Look, we always get accused of being imperialists...
let’s just go ahead and do it...
5,000 Marines and a carrier or two and we could own it!!
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Take half the oil for ourselves and sell the rest to set up a real democracy and we are looking at a win/win!!
Careful, if “we” took it over, our “greenies” would never let “us” pump it up. Much better to leave it in the hands of a practical cadre who would exploit the find.
Shoot... Just take Trinidad and do some directional drilling.