Is this just bluster or the beginning of a new quagmire?
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Reality begs to differ:
"Most of Venezuela’s crude is extra-heavy oil, closer in consistency to asphalt than gasoline.
To produce it at scale, companies need the following:
1) Specialized drilling equipment
2) Upgraders to turn thick crude into exportable oil
3) Constant maintenance to keep wells from clogging
4) Special chemicals (often imported) to thin the oil so it can flow
Thus, while Venezuela still has massive amounts of proven reserves, it lacks a functioning system to extract, process and ship it.
Over the past two decades, that system has all but fallen apart, based on decisions inside and outside the country"
Trump simply does *not* know what he's gotten himself into...
Is this just bluster or the beginning of a new quagmire?
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@AkaSci When I hear “unloading docks” I’m imagining he’s thinking of literal barrels of oil. Is this still a thing?
@AkaSci And what even is the point, since the U.S. is a net exporter of oil?
Is this a test of how gullible and self-destructive trump supporters are?
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Funding for international adventures and quagmires is being lined up to come from tariffs (i.e., from U.S. consumers), a whopping extra 500 billion dollars per year to "build the 'Dream Military' that we have long been 'entitled to.'"
The Military-Industrial Complex must be feeling positively giddy.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mbufimm6zc2e
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