[isr]

Completely dishonest answer. Sanctions decimated Venezuela's ability to maintain its oil infrastructure. Everything, from machined parts, to the various chemicals needed, everything, was affected.

It just took a few years for the sanctions to bite, as the Venezuelans conserved & used stockpiles.

Again, a completely dishonest take. Speaks volumes, when most defenders of todays criminality keep spouting arguments to this effect.

[selectodude]

Venezuelan oil production was cratering years before the first oil sanctions because they replaced everybody who knew how to drill oil with loyalists. I didn’t realize this was debatable.