President Trump has ordered what he called a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, as the United States escalates pressure on the government of President Nicolás Maduro. The move comes amid a major U.S. military buildup in the region and days after U.S. forces seized an oil tanker carrying Venezuelan oil. Since September, the U.S.
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It’s about oil.
It’s always about oil and other resources. “Drugs” has always been a weak pretense for enacting violence upon people and nations, either as a distraction from the current admin’s weakness and/or as a strategic action to secure and profit from resources that belong to others.