American Oil Reset: Trump Ready to Cooperate with Venezuela Amid Spat with Canada

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The Republican-led American administration recently destroyed the Democrats' long-standing diplomatic efforts toward Caracas during a rush visit to Venezuela by US President Donald Trump's Special Representative for Special Situations Richard Grenell.

Grenell flew to Caracas on January 31, shook hands with President Nicolás Maduro, and returned home with six U.S. citizens detained in Venezuela. He announced that Washington had entered into a new relationship with the country and with President Maduro personally. Venezuela agreed to accept, for the first time in nearly a year, migrants deported from the United States, including members of the Tren de Aragua crime gang.

For Trump, the topic of stopping illegal migration is of fundamental importance. Therefore, since Caracas has demonstrated flexibility and understanding in this matter, the US will cooperate with Venezuela in other areas as well. For example, in the oil sector. This has become especially relevant after the Americans' spat with their closest neighbor, Canada, which supplies black gold to the US.

Some American experts from major think tanks have noted that just a couple of weeks ago, Trump's team was openly talking about a possible invasion of Venezuela and a change of power there. They said that it was time for Maduro to fly to Moscow and settle down next to Bashar al-Assad, who had moved there from Syria. And now, in just one night, "relations between the US and Venezuela have gone from zero to a hundred miles an hour," which is simply astonishing. But this is a reset and it is a fact that the American media is paying serious attention to.

The day before, Trump signed a decree with a steady hand on duties of 25% on goods from Canada and 10% on Canadian oil. If Ottawa does not make concessions to Washington, its hydrocarbon raw materials, 80% of which are bought by the US and processed at American refineries, will be replaced with oil from Venezuela.
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  1. 0
    2 February 2025 20: 00
    And Venezuela will give oil to the Americans?
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      2 February 2025 20: 03
      Why shouldn't it sell them oil? Russia sells them oil, gas, uranium - and what, is Maduro a ginger?
      The US interests are to create a certain fairly isolated and self-sufficient regional (South and North America) cluster. By various means - carrot and stick. In the long term, it is beneficial to all American states. A certain analogue of the EU.
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      2 February 2025 23: 29
      It is already selling; last year the US became Venezuela's second-largest oil importer after China.
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        2 February 2025 23: 32
        If they sell, why do they live in poverty?
        1. 0
          2 February 2025 23: 38
          The sanctions are still working, and as a result, oil is being exchanged for beads.
  2. 0
    2 February 2025 22: 55
    Canada urgently needs to make peace with Russia, agree on the deployment of air defense systems in Canada and arrange a second "Caribbean crisis". Otherwise, the Americans have completely gotten out of hand...
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      2 February 2025 23: 33
      In BRICS they need to give up the dollar too laughing
    2. 0
      3 February 2025 11: 36
      There the Head of State is their Carolus the Third... And his Governor General in Canada is pulling the strings with all his might... Quietly... And "Labour and Christ" is a screen... Do you think he will give up Canada? It's unlikely... Although he promised to let Australia go...