the oil and oil money [the GOP-dominated federal government has] seized from [Venezuela] is “one of the largest assets to ever go on the U.S. balance sheet.” Billions and billions of dollars.

…Did Trump take the oil and the money from the oil? Bessent refuses to say. Trump refuses to say. Nobody, in fact, in the Trump regime will tell us where that money is or who controls it or even who’s making the money accrued on its interest.

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    He’s using the money to fund his drilling operation in Greenland

    Edit: illegal drilling operation*

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      Sure but it doesn’t sound like Greenland is going to do anything about it. If no one enforces the laws then they might as well not be laws.

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          What happens when one very powerful NATO country invades a much less powerful NATO country?

          I’m guessing that’s covered in NATO, but I don’t know what it says. But, what it says, and how it’s enforced is another thing.