https://doismiu.blog/tags/oil/Recent content in Oil on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archiveHugoen-usTue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/ultimately-is-it-about-the-oil-or-not/Tue, 06 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://doismiu.blog/posts/ultimately-is-it-about-the-oil-or-not/<p>2026 is a year that, as has become the norm in recent years, got off to a turbulent start on the international stage. The US launched a lightning raid in Caracas and took away President Nicolás Maduro and his wife away to New York, acting unilaterally and using narco-terrorism as an excuse.</p> <p>These days, the illegitimacy of the Venezuelan government and the need for change were hardly matters of international debate (after all, nearly 8 million people voluntarily leaving a country that isn&rsquo;t even at war speaks for itself). But of course, a country where <strong>GDP plummeted by 86% in 8 years</strong> (2012&ndash;2020) isn&rsquo;t something you see every day. Yet even with all those figures, it is hard to deny that the United States&rsquo; arbitrariness and egocentrism in acting, time and again, against a foreign nation without UN approval is worrying. Then Russia comes along in 2022 and invades Ukraine, and the arguments against it ring hollow and hypocritical, to say the least.</p>