“It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from Epstein + skyrocketing healthcare costs,” she claimed in a social media publication.

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    Turns out Ghina got really good at renewables while we were deliberately looking away. And Ghina is too big to invade. Guess we’ll have to double down on oil. And somehow these guys have more oil than the Saudis. Not for long…

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      Venezuela has the largest heavy crude oil reserves, which is the type that America can refine with its own refineries. Shale crude or light/medium crude are harder for the US to refine and sell.

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        Not exactly. Yes, US refineries are set up to handle heavy sour crude and would have to be updated to handle light sweet crude US produces.

        But the light sweet crude is easier to process and that’s also makes it more expensive. So US was normally exporting it and importing the heavy one from other places like Canada.