[bluegatty]

"Actually establishing control is an occupational effort."

Not quite.

They're trying to establish control by threatening to kill or imprison the leaders and by blockade.

Venezuela apparently handed over a lot of oil, it seems like they've been able to do something.

That said - we don't really know how much 'control' that is.

If I were Polymarket, I wouldn't say that the US has control either, but, it's entirely plausible.

We'll see.

This could go the way of DOGE or the Trade War aka just a trailing mess of ongoing concerns that people forget about, though to play my own devil's advocate, ICE is consistently ramping up.