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In reply to the discussion: White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations [View all]Irish_Dem
(78,439 posts)They are allies with Venezuela and heavily invested in the oil industry there, but not
backing Venezuela right now.
Russia is broke right now and spread thin with the Ukraine War.
China is worried about tariffs and trade deals. Plus China wants to invade Taiwan
and the US invasion of Venezuela gives him permission to do so?
Perhaps Trump is cutting deals with them now.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world, over 300 billion barrels.
It cannot afford to extract this oil due to high costs of doing so along with political and social issues.
Both China and Russia have oil investments in the country.
It is 100% certain that the major powers, US, Russia, China have their eye on the prize here.
Perhaps a deal is being cut as we speak. How to divide up the Venezuelan oil between them.
Trump steals the oil and sells some of the extraction rights to China and Russia.
For the right price.
I do not know what is going on behind the scenes right now.
We know Kushner is getting involved so we know the ratfuckery is ramping up.