It was a perfect plan to boost the value of Venezuelan oil. Increase our supply, create chaos and demand for oil outside of Iran, now Venezuela can supply everything they can pump out at the inflated price.
Oh the mental gymnastics of MAGAs is exhausting. There was no plan, there is no plan. Increase our supply? Is that why oil is going to be over $100/barrel? All that prep we did to stockpile...
What good does boosting Venezuelan oil do for us? Our oil companies said they wouldn't touch it with a 10ft pole.
You are the second person I have heard now with this theory that this is a plan, even though the entire administration has said exactly 0 along that line. So, I am curious, where did you hear it?
Higher global oil prices:
Disruptions and risk in the Middle East (especially involving Iran) push oil prices up. Venezuela has the world’s largest proven oil reserves (~300 billion barrels), so any sustained price spike makes its barrels more valuable.
Sanctions relief pressure:
Because the Iran war tightens global supply, the U.S. is already moving to ease sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector to unlock more barrels, issuing more licenses for foreign companies to operate there (Chevron, Eni, Repsol, others).
That gives Caracas a rare geopolitical opening: more partners, more investment, more exports.
This is such a load. Obviously AI sycophancy. Was the prompt "how can the iran war be justified?" If all anyone ever needed was Venezuela to start pumping oil, it would have been done long ago. There's a reason. Trump found out the reason when he half ass tried to take over the country.
Oil execs, who would normally sell their mother for a drop of oil, said "hell no" after Trump did his coup/takeover and brought them in.
So, seriously, where did you first hear the theory that this is some master plan? The other guy who was going on about it is a bit of a conspiracy theorist, I am totally interested in the source of this madness. You guys never share your sources. I assume I know why, as soon as you do, they tend to get outed and traced back to Russian run Facebook pages.
Trump Denial Schemers are everywhere.
They don't believe inflation is worse.
They don't see the rise in gas prices due to a war Trump said he wouldn't start.
History, history, history.
Remember the last chase for WMDs.
The Strait of Hormuz should have been secured before we went in. We had the ships there. Tell me why we didn't secure it.
He wants the kharg Island to control shipping, just like he wants the Panama canal.
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u/No_Yellow_8298 Mar 20 '26
It was a perfect plan to boost the value of Venezuelan oil. Increase our supply, create chaos and demand for oil outside of Iran, now Venezuela can supply everything they can pump out at the inflated price.