this only works if you read it from the perspective of the government, or more specifically that all things are assumed to be done by the government
it's a fallacy
Oh, before anyone gets the wrong lefty idea here, I'm not referring to the US restoring the oil its companies contractually had purchased in Venezuela which had subsequently been stolen by an illegitimate socialist regime. I'm talking about things like damming the rivers, financing cartels, and then running gunswith things like Fast and Furious.