US to 'Indefinitely' Sell Venezuelan Oil

Anti-Trump narrative

Trump's interest in Venezuela was never about counter-narcotics, but rather about oil as many warned. Aside from the administration's neocolonialist intentions, it makes no sense to extort Venezuela for tar-like heavy crude that is low-quality, expensive to extract and difficult to process, while creating precedent for China to seize critical minerals in its own hemisphere, thereby strengthening a key threat.