Vera Bergengruen
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262 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 1 Sep
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No one believed that this was happening.
We were all really, really surprised when this came out.
Our коліг вера Бергенгруан каверз нашла секері.
So we've been hearing rumblings that there was some kind of major oil deal about to be announced.
We thought it was going to be oil companies or something new on that front, but what it basically ended up being was a very, very unusual deal announced by President Trump that the US government itself was going to be taking a stake in the oil business in Venezuela.
Venezuela is giving a private company the rights to develop these enormous oil fields, and the US government itself, through the Pentagon, is taking a stake in that company.
So they basically are themselves becoming an investor in Venezuelan oil.
Yes, this has never really been tried before.
And again, the mechanism through which it's being done through the Pentagon also is something that people were very, very surprised by.
And from my conversations with people involved in this, the Trump administration is really trying to use this as a hedge against the chaos in the Middle East because of Trump's decision to go to war with Iran.
And Trump has said that he's going to use this oil to refill the US strategic petroleum reserve and have you know all these grand plans.
But most of this is not going to happen until way after he's out of office.
So the president, even before he decided to take out Nicolás Maduro, was talking about how, you know, one of his biggest interests in this country was the oil and securing a reliable source of crude in the Western hemisphere, especially as you know, things in the Middle East are very unstable on and off.
So they really tried to incentivize US oil companies to come in.
And US oil companies for a long time really wanted to get back in.
But all these oil companies that we've seen meet with the president at the White House and, you know, kind of give their statements about how they're very interested, they needed more security.
They wanted security guarantees, they want legal reforms, judicial reforms.
Despite taking out President Maduro, you know, Venezuela is incredibly unstable.
It is dangerous.
There's a lot of armed groups around a lot of these oil fields.
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