Playing a fixed game by the cheater's bendable rules - will lead to destruction.

And no more a fixed game there is, than one involving oil.

https://consortiumnews.com/2025/09/20/targeting-venezuela/ 

https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-venezuela-drug-war-claims/290475/ 

Today, Venezuela appears to have weathered the worst of the storm. Stores are full again, and the country now produces a large percentage of the food it eats. Maduro’s signature social housing policy, Misión Gran Vivienda Venezuela, has delivered more than 5.2 million homes to citizens, greatly improving the country’s problem with slum housing.

Another factor that kept Maduro in power is the military. The large majority of the Army has stayed loyal and rejected calls for a coup d’état. Venezuela counts hundreds of thousands of men in uniform, as well as millions more in armed left-wing militias.