President Donald Trump said the United States is seizing large quantities of oil from Venezuela, amounting to billions of barrels, and that 'the spoils belong to the winner,' according to a post on X by Israeli security analyst Yair Goldblatt.
President Donald Trump stated that the United States is seizing billions of barrels of oil from Venezuela, asserting that 'the spoils belong to the winner.' The remark was posted on X by Israeli security analyst Yair Goldblatt early Thursday morning.
The statement adds to a series of recent declarations by Trump on US oil operations in Venezuela. As The Zioneer previously reported, Trump said in June that the US had 'hit Venezuela so hard' on oil, extracting millions of barrels. In late July, he claimed that an oil tanker was now under US control.
The claim comes amid ongoing US-Venezuela tensions over oil resources and follows a broader pattern of Trump asserting aggressive US extraction of oil from adversaries, including from Iran through the Strait of Hormuz.
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