The words that I think most people ignored in the run up to Trump’s invasion of Venezuela was his claim that its “our oil.”

On its face it is ludicrous. Sure, American corporations might have been some of the corporations who helped Venezuela to build their oil infrastructure (and they profited from it), but the oil in Venezuela has always belonged to Venezuela and its people.

In today’s announcement that the United States will now “run” Venezuela and use it’s oil resources to “pay” for the invasion, and pay for the U.S. administration of the country, and pay back U.S. oil companies for “modernizing” and repairing the country’s oil infrastructure, it is clear that Trump meant what he said when he said that it is our oil.

This has to mean that the taking over of the Panama Canal and Greenland are absolutely in the works right now, if they have not already been planned, and are now just waiting for the correct conditions so that they can be implemented.

The United Nations, Europe, and the rest of the world needs to take this talk seriously. Strongly worded letters of protest will have no effect against Trump. He has control of the worlds largest, most modern, and best funded military and he knows how to break international rules and how to ignore strong words of condemnation.

Venezuela is Trump’s play book.

You are only safe from an American take over if you have nothing he wants, but then he is happy to throw you to the other wolves.