MárciaW 🇸🇩"The final stage of this episode will likely involve personal enrichment. Trump has consistently blurred the line between public power and private gain. Venezuela offers another opportunity for branding and profit. This would mirror how earlier American elites, including the Rockefellers, benefited from Venezuelan oil a century ago."
#USpol #Venezuela #Imperialism #ResourceGrab #LatinAmerica #Oil
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/07/trump-and-pump-another-oil-quagmire/
Trump and Pump: Another Oil Quagmire
Kleptocracy, crony capitalism, imperialism, colonialism, carbon politics or Kissinger-style politics. Call it what you wish. But the Trump semi coup in Venezuela is another example of the retro politics of the Trump administration, and it is destined to pull the US into yet another quagmire, reminiscent of Iraq, Afghanistan and perhaps even Vietnam.