNN on Monday, during a combative appearance in which he was pressed on Mr. Trump’s long-held desire to control Greenland. ... 

 

 

Trump wouldn't know high quality oil if it started comin' out of his . . . whatever

 

Trump throws pro-lifers in America under the bus after betraying the anti-communists in Venezuela

The Federalist goes full-on Orwell: Intervention in Venezuela was a win for Anti-Interventionism

We had to intervene in Venezuela to preserve the policy of anti-interventionism. 

We had to destroy the village to save it.

We had to abandon free-market principles to save the free market system.

We had to attack the Confederacy in order to preserve the Union.

 

Maduro Raid a Win for America First Anti-Interventionism

John Davidson, Federalist

 

... Trump’s Venezuela policy these last three or four months — the stationing of a flotilla of U.S. warships off the coast, the systematic targeting of drug boats, the seizure of the oil tanker — was designed to hew as closely as possible to the anti-interventionist instincts and preferences of his MAGA base. We are not at war with Venezuela. We have no occupation force there. And yet Maduro is gone. ...

 

Maduro just magically disappeared!

 

 

Yeah, Trump did a really great job kicking out of Venezuela all that foreign influence in our hemisphere from China, Russia, and Iran

 

As usual Trump puts the cart before the horse: If you don't already have total access, you're not in charge

And you don't put protective tariffs on trade when you have nothing to protect.

 

“We’re in charge,” he told reporters. “We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country.”

More. 

Rush Limbaugh: Politics is Hollywood for ugly people

 

 I'm sure Stephen Miller would agree.

Trump: Pro-Maduro Protesters In NYC "Worst-Looking People I've Ever Seen"

 

When the cops in Grand Rapids, Michigan, tell you and your bullhorn to get the hell out of the street, you'd better do it, because there's a law for that

  

 Preschool Teacher, 22, Arrested on TV After Condemning Trump...

The dopes around Trump thought the Cartel de los Soles was a real entity, including Marco Rubio to this day

 Pam Bondi forced to admit Trump's Maduro claim is a complete fiction

... Cartel de los Soles is actually a slang term invented by Venezuelan media in the 1990s to describe officials who take drug money as bribes.

The revised indictment against Maduro now concedes that point against the now deposed dictator.

The old indictment refers to the Cartel de los Soles 32 times and claims Maduro is the leader of the organization. The revised document now only claims Maduro upheld the patronage system along with his predecessor and mentor, President Hugo Chávez. ...

Marco Rubio continued referring to Cartel de los Soles as an actual organization during a Sunday interview on NBC's show Meet the Press.

'We will continue to reserve the right to take strikes against drug boats that are bringing drugs toward the United States that are being operated by transnational criminal organizations, including the Cartel de los Soles,' Rubio claimed.

'Of course, their leader, the leader of that cartel, is now in U.S. custody and facing US justice in the Southern District of New York. And that's Nicolas Maduro.' ...

 

They must read me lol

 

The Department of One Law For Me, Another For Thee checking-in

 

Donald J. Trump, dictator of Venezuela

 

Trump on Venezuela: "We Are Going To Run The Country"

George W. Bush crossed the Rubicon of American Imperial pre-emptive first strikes in 2003 in Iraq but it was hotly debated in 2002, now we hardly bat an eye when Trump does it

Government of the Uniparty, by the Uniparty, and for the Uniparty.

Trump fancies that he's different from George W. Bush, but he's the same guy. 

Flashback: July 1, 2002 

Striking First: President Bush's Preemptive Strike Policy

... We can't have one kind of law for the rest of the world that we impose on the rest of the world and an imperial law, if you will, a law of empire, that applies only to the United States. ... We were seeing the possibility of a new kind of law of empire where we would stand above the rest of the world, and the bottom line when we look at the question of attacking civilians, what happens when we're wrong? Like we were today in Afghanistan, where civilians died because of bad intelligence? ...

 

China may have been buying up to 80% of Venezuelan oil exports, but that amounts to just 4% of China's imported supply

 Ample oil supply shields China from impact of Venezuela disruption, for now

 

They're licking their chops over Venezuela's $17 trillion worth of crude oil

 

U.S. in Prime Position To Unlock Venezuela's Vast Oil Reserves

Eaton, et al., WSJ

Venezuela's new dictator

Hegseth: When Trump Says U.S. Will "Run" Venezuela, He Means "He Will Be Able To Dictate"

Some people think this might have been, you know, theatre, where if everyone plays their part then everyone wins

Except for the casualties in Venezuela, of course, who presently number about 40. 

 

Trump was against regime change before he was for it

 

In August 2016 in Youngstown, Ohio Trump specifically disavowed regime change wars, but now we're going to be running Venezuela for a while after removing Maduro

 

 ... Our current strategy of nation-building and regime-change is a proven, absolute failure. ...

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