[mistrial9]

This is false and shows a lack on education to say it .. It is well-documented that the pattern of 'taking oil by force' was so obvious and conflict-enhancing, that the American foreign policy, military policy, and dollar-based oil trading market participants, went to great lengths to create ways to use soft-power in international oil deals.

The poster child of this approach is the Saudi Arabia oil trading partnership of decades, where the increasingly wealthy Saudi state oil company have a control and share of profits that increases over time. Read a few wikipedia articles or this :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prize:_The_Epic_Quest_for_...

It is true however, that Venezuala appears to be headed to breaking this pattern. It is related to the Hugo Chaves / Cuba / SAmerican Marxism fights and there are a lot of hard liners on both sides.

[hjek]

> on both sides

That sounds familiar? Oh, wait: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-defends-organi...

[pastor_elm]

> In a statement, U.S. State Department deputy spokesman Robert Palladino faulted Venezuela for the latest incident.

>“The Venezuelan Navy aggressively stopped ExxonMob‎il contracted vessels operating under an oil exploration agreement with the Cooperative Republic of Guyana in its Exclusive Economic Zone,” he said, saying Guyana had the right to explore there and urging Venezuela to respect international law and its neighbors’ rights.[0]

[0]https://www.reuters.com/article/us-guyana-venezuela-oil/vene...

Two months later Donald Trump is trying to oust Maduro for being 'undemocratically elected' while simultaneously praising communist Dictators in South East/East Asia.

Yeah, has nothing to do with American oil interests.