Trump: US taxpayer may reimburse oil companies to rebuild Venezuela infrastructure.

[JLW]

President Donald Trump said he believes the U.S. oil industry could get expanded operations in Venezuela "up and running" in fewer than 18 months.

"I think we can do it in less time than that, but it’ll be a lot of money," Trump told NBC News in an interview Monday.


"A tremendous amount of money will have to be spent, and the oil companies will spend it, and then they’ll get reimbursed by us or through revenue," he said.

Trump says the U.S. may reimburse oil companies for rebuilding Venezuela's infrastructure

Big oil firms will either "get reimbursed by us or through revenue," Trump told NBC News in an exclusive interview.

www.nbcnews.com

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It seems fairly obvious Oil Companies will not invest a dime in Venezuela without assurances from the US that it will cover the costs given the myriad risks this investment will take. Trump did not give a number for the cost because it would be in the billions, if not trillions. As far as the oil paying for it, that is a laugh. The same lie was made by the Bush neocons as by the Trump neocons. Oil revenue paid for squat in Iraq.

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Iraqi oil revenue did not pay for the Iraq War; initial claims that it would proved false, with the war costing the U.S. trillions in taxpayer money, far exceeding any early oil revenues, which were insufficient for reconstruction due to instability, corruption, and conflict.

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[1srelluc]

Better than giving it to the Skinnys in MN.

 

[wamose]

Whatever the taxpayer contributes to rebuilding their infrastructure should be returned, with a profit, to the US treasury. We can give them a stake, but we need a return.

 

[JLW]

Whatever the taxpayer contributes to rebuilding their infrastructure should be returned, with a profit, to the US treasury. We can give them a stake, but we need a return.

That will never happen. Good luck getting Iraq to repay the trillions we paid them!

 

[pknopp]

Taking from some to give to others.........

To be fair, it's likely to be more and more debt.

 

[22lcidw]

As long as the money given is pure infrastructure and not the corrupted groups in the nation. This will enrich the people much more. Nation building accusations are thrown around now. So, we will call it Colonizing building now. The Western Hemisphere needs to be strengthened up as the realities of a new world with a strong China becomes the reality. Half the world with two huge oceans separating us from the potential adversaries is to our benefit. Eventually do we stay aligned with Europe and Japan and South Korea at the level we have now.

 

[Correll]

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Makes sense.

I, and maga are skeptical of foriegn aid, generally speaking, but this is turning a sizable nation, in our backyard, around from a refugee producing hellhole to a oil producing productive member of the neighborhood.

And if in the process they become part of OUR economic sphere of influence as globalization... breaks down,

This is a reasonable investment and a good move.

 

[pknopp]

As long as the money given is pure infrastructure and not the corrupted groups in the nation.

AMERICA First........building infrastructure in South American countries.


I guess Trump never was specific when he said America.

This will enrich the people much more. Nation building accusations are thrown around now. So, we will call it Colonizing building now. The Western Hemisphere needs to be strengthened up as the realities of a new world with a strong China becomes the reality. Half the world with two huge oceans separating us from the potential adversaries is to our benefit. Eventually do we stay aligned with Europe and Japan and South Korea at the level we have now.

LOL.

 

[Correll]

AMERICA First........building infrastructure in South American countries.


I guess Trump never was specific when he said America.




LOL.

Buddy. This strawman you lefties created of MAGA meaning isolationism, was always just you people playing with yourselves.

It has nothing to do with us, nor reality, so....

If you want to talk about that, go smoke some pot with your friends and laugh about how dumb the people you hate are, and how much smarter adn better you are then them.

Good coping.

Meanwhile Trump will be bending Venezuela to our will.

 

[Lisa558]

Makes sense.

I, and maga are skeptical of foriegn aid, generally speaking, but this is turning a sizable nation, in our backyard, around from a refugee producing hellhole to a oil producing productive member of the neighborhood.

And if in the process they become part of OUR economic sphere of influence as globalization... breaks down,

This is a reasonable investment and a good move.

Agree.

And what’s weird is that the libtards says it’s America’s fault that there are poor, corrupt countries - and that’s how they justify the illegal lowlifes swarming in. (One poster said it’s GOOD that the illegals come here and then send their earnings home, rather than put it back into our economy, since America is to blame that their countries are poor in the first place.)

So now we have a president who is actually helping turn a corrupt, third-world country into a productive and wealthy one - and saving them from a dictator - and the libtards are complaining that Trump is interfering.

Shows that no matter what Trump, they’ll condemn him - and all due to their irrational hate.

 

[Correll]

Agree.

And what’s weird is that the libtards says it’s America’s fault that there are poor, corrupt countries - and that’s how they justify the illegal lowlifes swarming in. (One poster said it’s GOOD that the illegals come here and then send their earnings home, rather than put it back into our economy, since America is to blame that their countries are poor in the first place.)

So now we have a president who is actually helping turn a corrupt, third-world country into a productive and wealthy one - and saving them from a dictator - and the libtards are complaining that Trump is interfering.

Shows that no matter what Trump, they’ll condemn him - and all due to their irrational hate.

Just another example in teh endless line of examples of how what the states as their concerns, is really just shit talk.

All it really comes down to is hating America and hating white people, especially white men.

 

[pknopp]

Buddy. This strawman you lefties created of MAGA meaning isolationism, was always just you people playing with yourselves.

It has nothing to do with us, nor reality, so....

If you want to talk about that, go smoke some pot with your friends and laugh about how dumb the people you hate are, and how much smarter adn better you are then them.

Good coping.

Meanwhile Trump will be bending Venezuela to our will.

No he won't.

 

[Correll]

No he won't.

Yes, he will. GIVE US WHAT WE WANT.

 

[22lcidw]

AMERICA First........building infrastructure in South American countries.


I guess Trump never was specific when he said America.




LOL.

If we get the control of oil and minerals then that is America first. However, technically you are right. Your progressive matriarchal power block is not worth the aggravation while America still can exist a little longer before we collapse.

 

[JLW]

Buddy. This strawman you lefties created of MAGA meaning isolationism, was always just you people playing with yourselves.

It has nothing to do with us, nor reality, so....

If you want to talk about that, go smoke some pot with your friends and laugh about how dumb the people you hate are, and how much smarter adn better you are then them.

Good coping.

Meanwhile Trump will be bending Venezuela to our will.

You Trumpist neocons make me laugh. You all said the same thing about Iraq. All Trump is doing is destroying the world order that made YOU well off but because you are a spoiled little brat and things are not 100% your way, you want to see it all come down. Pathetic!

 

[pknopp]

If we get the control of oil and minerals then that is America first. However, technically you are right. Your progressive matriarchal power block is not worth the aggravation while America still can exist a little longer before we collapse.

Down is now up in MAGA world.

 

[pknopp]

 

[22lcidw]

Down is now up in MAGA world.

And you will kill with your specialized groups with gripes. That is the Commie world. Most of MAGA world is common sense. And it is not conservative in many ways.

 

[Lisa558]

Just another example in teh endless line of examples of how what the states as their concerns, is really just shit talk.

All it really comes down to is hating America and hating white people, especially white men.

Yep. I’m sure the libs find a way to blame the Somali pirates in Minnesota on the white man. (Or the Jews.)

 

[Marener]

Man, it would be nice to have a coherent foreign policy.

Of course Trump supporters just approve of whatever he says, no matter how stupid or contradictory to his prior statements.

It's "smart" because Trump said it and the MAGAs believe Trump is "smart".