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      because Venezuelan oil is basically garbage.

      Yet 70% of American refineries are optimized for (Venezuelas) sour crude being able to have a higher profit margin as it’s not attractive for other refineries and are able to buy at lower prices or even steal as we saw

      but after Iran Contra and a few other scandals, the CIA mostly pulled back

      And other fairy tales one tells gullible children going to bed, when we know that the MIC and security appratus got a fuckton of money at their disposal since then

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          You left out the “focused on fucking around in the middle east”

          because the priorities of Washington shifted to fucking up the Middle East.

          A shift of focus doesn’t mean they’re absent. Your “mostly pulled back” underplays it hard considering the resources at washington’s disposal. CIA had a few coup attempts in Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_coups_d’%C3%A9tat

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              Yet you fail to understand a shift of focus doesn’t mean it’s absence.

              1992 were attempted by Hugo Chavez backed by Castro

              Based

              n the 2002 coup attempt was against Chavez, and again, not triggered by the CIA, but instead by Chavez being super unpopular and firing some actually popular parts of the government which cause a coalition of trade unions and the local Catholic Church to try to drive him from power.

              Yet they got money from the NED also known as the overt arm of the CIA.

              The CIA having more resources available than entire nation states, being involved in major historical events, but libs sure like to pretend like they’re irrelevant