Gunboat Diplomacy is working - Venezuelan Oil Output Drops 25% in Two Weeks

[JGalt]

President Trump's Big Stick Diplomacy and Gunboat Diplomacy were also used by historic Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Henry Kissinger, during his tenure as United States Secretary of State, summed up the concept as thus: "An aircraft carrier is 100,000 tons of diplomacy."

Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy Triggers Sharp Drop In Venezuelan Oil Output​

"President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, designed to disrupt and dismantle Venezuelan oil flows to Asia in order to choke off the Maduro regime’s primary revenue stream and induce regime instability in Caracas, is now moving full steam ahead, as confirmed by the latest crude oil export data.

Bloomberg cites new internal data from Petróleos de Venezuela showing that oil production in the Orinoco Belt (which accounts for nearly two-thirds of Venezuela’s oil output) plunged by about 498,000 barrels per day on Monday, down roughly 25% over the past two weeks.

In recent weeks, Trump's gunboat diplomacy has ramped up with multiple seizures of dark fleet tankers, offshore blockades, and sanctions against additional tankers that haul Venezuelan crude to China. The aim is to suppress Maduro's cash flows, since more than 95% of the country’s revenue depends on oil sales.

"While military options still exist, the focus is to first use economic pressure by enforcing sanctions to reach the outcome the White House is looking (for)," a U.S. official told Reuters last week, speaking on condition of anonymity.

The Trump administration is enforcing a two-month "quarantine" of Venezuelan oil, which may indicate the time needed to create immense financial pressure on Maduro and could lead to regime instability. If Caracas falls, Cuba would likely follow quickly.

Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy Triggers Sharp Drop In Venezuelan Oil Output | ZeroHedge

 

[gipper]

Says the ugly imperialist who’s learned nothing these past few decades.

 

[JGalt]

Says the ugly imperialist who’s learned nothing these past few decades.

What's not to like? Venezuela's oil production is down, and they're running out of tankers to store it. It's only a matter of time before the Venezuelan people dump that pigfucker Maduro and socialism, and return to a capitalism-based economy.

Next up: Cuba.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

That's less money for Hezbollah. God bless our greatest ally and eternal master, Israel.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Next up: Cuba.

Not unless they piss off Israel.

 

[JGalt]

Not unless they piss off Israel.

Well like they say, You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Well like they say, You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

Hey, Jews run the show. Got no problem sayin it. It's true. They run this MFer. The problem is when people pretend they don't. That's a lie, I hate liars.

 

[TruthSeeker112125]

President Trump's Big Stick Diplomacy and Gunboat Diplomacy were also used by historic Presidents like Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Henry Kissinger, during his tenure as United States Secretary of State, summed up the concept as thus: "An aircraft carrier is 100,000 tons of diplomacy."

Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy Triggers Sharp Drop In Venezuelan Oil Output​

"President Trump’s gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean, designed to disrupt and dismantle Venezuelan oil flows to Asia in order to choke off the Maduro regime’s primary revenue stream and induce regime instability in Caracas, is now moving full steam ahead, as confirmed by the latest crude oil export data.

Bloomberg cites new internal data from Petróleos de Venezuela showing that oil production in the Orinoco Belt (which accounts for nearly two-thirds of Venezuela’s oil output) plunged by about 498,000 barrels per day on Monday, down roughly 25% over the past two weeks.

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In recent weeks, Trump's gunboat diplomacy has ramped up with multiple seizures of dark fleet tankers, offshore blockades, and sanctions against additional tankers that haul Venezuelan crude to China. The aim is to suppress Maduro's cash flows, since more than 95% of the country’s revenue depends on oil sales.

"While military options still exist, the focus is to first use economic pressure by enforcing sanctions to reach the outcome the White House is looking (for)," a U.S. official told Reuters last week, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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The Trump administration is enforcing a two-month "quarantine" of Venezuelan oil, which may indicate the time needed to create immense financial pressure on Maduro and could lead to regime instability. If Caracas falls, Cuba would likely follow quickly.

Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy Triggers Sharp Drop In Venezuelan Oil Output | ZeroHedge

"Gunboat Diplomacy is working"

I Disagree.

This time, especially with decades of America fighting Unjustified, & Undeclared Wars,...... This could take America to WW3.

 

[gipper]

What's not to like? Venezuela's oil production is down, and they're running out of tankers to store it. It's only a matter of time before the Venezuelan people dump that pigfucker Maduro and socialism, and return to a capitalism-based economy.

Next up: Cuba.

Yeah hurting innocent citizens of a third world nation makes you so happy.

Sick ****!

 

[JGalt]

Hey, Jews run the show. Got no problem sayin it. It's true. They run this MFer. The problem is when people pretend they don't. That's a lie, I hate liars.

Jesus Christ dude. Not everything is about the Jews.

 

[JGalt]

Yeah hurting innocent citizens of a third world nation makes you so happy.

Sick ****!

If Venezuela is a "third world country" like you said it was, then it's their fault. Venezuela was once one of South America's richest countries, that is until socialism took control of it.

If your socialist dream is turning once-prosperous nations into third world shitholes, you can shove your socialism up your ass. Nobody wants what you're peddling.

 

[gipper]

If Venezuela is a "third world country" like you said it was, then it's their fault. Venezuela was once one of South America's richest countries, that is until socialism took control of it.

If your socialist dream is turning once-prosperous nations into third world shitholes, you can shove your socialism up your ass. Nobody wants what you're peddling.

Amazing the dumb shit you dumb cons believe.

If socialism is so bad, why does the US government find it necessary to do all it can to harm such nations with sanctions, threats, and coups?

Your beloved imperialist government has sanctioned, threatened, and tried to coup Cuba for 60 years. Yet Cuba persists. Did it ever occur to you that constant foreign intervention by your criminal government doesn’t work?

Do you think The Founders were dumb *****?