Vera Bergengruen(@VeraMBergen):NEW: Trump spent months declaring Maduro's ouster secured Venezuela's oil for America. When US oil companies resisted investing, his administration devised an extraordinary solution to turn his vision into reality: make the U.S. government itself an investor through the Pentagon. We have the details.

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2026.08.30 00:48

NEW: Trump spent months declaring Maduro's ouster secured Venezuela's oil for America. When US oil companies resisted investing, his administration devised an extraordinary solution to turn his vision into reality: make the U.S. government itself an investor through the Pentagon. We have the details.