DougDoug
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 25 Mar
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So even though the US has no longer had oil presence in Venezuela over the last decade or two, right?
Russia and China have, right?
Venezuela has still been selling oil.
That is still their national lifeline.
That's where they make most of the money to even function at a baseline as a government, right?
Like that's still critical to their country.
And up until now, past couple of years in particular,
Russia and China have been partnering with them for oil.
There's a crazy stat I didn't realize.
Between 2000 and 2023, so like for 23 years, Venezuela was the fourth largest recipient of China's official credit, receiving $106 billion worth of loans from Chinese official sector creditors.
That's crazy.
So you have two of these countries that...
in the wake of America pulling out and doing these sanctions with Venezuela, have been going in and filling that gap, right?
And what the military, the US military is doing right now is saying, you guys can't do that.
So not only is it, you know, fuck you to China and Russia who want oil and there's various cascading effects.
In fact, let me move the cannon and the horse into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
If the US says, you cannot get oil tankers here, we're the only ones that are going to allow oil in and out, even if American troops aren't in Venezuela on the ground, Venezuela as a country cannot fund almost anything unless they agree to go through what the US government wants.
And if Trump goes to them and says, we will only allow oil to be sold out of your country
if you make sure that Exxon and Chevron and X and Y and Z get to operate there, that is a type of pressure that isn't military, but the government there is like, we cannot do anything.
If we put ships fucking outside the Atlantic and stop anyone else from taking oil, Venezuela can't really do anything.
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