The news keep rolling in and everyone seems to think that America invaded Venezuela for oil. Oil. Always oil. Nothing but oil. Sure. And Putin annexed Crimea for the beaches. Venezuela sits on the largest proven oil reserves on Earth, 13% more than Saudi Arabia. But Venezuelan crude emerges thick as tar, heavy with sulfur, demanding specialized infrastructure that barely exists outside U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Saudi petroleum flows light and sweet. The difference matters b

Let me say this slowly for the people in the back: I can despise Nicolás Maduro's authoritarian regime AND think Trump's invasion of Venezuela is imperialist bullshit. Both things. At the same time. I know that breaks some people's brains because apparently we all live in a Marvel movie now where you pick Team Iron Man or Team Thanos, but real life doesn't work like that. Real life is messier. Real life is multiple villains and millions of innocent people stuck dealing with t