"Ruprecht |||" wrote in message news:20260107224847.00cc9445@z-z...
On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 04:56:05 -0000 (UTC)
Webbster <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
Who's going to steal Vemezuelan oil,
Exxon I hope.
If not...Oxy.
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Chevron still operates there, otherwise their oil industry would
collapse like sugar in Cuba. https://www.dw.com/en/why-us-giant-chevron-not-china-may-save-oil-rich-venezuela/a-75117400
"Output had peaked at almost 2 million bpd in 2015 before sliding
steadily due to years of mismanagement, corruption and chronic underinvestment."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-68935247
"...Cuba now imports sugar to meet domestic demand..."
Naturally they blame the US rather than toxic socialist policy for
their inability to maintain a self supporting economy themselves.
They "deserve" handouts they won't pay for.
Communism was designed to appeal to and recruit the low achieving
masses (takers) who blame others for their self-created problems, it
promises them that society will assume their support after their
parents stop, ignoring that parasites starve without hosts. Actually
it supports only the self-appointed elite who promote and control it.
That is the poetic justice the Left suffers when they gain the power
they envy and the responsibility they can't handle, like the Dark Age
that followed the defeat of Rome.
China stopped suffering after the catastrophic Great Leap Forward
(Stalin's solution) when they adopted a version of Lenin's New
Economic Policy that no longer demonized and punished superior
ability. The NEP failed in Russia because Lenin died of strokes
without a capable successor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
Zhou Enlai was the brain behind Chinese success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Modernizations
Knecht Ruprecht is Santa's helper who punishes the naughty children. Heidelberg was delightful when I was stationed there but the local
Swabian dialect can be difficult. I heard "across the old bridge"
said as "uba da brick".
"Ruprecht |||" wrote in message news:20260107224847.00cc9445@z-z...
On Thu, 8 Jan 2026 04:56:05 -0000 (UTC)
Webbster <bax02_spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote:
Who's going to steal Vemezuelan oil,
Exxon I hope.
If not...Oxy.
-----------------------------
Chevron still operates there, otherwise their oil industry would
collapse like sugar in Cuba. https://www.dw.com/en/why-us-giant-chevron-not-china-may-save-oil-rich- venezuela/a-75117400
"Output had peaked at almost 2 million bpd in 2015 before sliding
steadily due to years of mismanagement, corruption and chronic underinvestment."
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