Trump’s ‘Axis of Evil’: Pompeo, Bolton & Abrams

I’ve ‘picked a side’ Pompeo … not yours.

You are part of an isolationist administration, so why throw your weight around here?

Rhetorical question … I know it’s the oil. It’s always the oil.

About this oil thing in Venezuela

Juan Cole weighs in.

@JohnPhilpin I think there's something wrong with that link (the Juan Cole one).

YUP - it is definitely oil.

”The chief prosecutor’s request came after the United States escalated its efforts to unseat the leftist Maduro on Monday by punishing the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA), in an effort to transfer its control to the opposition. The U.S. move freezes $7 billion in U.S.-based assets and blocks more than $11 billion in revenue that Venezuela would get from oil sales next year through its U.S.-based company Citgo, which owns three refineries in the United States and employs thousands of workers."

The Washington Post

@DrOct how weird - thankyou. This is the correct link

Not to mention, now linked to at the bottom of Juan Cole's piece:

John Bolton Admits US Wants To Take Venezuela’s Oil

@JohnPhilpin Thanks!