Oil, maybe?
I wonder why the Trump administration is so interested in Venezuela?
Oh, so that’s why.
A barrel of oil is selling for about $60 this morning. 303 billion barrels at $60 a barrel is more than $18 trillion in future earnings (likely much more than this as the price of oil climbs to $100 per barrel and higher).
Who put America’s oil off the coast of Venezuela? Remember, it’s the Gulf of America, people.
In other news, the admiral in charge of SOUTHCOM is retiring early. Rumor has it he’s objected to the kill and regime change policies of Trump and Hegseth vis-a-vis Venezuela.
President Trump himself recently admitted he’s authorized covert overt CIA activities against the Venezuelan government. A CIA-orchestrated coup combined with U.S. military attacks on Venezuela is likely coming. It’s shrouded in drug war rhetoric, but of course the real goal is control over Venezuela’s oil.
The recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize to a Venezuelan opposition leader is another fig leaf in this operation. Once again, war will be sold to the American people as advancing democracy when it’s really all about the Benjamins.
Trump and Hegseth’s murderous strikes against alleged drug-running boats (at least five already destroyed) is another pretext for regime change. Yet the USA was more than happy to tolerate, even encourage, a massive drug trade in heroin during the Afghan War.
Oh well. War always finds a way, especially when oil is involved. Just think of the Iraq regime change invasion in 2003. That went so well, didn’t it?
This short video by Max Blumenthal sums it up quite well:
The Nobel Prize goes to… war on Venezuela
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal breaks down the sinister record of 2025 Nobel “Peace” Prize winner Maria Corina Machado, a radical pro-war Venezuelan opposition figure backed by the US government who has personally appealed for Israel to invade her country to place her in power…
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Conveniently, the government is still shut down, so I guess Trump can’t ask Congress for a formal declaration of war. Yet another unconstitutional war has already started and Congress is nowhere to be found.
It’s time for regime change for democracy right here in America.
Bracing Views 
Okay, maybe it’s just the way the day is unfolding (just lovely, weatherwise), or maybe I am finally just cracking up, but I took all of this with a certain deadpan humor (emphasis on “dead”). Was it on the Substack site version or somewhere else that I wrote, “Nobel Peace Prize or Nobel (In)Pieces Prize”? And control over the extraction of oil? The stuff that’s supposed to be kept in the ground so as to lessen (lesson?) to worst of global warming?
I gotta pick up on “extrajudicial killings” though. Of course it applies here to those (lost) souls, maybe even fisherman, off the Venezuelan coast, but couldn’t it also mean those people right here in America being Made Great Again who are suffering the consequences, perhaps even dying, from the decimation of government programs, the unwarranted slashing of funding for Medicaid and SNAP and rural hospitals and clinics? What chance do those at-risk people have to appeal their fates – after all, legal services being among those things cut – as if it’d make any difference?
Are there designer label straitjackets one can order online, for when that day comes?
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