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China is moving away from oil at such a pace that any massive development of first the extraction technologies for Venezuela and then the actual infrastructure would probably take too long to be particularly useful.

Venezuela is also simply too far from China to be a reliable source of oil.

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And yet Chinese government officials were in discussions mere hours before the US attacked. There were also discussions with Russia and Iran going on.

Yes because the only reason Chinese government officials would talk with Venezuela is because China wants to spin up large-scale oil production there? Literally no other reason they could possibly be talking, right?

And ... of course the answer here appears to be that I was right. About China, about the US, about most of what I said.

With a MAJOR exception: I expected Trump to think about things for 5 seconds before ordering people killed and kidnapped and ... If he did a good thing, it's pretty clear now that it's accidental.

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