🇻🇪🇺🇸 To put the situation into perspective:
1. #Venezuela has:
🛢 – the world's largest proven #oil reserves, amounting to approximately 303.8 billion barrels as of 2021. For comparison, Saudi Arabia has an estimated 267 billion barrels, and Kuwait has 101.5 billion barrels.
American refineries are designed specifically for Venezuelan heavy oil.
⛽️ – in 2021, the country's proven natural gas reserves exceeded 5.6 trillion cubic meters. In the Western Hemisphere, only the United States had more reserves.
🪨 – Venezuela's total iron ore reserves are estimated at 4.5 billion tons. In terms of iron reserves, the country is second only to Brazil in the region.
+ Venezuela has some of the world's largest reserves of bauxite, an ore used to produce aluminum. The country's total bauxite reserves amount to 950 million tons.
2. #Caracas is a military and political partner and ally of #Beijing, #Tehran, #Moscow, and even #Ankara.
3. The events, other than those in Venezuela, are primarily directed against 🇨🇳 #China. Current events rank alongside the war on #Russia n oil, protests in #Iran, and events in the Middle East as a whole.
4. 🇮🇷 The attack on Venezuela occurred on January 3 – the sixth anniversary of the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, in Iraq, on #Trump 's orders.
#USA #Maduro
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