{"id":22999,"date":"2026-09-02T20:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22999"},"modified":"2026-09-02T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T20:08:12","slug":"the-pentagons-unprecedented-plan-for-venezuelan-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22999","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s Unprecedented Plan for Venezuelan Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before becoming president, Trump regularly said the US should have taken Iraq&#8217;s oil, ignoring the sovereignty of Iraq and proposing that the US just take other countries&#8217; national resources by force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It would have been wrong to dismiss comments like this by taking Trump seriously not literally. Trump literally meant that, and as president he has implemented similar policies by using military force to remove Venezuela&#8217;s former leader and actively trying to take a percentage of Venezuela&#8217;s oil for the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Getting Venezuela&#8217;s oil production up and running will take a tremendous amount of investment, and its unlikely that right-minded investors will invest in such a thing because it is too much money and risk if political winds change in the US or Venezuela. This means, it will likely require taxpayer money or the president strong-arming US companies.<\/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=\"The Pentagon\u2019s Unprecedented Plan for Venezuelan Oil\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Baz2pNyH0DU?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>Before becoming president, Trump regularly said the US should have taken Iraq&#8217;s oil, ignoring the sovereignty of Iraq and proposing that the US just take other countries&#8217; national resources by force. <\/p>\n<p>It would have been wrong to dismiss comments like this by taking Trump seriously not literally. Trump literally meant that, and as president he has implemented similar policies by using military force to remove Venezuela&#8217;s former leader and actively trying to take a percentage of Venezuela&#8217;s oil for the US. <\/p>\n<p>Getting Venezuela&#8217;s oil production up and running will take a tremendous amount of investment, and its unlikely that right-minded investors will invest in such a thing because it is too much money and risk if political winds change in the US or Venezuela. This means, it will likely require taxpayer money or the president strong-arming US companies. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Baz2pNyH0DU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,314,576,170,619,741],"class_list":["post-22999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-oil","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999","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=22999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23000,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22999\/revisions\/23000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}