There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby drill" is obsessed with Venezuela, and why he's buddy buddy with Jamal Khashoggi's murderer.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/venezuela-has-the-worlds-most-oil-why-doesnt-it-earn-more-from-exports
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The Trump administration is giving Alejandro Betancourt a defining role in controlling Venezuela's oil.
Problem: He couldn’t travel—Switzerland sought his extradition from the UK in a money laundering case. The US DoJ pressured Switzerland to drop it but was sent to Zurich's prosecutor who dropped the extradition but asked the US to arrest him.
Instead, the US gave him a multi-entry visa to help him make seize more Venezuelan oil in cooperation with the administration
Après une opération de décapitation déployant la puissance technologique et militaire des États-Unis, puis l’installation d’un régime fondamentalement vassalisé sans transition politique ni changement de régime à proprement parler, vient le moment de la captation des bénéfices par le centre impérial dans des formes hybrides et claniques.
New study monitors climate migration efforts of 64 Countries plus the EU – covering more than 90% of the Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
Even though no one migrates quickly enough, Denmark, Lithuania and Luxembourg lead the way.
Unsurprisingly, the fossil war lords are at the end of the list: Iran, United States, and Russia.
Roughly half of the global oil supply comes from countries engaged in conflict, and the US is benefiting from causing some of these conflicts by exporting records amounts.
Moving off fossil fuels is not just necessary to address the climate emergency and strategic autonomy but it will have dividends in removing the financial incentives from some of these conflicts that revolve around the control of oil and natural gas supplies.
https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/08/26/pres-de-la-moitie-de-lapprovisionnement-mondial-en-petrole-provient-de-pays-engages-dans-un-conflit/
Près de la moitié de l’approvisionnement mondial en pétrole provient de pays engagés dans un conflit | Le Grand Continent