It was never about oil. It was always about money

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Shower thought it just hit me. This was never about oil. It was never about resources. It was always about the money specifically the petrodollar and the need to make sure that the petrodollar never falls to BRICS. The minute they unpegged the dollar from the gold standard and defaulted into fiat currency instead of letting the collapse happen in the 70s after the Cold War they snowballed into something else and we got the 2008 crash.

Venezuela announced it would "free itself from the dollar." They started accepting yuan, euros, rubles, anything BUT dollars for oil. They were petitioning to join BRICS. They were building direct payment channels with China that bypass SWIFT entirely. And they were sitting on enough oil to fund de-dollarization for decades.


Slowly, and surely I think everyone has now come to realize that what the US is doing is just unsustainable and I think China and Russia will call the Bluff to see how long they’re willing to go to make sure it’s enforced no doubt about it. It will crash.
Briccs is a bit shaky if Russia and China are still conservative on adding defense to the alliance. A purely economic alliance doesn't work.

I can completely see both South Africa and Colombia getting that Venezuela treatment. In Brazil is a logistical and industrial nightmare so they might be safe. But without a stop I can totally see the rest of the weaker members just being peeled off one by one all the way down to Little Ethiopia. Even Nigeria isn't safe, the same assets being deployed to stop these jihadis can be turned back around to target abuja. Washington is systematically picking them apart.


While I admit that Venezuela was not in brics, it was however an ally of both Russia and China and we both saw how neither entity helped Maduro. So that might be a hint to the little players in brics to back off.


I said this in another thread but people were clowning Kenya for being koons for not attempting to join brics, or for volunteering to lead the haiti mission or becoming a nonnato aly of US, but I guarantee you the one place in the developing world that will not have seal team six stealing its head of state is Kenya.
 
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Control of the oil is key to the plan though. So your thesis is inherently flawed. It’s always about money but having access to large reserves of oil is the catalyst
This is about denying China a Caribbean basing option. It is not about acquiring oil we don't need from infrastructure that doesn't exist. It'll take at least a decade to get Venezuela to its 1990s heights.
 

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This is about denying China a Caribbean basing option. It is not about acquiring oil we don't need from infrastructure that doesn't exist. It'll take at least a decade to get Venezuela to its 1990s heights.
There’s no way in the world America would ever let China or any foreign rival set up a base in this hemisphere, oil or not. We almost had a nuclear winter last time that was explored. So I don’t buy that. This is 100% about economic gain through control of key resources AND de-nationalization in my opinion

Also, oil as stated earlier doesn’t need to be refined in Venezuela. America itself has the resources and facilities to refine Venezuelan oil quite easily
 

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theres no alternative to the petrodollar lol. maybe decades from now but right now if it collapses then the whole world plunges into a dark age.
 
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There’s no way in the world America would ever let China or any foreign rival set up a base in this hemisphere, oil or not. We almost had a nuclear winter last time that was explored. So I don’t buy that. This is 100% about economic gain through control of key resources AND de-nationalization in my opinion

Also, oil as stated earlier doesn’t need to be refined in Venezuela. America itself has the resources and facilities to refine Venezuelan oil quite easily
You just said America would never let China set up a base here. That's literally the thesis you claim to not buy. Cuba 1962 was about missiles, not sugar. Venezuela 2025 is about geography, not oil. You're agreeing with me while saying you disagree.

Everybody on the left were up in arms about Steven Miller on Jake Tapper on how he said it while ignoring him literally saying why they attacked Venezuela.

At peak, Venezuela produced 3.5M a day in the 90s. You're not pulling +7M/day out the ground there. Reserves doesn't equal pulling whatever you wish out the ground.
 
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You just said America would never let China set up a base here. That's literally the thesis you claim to not buy. Cuba 1962 was about missiles, not sugar. Venezuela 2025 is about geography, not oil. You're agreeing with me while saying you disagree.

Everybody on the left were up in arms about Steven Miller on Jake Tapper on how he said it while ignoring him literally saying why they attacked Venezuela.
Well hold on, let’s back up a bit.

I’m saying Trump and friends went into Venezuela to bag Maduro in order to enrich themselves and their friends. That’s my main theory. All this stuff about China and the petrodollar is secondary in my mind. I feel as though the people pushing that are making up reasons to justify this as a national security interest and not a money grab. Open up the economy to American companies and control a large oil reservoir for monetary gain. That’s what I’m saying. Steven Miller can lie about it all he wants, I don’t believe a word out that Nazi’s mouth tbh

Last I heard from them the administration were saying this was a law enforcement, anti terror operation. Now you’re saying they saying it’s to protect us from China?
 
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Its about taking over the americas

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@WatchWomanTruth3161 year ago
And here we are 2025


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@christiannipales993711 months ago
Who knew that Trump watched this exact video and thought, "hey, that's neat"


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@gregoryvn311 months ago
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@tammas172811 months ago
Where trump wants Greenland, Canada, Panama just like the proposed technate, billionaires who own all the tech control our lives and gov. Not to mention robots will take our jobs so the workers will be without purpose (subject to whatever fate the ‘experts’ decide)








@Johnsmith-lo6bg11 months ago
Yep, and Elon Musk is a technocrat, and so was his father. Now you know why Trump is pushing for this annexation with Canada and taking over of Greenland, it has nothing to do with being mistreated or drug influx across borders. They will never discuss this on the corrupt and globalist owned media. More disturbing is Mark Carney, the unelected Canadian PM, is a high ranking globalist and completely ib line with his Bilderberg co attendee Elon Musk.


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@Viracochas_722 months ago
@Johnsmith-lo6bgand Venezuela


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@15walkingaway2 months ago
And in 2026 we're taking steps to further progress this.


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@WatchWomanTruth3162 months ago
@15walkingaway Soon and very soon The Club of Rome will have their 1st of 10 Kingdoms.
 
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