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STOP SAYING “THEY’RE THERE FOR THE OIL.” IT’S A LIE.

The U.S. never meaningfully extracted oil from Iraq, Libya, or Syria. No cheaper gas. No increased supply. No public benefit. That fantasy collapses once you understand financialized capitalism.

Modern empire is not extractive — it is anti-productive. Profit does not come from producing resources, but from preventing production, enforcing scarcity, and monetizing future claims through debt.

The real mechanism is simple and repeatable:

Sanctions cut a country off from dollar clearing, refinancing, insurance, parts, and logistics.

Production collapses — by design.

The collapse is blamed on “mismanagement.”

Debt defaults follow.

Creditors activate international arbitration.

External assets are seized.

Financial firms “stabilize” the wreckage through debt restructuring, asset stripping, and collateralized future barrels.

Production stays constrained — because abundance would destroy price leverage.

The oil is most valuable when it stays in the ground, backing debt, derivatives, and geopolitical control.

This is why Venezuela is not about rebuilding capacity or supplying oil to anyone. It’s about debt peonage, asset seizure, suppressed production, and externally controlled cash flows.

Arguing “it’s wrong to take their resources” is a losing move. It concedes the false premise that resources could be taken and shared. They can’t. They never were.

Trump didn’t expose a failed system. He exposed a system working exactly as intended.

Imperial power today is not theft.

It is financial strangulation disguised as economics.

Anyone still saying “they just want the oil” is protecting the machine.

Good point and well written. But do not confuse state corporatism and financialized socialism with financialized capitalism.

gm

We need to stop paying taxes, otherwise this shit will only get worse.

For real, they look awesome!

gm

Everybody will start using the Nostr at the blockheight they deserve.

Happy new year #nostr! 🎆🎇✨

If one cannot keep a secret, they cannot possibly hold their own keys.

It's not easy, and I have to admit that I've lost some keys along the way, but it only have made me to learn more.

Everyone who desires to NOT to be dependent to others, has to learn how to keep a secret. I believe that majority of people have this skill to learn, but sadly they're not using it.

That might seem to be the case, but humans have such intelligence that most of them can easily handle secrets and Bitcoin. But only if they have desire to do so. So the problem is not incapability imo.

You don't learn to

read by doing alphabets.

you learn

by READING