Day 1 of Trump's Presidency... and all the days that follow

[BMJ]

Trump’s 2026 Secret Weapon: Bankrupting the Insurance Cartels

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=iqyEMkdwpDw

Promethean Updates
Jan 8, 2026

Summary:
00:00 The Midweek Update - Trump’s 2026 Secret Weapon: Bankrupting the Insurance Cartels - January 7, 2026
02:38 Trump's Midterm Weapon: Kill the Healthcare Cartels
05:10 The British Blueprint: From Schacht to Obamacare
09:33 Same Families, Same Looting: Ukraine's Nazi Revival

In this episode, we delve into Donald Trump's revolutionary midterm strategy aimed at dismantling the financial empires of insurance cartels and HMOs. Trump proposes redirecting funds directly to citizens for their healthcare, challenging the traditional uniparty system. We explore the historical context, linking current financial practices to fascist economics from Nazi Germany, influenced by British and Wall Street interests. Learn why the GOP must adopt this aggressive stance to win the 2026 midterms and break free from decades of financial looting. Don't miss Susan Kokinda's analysis on Trump’s bold move against insurance companies and how it aligns with global power structures.

[Rizotto]

https://www.rt.com/news/630701-us-co...lukoil-assets/

January 7, 2026

US consortium moves on Russian oil giant’s overseas assets – FT
Chevron and Quantum Capital Group are reportedly lining up a bid for sanctions-hit Lukoil’s $22 billion international operations

Two US majors, Chevron and Quantum Capital Group, are lining up a bid to take control of the international portfolio of sanctioned Russian oil giant Lukoil, with the administration of President Donald Trump signaling its support for the proposal, the Financial Times has reported.

Washington imposed sanctions on Russia’s second-biggest oil producer last October as part of its broader effort to pressure Moscow over the Ukraine conflict, forcing Lukoil to divest its overseas holdings worth $22 billion. Due to the sanctions, any transaction requires a specific license from the Treasury Department to proceed, with the clearance for negotiations extended until January 17.

Chevron and Quantum will bid for the whole portfolio of Lukoil’s international assets, FT wrote on Wednesday, which includes three European refineries, stakes in oil and gas fields in countries such as Iraq, Kazakhstan, several African nations, and Mexico, plus a retail network of over 2,000 fuel stations worldwide.

A senior US official welcomed the Quantum-Chevron proposal to the FT, stating, “We are looking for a divestment that places ownership of these assets into the hands of an American owner and operator ad infinitum.”

Other parties reportedly eyeing the assets include ExxonMobil, the Hungarian firm MOL, the Emirati International Holding Company, private equity major Carlyle, and Saudi Arabia’s Midad Energy. A previous offer from Swiss-based trader Gunvor Group collapsed in November after the US Treasury accused the firm of having Kremlin ties.

Moscow has consistently condemned Western sanctions as politically motivated and illegal, warning they will backfire. Following the collapse of the Gunvor deal, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the situation with Lukoil highlighted that “illegal trade restrictions” imposed by the US are “unacceptable and hurt international trade.”

Chevron has faced a decades-long legal and public relations battle primarily over massive environmental damage from Texaco's former operations in the Ecuadorian Amazon, culminating in a contested $9.5 billion judgment against it in 2011. The company also faces broader criticism for its environmental record, including allegations of greenwashing and operational incidents globally.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Mike (here)
Jeffrey Sachs is a WEF stooge!

His whole resume is a testimony to globalist politics. Besides the WEF, he's deeply involved with the bloody WHO and the UN! What else do you need to see?? A picture of him blowing David Rockefeller??

Sachs is about as illegitimate as the flat earth. This is like conspiracy 101! Why is everyone suddenly seeking f'in Jeffrey Sachs out for their information?

Here's a masterclass from Jeffrey Sachs, who was on for 52 minutes with The Duran yesterday.

Anyone who listens to this will see that he's despairing of the health and workability of the UN (which he correctly describes as being 'on life support') but clings to hope that it still might somehow be able to do its job. That job is fundamentally to stand up for international law, one core aspect of which is to safeguard the sovereignty and security of nations and peoples.

That's a humanitarian issue, not one of the WEF, the WHO or the globalists. Anyone who doesn't support that is advocating for anarchy, inevitably resulting in tragedy. (This is John Mearsheimer's view, see below.)

In one very interesting section, just after 14:20, Sachs presents his own disagreements with Mearsheimer, whom he greatly respects and counts as a good friend. Mearsheimer is a political realist, and argues that the UN is pretty much dead and quite unable to function at all. Sachs does a very fair job of representing Mearsheimer's view, which I actually agree with personally.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1_2L9R2x8xY

[Merkaba360]

Its 2026, the US shouldnt have had to attack Venezuela. The whole country of Venezuela knows about the regimes crimes against humanity. It is a long list and im sure there are 10,000 eyewitnesses easily. And im sure the CIA has plenty of proof. If the world wasn't a complete ghetto, 200 countries would unite and send warnings to the regimes in Venezuela, North Korea, etc and say stop the crimes against humanity or the world unites and surrounds you and you are done. Its not allowed on the planet period.

So, I don't know that I care so much about bending the law in this case, cuz the whole world is a failure to Venezuela, NK etc. The law is constantly being bent or broken in big and small cases worldwide, so why cry about it, if over all it has a HUGE positive result. I just can't see how this isn't going to bring far less unneeded suffering and open up prosperity from business assuming the next regime is more capitalist. Venezuelans win huge , US wins some, and other countries benefit too. Cuts off more money for the drug lords and stuff as well.

The matrix is largely rigged anyway. You think the Elite orchestrate a theatre, the damn spiritual realm higher dimensions are HEAVILY orchestrating this game according to what we signed up for and planned for this life. As above, so below. Guess what, Trump being in power was decided a long time ago. So, go complain to spirit and god . lol Soul contracts. The spirit world doesn't give a damn about some man made laws. If the collective will or if Source itself wanted to decrease suffering in Venezuela and beyond due to overthrowing the regime, it will absolutely make it happen however possible and preferably in a non messy way. And guess what, it couldnt have been done any better.

We need block chain voting so bad. One that is a guaranteed right worldwide. Any country could take a vote and see if the citizens are being "held hostage" so to speak and request assistance. In my pipe dream, I bet Venezuela gets at least a 90% vote of SOS - MAYDAY. Then that triggers a duty for the world to intervene. A high enough majority vote voids the "Sovereignty" for the regime running the country since its not representing the people, therefore its not a sovereign country of people. Its a sovereign regime ruling the populace with an iron fist.

Try to start looking from a higher view like spirit does. What seems good from a human perspective might not be from spirit view and vice versa. People are so sure of themself on appearances of what looks right or wrong. I trust the matrix evolution and that things unfold how they should most of the time. The collective Will decides outcomes more than our man made rules of operation. I can just imagine spirit watching down at all the mess of this world. Any chess piece they move also is messy, but there are no ideal moves, but they see the long game and what might seem like a wrong move now has very unexpected long term effects.


As far as the "US is stealing their oil now". There was an X post that Chavez screwed over our businesses and the courts ruled Venezuela owes them $35 billion. Apparently, they could be collecting what they are owed.

So, I asked GPT5 and it confirmed this much:

International arbitration tribunals have ordered Venezuela to pay compensation

These are binding international legal awards against the Venezuelan state or state-owned entities, not automatic U.S. government judgments:

Example awards include:

≈ $8.7 billion to ConocoPhillips from a World Bank arbitration tribunal for unlawful expropriation of oil assets. Venezuela’s attempts to annul the award were rejected, and Conoco has been pursuing enforcement.
ConocoPhillips
+1

A $1.6 billion award to ExxonMobil from an arbitration panel related to the 2007 expropriation, which Venezuela has not fully paid.
Al Jazeera

Other cases (e.g., glassmaker Owens-Illinois) have also led to awards of hundreds of millions.
IISD

These awards become debt obligations of Venezuela that companies can try to enforce in courts where assets can be seized.

[Merkaba360]

Of course the middle east regime topplings were not good, cuz they were trying to keep the middle east down for various reasons. We have a long history of wars with them and aren't we the infidels many of them believe are the enemy to destroy? Israel doesnt want to be surrounded by powerful enemies of course.

I just don't think Venezuela is comparable. They need allies and to build a western trading bloc since they have to back down from asia to a degree as china, India and russia will dominate there. Its not in the US interest to have Venezuela be a Syria. So, the bit ive watched of Jeffrey Sachs so far sounds really intelligent for a 3rd dimensional academic, but it really is full of speculation and assumptions of course. And you can't just assume Trumps faction is the same faction as the Obama, bush, clinton team.

[Rizotto]

@Merkbala, what about the humongous crimes against humanity committed by the USA against many countries in Latin America, since at least the 1950s and prior to that. Shouldn't that count as "crimes against humanity" to be addressed by the international community? Why couldn't Venezuela continue to trade with Cuba and other neighboring country?

Fact is, the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES is the main reason Venezuela has terribly struggled. Many geopolitical experts have argued that USA sanctions were illegal in the face of international law. Venezuela's trade with China and Russia was beginning to help them, they were just about to join the BRICS when the Trump gang attacked. That's no coincidence. In fact, Trump has publicly stated numerous times last year that he views the BRICS as an enemy of the USA petro-dollar.

It will never cease to amaze me that those who favour regime change to remove 'dictators' from smaller countries, don't seem to be willing to ever acknowledge that Trump himself is in fact behaving like a dictator, violating human rights, murdering civilians as he pleases, false imprisonment and torture of civilians in Gaza, as he (Trump) considers himself to be above the law.

Never forget, the USA killed a million Iraqis after invading Iraq in 2003, an invasion based on lies of 'weapons of mass destruction' that didn't exist. When you let the USA-Israel axis of terrorism rampage loose like this without accountability, they'll continue and get worse.

We're at the point where we were just prior to WW2. Here's a country (Germany back then) that claims dominance over the world and is invading its neighbours, killing millions of civilians in the process. Do we just sit there and let USA continue its murderous rampage, or is it justified to stop them militarily, which to be honest seems to be the only way to stop them at this point. At which point is military intervention justified to stop a bully.

Of course, the situation is now terribly grave considering that the USA-Israel axis is in possession of nuclear weapons. The worse is that Trump-Netanyahu are deliberately provoking the rest of the world with their 'try and stop us if you dare' attitude, that indicates they wouldn't hesitate to use nuclear weapons.

[rgray222]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
The fact is, the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES is the main reason Venezuela has terribly struggled.

I often wonder if people say things like this in anger or if they actually believe what they're saying. This statement is simply untrue. The economic collapse of Venezuela began before the imposition of tariffs. Chávez’s corruption infiltrated every institution, draining the nation’s cash, credit, integrity and leaving it a hollow, empty shell. Chávez's mismanagement, nepotism, favoritism and sheer excess largely contributed to the weakening of Venezuela's oil industry. He leaves behind a legacy of greed. Chávez’s leadership was characterized by incompetence and a failure at every aspect of the job. Maduro was nothing more than a cheap facsimile.

I am not a fan of Trump taking out Maduro, but we should at least get SOME of the facts right. The tariffs eventually contributed, but were in no way the cause of the economic decline.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by rgray222 (here)

Posted by Rizotto (here)
The fact is, the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES is the main reason Venezuela has terribly struggled.

I often wonder if people say things like this in anger or if they actually believe what they're saying. This statement is simply untrue. The economic collapse of Venezuela began before the imposition of tariffs. Chávez’s corruption infiltrated every institution, draining the nation’s cash, credit, integrity and leaving it a hollow, empty shell. Chávez's mismanagement, nepotism, favoritism and sheer excess largely contributed to the weakening of Venezuela's oil industry. He leaves behind a legacy of greed. Chávez’s leadership was characterized by incompetence and a failure at every aspect of the job. Maduro was nothing more than a cheap facsimile.

I am not a fan of Trump taking out Maduro, but we should at least get SOME of the facts right. The tariffs eventually contributed, but were in no way the cause of the economic decline.

Rizotto was referring to "the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES". (She's correct.) And you're correct too... Venezuela's economic troubles have almost nothing to do with the recent tariffs.

[BMJ]

Bringing Back The American Dream

These Institutions Are Why Homes Were Out Of Reach:

- Invitation Homes

- American Homes 4 Rent

- Progress Residential (Pretium Partners)

- FirstKey Homes (Cerberus Capital Management)

- Tricon Residential (Blackstone)

- Amherst Holdings

- Blackstone Group

But people will have you believe Donald Trump is not out here addressing every issue that is making America unaffordable for the average citizens.

Link: https://x.com/Prolotario1/status/200...411103720?s=20

[rgray222]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)

Posted by rgray222 (here)

Posted by Rizotto (here)
The fact is, the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES is the main reason Venezuela has terribly struggled.

I often wonder if people say things like this in anger or if they actually believe what they're saying. This statement is simply untrue. The economic collapse of Venezuela began before the imposition of tariffs. Chávez’s corruption infiltrated every institution, draining the nation’s cash, credit, integrity and leaving it a hollow, empty shell. Chávez's mismanagement, nepotism, favoritism and sheer excess largely contributed to the weakening of Venezuela's oil industry. He leaves behind a legacy of greed. Chávez’s leadership was characterized by incompetence and a failure at every aspect of the job. Maduro was nothing more than a cheap facsimile.

I am not a fan of Trump taking out Maduro, but we should at least get SOME of the facts right. The tariffs eventually contributed, but were in no way the cause of the economic decline.

Rizotto was referring to "the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES". (She's correct.) And you're correct too... Venezuela's economic troubles have almost nothing to do with the recent tariffs.

Bill, I am aware of that. As far as I know, the sanctions did not start until 2005, while Chavez was elected in 1998/99. I believe the severity of the sanctions increased over time. My point is that Chavez was putting the country into a nosedive before sanctions were put on. Also, there are so many other contributing aspects of this mess, such as the oil dependency issue with China. To say that sanctions over decades were the "main reason" isn't really correct.

Yes, sanctions eventually hurt the country but corruption, mismanagement and greed already had it on its knees.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Rizotto was referring to "the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES". (She's correct.)

If I claim that "A caused B", and if more over, we generally agree that A and B both existed, that would not necessarily make my claim "correct". Rather the essential part of the claim, that one caused the other, could remain in dispute, as Bill and rgray222 correctly observe, to some extent or other.

[BMJ]

Oh Timmy, Timmy, Timmy What Have You Done ???
It looks like Tim "I love Somalia" Waltz is being put front and centre by President Trump.

GAME OVER.

LET'S GO!!!🥳🥳🥳

GET 'EM, BOYS!!!🤣🤣🤣

STOP IT!!!🤣🤣🤣

[shaberon]

Here's where we stand with ICE.


My governor does not like ICE.

He just un-endorsed a Democratic Congressional incumbent over this. She is a huge fan of it, one of those Dems who mostly votes Republican, and she gave a supremacist speech using things we have seen posted here. Within a matter of hours, he unplugged her and endorsed a noob.


I don't know what kind of de-fanged existence everyone else lives in, but he has full authority to call me and we can throw out ICE, DHS, Marshals, or any other Federales who are out there walking around. This is not federal territory.

It is a fear op so you will disappear yourself. When they come out, cities shut down. This is unacceptable.

I don't know about the rest of you, but we can decide to throw them out by force if we want to. I can't make him give the command, but we have that option at our disposal.

[Merkaba360]

Posted by Rizotto (here)
@Merkbala, what about the humongous crimes against humanity committed by the USA against many countries in Latin America, since at least the 1950s and prior to that. Shouldn't that count as "crimes against humanity" to be addressed by the international community? Why couldn't Venezuela continue to trade with Cuba and other neighboring country?

Fact is, the USA sanctions against Venezuela over DECADES is the main reason Venezuela has terribly struggled. Many geopolitical experts have argued that USA sanctions were illegal in the face of international law. Venezuela's trade with China and Russia was beginning to help them, they were just about to join the BRICS when the Trump gang attacked. That's no coincidence. In fact, Trump has publicly stated numerous times last year that he views the BRICS as an enemy of the USA petro-dollar.

It will never cease to amaze me that those who favour regime change to remove 'dictators' from smaller countries, don't seem to be willing to ever acknowledge that Trump himself is in fact behaving like a dictator, violating human rights, murdering civilians as he pleases, false imprisonment and torture of civilians in Gaza, as he (Trump) considers himself to be above the law.

Never forget, the USA killed a million Iraqis after invading Iraq in 2003, an invasion based on lies of 'weapons of mass destruction' that didn't exist. When you let the USA-Israel axis of terrorism rampage loose like this without accountability, they'll continue and get worse.

We're at the point where we were just prior to WW2. Here's a country (Germany back then) that claims dominance over the world and is invading its neighbours, killing millions of civilians in the process. Do we just sit there and let USA continue its murderous rampage, or is it justified to stop them militarily, which to be honest seems to be the only way to stop them at this point. At which point is military intervention justified to stop a bully.

Of course, the situation is now terribly grave considering that the USA-Israel axis is in possession of nuclear weapons. The worse is that Trump-Netanyahu are deliberately provoking the rest of the world with their 'try and stop us if you dare' attitude, that indicates they wouldn't hesitate to use nuclear weapons.

Yea go ahead , round up the world to penalize usa then.

This realm/world is super corrupt. And some group of nations has got to be on top. Do you want the one with the top military that has checks and balances and human rights and a sophisticated so so legal system or do you want the socialist bloc or someone else to be on top? Where I live the legal system is an absolute joke. The people here are quite far behind. Its crazy how dumb the neurologist was that I saw. NEUROLOGIST ! Had 0 critical thinking skills.

If China was dominating they wouldve probably just assimilated Venezuela oil companies as Chinese National Oil Corporation. Adding it to their monopoly and sent 1 million chinese to move there during the occupation. Banned their media from saying anything bad about china, etc. lol Even if USA commits atrocities they still have to put on a show to make it look justified for their citizens. I heard the Chinese were saying a big problem with invading Taiwan is getting blood and medical supplies to the wounded soldiers. So, hey just take the blood and skin and organs from surrendered Taiwanese. Do you not see the difference in brutality and morality?

As fast as China and others are developing, there are more higher conscious people in the west still. Obviously, I'm not gonna cheer for the Socialist bloc to gain more ground and have US faction just play nice and be neutral. The amount they already infiltrated our country is way too much as it is. For all I know , we could be done for if they doubled their power and the US faction lost much power.

All the major super powers are trying to sneakily get more territory , resources and geographical strategic advantages obviously. I don't like it, but people suck and will not stop. Major penalties for past atrocities would just help more corrupt brutal groups gain ground. All we can do is try to raise awareness and improve our leaders from within. And the evidence shows Trump has been an improvement over the Bush war mongering and such. Trumps power may be too much for one man but there are WAY more checks and balances than the dictators you mention of smaller countries. If they had the power as Trump with practically no checks and balances it would be 100 times worse.

Its also dumb as heck for people to keep pretending Trump is just doing whatever he wants. Stop it, its absurd. He walked into a complex mess full of EXTREMELY powerful groups deciding on many complex things. Nobody knows if Trump wanted to allow Gaza to happen or if he had to go along with that one regardless of whatever is said on TV. You are just guessing. For the most part he is saying NO WAR except for national security. Venezuela could easily be missile crisis 2.0. And i keep seeing more evidence pointing to that it was either the US or their adversary.

And you'd think you'd be 100 times more worried about canadians being enslaved by authoritarians as Canada is further along than the US. Socialists taking over there, what if you end up like the other socialist countries. You'd be begging daddy Trump to invade lol.

[jaybee]

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A shortish video with Trump explaining in his own words what the broad situation is, as he sees it...

The subject isn't confined to the 'governorship of Venezuela' which is touched on in the later half (around 11:18) and that governorship seems to be mainly 'working with the leadership of the country'...

BREAKING: Trump reveals plans for governorship of Venezuelan (18:02)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JLbxmDh_8ds

9 Jan 2026 #fox #media #breakingnews
President Donald Trump discusses Maduro's capture, securing the southern border and plans for Venezuela on 'Hannity.'

snippit from the transcript...

15:55
>> Sean: LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT MARIA CORINA MACHADO.
>> President Trump: A VERY NICE PERSON.

>> Sean: SHE WON THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHEN SHE ACCEPTED THAT PEACE PRIZE SHE DEDICATED IT TO YOU. SHE SAID TO ME THIS WEEK BOTH ON TV AND RADIO THAT SHE WANTS TO GIVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE TO YOU. FOR LIBERATING HER COUNTRY.

IN 2023 SHE BECAME THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, MADURO KEPT HER OFF THE BALLOT. DO YOU HAVE ANY PLANS TO MEET WITH HER AND WOULD YOU ACCEPT THE NOBEL PRIZE SHE WANTS TO HAND TO YOU?

>> President Trump: I UNDERSTAND SHE'S COMING IN THE NEXT WEEK SOMETIME AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SAYING HELLO TO HER. I'VE HEARD SHE WANTS TO DO THAT. THAT WOULD BE A GREAT HONOR.

[norman]

Beyond the hypnotic masterclassing, stuff keeps happening.

If this doesn't admit guilt, what does ?

https://t.me/insiderpaper/40437





Oh wait, it was planned last year, so maybe we are watching a staged escalation, not a real one.

https://apnews.com/article/china-rus...0b6d4714b99a71


The South African "election" of Ramaphosa was the first test run of the worldwide election rigging operation after they moved the operational servers from Venezuela to a building in Belgrade in Serbia, joint owned by John Brennan.

Ramaphosa is high on the list of rigged election puppets to extract and expose the worldwide scam that has very nearly wiped out humanity as it knows and loves itself.

[shaberon]

As a matter of tracking these day-to-day events, this came up in 24 hours:


580 events were scheduled across the country as of Friday evening.

More than 1,000 are ultimately anticipated, organizers said.



It won't hotlink, but a map on Axios shows the 580 plans, and, it is engulfing.


2026:

"Within a matter of a week — Venezuela, Minnesota, Portland — enough is enough," she added. "And I think the people are going to make that very clear in the next few weeks."

True enough.

What I still fail to understand about these groups is that they seem to shortcut themselves to "demand accountability".

The actual fact is those are your jurisdictions, not federal property.

Therefor, you have full rights to declare it an invasion and treat it as such.

If 2,000 agents want to sleep in a federal courtroom, they can do that. As soon as they step off that line, they're nobody.

So, I mean, that's why I don't really have anything to do with protestors, because they rarely voice any workable platform. The dissatisfaction needs to be channeled into something that enjoys the same legal power as the source that sends these waves of objectionable practices. You need to assert jurisdiction, which is your State and its system. And, from within that, you can purge those Congressmen and Senators who are sure to give you the Same Thing.

Those are two key aspects that I do not find addressed by groups generally.

This is a huge wave of resentment that could be very powerful if channeled properly this year.

[jaybee]

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Developments regarding Venezuela and oil....

Historic White House Announcement: Trump, JD Vance & Rubio on Venezuela Oil | AC15(42:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W_7VhFaRqKE

9 Jan 2026 #Trump #Venezuela #OilIndustry
Watch LIVE from the White House as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with executives from major oil companies to discuss investments in reviving Venezuela’s tattered oil industry following recent U.S. actions in the country. The meeting comes as the administration seeks to secure up to $100 billion in energy sector investment and boost oil production.

my comment....

while the 'Deep State' - it's associates and beneficiaries are huffing and puffing about what's happening in Venezuela and using it to fuel the global ant~Trump PSYOP .....+ amassing a small army of 'useful idiots on the ground to cause violent disruption etc.......Trump is steadily moving forward with plans that will increase oil production and distribution.....via Venezuela....and with the cooperation (it appears) of the majority of the population and the adjusted government....

We don't know (yet) if Trump cut deals with Maduro and his wife behind closed doors - but he (Maduro) looked relaxed and even cheerful, holding a bottle of water and calling remarks out to the press etc....

I bet Gaddafi would wish he could have been treated so well - when the Clinton/Obama/Cameron/Sarcozy combo used 'rebels' to oust him and take over the oil and gas in Libya - - - seemingly endorsing his brutal murder and sodamizing with a sharp object - just saying....

Those wishing to see all out civil war in Venezuela as a response to the actions of the Trump Administration could be disappointed...

time, as usual, will tell where all this goes....

[SilentFeathers]

Posted by jaybee (here)
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Developments regarding Venezuela and oil....

Historic White House Announcement: Trump, JD Vance & Rubio on Venezuela Oil | AC15(42:15)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=W_7VhFaRqKE

9 Jan 2026 #Trump #Venezuela #OilIndustry
Watch LIVE from the White House as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with executives from major oil companies to discuss investments in reviving Venezuela’s tattered oil industry following recent U.S. actions in the country. The meeting comes as the administration seeks to secure up to $100 billion in energy sector investment and boost oil production.

my comment....

while the 'Deep State' - it's associates and beneficiaries are huffing and puffing about what's happening in Venezuela and using it to fuel the global ant~Trump PSYOP .....+ amassing a small army of 'useful idiots on the ground to cause violent disruption etc.......Trump is steadily moving forward with plans that will increase oil production and distribution.....via Venezuela....and with the cooperation (it appears) of the majority of the population and the adjusted government....

We don't know (yet) if Trump cut deals with Maduro and his wife behind closed doors - but he (Maduro) looked relaxed and even cheerful, holding a bottle of water and calling remarks out to the press etc....

I bet Gaddafi would wish he could have been treated so well - when the Clinton/Obama/Cameron/Sarcozy combo used 'rebels' to oust him and take over the oil and gas in Libya - - - seemingly endorsing his brutal murder and sodamizing with a sharp object - just saying....

Those wishing to see all out civil war in Venezuela as a response to the actions of the Trump Administration could be disappointed...

time, as usual, will tell where all this goes....

I think the focus on Venezuela is basically going to evaporate in to the background, especially when Trump starts taking out the "cartels" in Mexico (in a rather controversial and drastic way).

[Jaak]

TRUMP: "If we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor. Okay?"

"I would like to make a deal the easy way. But if we don't do it the easy way, we're going to do it the hard way."

"I'm a fan of Denmark...but, you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn't mean that they own the land."

"NATO's got to understand that. I'm all for NATO. I saved NATO. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have a NATO right now."