Subject: Re: Meanwhile, in Venezuela...
I was responding to a comment about future Venezuelan oil production. Obviously, there's a million things relevant to Venezuela that are separate from oil production, but those aren't the things I was responding to.

If you didn't want the thread to include discussions about oil production, why did you bring it up?

Huh? That doesn't make any sense.
Any future for Venezuela is going to include oil production as it is a (potentially) large percentage of their GDP. Getting it back up and running as well as making it legally available to the open market is a good thing. Venezuela benefits.

Since they benefit, they're less beholden to China, Russia and Iran thus lessening the influence of 3 very bad actors in our backyard.

The two topics are very much linked.