dan1
boosted
"As Americans worry about healthcare and affordability, the ‘no more wars’ president is helping oil companies instead. ...
Let’s not forget, with Zohran Mamdani and other Democrats winning big on affordability issues in November, Trump is supposed to travel around the country to give speeches in which he, if he can keep to the script, boasts that he cares big-time about affordability."
~ Steven Greenberg
#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
/4
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/09/trump-venezuela-domestic-crises
"For the moment, those plans seem deep on the back burner, while Trump’s focus is Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela and oil, oil, oil.
Americans aren’t blind, and they can see that Trump’s military strike was largely about helping an industry that many Americans detest: the oil industry."
#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #economy #healthcare #affordability
/5
1
"So, who has the most to gain from the Trump Administration’s takeover? Meet Paul Singer.
Singer is the founder, president & co-CEO of Elliott Investment Management. In November 2025, his company’s affiliate Amber Energy won court approval to acquire the parent company of Citgo, the US-based subsidiary of Venezuela’s state-run oil company - Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)."
~ The Feed
#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #EconomicElites #Citgo #PaulSinger
/2
https://thefeed1.substack.com/p/meet-the-oligarch-behind-trumps-venzuela
"As Americans worry about healthcare and affordability, the ‘no more wars’ president is helping oil companies instead. ...
Let’s not forget, with Zohran Mamdani and other Democrats winning big on affordability issues in November, Trump is supposed to travel around the country to give speeches in which he, if he can keep to the script, boasts that he cares big-time about affordability."
~ Steven Greenberg
#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites
/4
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/09/trump-venezuela-domestic-crises
2
"Oil companies are key partners in Trump’s imperial plans for Latin America. Stocks in ExxonMobil, Halliburton, and ConocoPhillips surged the day after Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela."
~ Derek Seidman
#Trump #Venezuela #imperalism #oil #BigOil #EconomicElites #ExxonMobil #Halliburton #ConocoPhillips #Citgo #PaulSinger
/1
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Carl
boosted
Morning, all,
Celia Florez, Venezuela's dictator Maduro's wife, was also kidnapped by U.S. armed forces.
Why? Is she, in the view of that notorious misogynist President Donald Tantrump, merely Maduro's chattel?
As #FLOTUS, Melania Trump should be worried; when the U.S. military finally rises against #DOTUS Don Trumpeone, will she also be arrested and join him in the dock?
#USpol #UNpol
#GOP #MAGA #NoKings
#BigOil #TyrantTrump
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/live-updates-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-new-york-court-appearance/
Morning, all,
Celia Florez, Venezuela's dictator Maduro's wife, was also kidnapped by U.S. armed forces.
Why? Is she, in the view of that notorious misogynist President Donald Tantrump, merely Maduro's chattel?
As #FLOTUS, Melania Trump should be worried; when the U.S. military finally rises against #DOTUS Don Trumpeone, will she also be arrested and join him in the dock?
#USpol #UNpol
#GOP #MAGA #NoKings
#BigOil #TyrantTrump
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/live-updates-venezuela-nicolas-maduro-new-york-court-appearance/
"Trump sold himself as the president who would end Forever Wars. I’ve seen this movie before, and I have a pretty good idea of how it ends.
Now he’s launched one of his own, without involving Congress, to reward the billionaires who funded his campaign and line his own pockets. If 'America First' is now 'Oil First,' you’d better believe I’m going to take him at his word when he shows us exactly who comes last."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #oil
/14
"Trump told the oil companies about the Venezuela plan, but neglected to tell Congress. This invasion isn’t about protecting Americans, it’s military assistance for big oil and his billionaire friends."
~ Lincoln Project
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #oil #FossilFuels #BigOil #EconomicElites
/15
1
"Only Trump would have the audacity to launch such a daring, unilateral joint-force strike to capture a sitting president of Venezuela—with its questionable legality under both U.S. and international law, its dangerous precedents that Russia and China might later claim, and its damaging consequences for the liberal international order."
"Yet only Donald Trump would so brazenly squander this historic opportunity for true change on the altar of a chimeric windfall—oil, which a 1960s Venezuelan oil minister labeled 'the devil’s excrement.'”
#Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Machado #NobelPeacePrize #oil #FossilFuels #BigOil #EconomicElites
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