Will Trump Invade Venezuela?

[Nobody]

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm afraid of.

[Blackleaf]

"I don't doubt that Maduro is a criminal but so is Trump."

[Nobody]

Preach it, brother! 👏

[Nobody]

If Venezuela starts pumping out much more oil, won't that cause a decrease in global oil prices, losing money for the oil companies?

[Cassia]

If Venezuela starts pumping out much more oil, won't that cause a decrease in global oil prices, losing money for the oil companies?

US big oil already got burned down there when production became nationalized. Probably not thrilled about risking billions to turn it around.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The oil companies will be lap dogs for POUTUS.

[Cassia]

The oil companies will be lap dogs for POUTUS.

With any luck, he'll be long gone before significant oil starts flowing. And they still have an illegal vice-president with essentially the same government. I'm not really understanding this whole thing.

[Nobody]

I wrote something back during the Iraq war that still seems relevant in the current situation:

America has been betrayed
By the politicians' corporate greed,
And by a president, whose only creed
Is "Get the oil! No need for trade,
We want the oil, so let's invade!"

The neo-cons' agenda's weighed
In the moral balance, and found wanting,
Like the robber-barons, who still are haunting
The conscience of a world decayed,
A world where caring's been mislaid.

For long the corporations preyed
On the cheapest labor they could find,
And "Profit only!" they've enshrined,
While the ones who work are underpaid,
Who slave away with pen or spade.

The politicians masquerade
As pious saviors, while they steal
The nation's sweat, and then conceal
The avarice of their charade,
While responsibility they evade.

But now the truth has been displayed,
Though we've just begun to recognize
The wolves who long were in disguise;
We're not just sheep, we're not afraid,
And we will NOT let our country fade!

[Cassia]

I wrote something back during the Iraq war that still seems relevant in the current situation:

America has been betrayed
By the politicians' corporate greed,
And by a president, whose only creed
Is "Get the oil! No need for trade,
We want the oil, so let's invade!"

The neo-cons' agenda's weighed
In the moral balance, and found wanting,
Like the robber-barons, who still are haunting
The conscience of a world decayed,
A world where caring's been mislaid.

For long the corporations preyed
On the cheapest labor they could find,
And "Profit only!" they've enshrined,
While the ones who work are underpaid,
Who slave away with pen or spade.

The politicians masquerade
As pious saviors, while they steal
The nation's sweat, and then conceal
The avarice of their charade,
While responsibility they evade.

But now the truth has been displayed,
Though we've just begun to recognize
The wolves who long were in disguise;
We're not just sheep, we're not afraid,
And we will NOT let our country fade!

So ironic that now China gets 10 times the oil from Iraq than the US does. The US oil firms get just 4% of total Iraqi production which is about 4% of our imports, LOL.