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Yet 70% of American refineries are optimized for (Venezuelas) sour crude being able to have a higher profit margin as it's not attractive for other refineries and are able to buy at lower prices or even steal as we saw
And other fairy tales one tells gullible children going to bed, when we know that the MIC and security appratus got a fuckton of money at their disposal since then
A shift of focus doesn't mean they're absent. Your "mostly pulled back" underplays it hard considering the resources at washington's disposal. CIA had a few coup attempts in Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coups_d'%C3%A9tat
Yet you fail to understand a shift of focus doesn't mean it's absence.
Based
Yet they got money from the NED also known as the overt arm of the CIA.
The CIA having more resources available than entire nation states, being involved in major historical events, but libs sure like to pretend like they're irrelevant
How did this right wing bullshit end up here?