Venezuela has 300 billion barrels of oil reserves.
China has 25 billion barrels.
It takes a lot of oil to power your tanks and your jets. If China had any plans to invade Taiwan, they needed access to Venezuelan oil.
Now, do you understand why China was becoming BFFs with Maduro?
Do you think Trump was going to let them take control of the world's largest storage of oil that is located in our own hemisphere?
Hell no.
Saying it was about the drugs is just easier and more convenient political messaging.
"we arrested the guy who kills your kids" resonates politically, and it makes it impossible for the Democrats to oppose it.
But, make no mistake about it, this is about oil and China.
And because Trump is such a brilliant strategic and decisive thinker he got it done.
By acting in Venezuela and aiding the Iranian opposition, @realDonaldTrump might have prevented an imminent 🇨🇳 invasion of 🇹🇼.
Beijing needs oil that is not subject to US pressure. That means Russia, Venezuela & Iran. 🇨🇳 has been buying 60-90% of Venezuelan and 85-90% of Iranian crude. That's 30-35% of 🇨🇳's present oil importation.
Another ~35% of 🇨🇳's oil comes from Arab suppliers subject to US guidance or pressure.
With new governments in Venezuela and Iran, the US will be able to regulate up to 70% of the CCP's present-day oil needs.
CCP war planners cannot execute against Taiwan under those conditions. This takes pressure off the US in the Indo-Pacific for a while, to the net benefit of American NATO commitments in Europe.
This is a hilarious interaction between a Taiwanese pilot and a Chinese pilot. 😂😂😂
🇹🇼: Poor thing, poor thing.
🇨🇳: Fuck You
🇹🇼: Can you stand up while talking? You’ve spent your entire life kneeling, a slave to the Communist Party, completely oblivious to their impending rise.
🇨🇳: Fuck you, Fuck you🤬🤬🤬
🇹🇼: Clueless about what freedom is. Tragic, tragic, tragic.
🇨🇳: Self-righteous, fuck your mother's cunt.
🇹🇼: Did Xi Jinping write this for you? How tragic.
🇨🇳: Tragic your ass !
🇹🇼: You’re the world champions at spewing foul language, a tragic reality.
🇨🇳: You tiny Taiwan, 🤬🤬🤬
This explanation is not entirely accurate. For a “survival-threatening situation” (sonritsu kiki jitai) to be recognized—allowing Japan to exercise the right of collective self-defense—the following conditions must be met: a country that has a close relationship with Japan must come under attack, and that attack must be deemed to pose a threat to Japan’s survival and present a clear danger that fundamentally overturns the Japanese people’s rights to freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Because Japan does not officially recognize Taiwan as a state, an attack on Taiwan alone cannot constitute a survival-threatening situation. At a minimum, it would require intervention by the United States, Japan’s ally, and an attack against the United States itself as a precondition.
Therefore, under the law, Japan would never be the first country to intervene militarily.
Seeing as the 2024 election is over, here’s a thread of what the electoral map would’ve looked like had only X demographic voted:
For example, here is the electoral map had turnout been 100%