Personally it looks to me like a bunch of people don’t give a shit about others and conveniently push away uncomfortable discussions about the consequences of the decisions they take.

But that it still a far cry from Bond-villain “let’s kill them by taking their water”.

Can I just probe this: You believe that, for real, someone is sitting and actively planning to kill people by removing their water?

Perhaps some, agreed. Perhaps even all. But the 1.7tn she refers to is the market size, which is not the same as the value of what could potentially be sold.

She’s not selling 1.7tn of Venezuela’s assets. She’s saying she will open a 1.7tn market (ie a market with a total revenue of 1.7tn) for foreign investment.

It doesn’t make it better, necessarily, but it does make a difference.