I’ll go slower for you. The USA is taking that oil over Venezuelas dead bodies. It doesn’t matter if they are pumping it out of the ground and using it or selling it, or nothing at all. The only thing this country loves is g.o.d. Gold, oil, drugs. See fort Knox, see Iraq, see Afghanistan.
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muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoExactly. But it wouldn’t matter and would hurt them in two ways. First, during transition, the US would steal your oil and use it for themselves, creating a dependency on your supply. But you eventually stop ordering oil, which fucks the US over since their supply suddenly dries up. Finally, money decides everything in American politics. If you make an entire country stop buying oil, big oil is going to stop buying republicans.
frizzo@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
When the US ovethrows a government for it’s nations natural resources, it then sends in it’s corporations to profit / benefit Americans involved in that industry. The locals get nothing. This is the neocolonial playbook.
Pivoting to renewables would protect the local population but it would change the American imperial strategy on a meaningful way.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
So ruin the natural resources? Drill your own wells and dope them with something that ruins the oil so it can’t be used.
frizzo@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Your logic is literally “they can’t rape me if I drink enough poison.” Kinda short sighted don’t you think?
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Are you suggesting the US will leave them alone if they have oil?