president Maduro captured after US strikes

[CharlesT2]

You sure?

Yes!

[IAMTAT]

It's amazing just how much Nicholas Maduro looks like Joseph Stalin.
Coincidence...or self-styling?

[quintessentone]

Another foolish statement that proves you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

Look up the type of oil that the US is getting through fracking and what types of oil refineries you have that need to be fed. Only Canada and Venezuela have the type of oil that your refineries need. I see Trump failing the people there in many ways.

Guess what types of oil Cuba, Colombia and Mexico have?

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Well your dark side has Venezuela celebrating in the street.

I'm sure they are. I saw the pictures. Plus I remember Iraqis celebrating putting Saddam in rat hole at one point too, which didn't at all deteriorate over time in something worse.

Right now, It's a glorious time for "greater good and regime change." 

Which when we do it (after 9/11), means...

Claiming Oil Interests: A key component of the plan involves having American oil companies like Chevron and Halliburton revitalize Venezuela's oil industry, which has the world's largest oil reserves, with the goal of increasing production and generating revenue for the country and the US

Yay, Halliburton, they're relevant when we invade and occupy oil countries for tenuous reasons. No Tony Blair this time.

And I presume Haliburton are no longer evil warhawks connected to traitor RINOs?

Feels like a reboot of two classic movies called Panama and Iraq II: The Fall of The Evil-Doers, only combined into one movie. Early 80s meets early 2000s with a good-over-evil cinematic trope for 2026.

[UltraBudgie]

This is reality, not a degenerate Hollywood "trope".

I swear, liberals live in a media-generated fantasy-land.

Main character syndrome.

No one cares.

[andy06shake]

It's estimated that rebuilding the oil infrastructure will cost between $50–$60 billion.

And take several years to accomplish.

I'm just wondering, given the decades of underinvestment, mismanagement, and physical decay.

How Trump plans to have the U.S. oil companies get in there and get the oil flowing? 

And what happens to the people and nation in the meantime?

[Vermilion]

It’s fascinating watching some people suddenly care about Venezuelan oil.
Two days ago they had no problem with that oil being stolen from the Venezuelan people by their dictator king and his deals with Iran, Russia, Cuba and China.
Yet only now do they have a problem with it when the US may benefit from it as opposed to the countries that want to destroy us.

I’ll post this again so it’s harder to ignore….

“This is the Western Hemisphere. This is where we live, and we're not going to allow the Western Hemisphere to be a base of operation for adversaries, competitors, and rivals of the United States. Simple as that.” -Marco Rubio

[quintessentone]

It's estimated that rebuilding the oil infrastructure will cost between $50–$60 billion.

And take several years to accomplish.

I'm just wondering, given the decades of underinvestment, mismanagement, and physical decay.

How Trump plans to have the U.S. oil companies get in there and get the oil flowing? 

And what happens to the people and nation in the meantime?

I believe he doesn't even have a concept of a plan at this point...on to Cuba.

I'm just reading this article from 2024 and I am wondering what weapons, if any, Russia left with Cuba and Venezuela during those military exercises.

Might Russia Install Missiles in Cuba and Venezuela? - Havana Times

[UltraBudgie]

It's estimated that rebuilding the oil infrastructure will cost between $50–$60 billion.

And take several years to accomplish.

I'm just wondering, given the decades of underinvestment, mismanagement, and physical decay.

How Trump plans to have the U.S. oil companies get in there and get the oil flowing? 

And what happens to the people and nation in the meantime?

Here, you expressed an interest earlier in the thread about the oil science. In doing some more research, I ran across this, which had quite a bit of detail that I didn't know, regarding the specific gravity, distillery economics, logistics, and vanadium and nickle impurities (not always a bad thing!):

https://endtropy.substack.com/p/might-is...mperialism

Edit: Also these two published today. They're really on a roll over there:

https://endtropy.substack.com/p/the-long...opic-slope
https://endtropy.substack.com/p/venezuel...mer-friend

[Vermilion]

It's estimated that rebuilding the oil infrastructure will cost between $50–$60 billion.

And take several years to accomplish.

I'm just wondering, given the decades of underinvestment, mismanagement, and physical decay.

How Trump plans to have the U.S. oil companies get in there and get the oil flowing? 

And what happens to the people and nation in the meantime?

303 billion barrels(estimated Venezuelan oil reserves) × $57.32/barrel (current market price) =$17.36 trillion

They can afford the 50-60 billion and have plenty left for abuela’s arepas.