

And like, even if Trump had a come-to-Jesus moment and had no intention of reneging on his promises here: there’s no way to ensure that Venezuela won’t re-narionalize their natural resources again in 5, 10, 15 years when the oil companies have invested all that money and are just starting to see some revenue back from it.










Even then, there’s an extremely real chance that there will never be any profits to privatize.
If the USA agreed to pay every dime of expense to renovate Venezuelan oil fields for ExxonMobil, that’s still 10-30 years of putting employees on a project that might go nowhere, instead of working on something more likely to have an ROI. Even if money is subsidized, time remains limited.