re: We are clearly planning to invade Venezuela, right?

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I'm all for conquering Venezuela. Just take the oil.

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Ok Dick Cheney

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Do we want Cocaine Sharks??

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Are those worse than Tornado Sharks?

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Pretty clear we don’t want a communist petro state in our hemisphere and we will do what it takes to prevent it.

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China. Venezuela. Whoever else. Are any of these dorks really communist countries. Russia tried to spread communism back in the day in order to create a new world order. The only thing that China is trying to spread these days is power. China doesn't care about your country's form of government or you opinion of Vladamir Lenin's writings as long as you let them have their Chinese-owned shite there.

Communism used to be a real threat to the American Century and the world order. Now it's just a catch-all and a partisan talking point to explain away any time Trump acts like a globalist and not an isolationist.

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It is so bad that he refuses to ever go back even to see his extended family.

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I have a friend from Venezuela who made the mistake of going back to visit some old friends and family, and ended up getting kidnapped. He hasn't been back since.

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There's class warfare going on right now between the old Venezuelans in America and the new ones.


Yep. The rich classy Venezuelans fled when the communists came into power 20-30 years ago

Now the poor ones are coming in and they dont like it.

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Because the poor ones burned down their homes and tried to kill them 20 years ago.

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Did the War on Drugs mean nothing to you?

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It had a symbolic meaning to me.


Kind of like the symbolic war on drugs.

It wasn’t too long ago when we sent troops to another part of the world over oil and got stuck there fighting conflict after stupid conflict.

Also, how is this supposed to work? We just go over there, kill a bunch of people, break their shite, occupy their country and steal their oil…and there’s no consequences for doing this?

Need a military presence to secure the fields, wells and pipelines during production :shrug

And Iraq's oil was divided between the US, UK, Russia, China, France, Italy, Japan, S Korea, Netherlands, Turkey and Portugal, not sure about Afghanistan

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Also I'm assuming it's really done to prevent the people and/or head of state from legitimately nationalizing the resources, which are de facto controlled by foreign nations and military intervention comes into play when that control comes under threat

Hell, the first thing Vietnam did after the Paris Peace Accords was award oil contracts to Exxon and Shell

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The explanation is the Shale revolution, but this chart up to ~2008 is a textbook oil field(s) decline curve and then it inexplicably reverses, right around the same time that Iraq's oil reserves seemingly went poof

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Need a military presence to secure the fields, wells and pipelines during production :shrug

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Yeah, no thanks.

Are you cool with FedGov sending the young adults in your family to bleed and die in South America over oil when we’re a net energy exporter now? Or, are you yourself willing to?

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And Iraq's oil was divided between the US, UK, Russia, China, France, Italy, Japan, S Korea, Netherlands, Turkey and Portugal, not sure about Afghanistan

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I guess the point is that we went over to kick Iraq out of Kuwait and we stayed in the region for nearly three decades. Oil became WMD, WMD, became the Taliban, then ISIS, then “install democracy”. Occupying Venezuela would suck and that’s assuming it doesn’t turn into a proxy war with China, Russia and North Korea who will most certainly be arming them. I think the cost (in lives, equipment, money and being on the same ethical footing as Russia) would be way more than you think.