Greg Priddy
For many years, accusations that the United States is fighting a “war for oil” have been a perennial staple of discourse on the shrill Left regarding US military interventions. They also have been wrong.
But unlike both Bush administrations in regard to Iraq, the Trump administration has done little to deny that the desire to gain access to Venezuelan oil reserves on preferential terms was part of the reason to snatch Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from Caracas and attempt to subjugate the remnants of the Chavista regime, in part by continuing to control oil exports via a naval quarantine. As Secretary of State Marco Rubio made clear on Face the Nation on Sunday, the United States expects Venezuela to open its mostly state-controlled oil sector to foreign investment, presumably with a strong preference for American companies.
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