Trump Threatens Further Sanctions for Venezuelan and Russian Oil Industries.....

.theepochtimes ^ | 2/29/2020 | ALAN MCDONNELL

[caww]

President Donald Trump said this week that the United States is preparing to impose further sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry—one of the chief sources of income for President Nicolás Maduro‘s authoritarian regime as it continues to cling to power.

The news came less than a week after the Trump administration announced sanctions against Geneva-based but Russian-controlled oil brokerage Rosneft Trading S.A., which U.S. officials say has been helping the Venezuelan regime to skirt the American oil embargo by acting as an intermediary to supply Venezuelan oil to third parties in Asia.

“You’ll be seeing something on that in the not-too-distant future,” Trump said at a news conference in New Delhi as his recent trip to India came to a close. “There here could be very serious sanctions.” When pressed, the President indicated that further sanctions were on the way. “You are going to see in a little while. You are asking a question right in the middle of us doing something,” he said.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hold on now!

I thought Putin wants Trump because Trump will do his will.

Now Trump is defying him???

Someone tell the drivebys!!!

[rrrod]

Put the squeeze on em!

[FLT-bird]

Another benefit of Frakking. We simply do not need to put up with crap from oil suppliers be they middle eastern or Venezuelan.

[SunkenCiv]

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[NorseViking]

Look at the price of oil and ask frackers would they work for that much or not.