• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
    89·
    9 days ago

    It’s always been about the oil with Venezuela. The US does not care about the legitimacy of foreign elections and never has, anyone who believes that is an idiot,

  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
    79·
    9 days ago

    To misattribute a quote to Gordon Ramsey: “You’ve put so much oil in this, the US want to invade the plate”.

      • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 days ago

        It’s not worth it, maybe one day it will be worth but we are developing alternatives… Plenty of reserves in allied countries and I think the US has big untouched reserves just in case.

        Venezuela is incapable of processing that oil because when they nationalized the industry they fucked it so hard now they don’t have the tools, that’s what Bolivarism does.

  • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
    23·
    9 days ago

    And they’d be exporting plenty if they weren’t sanctioned by the world’s largest military and single biggest consumer of oil.

    Literally the most similar country on Earth to Venezuela, both politically and economically, is Norway. But they’re white. That’s the big difference.

    • khepri@lemmy.world
      6·
      8 days ago

      It hard to think of two more dissimilar nations, outside of the fact that they both have oil and both coincidentally have almost identical GDPs (despite Venezula having about 6 times the population of Norway). But in any other area you care to consider, from per-capita GDP to political stability to education to economic diversification to healthcare to corruption to age distribution to civil liberties to pollution to population growth to the HDI, they are in extremely sharp contrast in almost every way we measure nations. Politically, it’s a stable parliamentary democracy up against a polarized authoritarian-leaning republic, pretty darn far from each other. Yes, they are both resource-dependent, state-central, and redistributional nations, but they go about it in virtually opposite ways functionally, and there are dozens of such countries that would rank closely on those generic metrics.

    • answersplease77@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 days ago

      The United States of terrorist America are going for the worst outcome for climate change: more fossil fuel through war. There is no hope for future generations if this goes through

    • ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      9 days ago

      Not allowed only the countries who had nukes firsts are allowed to have them ever its nuclear non proliferation on top of that the ones that have them pinkie promise to phase them out any day now. This is totally fair and balanced and we will bomb you if you disagree.

      • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        8 days ago

        to phase them out any day now

        tbf lots of progress has already been made:

        Source

        And i’m definitely a fan of not every small country having them. imagine how much harm they could do.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Yo someone go let Iran know that they should probably be getting nukes. Not sure if they’re aware of the need /s

    • copd@lemmy.world
      2·
      8 days ago

      Have you guys already forgotten the sortie of B-2s and GBU-57s on Fordow? Damn it’s scary how quickly people forget

  • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
    14·
    8 days ago

    “No MoRe WaRs” and Trump the Peacemaker was a big part of their campaign. Hopefully invading Venezuela would hurt him more politically than any oil but who am I kidding? They’ll all just lie like they always do.

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
    13·
    8 days ago

    What many people don’t realize is that a significant chunk of our oil processing infrastructure in America is designed for Venezuelas oil specifically. It’s very thick and that means a very different procedure for refinement. Thinner/watery crude oil from other places in the world is much easier to work with and many other places are already set up to refine that oil. Not everyone in the world is set up to process Venezuelas crude oil.

    This also means we can’t just get oil somewhere else and run it through those same refineries with the same results. Venezuela has the single largest oil reserves and America spent a lot of time, energy and money to process that oil.

    So yes it is about oil, but it’s much more complicated than simply “oil”.

  • Johanno@feddit.org
    11·
    9 days ago

    Well we have reserves in barrels and export ind dollars.

    So nobody can get any information about how much oil was actually exported.

    I don’t know the oil price. I don’t think everyone is paying the same.

    This is almost useless

  • Seefoo@lemmy.world
    8·
    9 days ago

    No guys, seriously? Its definitely 100% about their freedom the drug “problem”.