Subject: Re: As Albaby says...
Yes, really. The oil is being marketed to Chinese refiners for March delivery. Heck, they're aiming to sell it to the state oil refiner, not even the independent ones:

You misunderstood. I was reacting to the “counterintuitive” part.

China gets oil…at a higher price than the off-market rates they were paying to Maduro to buy his bootleg oil.

So yes. Their nuts, our rope.