Whats going on in the World
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Well-Known Angler
That was great!!!!!
dsedy
Well-Known Angler
Get the oil, lock in the natural resources, open up the country to democracy and capitalism, all while locking OUT China and Russia and BRICS
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Well-Known Angler
Brilliant.
dsedy
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Venezuela is now a vault.
This list is a sovereign asset ledger being reclassified under American custodianship. What you’re seeing is the transition from nation-state control to systemic integration under a global extraction architecture.
This is about redundancy, reserve dominance, and wartime supply sovereignty.
Break it down:
1. Oil - 300B barrels is energy leverage on a planetary scale.
More than Saudi Arabia. With US capital and logistics, this becomes the pressure valve for any OPEC manipulation or wartime supply shock. Control this, and you can suppress or spike global inflation at will.
2. Natural gas - 200T cubic feet gives insulation against EU-Russia gas volatility.
If liquefaction infrastructure scales, this becomes a geopolitical bargaining chip for Europe.
3. Iron ore and coal - Industrial warfare backbone.
You don’t build supply chains, rails, or steel-heavy military gear without this. In war prep cycles, these become gold equivalents.
4. Gold - Over 8,000 tons.
Not just a store of value. It’s strategic in a Bretton Woods III regime where commodity backing returns as trust in fiat systems decays. Gold becomes collateral again.
5. Freshwater - 2% of global renewable supply.
This is often ignored, but in a climate-constrained world, freshwater is food security, population resilience, and soft power projection. You can leverage this into agricultural exports, refugee absorption capacity, and internal demographic stability.
6. Rare earths and strategic minerals - This is the critical piece.
Nickel, copper, and phosphates are battery and chip supply chain inputs. Locking this down gives the US an answer to China’s grip on African and Southeast Asian rare earth flows.
Now compress it:
•The US didn’t just seize a country.
•It annexed an entire vertical stack of future war inputs.
•Energy, currency ballast, chip inputs, food security, and inflation suppression all now run through one node.
And the kicker: it’s all being done under the frame of “helping the people of Venezuela.”
This is how empires operate in the 21st century. Not by flags or colonies, but by absorbing sovereign inventory into the planetary logistics graph.
You’re watching the soft reboot of the American empire, not with boots but with flows.
This list is a sovereign asset ledger being reclassified under American custodianship. What you’re seeing is the transition from nation-state control to systemic integration under a global extraction architecture.
This is about redundancy, reserve dominance, and wartime supply sovereignty.
Break it down:
1. Oil - 300B barrels is energy leverage on a planetary scale.
More than Saudi Arabia. With US capital and logistics, this becomes the pressure valve for any OPEC manipulation or wartime supply shock. Control this, and you can suppress or spike global inflation at will.
2. Natural gas - 200T cubic feet gives insulation against EU-Russia gas volatility.
If liquefaction infrastructure scales, this becomes a geopolitical bargaining chip for Europe.
3. Iron ore and coal - Industrial warfare backbone.
You don’t build supply chains, rails, or steel-heavy military gear without this. In war prep cycles, these become gold equivalents.
4. Gold - Over 8,000 tons.
Not just a store of value. It’s strategic in a Bretton Woods III regime where commodity backing returns as trust in fiat systems decays. Gold becomes collateral again.
5. Freshwater - 2% of global renewable supply.
This is often ignored, but in a climate-constrained world, freshwater is food security, population resilience, and soft power projection. You can leverage this into agricultural exports, refugee absorption capacity, and internal demographic stability.
6. Rare earths and strategic minerals - This is the critical piece.
Nickel, copper, and phosphates are battery and chip supply chain inputs. Locking this down gives the US an answer to China’s grip on African and Southeast Asian rare earth flows.
Now compress it:
•The US didn’t just seize a country.
•It annexed an entire vertical stack of future war inputs.
•Energy, currency ballast, chip inputs, food security, and inflation suppression all now run through one node.
And the kicker: it’s all being done under the frame of “helping the people of Venezuela.”
This is how empires operate in the 21st century. Not by flags or colonies, but by absorbing sovereign inventory into the planetary logistics graph.
You’re watching the soft reboot of the American empire, not with boots but with flows.
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Well-Known Angler
More than oil. Wake up.
www.foxnews.com
Rubio vows to eliminate Hezbollah, Iran operations from Venezuela after Maduro capture
Hezbollah condemns U.S. capture of Nicolas Maduro as Secretary of State Marco Rubio vows to end the terrorist group's decades-long presence in Venezuela.
www.foxnews.com
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Well-Known Angler
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s narco case echoes US history of targeting alleged foreign drug kingpins
From Maduro to El Chapo: How the U.S. has pursued foreign leaders allegedly involved in international drug trafficking operations over the decades.
www.foxnews.com
Trump is all about locking up the drug dealers??? That’s a F’ing joke.Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s narco case echoes US history of targeting alleged foreign drug kingpins
From Maduro to El Chapo: How the U.S. has pursued foreign leaders allegedly involved in international drug trafficking operations over the decades.
Archived: Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, sentenced to life in federal prison for creating, operating ‘Silk Road’ website
Ross Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was sentenced Friday in federal court to life in prison in connection with his operation and ownership of Silk Road, a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services anonymously and beyond...
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Well-Known Angler
“Archived”Trump is all about locking up the drug dealers??? That’s a F’ing joke.
Archived: Ross Ulbricht, aka Dread Pirate Roberts, sentenced to life in federal prison for creating, operating ‘Silk Road’ website
Ross Ulbricht, aka “Dread Pirate Roberts,” was sentenced Friday in federal court to life in prison in connection with his operation and ownership of Silk Road, a hidden website designed to enable its users to buy and sell illegal drugs and other unlawful goods and services anonymously and beyond...www.ice.gov
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