{"id":20977,"date":"2026-01-07T19:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:24:07","slug":"trump-has-no-plan-for-venezuela-the-david-frum-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela | The David Frum Show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Making a profit of Venezuelan&#8217;s oil will be difficult. Venezuela is in deep debt; those debtors will demand the first cut on any profits. Efficiently exploiting Venezuela&#8217;s oil will require tons of investment in both oil drilling and the infrastructure of the country.Trump doesn&#8217;t think like a businessman, but a Marxist. He sees resources and wants to steal it for his whims. The US is a wealthy country who can trade for what it needs; it doesn&#8217;t need to use force to take resources in another country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump appeared\u00a0to have been riffing when he said that the US would run Venezuela. There appears to be no plan for the US to run Venezuela.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Has No Plan for Venezuela | The David Frum Show\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UE7L-sNFNkE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a profit of Venezuelan&#8217;s oil will be difficult. Venezuela is in deep debt; those debtors will demand the first cut on any profits. Efficiently exploiting Venezuela&#8217;s oil will require tons of investment in both oil drilling and the infrastructure of the country.Trump doesn&#8217;t think like a businessman, but a Marxist. He sees resources and wants to steal it for his whims. The US is a wealthy country who can trade for what it needs; it doesn&#8217;t need to use force to take resources in another country. <\/p>\n<p>Trump appeared to have meen riffing when he said that the US would run Venezuela. There appears to be no plan for the US to run Venezuela. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UE7L-sNFNkE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[221,272,355,314,170,741],"class_list":["post-20977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-trump","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20978,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20977\/revisions\/20978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}