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Krauerking@lemy.lol to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone?

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The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone?

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Krauerking@lemy.lol to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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The U.S. Took Over Venezuela’s Oil Industry. Where Has All the Money Gone? | Council on Foreign Relations
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The American and Venezuelan people remain in the dark about how the Trump administration is controlling billions of dollars of Venezuelan oil revenue. Without accountability mechanisms or a clear democratic roadmap, the United States risks entrenching a corrupt successor regime.
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    $100 million in gold was removed so far too.

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      So basically, just regular colonialism, but no one is going to do anything about it this time around.

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        If the US weakens itself enough with other wars, Venezuelans might be able to break free

        Very morbid way to look at it though because it involves a lot of people needlessly dying

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      Yeah, it sounds like they were just the easiest target to rob first that had anything worth taking.

      I guess Venezuelan gold and oil was higher on the list than Red Lobster’s endless shrimp.

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        Maduro offered all this to Trump. He gave Trump the idea and Trump just decided to take it all rather than do a trade agreement that would benefit both countries.

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        Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of time to take over Greenland and free their supply of delicious, endless shrimp.

        /s

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          Lol, shrimp don’t come from green land.

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            20 hours ago

            It was a quote by a US republican the other day. Hence the /s.

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            23 hours ago

            You didnt see then? That was a real pitch from Tom Dans, Trump appointee chair of the Arctic Research Commission.

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              Yeah, I was trying to one up their tarded level by just going with general grasslands instead of Greenland. Should have added /s or something, I guess.

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                No, no I see the vision! The problem is you are focusing on the green part.

                Shrimp dont come from Greenland, at best they come from GreenWet.

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              Yes, that was the joke.

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                Yeah same, and I think they just didnt realize how dumb our world has gotten.

                Can’t blame them though. Its to much stupidity to keep up with all of it.

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                  19 hours ago

                  It is really dumb. We jumped the shark in 2016 and everything since then is a poorly scripted reality TV show.

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