PHEV specific topic: oil change based on time ONLY

My favorite is a paraphrase of an H.L. Mencken dictum: "no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."

 

Tell that to the current lying Democrats. They are decrying regime change when the same regime is in Venezuela. They are just pressured to quit abusing the US.

 

Which elected Democrats are decrying the attack over regime change?

As for anyone else, how many times did the President say we or he was in charge of Venezuela?

How was Venezuela abusing the US? By not shipping oil to China or India faster? By hurting the profits of the one refinery in the US that could process their crude?

If is because of the drugs, why pardon the ex-president of Honduras who was a major drug trafficker? A country that is the go between for drugs from Venezuela to the US.

 

Because he had the $6M to pay for his "get out of jail" card.
Muduro also nationalized the oil refineries that was owned by many US oil conglomerates, so he could pay-off his cronies. A move that made Trump blush with envy - IMHO. It's the best deal, something for nothing. It was framed as taking it back from the greedy corporations and giving it back to the people - only he gave it back to ONLY his own people (loyalist) - sound familiar. IMHO We didn't go there for the humanitarian crisis, we went there to get paid. I think 50M barrels was mentioned as the price tag??? Is that enough to refill our strategic reserves???

As a side note; If you look at Venezuelan history; what's currently happening here is kinda how it started in Venezuela 20+ years ago. The only reason our decline is being slowed is because the USD is used to settle international trade. IMHO Watch-out, because the international community is finding ways to get around the USD. Then our currency will be as worthless as the Venezuelan Bolivar, because of our 38T+ debit load???? Trump knows that, that's why he's going after resources and wants Greenland for projected rare earth minerals. He just doesn't see how many billions that needs to be invested to get that stuff out of the ground. If that nation had the money and know-how to extract it; wouldn't they have already done it themselves?????? It's more than likely; it isn't economically feasible to do it without massive backing from a bottomless government checkbook. Now we're back to USD trillions of dollar debt load.......
We've already tried nation building in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and now we went into Venezuela and possibly Greenland???? Almost forgot; Zelinski was able to recalibrate Trumps tone by granting him/us mineral rights in disputed territories in Ukraine. Better than being called the person that started WW3.

What happened to Americans first not corporation greed first, and going after his perceived enemies????

Just my two cents

 

Venezuela nationalized its oil sector in 1970s. They still needed outside expertise to get the heavy crude out. So there were state/private partnerships in place. Chavez nationalized those. The private parties got judgements awarded in international courts.

Aside for the judgements not being fully paid, the only thing Muduro has done is be Chavez's boy.

 

When Venezuela nationalized their oil industry they stole the equipment from US companies. Also, their country ios focussed on illicit drug cartels with the US as their major customer base. To address the war on drugs, deal with the source, among other things. The country was also propping up Cuba and a main supplier of terrorist funds.

 

Sorry; off by a couple of decades. Who needs to know foreign history when we can barely remember our own....

 

Couldn't find evidence of Dems lying?

Is the US government going to settle Venezuela's debts to those US companies with the oil it has seized? Seems those companies are not in rush to reclaim the stolen property. Are we going to invade Iran next? They stole oil company property too.

The president of Honduras was convicted of smuggling 400 tons of cocaine into the US, and was serving time. Trump pardoned him. We have no reason to believe Trump won't just pardon Muduro. Then none of the narcotic apparatus was dismantled by simply snatching Muduro and his wife. How did this military action hinder those and terrorist operations there?

Decades of the war on drugs and Prohibition has shown attacking the supply does not work. The demand needs to be addressed.

How the F is Cuba a threat to the US?

Well, Chavez's recent actions seems to be a point for the current situation. @daniel was right, the US is a bully, and can't let anyone standing up to it go unpunished.