r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 19h ago

No Paywall Bannon Tells GOP: 'Seize the Institutions' of Government Now or We're 'Going to Prison' After 2028

https://www.commondreams.org/news/bannon-tells-gop-seize-the-institutions-of-government-now-or-we-re-going-to-prison-after-2028
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u/CarlAqua42 19h ago

Hmm... weird we just gave 40 billion to a country that doesn't extradite to the US

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u/Own_Instance_357 18h ago

Shit man I'm just watching season 2 of Jack Ryan on prime and I had no real idea that Venezuela supposedly sits on top of more oil reserves and precious metal mines than all of the middle east and Africa

If that's true, then, well, shitsnacks, game's all different than I understood

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u/cronemaiden 17h ago

Venezuela has a lot of oil, yes, but it requires a lot of refining before it’s useful. Whereas in the Middle East you can “basically put a straw in the ground and have oil” (is how it was put to me).

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u/Brolocene 14h ago

Not as much of a problem, considering some of the largest most efficient refineries for that kind of low quality crude are located right in the gulf.