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by Hikikomori 165 days ago
Ah so US will allow Venezuela to profit from their own oil? This time surely
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I can't wait for the Total Energies or Shell Oil announcement.
With investments from Kushners Saudi fund.
You know there are boardroom meetings going on right now…
100% on the money this comment. This is all about the spoils and absolutely not about the people or the drugs.

Thinking about this some more: good chance this whole thing was decided in a board room a while ago.

Yes it will. Iraqi government budget is ~88% funded by oil revenues.
I'm not sure using examples from the bush administration are necessarily relevant to the actions of the trump administration.