2026-08-30 03:08 UTC
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@gvenema@fairmove.net 2026-08-30 09:16
@fsinn@mas.to I am completely flabbergasted by how international media reports this like a "deal". They even, most of them, mindlessly repeat the honorific "historic" Noone makes deals onder gunpoint. This is just a neo colonial protection racket. Nothing else.
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@CanadianCat@kitty.social 2026-08-30 03:11
@fsinn@mas.to And they can't even use the oil, as all their refineries are set up to process #Canadian Heavy Crude
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@decapitae@mastodon.social 2026-08-30 03:45
@fsinn@mas.to The only people without questions on this deserve tribunals and quality time at the Hague
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@zerodowntime@mastodon.social 2026-08-30 04:54
@fsinn@mas.to I simply cannot wait for this to benefit the people of Venezuela. I have friends there and they are struggling. So it warms my heart that good 'ol Trump, Uncle Donald among friends, once again comes through for the ones that really needs it.
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@Su_G@aus.social 2026-08-30 05:09
@fsinn@mas.to Yeah, right. Thump always lies & nothing he does benefits anyone other than himself & his “small … energy” cronies. BBC: “Oil, gas and mineral lawyer Alexander Kuiper told the BBC the deal could be "very significant" but expressed some caution. "This is definitely a headline to help with oil prices," he said, but added: "What we don't know, is whether or not those reserves turn into actual investment, and how long that investment takes to produce results."” #fossilFools #headlineToHelpOilPrices #marketManipulation
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@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social 2026-08-30 06:19
@fsinn@mas.to journalists should know better, especially at the BBC, NYT... they constantly undermine or sugarcoat what is happening. I get it that they just quote Trump here, but why using the wording of a pathological liar as a headline? Journalists job is to report the truth, not being the mouthpiece of the US dicktator.
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@morton@kolektiva.social 2026-08-30 07:29
@fsinn@mas.to This message is primarily for American nationalists: for all those who consider the USA the best country in the world—the only land of freedom, the only democracy, the savior of humanity. They feel entitled to that oil because they are Americans. The rest of the world is a shithole.
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@MrInappropriate@mastodonapp.uk 2026-08-30 07:54
@fsinn@mas.to #coercion #piracy come naturally to this criminal regime.
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@Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-08-30 09:59
@fsinn@mas.to Trump & organized crime figures laundering money for the fossil fuel industry, AI, & drugs Alejandro Betancourt Lopez; a familiar name... https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article315447900.html https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/us-take-35-stake-venezuelan-mogul-betancourts-oil-venture-wsj-reports-2026-08-30/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-wealthy-venezuelan-hosted-giuliani-as-he-pursued-ukraine-campaign-then-giuliani-lobbied-the-justice-department-on-his-behalf/2019/11/26/272105a2-0ec5-11ea-b0fc-62cc38411ebb_story.html https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/rudy-giuliani-has-a-foreign-lobbying-problem-and-it-just-got-bigger/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/26/us/politics/giuliani-venezuelan-businessman.html https://orinocotribune.com/guaido-has-links-with-money-launderer-defended-by-rudy-giuliani-lev-parnas/ https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/senators-call-for-expanded-investigation-of-giuliani-contacts-with-justice-department/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28/pentagon-is-in-talks-with-venezuelan-mogul-for-massive-oil-deal https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/08/27/us-intervened-criminal-probe-venezuelan-oilman-alejandro-betancourt/ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/business/energy-environment/venezuela-alejandro-betancourt-oil-trump.html https://fortune.com/2026/08/17/trump-venezuela-oil-deals/ https://www.occrp.org/en/scoop/epstein-bought-venezuelan-oil-bonds-on-advice-from-chavez-era-insider https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/about-2-million-barrels-venezuelan-oil-being-shipped-spains-repsol-shipping-2026-02-05/ https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-08-17/alejandro-betancourt-the-under-investigation-billionaire-linking-delcy-rodriguez-to-trump.html 1/
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@riggbeck@mastodon.social 2026-08-30 11:23
@fsinn@mas.to It's worth remembering that Trump was banging on about democracy in Venezuela prior to the kidnapping of Maduro. Rather than leaving the administration in place, he should have let Machado, leader of the party that may have won the 2024 election and Nobel Peace Prize winner, form a government. She toadied shamefully to Trump, even gave him her Nobel Prize, but Trump prefers to deal with dictators. It was always about the oil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Corina_Machado
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@charette@mstdn.ca 2026-09-03 15:23
@fsinn@mas.to You said: I have some questions. There are no follow-up questions. You've already asked the pertinent ones, pointed out the obvious, and answered everything. Full out dictatorship is what we're seeing. #USPol