the oil and oil money [the GOP-dominated federal government has] seized from [Venezuela] is “one of the largest assets to ever go on the U.S. balance sheet.” Billions and billions of dollars.
…Did Trump take the oil and the money from the oil? Bessent refuses to say. Trump refuses to say. Nobody, in fact, in the Trump regime will tell us where that money is or who controls it or even who’s making the money accrued on its interest.
Huh, yeah, that seems like a sane take. But still incredibly stupid on the US side since it is also incredibly expensive to build the drilling and transport infrastructure.
Feels kinda like a loose - loose (a win in my book if it gets us away from oil tho)