Venezuela - US and the illegal war for oil / War for "our American oil" in Venezuela!

Veröffentlicht am 05.01.2026

Venezuela - US and the illegal war for oil / War for "our American oil" in Venezuela!


There are a frightening number of dictatorships and dictators in this world. According to the Democracy Index, 35.9% of people live in a dictatorship. In The Economist's Democracy Index, Venezuela ranked 142nd out of 167 countries and was classified as an authoritarian regime. "Our friends" in the "good dictatorship of Saudi Arabia" came in 148th place, just behind Venezuela.

Theoretically, US President Trump could bestow the "blessings of the American Way of Life" upon all these dictatorships.

However, in the US, much like in Germany, there are the "good, useful" dictatorships that are supported, supplied with weapons, with which trade is conducted, and where the media largely ignores human rights violations.

And then there are the "evil dictatorships," which should be destabilized and not overthrown, even militarily. The "good dictatorships" are not so different from the negative qualities of the "evil dictatorships." (Power is concentrated in the hands of a single person or group, there is no separation of powers, fundamental rights such as freedom of speech and of the press are abolished, opposition figures are suppressed, there are no free elections, human rights violations occur, etc.)
Shockingly, there is no debate in Western democracies, including Germany, about this arbitrary distinction between "good and bad" dictatorships, a distinction often driven by economic interests. Yet a dictatorship is a dictatorship, a dictatorship is a dictatorship.

Some recent media reports on the coup in Venezuela demonstrate that our Western values ​​are merely commodities, and they also reveal our Western hypocrisy.

The favorite targets of Mr. Trump and the climate-terrorist fossil fuel enthusiasts in the USA have a unique characteristic: Iran and Venezuela possess enormous oil reserves. The South American country has the world's largest oil reserves, estimated at 303 billion barrels (159 liters each). And US corporations make no profit in these countries.

In a lengthy post, the greed-driven US President Trump accused Venezuela of "stealing" oil fields. "America will not allow a hostile regime to seize our oil, our land, or any other assets," the US president wrote. They must be "immediately returned to the United States." The "American oil" in Iran led to the 1953 coup in what was then a democratic Iran, and the "American copper" was the pretext for the CIA-backed coup in democratic Chile in 1973.

The overthrow of President Maduro in Venezuela is not about exporting democracy or preventing drug imports. It is once again a US war for oil and power. The US is increasingly concerned about its dwindling power and diminishing influence in Central and South America and is restoring it, if necessary by force. The old Monroe Doctrine is becoming the new Donroe Doctrine.

Republican US Representative Maria Salazar is quoted in the Frankfurter Rundschau:

Congresswoman promises: Venezuela will be a boon for US oil companies under Trump

"The congresswoman cited three economic, security, and political reasons for the US involvement and declared, 'Venezuela will be a true boon for American oil companies because it will generate more than a trillion dollars in economic activity.'

'American companies can flock in and restore the oil pumps and everything related to Venezuelan oil companies, oil, and its derivatives.'" "Venezuelans have the largest oil reserves in the world, even more than Saudi Arabia. That would be a huge gain for us in terms of fossil fuels." (End quote)

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the right-wing, free-market politician María Corina Machado was an embarrassing capitulation by the Nobel Committee to the will of US President Trump, who is increasingly behaving like the Roman Emperor Nero.

The US's approach—interventions, coups, and wars for influence, power, oil, and raw materials—has a long history.

The founding of the United States is rooted in the near-extermination of the original, indigenous population.

Coup against the democratic government in Iran in 1953 (Operation Ajax)

Support for the military coup in Chile on September 11, 1973

The 2003 Iraq War was officially launched with the false claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, but Iraqi oil was the primary motive.

Wikipedia offers comprehensive and highly objective lists and overviews of US interventions: "List of United States military operations and United States involvement in regime changes abroad"

Axel Mayer, Mitwelt Foundation Upper Rhine
(This text was translated by a machine without verification.)


Venezuela - US and the illegal war for oil / War for "our American oil" in Venezuela!








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