Are the people of Venezuela happy/better off now that the USA is taking all their oil?

No, but that was not his goal, now was it?

Edit: to clarify, my statement was a reaction to the entire comment, not just the last few words. I meant that his goal wasn’t to make sure the Venezuelan people were better off now he’s taken their oil, not that his goal wasn’t to take their oil.

And what I implied was that his goals were entirely selfish.

I would love to hear your defence of that argument

You genuinely believe Trump did this for the good of the Venezuelan people? Some here shouldn’t be throwing the first stone…

Absolutely not. That’s not what I’m saying at all. It seems to me this guy is saying it wasn’t about oil

Where did you read that?

What @Miaou said

apparently Chevrons the only company that has the expertise to deal with the type of oil venezuelan has. i dont think they can extract it fast enough.

This time. I’m sure he asked grok about his other actions, most of which have gone disastrously

That doesn’t mean his brain isn’t inferior to AI

Alex, show us the correct answer on the screen…

Oooh, sorry, whatever you call yourself…

The answer is “both are worthless & manipulative”

What worked?

Abducting Maduro, the military action I mean or whatever you would call it

“How dare you imply that the President’s intention was self-centered and at the expense of the good people of Venezuela! He would never!” is what I imagine the people downvoting you are thinking.

I have no idea what happened either LOL, either “Truth” Social has found Lemmy or people are massively misunderstanding my comment. Oh well

I think it’s the social rule of never saying something good about something bad, the inverse being never say something bad about something good. Tribalism.

Yeah and sometimes when people see downvoted comments they tend to jump on the bandwagon. I’ve had multiple moments on Lemmy before

hahahahahahaha worked…

Well those fucking empty oil reserves and diesel prices sure as fuck don’t think it worked.

Who would have thought sanctioning and sabotaging a small country’s oil industry into the ground for the better part of a century would mean it’s not very useful when you need it to cover your other oil war.

But I guess it’s not too late to start and loose a war with Mexico over their oil.

I meant just the “military action” of abducting him from his home country. That undeniably worked