Trump Says the US Will "Take Over" Venezuela, Major US Oil Companies Plan to Enter
US media reported today (January 4) that President Trump said at a press conference held at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that after the US military conducted a military operation and arrested Venezuelan President Maduro and his wife, the US would "take over" Venezuela until completing what he called a "safe, appropriate, and prudent" political transition.
Trump described the operation as large-scale and noted that no casualties occurred after the action. He also said that the US military had already been deployed there and did not rule out taking military action again if necessary. He said, "We are already there and will stay until an appropriate transition occurs."
Trump also mentioned that the US would authorize major American oil companies to enter Venezuela, repair energy infrastructure, and stated that the related profits would be used for Venezuela as well as compensate the US.
Comment: Trump's statement of "taking over Venezuela + entering oil companies" is a naked exposure of the US hegemonic logic of "military intervention + resource plunder," pushing the霸道 essence of the Monroe Doctrine to its extreme. The so-called "political transition" is nothing more than a cover for subverting a sovereign government. The real purpose of the US military presence is to pave the way for US oil capital to seize resources from the country with the world's largest oil reserves — Venezuela has proven oil reserves of 30 billion barrels, and its heavy crude oil is a key industrial raw material. The US has long had a desire to exploit it. This time, using a military operation to intervene by force essentially means using force to rewrite the rules of resource distribution.
More ironic is the rhetoric of "profit sharing" is merely a veneer for colonial-style plunder. Historically, the US has long infiltrated Venezuela's oil industry, exploiting resources wildly. Now, the so-called "repairing infrastructure" is just a way to restart the resource control model, making Venezuela once again a vassal of US energy hegemony. This behavior bypasses the United Nations and violates national sovereignty, not only intensifying anti-US sentiment in Latin America but also exposing the dangerous tendency of the US to use military adventurism to compensate for economic and geopolitical anxiety as its hegemony declines. The strong expansion under the "Tang Luo Doctrine" will eventually face the backlash of the times.
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Original: toutiao.com/article/1853344546481155/
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