Venezuela

[Rubashov]

I also remember people saying "We're invading Iraq so we can take their oil" but that's just not how it works. Oil is a commodity and these countries are not hoarding their supply.

No but they control the price at terms favourable to them not the consumer.

 

[Rubashov]

Its kinda like the iraq war. We were lied to about WMD's so we could force a regime change and get us some oil.

Now we are being lied to about the drug trade so we can force a regime change and drill baby drill. Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world from what I hear.

You're right Venezuela has the worlds largest known oil reserves. The Chavez/Maduro government was hugely popular for their first decade in power and were routinely democratically elected. I doubt elections these days are strictly democratic in Venezuela anymore tho. However what we must remember is almost from the first the CIA attempted to destabilise the Chavez government and backed several coups against them. Once it became clear that the government controlled the military the CIA has waged a financial war against Venezuela, firstly to destroy their currency and then to ruin their markets, this has been going on for close to 15 years.