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23.01.26 - 14:31
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Trump Has Big Plans For Venezuela′s Oil. Are They Realistic? (Bloomberg)
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For more than a decade, most major Western oil companies have had little access to Venezuela's reserves, the world's largest, owing to a wave of nationalizations of their operations in the country in the mid-2000s and subsequent US sanctions. President Donald Trump intends to change that....
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21.01.26 - 21:15
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Von Der Leyen Hand-Wrings About "Raw Power" Under Trump After Venezuela Silence (ZeroHedge)
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Von Der Leyen Hand-Wrings About "Raw Power" Under Trump After Venezuela Silence
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned Wednesday before the European Parliament that the 27-member EU must accelerate efforts to strengthen both its economy and its defenses, as it confronts a shifting global order shaped by what she called "raw power."
She took the opportunity to caution Washington and President Trump over his Greenland ambitions, saying that tensions between supposed "allies" over Greenland risk strengthening the West's geopolitical rivals. Indeed, over in Davos, the Greenland question and US rhetoric has completely overshadowed efforts at furthering the Ukraine peace deal. But sadly truce efforts have in reality been going nowhere anyway.
"The shift in the international order is not only seismic, but it is permanent," she told lawmakers, presenting as a pressing example the "volatile situation" surrounding Greenland, Russia's ongoi...
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20.01.26 - 21:15
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Massie rips Trump′s sale of Venezuelan oil ′for his own piggy bank′ (The Hill)
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), criticized President Trump on Tuesday over his administration's handling of Venezuela's oil after ousting Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro earlier this month and the funds it will receive from the sales of that oil. Massie, a fiscal hawk who has been known to break with GOP leaders on issues related to spending,......
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