Well, so much for scientific research in Antarctica…it’s about to be a war zone.

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    Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserve

    Is THAT why we have an aircraft carrier off the coast?

    They’ve got oil and they’re NOT sharing it with rich people?

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      I mean to be fair they just don’t have the infrastructure to extract it anymore. Economic sanctions since the Obama years have mean that the equipment to extract crude has become hard to maintain.

      A graph showing the steep decline of venezuelan oil production since the US economic sanctions

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          No. But they aren’t refusing to sell it. They just don’t have it. And are under various sanctions by the US, EU and most south American countries over human rights abuse so they probably couldn’t sell oil anyway.

          Actually it’s kinda ironic that Venezuela is under sanctions for human rights abuse but not the Gulf states.

          Oh and I wasn’t actually trying to go anywhere with my comment but I do realize how it sounds now. But I am not in favor of invading anyone