It’s about the oil and the oil industry’s interests.

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Dense, sticky and heavy: why Venezuelan crude oil appeals to US refineries

South American nation’s tar-like oil is what many Gulf coast facilities were built for but ramping up production to 3m barrels a day will be a lo...

Trump is determined to have all out war. Maybe he’s just a psychopath, maybe he wants to ramp up the military so he can justify more overtly interfering with domestic elections in 2026. I don’t actually care about the why, I just want to note how wildly dangerous he is.

Trump threatens Colombia with military action – as it happened | Venezuela | The Guardian

US president says an operation in Colombia ‘sounds good’ and elections in Venezuela will happen at the ‘right time’