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GreenWave

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6. Unplease. The USA Empire knows how to destabilize. They only want their vultures to get in.

Reply to EX500rider (Reply #4)

Sat Jan 3, 2026, 01:21 PM

Jan 3

The USA trashed their oil industry and made them puppets. They have to ask Donnie for permission to extract their own light crude.

This was a slash and burn strategy prototypical of the Age of Imperialism.

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Venezuela's horrible requirements for industrial workers' pay as I recall when I was there. [View all] GreenWave Jan 3 OP

Sounds horrible. AloeVera Jan 3 #1

You are welcome. GreenWave Jan 3 #2

They'll warm up to vulture capitalism.. EarthFirst Jan 3 #3

Please, Maduro drove the economy & the oil sector into the ground EX500rider Jan 3 #4

Unplease. The USA Empire knows how to destabilize. They only want their vultures to get in. GreenWave Jan 3 #6

Chavez & Maduro ruined the oil sector all on their own, way before any meaningful sanctions were imposed EX500rider Jan 3 #7

I heard that their inflation rate is something like 270% MichMan Jan 3 #5

This was sometime ago before the USA introduced measures such as when Allende was President in Chile. GreenWave Jan 3 #8

The International Monetary Fund projects a 548 percent figure for Venezuela for 2025 and 629 percent for 2026. MichMan Jan 3 #9