George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026To add to the madness of it all, the attack on Venezuela is clearly, above all, an oil grab. But we scarcely need oil any more. 1601550259 0
Slimwasherman @slimwasherman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I'm basically on your side about most things, but that's a very naive statement. 020 0
Cougar @cougardesigns.bsky.social · 05/01/2026an oil grab...is that all it is...or are they trying to muscle in and take charge of the purportedly very lucrative South American drug business? 000 0
Melody Lee Lacy @melodyleelacy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The massive glut of oil supply rapidly to become available, now that the Texans are free to drill and ship Venezuelan oil again, will destabilize the Middle East and Russia. It's the fuse on a powder keg of global market instability. Our best defense strategy is growing renewable energy use. 161 0
Elaina McCartney @fisheyeview.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Big oil donor payoff. "We" are not part of the picture. 010 0
scribblewar @baoneill.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Perhaps, but I think there's more to it. Rubio, it seems, is behind this (Hegseth hasn't the brain), so we must ask what is his agenda here? PLUS, Trump clearly, in his dismissal of Machado, has no intention of promoting democracy in Venezuela so, again, is there a long game and, if so, what is it? 000 0
Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Nigeria was about rare earth minerals…so maybe he’s ready to go to war for hybrid technology too 000 0
Me @solartim.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I've seen articles on how production in the fracked wells in the US fails prematurely. Maybe they're ensuring a backup supply 000 0
Llewellyn 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @llewellyngray.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I'm not so sure, it might be an attention getting device. The clown 🤡. 000 0
Greta a.k.a. Auntie Fa @gretat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026New oilfields off Surinam. Who will profit? 000 0
willythepeople.bsky.social @willythepeople.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Substitute the word "oil" with "money." Then check out the history of what happens to oil states who try to start trading oil in other than the $. Then look at what would happen to the US economy if the world stopped using the US $ as its reserve currency. Parasites die when there's no host. 010 0
petermnorman.bsky.social @petermnorman.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The fact that Trump advocates drill baby drill and his first move is to try to get American oil firms into Venezuela’s vast untapped oil reserves does not bode well. This transactional President doesn’t give a f*** for future generations 000 0
Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Define “we”. I think his billionaire backers are the recipients of this illegal invasion. The only reason Trump is eyeing up other countries is so he can pay off the Project 2025 bastards who put him in the job. 010 0
brady-ld22.bsky.social @brady-ld22.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Drill, drill don says it's American oil. His first act is to find and sever the secret underground pipeline Venezular, trump speak, built to America. This secret pipeline supplied Venezular with stolen American oil. 000 0
brybird1.bsky.social @brybird1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Why is it an oil grab? What about the people being killed in Venezuela and the thousands that die from drugs every year? In 2019 we hardly took in a drop from them until Biden got in office. 000 0
brybird1.bsky.social @brybird1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It was because he stole a country and killed thousands with drug trafficking. 100 0
Joanne in Boston @vtgal.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Well, Trump will probably make renewables illegal so… 000 0
TK-421 @bucketheadtk421.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Oil = $ in Trumps pocket. He doesn't care as long as he's the richest Oompah Loompah in hell. 000 0
Gary Carter #FBPE 🇬🇧 @garycarter.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump’s whole foreign policy is fossil fuel driven Best friends with Putin Best friends with Saudi Arabia Attacking Venezuela, Nigeria and Iran. Passionate climate change denial. Short term strategy to maximise Trump/billionaire donor earnings. Long term implications for the planet? Nah…. 031 0
Igor cat @igor-kitty.bsky.social · 04/01/2026As far as I can make out it's just a dumbass move to plant the flag on an ocean of oil. It's heavy crude tho and would require ridiculous investments in a war zone which ... this isn't our first rodeo (unless Trump nationalizes big oil). 000 0
Marcel Oosting🟥 @marxel.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026The whole world scarcely needs oil anymore - except the US, which may have so far won the tech/AI race but has got hopelessly behind in clean energy technology. Trump and MAGA are betting on the wrong horse. That only goes to show the extent of their stupidity. 100 0
Jan Dehn @jandehn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026NEW BLOG: Trump, not tinpot dictator Maduro, is the big issue here. He breaks laws, undermines democracy, ignores human rights, attacks other nations. Only a midterm defeat leads to his impeachment. The rest of the world must distance itself from the US. www.jandehn.com/post/a-few-t...jandehn.comA few thoughts on VenezuelaTrump wants you to believe Maduro was the reason he attacked Venezuela. Do not believe him. 000 0
George O. Wood @gwood.dev · 04/01/2026Mr “Clean Beautiful Coal” doesn’t comprehend the fact that “clean coal”—other than being a Big Oil-funded greenwashing ploy—doesn’t literally mean taking to pieces of coal with a Scrub Daddy. I scarcely think he has the capacity to understand the existential need for decarbonisation. 010 0
Tomsomething @tomsomething.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Oil is money. So it’s really about wealth via oil. 000 0
Mrs. G @janbellina.bsky.social · 04/01/2026They are in their own bubble, believing their own outdated hype to the extent they are prepared to commit piracy on the high seas and an overt illegal overthrow of a nation's leader to get more of something everyone needs less of. 000 0
Darren and Benny 🙏🌍💚 @mrmoog.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It's yet another chapter on how bad oil is for the world. 040 0
Allie @alannah56.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It's a fossil fuel power grab to power the AI centres, they haven't got time to wait for green energy drill drill drill, dig dig dig 000 0
bityz.bsky.social @bityz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Just highlighting something you already know: it's not about what "we" need. It is about money for a small few. 0221 0
VanillaRage @vanillarage.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Picture, if you will: Trump’s Venezuelan Adventure—where a foreign despot is airlifted to face a “weaponized” justice system that can’t touch its own Felon-in-Chief. “We’ll run the country,” he blusters, oil men salivating. The message to Putin, Xi: knock yourselves out! Cue the Twilight Zone. 010 0
Neil Tangri @tangri0.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I suspect it’s more to take Venezuelan oil off the market and prop up prices In spite of falling demand. 010 0
Minesahalf @minesahalf.bsky.social · 05/01/2026We need oil more than ever before. Everything, absolutely everything, depends on it. Nothing, not a single thing produced, eaten or made, can be done without it. It is much much more than petrol or diesel. It is everything. 000 0
stingray68.bsky.social @stingray68.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It could be that that Trump&Co wants a cut of the drug money. 010 0
Mike Cooper @no-thyself.bsky.social · 04/01/2026If only that were true. In 2023 86.7% of global energy was from forum fuels. Oil was the single biggest source, 33.6% of total energy usage. 010 0
Joe Brulle 👊🏽🇺🇸🔋 @jcbrul.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The price has barely moved despite multiple oil shocks from producer nations. Oil is on its way out and that is a great thing. Too bad the US is tripling down on 19th century technologies. 010 0
James Bottomley @jamesbottomley.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Especially not the low grade oil that Venezuela ships - which is why the US oil giants haven't exactly jumped for joy at Trump's invitation to join his little distraction party. However, the country does have a lot of minerals including some rare earths and it's not hard to guess some US interests. 030 0
Trish @jsewtz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Oil which would take a decade to get on stream. I have been lucky enough to visit Humberstone im Chile. Funny how the wealthy always think their power will continue. 000 0
oldexonian.bsky.social @oldexonian.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The world must turn away from oil. Illegal to burn oil after 2035. That would dent investment. 000 0
Rob Connell @robconnell.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Is it possibly not so much that US companies want the oil itself, but that they can't have Venezuela selling it outside the petrodollar? bsky.app/profile/eshe...Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.socialA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/ 080 0
Xerø @ecksearoh.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Ah yes, but you see solar is for houses. Oil, coal, and nuclear are for the data centers which the business monsters want to build everywhere. You get your green initiatives, but they get to poison your environment and burst the soap bubble that is our livable climate. It's a win win! 110 0
@frederickbralorne 📎 @frederickbralorne.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Oil continues to be the primary 'pinion' which drives the wealth and the politics of our collective systems of governance. It is the very essence of the bully's fists and his size within our macro-playground. 020 0
Tim Lowe @timlow3.bsky.social · 04/01/2026So totally on brand for the idiot in chief. #tRumpisAFool 000 0
Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 04/01/2026We only «need» 100 million barrels per day. Big question is what trade-off in terms of gdp the system is willing to take to leave the black goo undergound? 010 0
Sheldon R. Hicks @thesheldonhicks.bsky.social · 04/01/2026This is not about need, it’s about greed. 000 0
Brian Robinson @brian-robinsonbsky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I understand getting the remaining oil out of the ground now is into diminishing returns - so expensive to get, the amount and quality less value. 000 0
Melanie 🏳️⚧️ @melted2.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Oh my I think it also can be used as a tool to control and topple governments. Cuba’s economy would collapse without Venezuelan oil and other left South American countries wilbe significantly weakened enough to potentially install puppets 💚 030 0
Overshot the Carrying Capacity @overshot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"scarcely need oil". Quite a statement when we keep using record amounts of it. 2026 - 2030 numbers will be interesting to follow. 010 0
David @sparkydjm1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"We" don't need oil. But "they" do - the people with shares in oils, who build oil rigs, who make money from oil or who get money from people in oil. It's why they spent billions dismissing environmental groups as well. 150 0
Michael Sheldon 🌎 @michaelsheldo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Absolutely but the US still depends heavily on the power of the petrodollar. 100 0
adelehayes.bsky.social @adelehayes.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Next is likely to be other rare minerals 😱 000 0
@PatrickCosgrove.bsky.social @axj866.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Dear Greenland, once you've vetted all adults over 18 for criminality and mental condition, train them all in combat and survival and issue them with a pass to withdraw a rifle and ammunition in the event of a hostile incursion . 000 0
@PatrickCosgrove.bsky.social @axj866.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I think he just fancied invading the country of someone he didn't like. 000 0
Cshortle @cshortle.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Sure he wants the oil but that’s not all. They want new territory too and we know they aren’t interested in ‘spreading democracy’ as is our usual excuse. Trump wants to erase or eclipse the history of his predecessors, his vanity truly knows no bounds. Plus he still needs to distract from Epstein. 010 0
Docker @milesbrasher.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Also: It'll take a lot of time and investment to get that oil flowing. (Trump's an old man) And The US is a net energy exporter already 010 0
Robert Farr @rudeboyrobbo.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Militaries run on oil. Not batteries. This is why. 000 0
Jane Travis @janetravis.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump Promised an oil Bonanza to his election donors. Now he’s given them Venezuela’s reserves. 000 0
angelM @angelmsattya.bsky.social · 04/01/2026bsky.app/profile/ange...angelM@angelmsattya.bsky.socialInvades Venezuela, threats to Iran, Nigeria, Canada … I wonder what the common denominator is? 1112 0
#𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓼𝓽𝑭𝑶𝑻𝑼𝑺 @feldakat.bsky.social · 04/01/2026bsky.app/profile/acyn...Acyn@acyn.bsky.socialSwalwell: He couldn't run a casino, and now he's going to run a country in South America while he fails to run a country in North America? 051 0
John @john234.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026@georgemonbiot.bsky.social also implementing the distraction playbook taking attention away from the Epstein files. 120 0
Horton Wakizashi @extramedium666.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It's not a very smart oil grab, as their infrastructure is in shambles. It does, however, impact China negatively 000 0
Richard Webb @fasgadh.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Other minerals as well. It’s a message to the continent. You are in the empire now 000 0
itsthesystem.bsky.social @itsthesystem.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I don't think Trump has got this memo. Unfortunately 000 0
carolkilliney.bsky.social @carolkilliney.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Tbh, it’s not clear what Trump wants, except to grift and bully lots of countries. The oil giants are not going to touch the job of resurrecting Venezuela’s not-great oil at vast expense, while lowering the price of US oil in the process. Trump is insane. 000 0
Walter F X-iled 🦋 @bassdog61.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It’s not for the need of oil itself, it’s to further enrich the US led oil companies and control of the hemisphere. 000 0
PiecedeResister @piecederesister.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump is dismantling clean energy initiatives in order to up our oil dependence at the behest of the oil lobbies. 000 0
👑Gumbo Queen 👑 (she/her/y’all) @threetoowonder.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Is it about oil? Or is it about distracting from his pedophilia? Killing children is way more worthy of discussion than 🍇ing children. The oil is icing. 000 0
Darren's First Hallowe'en-Themed Name @darrn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026But Cuba does... before this, they could trade with Venezuela. Now who can they get oil from? 000 0
chookybum.bsky.social @chookybum.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Yes, but guess who does need oil? Russia. Is this a little deal for Putin. 010 0
I am nameless yet others name me @7778777.online · 04/01/2026have you heard of the military? or airplanes? 000 0
Raj Thamotheram @rajtham.bsky.social · 04/01/2026George, what's your take on this explanation of why some US elites *want* Venezuelan oil? bsky.app/profile/eshe...Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.socialA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/ 000 0
Dave 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @cricketnut.bsky.social · 04/01/2026True but oil companies want more $billions so therefore it’s all systems go for the invasion.They are happy to make more money. Even at the cost of war (armies need oil) & down to the last drop of American blood. If you think the govt care about its citizens (soon to be subjects) then you’re deluded 000 0
David K @dadstechsupport.bsky.social · 04/01/2026He's living in the past. An old man unable to change. 000 0
Max the Silent @max-the-silent.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It’s an oil grab BUT also protection of the petrodollar. So not only can he grab the 3bn barrels in Venezuela, he can then sell them in dollars and the not Yuan or any other currency BRICS or anyone else try and establish. This is a double whammy hit. 020 0
John Keeley @duvinrouge.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It's all about trying to maintain the $ as 'world money'. They want oil sold in $'s not Chinese Yuan or anything else. It is why Biden blew up Nordstream. It is why George W. Bush removed Saddam. It is why Obama deposed Gaddafi. Etc, etc. 020 0
socialistleft.bsky.social @socialistleft.bsky.social · 04/01/2026This will explain why. youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?... 000 0
Dan Cole @cole0007.bsky.social · 04/01/2026US r scared that they are losing the petro-dollar that covers their debt. Reports I’ve seen indicate that Venezuela were to join the BRICS payment system. Trump wants to sell oil to China but in $. Don’t think China will do that. Also saw US oil reserves r very low 020 0
danielt74.bsky.social @danielt74.bsky.social · 06/01/2026In fairness, like nearly everything Trump does, it must mainly be a public relations stunt, a show of strength, a distraction from the Epstein files and of the rising cost of living in the US. 000 0
Tonny B Denmark Free Palestine @superhedning.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It is not about oil itself. It is about "petrodollars". Really fine thread here. bsky.app/profile/eshe...Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.socialA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/ 030 0
Ronald Steenblik @ronsteenblik.bsky.social · 04/01/2026"But we scarcely need oil any more." I agree that we shouldn't need it. But don't forget that a growing share of oil goes into making plastics and synthetic rubber & fibres. The USA is the world's 2nd largest producer of virgin synthetic polymers (after China) and its output continues to grow. 020 0
dorrainekeim.bsky.social @dorrainekeim.bsky.social · 04/01/2026In the end, it’s not really about oil either. It’s about wealth and power and what is the fastest ways to get it. Go after the low-hanging fruit first, like Venezuela. This is just the beginning. Narcissists are never satisfied. 000 0
Pete @chhinnamasta.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Not sure that’s right. While controlling Venezuelas oil reserves is a bonus for the US this is a Rubio engineered move to isolate Cuba 000 0
Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump will find a way to earn a few billion for family and friends. It's not fundamentally about the position of the US oil industry either. 040 0
Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Or is it? bsky.app/profile/dani...Daniela Gabor@danielagabor.bsky.socialIntriguing theory that it wasn't Trump but US nat security that initiated attack on Venezuela, for critical minerals rather than oil renegaderesources.pro/p/the-venezu...renegaderesources.proThe Venezuelan Oil Narative is PURE THEATREThe Real Reason the Pentagon Approved Venezuela: Critical Minerals and Adversary Expulsion 000 0
Freddy Hicarus @freddy1138.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The dinosaurs can have their oil. They'll be extinct in a few decades. 000 0
lavallette.bsky.social @lavallette.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Besides the USA has made so much money from tariffs it doesn’t need oil and can has so much spare cash it can buy, drugs, healthcare & pay pensions which is why there are no homeless or signs of poverty anywhere in the US- he put the national guard on the streets to help people cross the road 120 0
lavallette.bsky.social @lavallette.bsky.social · 04/01/2026If Trump tells you it’s about the oil or the drugs you can bet it’s got very little to do with oil or drugs 010 0
lavallette.bsky.social @lavallette.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump is so dumb - he knows nothing about oil. The dollar is low and the oil price is so low companies in the Us don’t want to extract it there let alone in Venezuela- the only company that might is the one that is already established there and by coincidence gave the republicans a massive donation 010 0
kenmunn.bsky.social @kenmunn.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The future of energy is not Venezuelan oil… 041 0
Paul van Brakel @paulvanbrakel.bsky.social · 04/01/2026bsky.app/profile/paul...Paul van Brakel@paulvanbrakel.bsky.socialCold War II - Venezuela The US had to head off China at the pass lest they resurrect their dilapidated oil infrastructure. Difference being legitimatacy www.reuters.com/business/ene...reuters.comExclusive: Private Chinese firm producing oil in Venezuela under rare 20-year pact, source saysChina Concord Resources Corp has begun developing two Venezuelan oilfields, planning to invest more than $1 billion in a project to produce 60,000 barrels per day of crude oil by end-2026, an executiv... 000 0
Handgun Yoga 🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇺🇸 @handgunyoga.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The US doesn’t need oil, just needs it denominated in US dollars. “A heavily sanctioned state, sitting on immense reserves, explicitly declaring its intention to “free itself from the dollar,” while aligning with China, Russia and Iran, posed a problem not of immediate impact, but of precedent.”theedgemalaysia.comOpinion: The Venezuela signalEMPIRES do not collapse in a single dramatic moment. They fray. They hesitate. And when they finally act, it is often not from confidence, but from anxiety disguised as resolve. 020 0
Paul Handley @phand1.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Not exactly. It’s about keeping China from getting Venezuela oil. Trump believes that if the US controls it, the US will be stronger in competing with China. But it will hardly affect China, which is rapidly diversifying its energy sources as it builds AI data centers – – something Trump isn’t doing 000 0
Pauline Masters @paulinehmasters.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Yes, it is madness of course but we know the perpetrators have no compassion for others or for the planet either George. 010 0
Eddie Climate 🇺🇦 @eddieclimate.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Obviously it's not about the oil itself, but the power gained from the support of the fossil fuel industry executives. 000 0
label-correctie.bsky.social @label-correctie.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump will never be forgotten by the 100 generations after him who will be gasping for fresh and cool air or thirst for clean water and live with dryer soil without crops. #madmax 000 0
Bicycletim Stredwick @bicycle-tim.eurosky.social · 04/01/2026It’s not directly about oil.Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.socialA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/ 000 0
Steve Hayes @shimself.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Try this bsky.app/profile/eshe...Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.socialA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/ 030 0
Brian Hill @brianhill53703.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I expect that oil companies will make more money if the oil from Venezuela is entirely off the market. 000 0
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump has done everything he can to sustain demand for oil in the face of technological change. Now he can claim to be securing the supply ... 1130237 0
MrMickNL 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🏴 @mrmicknl.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It's for his plastic gold painted stuff. You need oil for plastic. 000 0
Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The Billionaire Class need oil, because they are pathologically selfserving and greedy. 020 0
AuroraErratic @auroraerratic.bsky.social · 04/01/2026But you can't expect an idiot like Donald Trump to know that. He learned from the Beverly Hillbillies that oil = money and that's all he needs. 010 0
loopylaura.bsky.social @loopylaura.bsky.social · 04/01/2026But the war machine needs oil. And the war machine protects the rich, so they fund it. The rich need money to pay for their protection so they invest in oil. It's a demonic recycling system with no regard to anyone else on the planet. I've attempted a graphic illustration... BLOOD - MONEY - OIL 020 0
Maria S. @dont-argue.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump and Republicans are still living in the 1970-1980s! 000 0
Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026He needs to prop up the US petrodollar. That is his Achilles heel. 041 0
Mewling Tim @tim606.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Worse than that I saw something yesterday about the oil extracted in Venezuela is not of great quality and creates even more pollution/carbon release than oil from elsewhere 2231 0
Clara Hayes @claracha.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The planet certainly doesn’t but Trump thinks he does and Putin well might fancy some too. 000 0
James Gilbert @jgrg.mstdn.science.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026@georgemonbiot.bsky.social And Venezuela's oil is very heavy crude, which requires specialist refineries to handle and may be uneconomic if oil prices are too low. 142 0
Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social · 04/01/2026It's only an oil grab, backed up by the usual Trump lies. None of Trump's justifications, explain his desire to annexe Canada and Greenland by force. But by no coincidence, they do have massive mineral and oil reserves. This is oil and mineral colonialism. 1101 0
newblue25.bsky.social @newblue25.bsky.social · 05/01/2026This makes complete sense to me and the factual posts from @esherukweku.bsky.social prove it. How this didn’t go viral I will never know. There is complete garbage posting about the whole situation on here and I am so disappointed. Thanks George and Esheru. 010 0
richardham1956.bsky.social @richardham1956.bsky.social · 04/01/2026But Trump got $1bn of campaign funding from Big Oil so he had to give them something in return, even if only the opportunity to make some extra profit from really cruddy reserves. 000 0
TRUMPEDO @centrist05.bsky.social · 04/01/2026This is about the $USD, the petro $ and the bond market. Look behind the curtain. 010 0
Janet Jeanette @anotherjname.bsky.social · 04/01/2026He’s living in the past, everything he does is an attempt to return to the 80s. A time he understands when he was in his “prime.” 000 0
walter innes @walterjsinnes.bsky.social · 04/01/2026just wait - next signing of a menu card, BOB will declare owning a car smaller than a 5tr V8 WILL be illegal.... (shouldn't have said that!) 000 0
Woof-Woof @quietnotabot.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The people who sell it need us to think we need it and Trump is in their pocket. 000 0
jesterkitty.bsky.social @jesterkitty.bsky.social · 04/01/2026If you think this is about oil, you’ve not been paying attention. This is about China, Russia, and Iran. Why do you think Trump captured Maduro first? Iran will fall and the rats will scatter. Venez. will not harbor commie fugitives without Am surveillance. Stay tuned. It’s about to get interesting. 100 0
Jacky @jacky3344.bsky.social · 04/01/2026And the current oil price is so low, oil companies won't want to invest anyway - particularly in such an unstable country. Actually the main purpose may really be to distract from the Epstein files, and the little bomb set off on NYE when the Jack Smith papers were published. 030 0
Deb Bakes @bakesdeb.bsky.social · 04/01/2026bsky.app/profile/bake...Deb Bakes@bakesdeb.bsky.socialDrumpf wants you to believe it’s about oil, but I believe it’s to help out Don Loser Junior who needs the rare earth mineral Coltan for his new “magnets” deal with the Pentagon. Remember Trump babbling about magnets??? techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/c... www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.com‘Drug trafficking, extortion, kidnapping’: the lawless rush for rare earth minerals in VenezuelaGuerrilla groups have seized control of mining areas, exploiting Indigenous people and fuelling environmental ruin on the border with Colombia 033 0
jmc123.bsky.social @jmc123.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I think the old men in charge of oil companies and the US dont realise this yet and think if they hold back green changes they can maintain their hold on energy power. 010 0
One Adult Swim @oneadultswim.bsky.social · 04/01/2026The bit I'm undecided on, is it naivety or cowardice from rest of world? 000 0
Alan H. @demandside.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Big Oil knows that $50 bbl will not pay for rebuilding wells, pipelines and refineries in the potential context of snipers and sabotage. You'd have thought Trump would have checked out the interest, but apparently not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comUS oil giants silent on Trump claim they will spend billions on Venezuelan oil industryUS president says oil majors primed to invest in rebuilding infrastructure following Maduro ouster 111 0
cherikap.bsky.social @cherikap.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Well we need to figure out what’s in it for trump. We know he took oil money for his campaign. Does he get stock options? 010 0
Ralph Leishman @rl4consulting.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Ah but it's not just the oil, it's the petrodollar. 0262 0
George @poadster.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Oil talk all seems to centre on fuel uses - 'we need to transfer to green energy. But oil is fundamental to other applications, such as plastics. So plenty reasons surely to keep drilling. 000 0
A return to normal @uniteforchange.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Dear George/everyone, please read this thread (not my own) for some further understanding on the oil grab bsky.app/profile/eshe...Esheru@esherukweku.bsky.socialA very long and important THREAD - The real reason the US is invading Venezuela goes back to a deal Henry Kissinger made with Saudi Arabia in 1974. And I'm going to explain why this is actually about the SURVIVAL of the US dollar itself. Not drugs. Not terrorism. Not "democracy." 1/ 010 0
Empires of Waste @empiresofwaste.bsky.social · 04/01/2026As Alan Greenspan pointed out in 2007 about Iraq, it was "largely about oil" 021 0
David Stansell @daves1412.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I suspect this piece has some merit and that it may also be about the US dollar and control of international trade (posted 19 Dec 25 potentiously) vm.tiktok.com/ZNRMH17gK/vm.tiktok.comTikTok - Make Your Day 000 0
Anthony 💙🇺🇳🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴🇦🇺 @antenor-eu4uk.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Do we not need oil? I get the move away from fossil fuels, but oil is the basis for plastics, lubricants, paints etc that form essential elements of green technologies. Would oil not be a valued and increasingly scarce resource even if we never burned another drop? 100 0
Martin Nutty @nuttyinnyc.com · 04/01/2026Well when you have a president whose policy is driven by 19th century thinking: Monroe and McKinley and who embraces fossil fuels as a reflexive reaction to wind turbines spoiling his Turnberry golf course views, if all makes perfect sense #USPolitics 000 0
MB in NC 🇺🇸⚽💻♾️🇺🇦🐈 @mbinnc.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Exactly. There's already signs of oversupply, and other OPEC nations are going to push back if Venezuela dramatically increases their output (which will take years anyway) with or without US help. Oil companies are not going to dump tens of billions into Venezuela unless they're going to get 💰💰💰 100 0
fried-kult.bsky.social @fried-kult.bsky.social · 04/01/2026I would like to know what the penalty is for kidnapping in the United States. 000 0
Doctor Of Music @doctorofmusic.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Yes but Trump's pro-oil manoeuvres have relatively little effect outside of the United States, and once he is gone the US will most likely ditch most of them. So this invasion and kidnapping amounts to little more than a short-term, relatively localised action. 000 0
Varun 🍉🍁 @horribleaccount.bsky.social · 04/01/2026That's what the whole thing is about. Trump is a fossil fascist and will protect the interests of fossil fuel companies even if it goes against the interests of capitalism. American economy is dependent on fossil fuels and they don't want to transition to renewables. 1263 0
Ⓜ️uumi ✖️ McBob 🏴🇪🇺🇳🇱 3.5% 🐟 - Antifa 💚❤️ @muumi-tweets.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Trump needs the oil. He's been fighting windmills since the 90s. Aberdeenshire remembers. 171 0
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