The US is effectively a petro-state, just like Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, but is rarely seen as one, more like Norway. The US produces more oil products than anyone else in the world, and this administration wants to lean on that as a large part of our economic future. The only other major player in the region exporting oil is Venezuela, so fucking them up makes our oil more valuable. I doubt taking over Venezuela to steal their oil exports is even a goal, as they produce far less than the US does.
The second reason this benefits the current government is that it provides a great excuse to further their domestic agenda by claiming they are going after Venezuelan gangs on US soil. Creating a shadow enemy that doesnt even really exist as they have already been doing to excuse intensive ICE raids and national guard deployments. By starting a war they will even be able to “justify”locking up or deporting citizens with Venezuelan or other Latin American heritage, using the same rationale that was used to intern Japanese Americans in WWII. “They’re sympathetic to the enemy” is a refrain that will play to their base just fine, since most of them are racist assholes anyways.
Shit could, and probably will, get ugly very quickly considering the military is not refusing to participate in this baseless war. They claim its about fentanyl even though fentanyl pretty much exclusively comes to the US from China by way of Mexico. None of their arguments for doing this shit makes any sense. But the two fold rationale of psycho white supremacist government turned petro terrorist state makes perfect sense
Good points. There’s also the Amazon angle, where USA takes over Venezuela, and from there they can start stealing rare earth minerals from Brasil’s part of the Amazon rainforest.
I see a two fold rationale:
The US is effectively a petro-state, just like Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, but is rarely seen as one, more like Norway. The US produces more oil products than anyone else in the world, and this administration wants to lean on that as a large part of our economic future. The only other major player in the region exporting oil is Venezuela, so fucking them up makes our oil more valuable. I doubt taking over Venezuela to steal their oil exports is even a goal, as they produce far less than the US does.
The second reason this benefits the current government is that it provides a great excuse to further their domestic agenda by claiming they are going after Venezuelan gangs on US soil. Creating a shadow enemy that doesnt even really exist as they have already been doing to excuse intensive ICE raids and national guard deployments. By starting a war they will even be able to “justify”locking up or deporting citizens with Venezuelan or other Latin American heritage, using the same rationale that was used to intern Japanese Americans in WWII. “They’re sympathetic to the enemy” is a refrain that will play to their base just fine, since most of them are racist assholes anyways.
Shit could, and probably will, get ugly very quickly considering the military is not refusing to participate in this baseless war. They claim its about fentanyl even though fentanyl pretty much exclusively comes to the US from China by way of Mexico. None of their arguments for doing this shit makes any sense. But the two fold rationale of psycho white supremacist government turned petro terrorist state makes perfect sense
Good points. There’s also the Amazon angle, where USA takes over Venezuela, and from there they can start stealing rare earth minerals from Brasil’s part of the Amazon rainforest.
The oil is the key. It’s running out and whoever controls the last drops wins.
If it’s the last drop, you just lost last. Whomever breaks dependence on oil first wins.
Fuck.