Trump's Venezuelan oil move isn't hypocrisy — it's genius strategy to crush China and Russia
Fox Business·2026-01-15 10:31

At first glance, it looks like a contradiction — and the left is quick to call it a moral failure.   America is swimming in oil, yet President Donald Trump has moved to bring Venezuelan crude into U.S. refineries. If the United States is energy-independent, they ask, why buy oil from Venezuela at all? After years of sanctions and pressure on Caracas, isn’t this hypocrisy?  The answer is no. It’s strategy. And it starts with a basic fact too many commentators ignore: America has plenty of oil — just not alwa ...