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Magaziner: "This is not about the drugs. This is about oil."

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Trump's oil oligarchs have been salivating over Venezuela's oil reserves for years. We can't refine the oil we pump in the US because our refineries were built for cheap Saudi oil. Now that we've pissed the Saudi's off over Israel the oil oligarchs need a new source for heavy crude. bit.ly/3PqHLD5

bit.lyWhy the U.S Can’t Use the Oil it ProducesThe reason the U.S. can’t fully utilize the oil it produces boils down to a mix of economic, infrastructural, and geopolitical factors.

The other problem for our oil oligarchs is that Trump's tariffs caused China to stop buying our domestic light sweet crude oil. For decades, our oil billionaires have been selling our light oil to China for more than they pay for Saudi heavy crude. They only care about profit, not national security.

Yeah. USA wants oil. And at the same time here in Norway we struggle with environmental extremists that wants to put an end date on our oil production and even further push crazy ppl like Trump to go for oil. :-/

This is cyclical, it will remain this way for as long as humans exist. Our lifespan is too short to be different, we’re susceptible to being negatively manipulated, and collectively ignorant. History repeats, as there’s no catalyst for peace and love, only the rise and fall of hateful empires 😔

yep. The strike survivors, under the eyes and guns of the warship, were hanging onto the wreckage NOT to keep their heads above water, but to keep paddling with their hands to get it to its destination. The US of course. 🙄 Hundreds of miles and countless refueling stops farther away. So insulting.

LOL...They obliterated the boat and every ounce of drugs in it, and survivors were desperately phoning for a rescue, but sure...they were "trying to continue the drug run." Bradley was clearly chosen for this op because he's a KKKristofascist who is on board with the imperialism and Project 2025.

2 people, clinging to wreckage,were still going to move the drugs to the usa?? just catch them, interrogate them. no need kill them. but dead men tell no tales- hegseth wants no 'ghosts' oil companies pushing this violence to get at the oil. same story as in the middle east, repeating.

I said that the day it happened. You have to understand who is behind Trump. I was reading about "them" 30 years ago. Wanting to lock up the world's resources. And they're going to us the US military to do it...

No it's about WAR CRIMES that Pete Hegseth committed. They have to do the WAR CRIMES before they get the oil. Definitely not about the drugs though. Never actually about drugs or keeping Americans safe.

It’s all about something else they are trying to do by distractions from the real Goal just like a magician distracts you. From this Administration I don’t believe a word that comes out of their mouths! Not because they’re Republicans. It’s because they are vile human beings Who show it everyday!

Which is the height of hard-headed stupidity when it comes to fossil fuels. If the US would fully embrace renewables, we wouldn’t NEED oil from anywhere! The determination of the Trump administration to kneecap renewals is so backward as to be evil.

It isn't about the oil either. The infrastructure is shit. Trump will be dead before we get any oil out of there. This is I think an attempt to gain control of the Coltan (columbite and tantalite).

Since September 2025, the Trump administration and the Pentagon have announced at least 21 strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats from Venezuela and the surrounding area, killing at least 82 people as of Dec. 1, 2025.

The video apparently showed two individuals clinging to the remains of the boat. The cover storyline is they looked like they were going to try and complete the drug run. Major lying detected by an administration whose mode of operation is nothing but falsehoods.

Imperial grab and payback for financial backing the oil industry gave him. Musk got everyone’s data The oil industry is going to get a share of Venezuela’s oil. American military personnel WILL DIE to further Trump’s and other oligarchs net worth.

Spot on! Declare war on Venezuela and then try to cancel the midterms. The “war” is manufactured bullshit! Venezuela poses no threat to the United States. The Ponga boats would need to refuel 20 times before they reached the US & are carrying cocaine, not fentanyl. #Project2025

Hey, Admiral, how do 2 survivors continue that so called "drug run" while attempting to hang on to shards of their burning destroyed vessel??? Hey, Admiral, why are you forsaking your oath of office for a treasonous pedophile Commander in Chief and his Fox entertainer drunk SecDef's illegal orders?

True. Trump & his buddies will steal Venezuelan oil. But invading Venezuela is also a big smokescreen to distract from Trump abandoning Ukraine/Europe/NATO and Asia, leaving them to be invaded by Russia and China respectively (read Molly McKew).

This isn't about drugs, Trump wants Venezuela oil. He's using the drug angle to warrant going on land to take over the country and oil fields. Just another grift.

You cannot relax and sleep well at night with this fraudulently elected regime in power! They do not have good intentions! They are not true Americans! And they need to be physically removed with the help of our revered military! And they do not have to follow unconstitutional or unlawful orders!

FACT: It would take about 20 refuelings for those boats to reach the U.S. Obviously this criminal regime thinks we're too stupid to grasp the basics - like their minion of MAGAt morons. THEY ARE LYING - AGAIN !

It’s also conceivable that all it’s about is a profoundly disturbed tyrant wanting to kill people because it makes him feel strong and everyone around him being corrupt enough to assist him. Like…there is lots of historical precedent for people dying at the whims of a psychotic ruler.

Anyone that tells you this is about keeping American "safe from drugs" is lying! Trump/Rubio has been wanting to get rid of Maduro for a long time. It's all about regime change. We put a new puppet government to replace him and we get a lot more than oil! Btw, US sanctions created this mess.

This administration has only one “strategy”. Fill the pockets of the Trump family and their friends as quickly and as much as possible. Do it until the people rise in discontent from being abused and economically devastated. Then flee. That’s what all dictators do.

So 'the drug smugglers', who were never confirmed to be drug smugglers, had their boat blown up and a couple who survived the explosion and were floating in the water were trying to continue the drug run. Seriously? That's the story?

Pressure applied using the military with the endgame of putting in a regime that will give Trump and his cronies access to the profit from the oil and control over any oversight that might stop their corruption. Trump has made a lot of money through corrupt governments.

It is absolutely. It's all about the money, control, the oil. Ever since oil has been discovered and the monopoly of oil rights, ownership, profits have been used to control countries, make money and use oil to make us dependent on it and it's owners.

From last month.

Justin Mikulka@justinmikulka.bsky.social

So I wake up to read that Trump is threatening military action against Nigeria. Below is a list of 10 countries that notes 4 that have either being threatened by Trump or currently attacked. Can anyone guess what the numbers on the right represent?

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Again, the idea that this is something new is just bonkers. Haven't the democrats been taking exactly this tone for a half-decade at least, now? I think they need to bury how *old* this approach is now because if they admitted it, it'd become clear how spectacularly it failed

We have a glut of oil already. This is about trying to stay in power. This is about distracting from RAPIST Trump and his past with his best friend Jeffrey. Where the hell is Bill Barr?

The US wants Venezuelan oil but also, the more unstable Venezuela is, the more countries have historically turned to Russia for it’s oil It’s like a 2 for 1 for Trump He and his buddies get to control the oil in Venezuela at the same time Trump gets to do Putin’s bidding and enrich Russia