Trump Brags He’s Taking ‘Billions of Barrels of Oil From Venezuela’ Because ‘To the Victor Belong the Spoils’
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According to the Financial Times, the US has made $13 billion selling Venezuelan oil – but where is the money? Venezuela has reportedly only received a few percent of the proceeds. The Trump administration has mostly given vague answers, and according to Democrat Joaquin Castro, members of Congress know nothing.
‘To the Victor Belong the Spoils’: Trump Flaunts US Plunder of Venezuela
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—US President Donald Trump has escalated his openly imperialist rhetoric against Venezuela, portraying the South American country as a neocolonial possession whose sovereign resources Washington may plunder as the “spoils” of military aggression. On Wednesday, August 5, during an event named Powering the American Dream, Trump boasted about the criminal act perpetrated against Venezuela on January 3 which culminated in…
As he passed through Las Vegas, Nevada, where he led a political and economic act, Donald Trump celebrated the massive extraction of oil from the United States to Venezuela. “We are taking a lot of oil from Venezuela, billions and billions of barrels of oil,” he said. Donald TrumpY, after stating that Venezuela has the world’s largest proven reserves of crude oil, launched a controversial phrase regarding the arrest of Nicolás Maduro, in Caracas…
Venezuelan oil is ‘victor’s spoils’ – Trump
“We are doing the same” in Iran, the US president has said, appearing to link military operations to control of oil resources US President Donald Trump has hailed Venezuelan oil as the “spoils” of war, in stark contrast to his earlier portrayal of the January operation in Caracas as being intended to bring “peace, liberty,...
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that his government extracted “billions of barrels of oil” from Venezuela and justified that action by arguing that “wealth belongs to the victor,” in reference to the U.S. military offensive against the South American country last January.
Trump Brags He’s Taking ‘Billions of Barrels of Oil From Venezuela’ Because ‘To the Victor Belong the Spoils’
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the U.S. has taken “billions and billions of barrels of oil from Venezuela. Trump held a rally in Las Vegas, where he referenced the abduction of then-Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro by U.S. special forces back in January. Maduro is currently being held in a New York jail awaiting drug trafficking charges. His vice president, Delcy Rodriguez, became president, and since that time has acquiesced t…
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