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As he stammers while making excuses.

Yes wanting him gone is the same as breaking international law in order to do it.

If you're going to do it yourself by committing criminal acts why put a bounty on him to begin with? Hmmmmmm......

A wayyyyy too subtle distinction for MAGA Fanboys who n can't think for themselves.

Democratically elected leader of Venezuela not accepting the Trump appointed stooge ...

María Corina Machado vows to return to Venezuela and rejects rule of Maduro’s deputy | Venezuela | The Guardian https://share.google/LkMI2xwLXqhJppItA

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Russia sends navy ships to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces

Russia has deployed navy assets to escort an oil tanker also being pursued by US forces across the Atlantic, CBS News, BBC's media partner in the US, reported.

The ship, which currently isn't carrying anything, historically has transported Venezuelan crude oil and was thought to be between Scotland and Iceland on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump said last month that he was ordering a "blockade" of sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, a move the government there described as "theft".

Ahead of the US seizure of the country's former leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, Trump repeatedly accused Venezuela's government of using ships to bring drugs to the US.

The US Coast Guard tried to board the Bella 1 last month in the Caribbean when it was believed to be heading towards Venezuela. It had a warrant to seize the ship, which was accused of breaking US sanctions and shipping Iranian oil.

It then dramatically changed course - as well as its name to Marinera - reportedly reflagging from a Guyanese to a Russian vessel.

Its approach to Europe has coincided with the arrival of around 10 US military transport aircraft as well as helicopters.

Russia says it is "monitoring with concern" the situation around the ship.

Two US officials told CBS News earlier on Tuesday that American forces were planning to board the ship, and that Washington preferred to seize it rather than sink it.

On Tuesday, the US military's Southern Command posted on social media that it "remains ready to support our US government agency partners in standing against sanctioned vessels and actors transiting through this region.

"Our sea services are vigilant, agile, and postured to track vessels of interest. When the call comes, we will be there."

The Marinera was believed to be between Scotland and Iceland overnight Tuesday, with the distance and weather making boarding difficult.

Before any US military operation was launched from the UK, Washington would be expected to inform its ally.

For now, the UK Ministry of Defence says it will not comment on other nations' military activities.

The US officials quoted by CBS suggested that America could mount an operation like one conducted last month when US Marines and special operation forces working with the Coast Guard seized The Skipper, a large crude oil tanker flagged out of Guyana, after the vessel left port in Venezuela.

AIS (automatic identification system) tracking data for the tanker, which can be spoofed or faked, suggests it was in the North Atlantic approximately 2,000km (1,200 miles) west of continental Europe on Tuesday.

Under international law, vessels flying a country's flag are under the protection of that nation but Dimitris Ampatzidis, senior risk and compliance analyst at maritime intelligence firm Kpler, told BBC Verify changing the ship's name and flag might not change much.

"US action is driven by the vessel's underlying identity [IMO number], ownership/control networks, and sanctions history, not by its painted markings or flag claim," he said.

Ampatzidis added that changing to the Russian registry might cause "diplomatic friction" but would not stop any US enforcement action.

"At present, our vessel is sailing in the international waters of the North Atlantic under the state flag of the Russian Federation and in full compliance with the norms of international maritime law," Russia's foreign ministry said.

"For reasons unclear to us, the Russian ship is being given increased and clearly disproportionate attention by the US and Nato military, despite its peaceful status," it said.

"We expect that Western countries, which declare their commitment to freedom of navigation on the high seas, will begin adhering to this principle themselves."

The potential stand-off over the oil tanker comes days after the US shocked the world with the Maduro seizure from the capital Caracas. It bombarded targets in the city during the operation to extricate him and his wife on suspicion of weapon and drug offences.

Maybe because the bounty was in place long enough without anything happening.

This isn't a case where you call Dog the Bounty hunter.

It's amazing the weak excuses people come up with for breaking international law to take over a nations natural resources. You still haven't figured out what the actual end goal was here.

Trump says Venezuela to hand over up to 50 million barrels of oil to US

US president says oil will be sold at market prices and that he will control resulting the revenues.

United States President Donald Trump has announced that Venezuela will turn over between 30 and 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil.

Trump said the oil, held in storage due to Washington’s embargo on Venezuela exports, would be sold at market prices and that he would control the resulting revenues to ensure the money is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the US.

Trump added that he had directed his energy secretary, Chris Wright, to execute the plan “immediately”.

“It will be taken by storage ships, and brought directly to unloading docks in the United States,” Trump said on his platform, Truth Social, on Tuesday.

Trump’s announcement follows his pledge to “take back” Venezuela’s oil reserves and revive the Latin American country’s flailing energy industry in the wake of his administration’s abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Trump has said that US oil companies are primed to invest billions of dollars to rebuild Venezuela’s decrepit infrastructure and exploit its oil reserves, which he has falsely asserted were “stolen” from the US.

The US has no claim of ownership to Venezuela’s oil under international law, though the late Hugo Chavez did seize property belonging to American firms as part of his nationalisation of the sector.

Chervon, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips – the three biggest US oil companies – have not directly commented on Trump’s plans, but representatives of the firms are set to meet the president on Friday to discuss Venezuela, according to US media reports.

In the context of the global market, 50 million barrels per day (bpd) would represent only a modest addition to supply.

Global consumption exceeds 100 million bpd, and the US alone produces about 14 million bpd.

Mark Finley, an energy expert at the Baker Institute in Houston, Texas, said that it was difficult to parse the significance of Trump’s announcement without further details.

“Thirty to 50 million barrels over what time frame? That’ll be key to assessing the significance of this,” Finley told Al Jazeera.

“In a month, that’s essentially all Venezuelan output. In a year, it’s pretty small.”

Scott Montgomery, an expert on the global energy sector at the University of Washington, said Trump’s comments about controlling oil revenues only added to the uncertainty surrounding his administration’s plans.

“I have no real idea about how Trump might distribute the cash. There’s not much of a precedent for this kind of thing, to say the least, at least not in the US,” Montgomery told Al Jazeera.

Analysts say restoring Venezuela’s production to anything close to its 1990s peak of more than three million bpd would require massive investment and could take years.

Venezuela’s oil sector would need capital investment of about $110bn to return to output of about two million bpd, according to an estimate by Rystad Energy, a Norway-based consultancy.

“A significant amount of upfront scientific and engineering work has to be done to understand the condition of the productive reservoirs – these have changed over time, with key properties altered,” Montgomery said.

Some market watchers are sceptical that US companies will commit to large investments in the country, given their experiences of asset seizures under Chavez and the glut of oil in the global market.

ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips were awarded $1.6bn and $8.7bn, respectively, in international arbitration following the Chavez government’s nationalisation of the country’s last privately-operated oil fields in 2007. Venezuela’s government did not pay out in either case.

Chevron is the only major US oil company still operating in Venezuela, producing about 150,000 bpd.

Venezuela once ranked among the world’s top oil producers, but US sanctions and years of underinvestment, mismanagement, and corruption under Maduro and Chavez reduced the sector to a shadow of its former self.

While the Latin American country holds the largest known oil reserves, its current output accounts for less than 1 percent of global supply.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2...er-up-to-50-million-barrels-of-oil-to-us

American tax payer money being used to takeover Venezuelan oil for major oil companies. It should be called the Chervon, Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips War.

If this is still going on for a few years without some sort of vote for free determination, I might agree with you.

They just had a vote. We know who the leader of the country should be. It's really really really simple.

What's to disagree with? Are you saying American taxpayers didn't foot the bill to overthrow Maduro? Are you saying trump didn't say that he would be running Venezuela for now? Are you saying trump's first official action in Venezuela isn't taking 30-50 million barrels of oil? Maybe you are saying the quote that the money from that oil will help both the U.S and Venezuela is false? I could probably find it on video if that's what you need.

What you can be sure of is no matter who ends up running Venezuela in the future trump will insure that American oil companies run and control Venezuelan oil. And it will be taxpayer money making it so.

We didn't invade Venzuela. We were just undocumented visitors.

LOL...a pretty good take. I wish I had thought to say that.

I assume you are talking Muchado. I might agree with that and in the end suspect she will take over.

The problem is with all the turmoil in the country I think we need to stick around a while to make sure that happens in an orderly fashion. There is still enough structure to the existing government to take it away again.

I see you dodged every point I made entirely. No surprise there.

King Dumbass is going after Greenland next… I bet MAGA didn’t know they were going to be the enemies of the free world under dear leader. Stupid breeds stupid, and I can’t stand stupid.

I know you can't stand stupid but can you sit stupid?

I can fold it like laundry…

Trump talked about Ending Wars... Now all he does is talk about starting wars..... And he wants a Nobel Peace Prize...

He doesn't need International Law, because of his own morality?

Dumb comes in a lot of different packages,,,, This one is Orange

I wouldn't bet on it
He might go after Cuba first

Our military is already deployed near by
It would make sense
So maybe Greenland WOULD be a good bet

HEY leave me out of this.

What the Big Oil executives told Trump about investing in Venezuela

Leading U.S. oil executives told President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday that Venezuela will need major reforms to attract investment.

Trump said Friday the industry would invest at least $100 billion to rebuild Venezuela’s energy sector with U.S. security guarantees. But the CEOs of big oil companies like ExxonMobil
and ConocoPhillips

did not commit at the meeting to quickly re-enter Venezuela.

Exxon CEO Darren Woods told Trump that the Venezuelan market is “uninvestable” in its current state. Venezuela seized Exxon’s and Conoco’s assets in 2007, and Caracas owes the companies billions of dollars in outstanding claims from arbitration cases.

“We’ve had our assets seized there twice, and so you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here,” Woods told Trump at the White House. “If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela today, it’s uninvestable.”

Exxon is prepared to send a technical team to evaluate the current state of Venezuela’s oil industry and assets, Woods said.

ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance congratulated Trump on ousting former President Nicolás Maduro. He said the banking sector will need to help restructure Venezuela’s debt and provide billions of dollars in financing for the restore the country’s infrastructure.

Lance also called for the restructuring of state-owned oil company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA).

“As we think that big and bold, we need to be also thinking about even restructuring the entire Venezuelan energy system including PDVSA,” Lance told the president.

Trump told the Conoco CEO that the U.S. government is not looking at recovering the assets the company lost during the 2007 nationalization.

“We’re not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault,” Trump said. “That was a different president. You’re going to make a lot of money, but we’re not going to go back.”

Chevron is the only U.S. oil major operating in Venezuela through joint ventures with PDVSA. Vice Chairman Mark Nelson said Chevron has a way forward to rapidly ramp up its production, which currently stands at about 240,000 barrels per day.

“We have a path forward here very shortly to be able to increase our liftings from those joint ventures 100% essentially effective immediately,” Nelson told Trump. “We are also able to increase our production within our own disciplined investment schemes by about 50% just in the next 18 to 24 months.”

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent indicated Thursday that the U.S. might rely more on smaller oil companies, rather than the majors, to invest in Venezuela.

“The big oil companies who move slowly, who have corporate boards, are not interested,” Bessent said Thursday at the Economic Club of Minnesota.

“I can tell you that the independent oil companies and individuals, wildcatters – our phones are ringing off the hook,” Bessent said. “They want to get to Venezuela yesterday.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/wha...-trump-about-investing-in-venezuela.html

So you mean the people who do not have the 100 billion dollars to invest want in? That's exactly what that means...................

Trump 'inclined' to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela

HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) — President Donald Trump is inclined to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela, he said Sunday.

He told reporters aboard Air Force One that he may exclude the oil and gas company from Venezuelan oil activities after its chief executive publicly expressed concern with them. Chairman and CEO Darren Woods said at a White House meeting with Trump and other oil executives on Friday that Venezuela is “uninvestable.”

“I didn’t like Exxon’s response. You know, we have so many that want it. I’d probably be inclined to keep Exxon out,” Trump said.

“I didn’t like their response. They’re playing too cute.”

Trump asked Woods at the meeting to speak after the president expressed hope that companies would invest in Venezuela. Woods said in response that there would need to be significant changes in the country’s legal and commercial frameworks in order to produce oil there. ExxonMobil’s property has been seized twice since it began working in Venezuela in the 1940s, the executive explained.

“And so, you can imagine to re-enter a third time would require some pretty significant changes from what we’ve historically seen here and what is currently the state,” Woods said.

“If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s un-investable. And so significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections, and there has to be a change to the hydrocarbon laws in the country,” the executive added.

Trump said on Sunday that he has guaranteed companies they won’t have any problems. Oil executives only had issues in the past because “stupid people” were presidents, Trump noted.

“We’re gonna have guarantees that they’re gonna be safe, that there’s gonna be no problem, and there won’t be,” the president told reporters.

The National News Desk requested comment from ExxonMobil but hasn’t received a response. Woods said during his remarks that he was confident the Trump administration will work with the Venezuelan government to implement necessary changes, though.

“With the invitation of the Venezuelan government and with appropriate security guarantees, we are ready to put a team on the ground there," Woods said. "We also have a integrated set of capabilities, from production to refining to trading, and I think we can be of assistance to getting the Venezuelan crude to market and realizing market price to help again with the financial situation in Venezuela.”

https://newschannel9.com/news/natio...en-woods-out-of-venezuela-oil-activities

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