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FediThing :progress_pride:FediThing
Jan 3, 2026, 2:34 PM
He's just openly saying what this was all about:
"The United States is going to be very strongly involved in Venezuela’s oil industry after the operation to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump told Fox News on Saturday."
"We have the greatest oil companies in the world, the biggest, the greatest, and we’re going to be very much involved in (Venezuela's oil industry)."
This isn't some conspiracy theory thing, it's straight from the horse's mouth.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-explosions-venezuela-maduro-latest-news-updates-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-695925f68f087b8b68f607dd#block-695925f68f087b8b68f607dd
EDIT: Trump now also openly saying that the US "will run Venezuela".
#Venezuela #Trump
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FediThing :progress_pride:FediThing
Jan 3, 2026, 5:02 PM
p.s. Any experts on Venezuela have ideas on what happens next?
Kidnapping a head of state doesn't usually change a government by itself, the deputy steps in etc. Are there likely to be demonstrations? Conflict?
If an opposition group somehow takes over without an election, isn't there a danger they will just look like they were installed as a puppet of Trump?
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FediThing :progress_pride:FediThing
Jan 3, 2026, 6:41 PM
p.p.s. Good god, this is a direct quote from Trump:
"We want to surround ourselves with stability…with energy. We have tremendous energy in (Venezuela). It’s very important that we protect it.”
“We need that for ourselves."
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FediThing :progress_pride:FediThing
Jan 4, 2026, 8:30 PM
p.p.p.s. Trump now saying that Maduro's deputy who has taken over "will pay a bigger price than Maduro" if she doesn't do what Trump says.
By any reasonable interpretation this can only be taken as a death threat.
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FediThing :progress_pride:FediThing
Jan 4, 2026, 8:46 PM
p.p.p.p.s. This just gets worse, @Semafor is reporting that the Washington Post and the New York Times KNEW IN ADVANCE about the plans for the kidnapping and murders but declined to publish:
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/03/2026/new-york-times-washington-post-held-off-on-reporting-venezuela-raid
These papers are helping the regime, they are assisting it in carrying out crimes that killed dozens. They could have stopped this by just publishing what they knew, but declined to do so.
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yuhasz01yuhasz01@mastodon.social
Jan 3, 2026, 2:38 PM
@FediThing
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Charlie Strosscstross@wandering.shop
Jan 3, 2026, 2:56 PM
@FediThing @Illuminatus Starting an illegal war and invasion just to steal someone else's fossil fuel reserves, just as fossil fuels are entering their final decline as a global energy transition to renewables kicks in, is quite a look, isn't it?
Like robbing a depository to steal all the obsolete banknotes that are being destroyed because they're being replaced by a different design.
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ahistorical immaterialistjimbob@aus.social
Jan 3, 2026, 3:06 PM
@cstross @FediThing @Illuminatus in the Iraq war, it took several years of manufacturing consent before the illegal war, and then further years attempting to cover up that it was all about the oil.
We've speed-run that process in about 6 hours, here.
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FediThing :progress_pride:FediThing
Jan 3, 2026, 3:06 PM
@cstross
From the way he spoke about invading Canada and Greenland on taking office, one wonders if he's got some sort of secret "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact" type thing with Putin, where he lets Putin take over Europe through hybrid warfare while Trump takes over the Americas.
Authoritarians often seem to enjoy carving up maps of the world together, and Trump seems to have trouble not mentioning his plans.
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Jensohyran@social.piewpiew.se
Jan 3, 2026, 3:06 PM
@cstross @FediThing @Illuminatus
“For oil, this has the potential for a historic event,” said Phil Flynn, senior market analyst at the Price Futures Group. “The Maduro regime and Hugo Chavez basically ransacked the Venezuelan oil industry.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/03/business/oil-gas-venezuela-maduro
Why won't someone PLEASE think of the oil corporations?
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Bruno Nicolettibjn@mstdn.social
Jan 3, 2026, 3:35 PM
@cstross @FediThing @Illuminatus Yep. Extra oil supplies from Venezuela entering the market once sanctions are dropped will only bring down oil prices, so not even good for US oil companies this is supposed to benefit. Though I wouldn’t be surprised if Trump Oil becomes a thing and gets the rights to Venezuelan reserves.
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Simon Zerafasimonzerafa@infosec.exchange
Jan 3, 2026, 3:01 PM
@FediThing
All those AI data centers won't power themselves. They will be burning more oil to power them and fuck the environment 😕
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Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️the5thColumnist@mstdn.ca
Jan 3, 2026, 3:16 PM
@FediThing
Venereal Drugs - Oil
Canada Fentanyl = Oil
Grteenland = https://oilfieldworkers.com/articles/greenland-the-next-frontier-for-u-s-oil-and-gas-exploration/
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Melaniepalefailmel@lgbtqia.space
Jan 3, 2026, 5:02 PM
@FediThing anything so people don’t see what pedo fascist trash he is
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lashmanlashman@mastodon.social
Jan 3, 2026, 6:43 PM
@FediThing ... all for AI
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⁂ Fish Id Wardrobefishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk
Jan 5, 2026, 12:46 AM
@gregalotl @FediThing if the UK were going to do a limited military action in the US it would seem only right that we respect history and burn down the white house again…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Washington
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旅烏 🇯🇵fgbjr@indieweb.social
Jan 3, 2026, 6:14 PM
@FediThing I think the phrase we want there is "good luck with that."
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BongolianBongolian@mstdn.social
Jan 3, 2026, 6:29 PM
@FediThing Grand theft petro… He's also laying out a plan for the end of his own regime when he refuses to leave.
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urbanaidurbanaid8@mastodon.social
Jan 5, 2026, 8:58 AM
@FediThing eine Warnung an alle, dass #Trump #USA kein Unrecht kennt u Völkerrecht ihm egal ist. Er nimmt sich was er will. Jetzt muss man die NATO u Europa stärken u gemeinsam diesem Tun Einhalt gebieten.
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