The idea that Venezuela "pillaged" American wealth and then "flooded your streets with drugs" is not history. It is imperial victim cosplay.
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American sweat did not create Venezuelan oil.
Geology did. Venezuelan soil did. Venezuelan workers did.
What your sentence really says is this:
"When our corporations sink pipes into your land, the oil becomes ours. If you take it back, you are a thief."
You call nationalization "the largest recorded theft of American wealth and property."
But what exactly was "American" about it?
The land wasn’t American.
The reserves weren’t American.
The country wasn’t American.
What you had were contracts signed in a hierarchy of power that let U.S. companies skim enormous profits off another nation’s resources.
When a sovereign state revises, breaks, or ends those contracts, that is not theft.
That is a colonized country finally refusing to behave like a colony.
You don’t talk about a century of profits extracted and repatriated.
You don’t talk about how "American sweat" was rewarded many times over.
You jump straight to the moment the host finally stands up and say the guest has stolen the house.
And then the sleight of hand:
You take a political act of sovereignty and launder it into "terrorism," "killers," "mercenaries," and "drugs."
Who militarized Latin America?
Who trained the death squads?
Who backed the dictators?
Who turned Colombia into a narco-state while calling it an ally?
Who ran Iran-Contra and flooded whole neighborhoods with cocaine while preaching "law and order"?
The idea that Venezuela "pillaged" American wealth and then "flooded your streets with drugs" is not history.
It is imperial victim cosplay.
Venezuela didn’t walk into Kansas and seize oil fields.
It didn’t confiscate Houston refineries.
It changed the terms on its own soil.
You call that theft because, in your mind, the default setting is simple:
When we profit from you, it’s business.
When you break free from us, it’s robbery.
The story of "American wealth stolen by tyrants" is not analysis.
It is the howl of an empire that just realized the world is no longer its property.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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