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Has there been any reports out of Venezuela stating that the government there wants to have their oil looted in this fashion?

How does this process work if there is a Chinese oil tanker, under Chinese flag, no previous sanctions on it, and escorted by Chinese warships?

I think someone has told the president that Venezuela is poised to revolt over its government. There is no evidence of this. The videos that we see about how Venezuela citizens are celebrating appear to have 50 or 60 guys in them. They’re not packing the streets of Caracas.

And there are no US troops stationed there in a garrison configuration. There is rampant optimism in the administration that things are going exactly the way they want, and there just are no crowds in the streets. If there were we would see them. The fact we don’t see them indicates they’re not there because if they were our MSM would splash it widely.

The last point here is Rosneft. It is US propaganda that only us oil companies have the skills to make Venezuela oil flow. Rosneft is hyper competent. Oil production and output from Venezuela has risen in the past 4 years since covid. There is no technical inadequacy there.

You will get journalism talking about how infrastructure has failed and it’s all falling apart, but oil production in the past 4 years has increased even in the face of strict sanctions. Is oil production greatly decreased from 20ish years ago? Yes. And the fields that were producing that number have gone empty.

The remaining fields are very difficult oil. A huge numbers that you see published as reserves exploded onto the scene and the 2008 time frame which happened to be right around the time Chavez was suspecting and then confirming a cancer diagnosis. Reserves numbers went from 99 billion barrels to 300 plus billion barrels. It did this with no exploration budget and no announcement of new discoveries. It may not be there. Chavez needed to attract Russian and Chinese interest and he did so with those numbers.