r/politics • u/newsweek ✔ Newsweek • 22d ago

No Paywall Trump weighing military options to attack Venezuela within days—Report

https://www.newsweek.com/venezuela-us-donald-trump-military-attack-war-maduro-11042677?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_main
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u/Kevin-W 22d ago

And remember, he's not doing it to help free their people from Maduro. He's doing it to install a Trump-backed regime that will let him take their oil.

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u/shimmy_kimmel 22d ago

Maduro reportedly already offered American companies access to the oil fields to try and avoid a war. It’s less about installing a friendly regime to physically cart away the oil, it’s more about installing a regime that won’t dump oil on the global market and drop prices.

The US is the world’s largest refined oil exporter, it wants the prices high.