re: Might want to get sticky going for the Venezuela war (strikes imminent)

Im pretty sure some are built specifically for this and are under utilized because of:

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According to a Congressional Research Service report, many Gulf Coast refineries are “optimally configured to process heavy crude oils” including Venezuelan heavy crude.

Citgo owns three U.S. refineries (in Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois) that have high coking capacity and have historically processed heavy crude from Venezuela.

A trade-association document noted that more than 20 different U.S. refineries had processed Venezuelan crude (in 2016.)

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Venezuela is a fricking humanitarian crisis. They’re not holding real elections, they don’t let their people have the choice of new leaders. Over a quarter of the country has fled, and most of them have inundated their Latin American neighbors, not the US. Hunger is prevalent. It’s been a sharp descent for them and it is a truly hopeless situation.

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Literally couldn’t care less.

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Cuba and Venezuela, two countries who export nothing to the US except their people

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Well yeah... when you sanction the ever living frick out of countries w/the express purpose of crippling their economy it's kind of hard for them to send you any exports.

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Venezuelan oil sucks Very sulphur heavy and cannot be refined in US refineries.

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The majority of US refiners are quite literally designed to process super heavy, sour crudes.

All because Jose Altuve won the MVP in 2017

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The strategic objective in South America is to prevent the Chinese from establishing a strong foothold in resource rich continent

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Same rationale for Russia and Ukraine?

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Well yeah... when you sanction the ever living frick out of countries w/the express purpose of crippling their economy it's kind of hard for them to send you any exports.

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They don’t export shite to anyone except Venezuela pushing their oil to China. And that hasn’t been all that great for them considering the distance it has to travel.

These countries seized many assets owned by US companies and were subsequently locked out of the western economy. Their leaders have had their boots on the throats of the people the whole time, pretending their system is remotely possible in a global market, stealing assets then running them in isolation. The only time things were stable in Cuba post revolution was when the soviets were paying like 4x market price for the sugar to prop it up as a frick you to the US.

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I think Ukraine was/is more about protecting “the West” money laundering operation

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Rubio and his ilk are horny to get Maduro out for some reason. You could say it's because he is a communist thug and deals drugs. But, we are usually fine with repressive thugs and scumbags as long as they are our thugs and scumbags. I think it's about oil (or petrodollars), or as others have speculated, setting the tone that we will get involved on that continent if China or Russia do.

Again, the fentanyl is mostly made in China and Mexico, so I think it's disingenuous to say Venezuela is killing Americans. And, most of those narco boats can't reach the U.S. They drop off the drugs elsewhere.