If the people of Venezuela WANT US oil companies to develop their oil fields or to buy the oil that results, that should be up to the people of Venezuela. Not some puppet government installed at the point of a gun ( or bomb ).

We really need to move beyond oil anyway. What the fuck is wrong with people.

Trump is a businessman. In business you always notify the owners before you tell the flunkies.

He's certainly giving the country the business.

for big campaign donations from big oil. And bonus... he may have what he thinks is his Bin Laden moment.

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220910286

(formerly US military) work for corporate operations.

big things if they put him back into the White House. They got Venezuela.

But told the experts in actual leaks beforehand?

This is one of those patently obvious points that clearly illustrate that American Democracy is dead, but 1/3 of the country will defend it with their lives and 1/3 of the country will go on about "both sides."

So why the fuck would they try and set up shop 1,000 miles away in a destabilized nation with shitty oil infrastructure?