The Trump administration plans to control future sales of Venezuelan oil and hold the proceeds in US accounts, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said, making the clearest statement yet on Washington’s strategy to bring the impoverished nation’s crude to market and control its most valuable resource. Wright, who spoke at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. conference in Miami Wednesday, said initially the barrels would come from crude Venezuela is holding in storage, which has been filling up amid the US blockade and threatening to force some production off line. “We’re just going to get that crude moving again and sell it,” Wright said.
Then comes Russia and China filling the power vacuum.
Globally, sure, along with other regional powers but I honestly don’t think they’ll directly do anything in the land, it might just be too chaotic and lawless to make any profit. The country hasn’t been invaded or bombed by anyone and it’s already a bit of a warzone in some areas, a drug zombieland in others, imagine what it would look like post American empire collapse…