@frametheglobe
Donald Trump is boasting that the United States will run Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro’s kidnapping, but Venezuela has heard promises of quick, clean resets before. In 2002, Hugo Chávez was kidnapped in a coup backed by parts of the elite and briefly replaced, only to be swept back into Miraflores within two days by loyal officers and people in the streets.
What this new operation ignores is that Venezuela’s oil system is built on extra heavy crude, decaying infrastructure, sanctions‑warped logistics, and a long history of U.S. meddling that has produced blowback rather than obedient clients. Turning it into a tidy American‑run counterweight to OPEC+ is less a strategy than a fantasy layered on top of a country that has already shown, under Chávez, how quickly outside power plays can unravel when they hit Venezuelan political reality.
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