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How the Pentagon Is Getting Into the Venezuelan Oil Business Under Trump
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NYT World
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Edward Wong, Rebecca F. Elliott and Anatoly Kurmanaev
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1 Sep 2026 · 14:50 UTC
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Corporate Control
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1 min read
Summary
Documents how U.S. military and defense institutions are directly facilitating corporate resource extraction in foreign nations, exemplifying the merger of state power with corporate interests for resource control and geopolitical dominance.
President Trump said his defense secretary and secretary of state reached an agreement with the Venezuelan government on securing billions of barrels of oil reserves “through a partnership with private business.”
military-industrial complex
corporate resource extraction
geopolitical control
defense department overreach
petro-imperialism
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