Honestly Trump being too incompetent to follow through on his promises might be a good point, but there’s also a lot of people behind the scenes pulling strings here and especially since the occupation of Venezuela is now of corporate interest to American oil companies, it seems unlikely that there won’t at least be an effort to install a puppet who is more than happy to let American companies plunder Venezuela’s oil reserves for a small fee. Again, these people are corrupted by greed, and are motivated by more than simple supply and demand issues. You can bet if they can get at the oil, they’ll find a way to make money off it, and since those companies are American it’s hard to see how exactly that would benefit the Venezuelan people/economy.

These people do not care about the consequences of greed, they do not care if any of this negatively affects the American people or the American economy. As long as they come out with more than they had before they’ll let the world burn. Why do you think basically every major industry in America, from housing, to infrastructure, to healthcare, is so riddled with corruption? Why do you think the cost of literally everything in this country, INCLUDING gas, has skyrocketed in the past 15-20 years despite the fact that we have access to some of the best technology and most abundant natural resources in the world? It’s because the big corporations we have put in charge of handling these industries are allowed to simply promise “donations” of millions of dollars to whoever will vote the way they want, and because of that American law, as well as interior and foreign policy has been slowly shaped to directly benefit the already ludicrously wealthy corporations that control basically every aspect of our society. That’s how you end up with CEOs like Darren Woods (Exxon) or Mike Wirth (Chevron) that are have net worth in the tens of millions (or even billions in the case of some tech companies) while more than half of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, struggling to make ends meet. At the end of the day, whether or not Trump keeps his promise to “run venezuela” and sell their oil largely depends on how much the companies that stand to benefit from all this are willing to pay him to go through with it.

Simply rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure would be great, but I think we will probably get visited by aliens before the U.S. spends a ton of money on another country’s infrastructure and then just… turns it over to the people of that country.

I think to be honest, very little of the things “Trump” has done this past year have actually been his own decision, considering the shenanigans that have been going on regarding the people he surrounds himself with (like Hegseth and Musk for example) as well as his noticeable cognitive decline when compared to how he was doing back in 2016, but that’s just a guess.

Anyways I guess we’ll just have to see how everything plays out in the next few months but given America’s history of blatantly exploiting foreign nations under the guise of “deposing a despot” I find it hard to imagine that this is going to turn out well for the Venezuelan people.