Trump Wants to Decrease Venezuelan Oil Imports to U.S. While Cutting Off China in Effort to Maintain the Petro Dollar

Trump's goals in kidnapping Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became clearer today with statements he made on social media along with a Congressional briefing with lawmakers with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio stated: "We are going to take between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil. We’re going to sell it in the marketplace at market rates, not at the discounts Venezuela was getting." Well, that's very interesting, because before the invasion the U.S. was purchasing more than just "between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil". In 2024 the U.S. was purchasing 220,000 barrels of oil per day, which was an increase of 64% over 2023, and a total of over 91 million barrels of oil. The U.S. purchase of Venezuelan oil continued to increase in 2025, which according to one report was a 220% increase. So if the U.S. is now only going to import "between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil", that is a significant DECREASE. Trump also told Venezuela to stop exporting oil to China and Russia, or anybody else for that matter. China has been buying as much oil from Venezuela than almost all of the other countries in the world combined. That is a LOT of oil that the Trump Administration is attempting to take out of the market. Why would they do that? To get oil prices to increase, and try to preserve the Petro Dollar.

Elon Musk and the CIA try to Overthrow the New Democratically Elected Government in Venezuela

The people of Venezuela just recently completed their national elections, voting to keep the incumbent president, Nicolás Maduro, in power for a 3rd term. Because the U.S. did not back Maduro during the elections, but instead his opponent, Edmundo González Urrutia, the U.S. did what it usually does when their favorite candidate did not win, and employed the U.S. Mocking Bird media to run smear campaigns against the winner, while the CIA has allegedly taken measures to try and depose him, which has now caused riots in Venezuela. This is how "democracy" is defined in the United States today. It means regardless of what the people want as voting citizens in their own country, if they do not choose the candidate that the U.S. and the CIA want in power, then they will do everything they can to cause a coup, and getting the U.S. Media to print their lies, which of course today also includes Elon Musk's X platform. So with almost one voice, both on the Left and on the Right, the U.S. Media has declared that the elections in Venezuela were "not fair", as they claim that "other countries" also agree with them that the elections were "corrupt." Of course many "other countries" have also congratulated Maduro and accepted the election results, such as Russia and China. What is the U.S. basing their claim on that the election results were not accurate? They are basing their claims on exit polls done in Venezuela by the US government-linked firm out of New Jersey named "Edison Research," which has reported links to the CIA.