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    Trump verspricht den Ölkonzernen „totale Sicherheit“ in Venezuela und drängt sie zu Milliardeninvestitionen


    Trump verspricht den Ölkonzernen „totale Sicherheit“ in Venezuela und drängt sie zu Milliardeninvestitionen

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/trump-oil-company-executives-meeting-venezuela

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    1. alonso-Lewis-vettel on

      Most notable statements of Trump’s interview:-

      “We’re going to be extracting numbers in terms of oil like few people have seen,”

      “Venezuela is going to be very successful, and the people of the United States are going to be big beneficiaries.”

      “The plan is for them to spend, meaning our giant oil companies will be spending at least $100bn of their money, not the government’s money,” Trump said. “They don’t need government money, but they need government protection and government security.”

      “These are people that drill oil in some pretty rough places,” he said. “I could say a couple of those places make Venezuela look like a picnic.”

    2. Wonderful-Peak9018 on

      Everyone remember Trump 1.0’s Mexican Border Wall? “Mexico is going to pay for it!”? How much did Mexico pay for? Oil company’s are going to pay the same amount for Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, and the same folks who paid for the border wall are going to foot this bill.

    3. Clear_Anything1232 on

      Don’t worry friends, you lost billions last time but it won’t happen this time because I’ll be in the office for the next 3 years – that is if the McDonald’s food doesn’t kick my bucket

      Totally safe

    4. Either-Patience1182 on

      It’s so amusing that oil is down 5% world wide because alternatives and this idiot wants to increase supply while the us is at max capacity. There was a reason all the companies were not “drill baby drilling “when they owned the land. It was not for environmental concerns. I hope this surge in attacks from the us make countries accelerate to use more alternatives as a safety mechanism

    5. Illustrious-Jump-590 on

      They would be stupidly to listen because one of these days a democrat will regain control and that’s the end of that. Or one of these days the people of Venezuela will be sick of having their oil stolen and do something about it.

    6. Mormaethor on

      You know it’s a stupid plan when the oil companies themselves don’t even want to get involved with it.

    8. vonGlick on

      And the final guarantee is that „Venezuelans respect him“ or some other nonsense like that?

    9. queen-adreena on

      The US doesn’t even have a presence in the country!

      They literally kidnapped one dude and he thinks he’s the new king of Vuvuzela.

    10. filmguy36 on

      Yeah, okay, cool story bro

      I knew a guy years ago that did this same type of shit for Exxon in the Middle East in the 60’s and 70’s. It was an armed compound that literally got attacked every single day.

    11. AmbitiousYam1047 on

      Literally no oil exec would ever entertain this idea unless they felt like getting fired immediately in a storm of shareholder rage.

      Did Trump even think about the logistical, fiscal, and security risks involved here?

    13. manniesalado on

      Trump says he will personally control all the revenues so he is very motivated to get the oily ball rolling! This could become corruption on a scale never seen before.

    15. eskimospy212 on

      Good news, oil companies! If there’s one thing we know about Trump it’s that his word is his bond so he definitely wouldn’t leave you hanging at the first opportunity. 

    16. mrchris69 on

      Trump hasn’t kept one promise his entire life . If the oil companies do go to Venezuela and things start getting out of hand Trump will just wash his hand of the whole situation.

    19. aqueous88 on

      I just can’t fathom American oil companies investing in Venezuela without a permanent US military presence. Ukraine is showing just how easy it is to almost completely disable refineries in Russia, hundreds, sometimes thousands of km’s away. All it will take is some small insurgency or ‚terrorist‘ group to completely shut down any US effort in extracting oil. The cost benefit just doesn’t seem like it’s there, particularly with how the rest of the world is trying to move on from oil in the ways they can.

    20. Asticot-gadget on

      Knowing Trump’s track record, I would assume this means that the oil companies would be at extreme risk.

    21. TrashGoblinH on

      Eventually he’ll have to pressure companies into doing it at a loss. Good luck oil companies, you’re sitting in the frying pan of a madman hoping to score whatever win he thinks he can get.

    22. Tebasaki on

      Oil companies spend billions rebuilding infrastructure, current regime (same as 2025 regime) says, „we’ll take it from here, thanks!“

      (Sells to China)

    23. AnonHondaBoiz on

      If Venezuela is so uninvestable, why doesn’t Trump use taxpayer money to socialize the cost of investment so that companies can privatize the profits??

      /s

    24. quequotion on

      So either total military occupation, which will backfire and breed insurgency, or keep the leadership of the country under constant threat of extraordinary rendition, which he has already established with the acting president.

      In any case, Venezuela won’t be seeing any self-determination going forward.

    26. ThePensiveE on

      No Democratic US administration is going to keep the Venezuelan people at gunpoint to steal their oil.

      More importantly though, why the fuck would they ever invest in anything America when this lunatic is tearing it down?

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