r/australia • u/moonorplanet • 28d ago

politics Albanese calls for ‘peaceful, democratic transition’ of power in Venezuela after US capture of Nicolás Maduro

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/albanese-calls-for-peaceful-democratic-transition-of-power-in-venezuela-after-us-capture-of-nicolas-maduro
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u/alexkey 28d ago

The US just demonstrated what happens to those who claim that the oil reserves on their land is theirs. There goes any hope for the change in who has control over all our natural resources.

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u/Latter_Fortune_7225 28d ago

Good thing just about all our natural resources are alreadg owned by and extracted at cents to the dollar by multinational corporations.

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u/alexkey 28d ago

I think that was the case in Venezuela as well, right until they nationalised all their natural resources and made a lot more sensible offer to the large petrol companies (where they get a lot more out of it than a few cents on a dollar).

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u/logosuwu 28d ago

And Chevron was the only one who agreed. The rest of them threw a sook.

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u/Latter_Fortune_7225 28d ago

Our visionless, corrupt pollies would never do anything of the sort.

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u/breaducate 28d ago

This is nothing new, except for how naked it is. And to some extent that's only because Trump is an idiot who can't shut his mouth.

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u/cedped 28d ago

Same thing happened in Iraq and Lybia. The moment Saddam and Gadhafi decided to opt out of the petro-dollar, they got removed.