Ah, yes. The famous Venezuelan oil pipeline that goes to the Texas oilfields.

“*To War! To War! Freedonia’s going to War!*”

Somehow we’ve out parodied the Marx Brothers by electing this dipshit into office again. What a piece of junk country…

I can see no way this ends badly. We’ve already gone through most of the justifications for Iraq in a fraction of the time, and even added some new ones.

So Trump pardons a literal druglord (two, actually, counting the Silk Road guy back in January) and alllll a sudden the narrative shifts from ‘drugs’ to ‘day took owr oyhal!!!!’

Narrator: It’s Venezuela’s oil, as it happens to be located in Venezuela.

The most frustrating part is how MAGA will genuinely believe that this is a genuine good reason for Trump to start a war and go back on his campaign promise to stop wars instead of starting them. I know there are some people who will say “MAGA actually wants this” while that may be true for some, I think for others it’s just a lack of imagination on how violence and war work.

No war has been declared for the sake of doing so, the declarer usually sees themselves as the victims of something, sometimes that justification is right other times it is wrong. This certainly is a wrong justification. There won’t be any country that declares war just for the sake of it. How different is this from Russia declaring war on Ukraine, because Ukraine stole land and resources from Russia, or that according to Russia Ukraine is a Nazi state.

At this point you can’t convince me that there’s a genuine reason to be MAGA other than being stupid or hateful.

Did those guys drink our milkshake??

We were storing it under Venezuela

Can someone fucking ask this shithead HOW in the FUCK Venezuela stole US oil?! I would like to hear his bullshit, convoluted answer on this one.

Sure, those immigrants weren’t picking crops they were digging trenches and running a pipeline to Venezuela to take our oil

The sad part is that MAGA will believe this

Wtf is he even talking about? This dude is fn scary fucked up.

and they’re doing to me what Obama did to me, what the Fake News tried to do, I looked at it, I said, General, what the hell happened, what the hell happened to all our Oil, he said, “Sir, I hate to have to tell you this, but Venezuela stole every last drop from us,” I said how could that happen, how could Biden let that happen, and I think our Beautiful FBI Director, Pam Bondi, she needs to be looking into it, we gotta figure it out immediately, and I said if they don’t give it back, if their President doesn’t give it back to us, to the United States, they’re gonna be having a lot of problems I can tell you that, and as long as I’m in charge, as long as Trump is President, you’ll never have anybody messing with the United States Of America, it’s true, they say, “he’s crazy, he’s not, you can’t predict what he’ll do,” nobody knows what I’m gonna do ok, no one knows what the hell could happen, and you’ll be seeing what’s been happening, we’re coming out with an Incredible Report, two weeks, probably we’ll have it coming out in two weeks, and I say that, I say the time, I say, Two Weeks, because we probably don’t remember past that, you get past a couple of weeks, you don’t remember what the hell happened, nobody remembers two weeks ago

If you google, “how did venezuela get american oil?”
Gemini will give some details. Chevron invested in oil production before they nationalized (essentially the govt took over – likely seeing that foreigners were getting a good amount of profits from them).
buuuuut, that has been reversed, a bit, as Chevron is now currently exporting heavy crude that our oil refineries need.

“In essence, the U.S. helped build Venezuela’s oil industry, then U.S. sanctions curtailed it, but recent policy changes are re-opening avenues for U.S. companies like Chevron to operate and export Venezuelan oil again.”

So, dummy-in-chief is mostly wrong, but there’s a kernel of truth. The fact that Trump is willing to go to war over this is insane. It’s Bush in Iraq all over again – the pretext of wmd’s (which there were none) to overthrow a country. Except, now, it’s “drugs” or something, and now they’ve just dropped the veil entirely and are justifying it because they “took our oil” is insanity.
Yes – we’re the bad guys in this scenario.

So it was never about the drugs.

Is America going to stay silent while this maniac sends your sons and daughters to war this Christmas against a nation that is objectively innocent of all of these far fetched accusations?

War against unspeakable evil can galvanize a nation. Is anyone in America even familiar enough with Venezuela to support this? It’s only been short of a year since he won his re-election, but I’m sure I didn’t forget it; he never brought any of this up during his campaign. No new wars, huh?

What about bat-guano, huh? They fucking took our bat-guano as well.

Can’t believe he actually said this shit, but then again, I can.

Venezuela has the thick goopy oil refineries in the US run on. You can’t just convert those refineries to refine other less thicker oil. America now gets most of their oil from fracking that produces light oil. Venezuela has the largest, by far the largest, thick oil in the world. America imports thick oil from Canada and Venezuela.

They need that oil to get those refineries going. Now if you steal this oil, and that’s what’s going to happen, you keep you refineries running and you bring gas prices down.

Americans don’t care about the rest of the world as long as they have their low gas prices.

In fact they might protest it at first but when they see the gas prices drop a dollar fifty a gallon they will forget all about the the oil that was stolen.

There you go, wartime president. He got his toy to play with

How exactly does he think they stole it from us?

Mexico on the US: “They took part of our country and we want it back. They illegally took it”