I’m sure Maduro was a nasty piece of work, but this doesn’t sit right. It’s all about a grab for oil. Was shocked to see that country has more crude oil reserves then even Saudi Arabia. Now it’s all going to be under American control.
Putin must be looking at this and thinking I wish I could have mounted a similar kidnapping in Ukraine four years ago.
Putin must be looking at this and thinking I wish I could have mounted a similar kidnapping in Ukraine four years ago.
Ha ha, Putin tried, but - because he didn't have an "inside man" in the Ukrainian government - he failed.
Venezuela's oil is crap, btw. Heavy sludge, I'm not sure of the technical term. Admittedly the US do have refineries that can handle it, but they can get the same stuff from Alberta and it's much closer. But more importantly than all that, the price of oil is collapsing these days. Trump is trying to strong-arm the US oil companies into moving into Venezuela but they're not actually interested.
All the politics is besides the point here, though. We now have to boycott the Olympics and the World Cup for the same reason we* boycotted Moscow 1980, Russia is currently excluded from FIFA and Israel is being excluded from Eurovision. You have to ostracize governments who do this sort of thing, because, to quote from the classics, if you tolerate this, your children will be next
* yes, 5 Kiwis went to Moscow