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14. Yes, I could expect such.

Reply to Ocelot II (Reply #12)

Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:25 PM

Oct 2025

However, there's zero chance we're going to turn a country in South America into our oil slave. Look how much China invested into them, I think it was like $10 billion? All they got for their monies was a minor prick in the butt of the US. We can't control, let alone police a nation such as they are for an increasingly outdated goal of fossil fuel dominance. Or am I missing something here?

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What is Trump's endgame with Venezuela? [View all] herding cats Oct 2025 OP

Oil lame54 Oct 2025 #1

I don't think that's just it anymore. herding cats Oct 2025 #8

There is no end game. He needs a bogeyman. This one will do, and if it ceases to do RockRaven Oct 2025 #2

Oil. Venezuela could be Iraq redux. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #3

This was my thoughts but not so much now. herding cats Oct 2025 #5

There were conditions on the offer. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #12

Yes, I could expect such. herding cats Oct 2025 #14

That could very well be, but I keep thinking about the Bush admin's designs on Iraq - Ocelot II Oct 2025 #16

Oh, I'm definitely not dismissing such! herding cats Oct 2025 #17

End game? Turbineguy Oct 2025 #4

Yes, it's expensive to refine. herding cats Oct 2025 #6

Exactly right it's about the Epstein files, MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2025 #7

I'm most definitely not disagreeing here, but this has been going on for months there. herding cats Oct 2025 #11

Relations with Venezuela have been problematic since long before the Epstein files Ocelot II Oct 2025 #13

That's quite true, but not this problematic, MarineCombatEngineer Oct 2025 #15

Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves. Ocelot II Oct 2025 #9

Distraction. Everything is. usonian Oct 2025 #10

To make it the 52nd state after Canada. LastDemocratInSC Oct 2025 #18

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