"President Donald Trump has no shame in admitting what he wants to get out of attacking Venezuela and threatening other energy resource-rich nations. "We're gonna get the oil flowing the way it should be," he said January 3rd, soon after his administration stunned the world with what many policy experts and Democratic lawmakers are calling an unlawful incursion into Caracas that led to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro."
"Trump's fixation on so-called "energy dominance" is also more pretext - on top of federal drug trafficking charges against Maduro - for a plain-old power grab. "Under our new national security strategy, American dominance in the Western hemisphere will never be questioned again. Won't happen," Trump added. Colombia, Mexico, Cuba, and others better watch out, Trump and other senior officials have warned. And White House adviser Stephen Miller told CNN's Jake Tapper on Monday that it's been the "formal position of the US government" under Trump "that Greenland should be part of the United States.""
President Trump framed operations against Venezuela as efforts to secure oil and declared an aim of American "energy dominance" across the Western Hemisphere. His administration carried out an incursion into Caracas resulting in the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, justified publicly by federal drug trafficking charges. Senior officials issued warnings to regional neighbors and suggested territorial ambitions, including comments about Greenland. The administration's posture signals a willingness to seize resources and impose control over resource-rich territories without regard for other nations' sovereignty. Allied fossil fuel interests and tech oligarchs stand to benefit, while global populations face heightened risk from resource-driven interventions.
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