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Venezuela Begins Oil Shut-Ins As Maduro Sings, Dances
Nicolas Maduro's doing what cartoonish dictators do when the chips are down: Availing himself of sta
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Some of the things Trump orders done might be not so bad, but if he’ keep is g d mouth shut and stop strutting around bragging about every person he kills, we’d be better off.
Amen
Like a broken clock, a broken (nuts) president can be right once in a while. The problem is in the execution.
Trump has now received, all the money he needs, from all the authoritarian regimes in the world.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Hungary, etc.
(Probably Russia too.)
So he no longer needs the money.
Trump has given Rubio a lot of room to run on this one. This whole thing with Venezuela has been Rubio’s idea from the start.
Rubio wants regime change. Rubio could care less about the oil.
Trump only wants to make a deal. Trump only cares about the oil. Trump is quite happy to leave a dictator in place, as long as Trump is getting the right payoff.
It’s interesting to see how this will all play out.
I do think there’s a deal that can be made.
If Maduro is able to sell his oil without sanctions, he can add an extra $10 or more per barrel. At 1 million barrels per day, that adds up.
Maduro could pay a very significant “tax” to the United States, and still come out ahead in this whole thing.
Rubio would not like that. Rubio wants regime change. But Trump would like it.
So which way does this go?