🚨 U.S. President Donald Trump says Venezuela’s interim authorities will turn over 30–50 million barrels of oil.
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For context this is 2.5 days worth of oil to keep the USA trucking along.
In 2025 the USA burned through approximately 20 million barrels of oil a day.
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We've always been at war with Venezuela
Curious what China will do in response
in what kind of world would this ever be considered even necessary? let alone ok or "great"
is this normal anywhere?
That's pretty shitty deal for the people of Venezuela, no?
Yeah — it’s a terrible deal for Venezuelans.
30–50M barrels is barely 1–2 months of current production, peanuts compared to Venezuela’s reserves. The money isn’t even controlled by Venezuelan institutions, but by the U.S. side. That’s not “help,” it’s resource extraction dressed up as liberation.
Oh that's good to know that it's barely 1-2 months of production. Shitty, but it could be worse. We will have to see what is the future plan after these 50M barrels are stolen. On top of that Venezuelan crude is heavy and sour requiring more refinement than other sources, so that adds some complexity to the equation.