Trump Claims Venezuela Oil Has Recovered War Costs by 25 Times
Trump claimed that the U.S. has obtained a large amount of oil from Venezuela, recovering war costs by approximately 25 times.
In related remarks, he emphasized that oil revenues would be used to compensate for U.S. operational expenses, with sales proceeds controlled by the U.S. benefiting both peoples.
U.S. oil companies plan to invest billions of dollars to restore Venezuela's infrastructure, expecting to receive 30-50 million barrels of high-quality oil in the short term, valued at about $2.8 billion.
Institutional funds are flowing into the energy sector driven by events, with clear benefits for U.S. controlling parties, while local economic entities in Venezuela are under pressure, with funds directed to U.S.-led compliant channels.
Source: Public Information
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Trump has repeatedly mentioned oil revenues following military actions in Venezuela in early 2026. Previously, during his first term, he imposed severe sanctions on Venezuela and supported the opposition, attempting to change the regime through economic pressure. After this direct military action, he quickly shifted to a resource recovery path, consistent with the asset freezing strategy against PDVSA from 2017 to 2021.
In terms of capital flow, the U.S. is shifting resources from Venezuela's state-owned system to U.S.-led distribution by controlling oil transfers and sales revenues, motivated by the need to compensate for operational costs and open investment opportunities for U.S. oil companies (like ExxonMobil), strategically achieving a shift in the oil supply chain from adversary control to ally dominance, while alleviating domestic energy inflation pressures.
Similar to the reconstruction of oil fields after the 2003 Iraq operation, Venezuela is in the early control stage of transitioning from regime change to resource development. U.S. oil companies are accelerating their layout, while local production still faces infrastructure collapse and historical issues from international sanctions.
Essentially, this is a restructuring of the industrial chain. The Trump administration has changed the global oil pricing power and supply chain control structure through military-economic means, transforming the narrative of "recovering stolen assets" into actual resource transfer, prompting capital to concentrate from high-risk emerging markets to the U.S.-led energy security chain, avoiding future long-term monopolization of similar resources by adversaries.
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War dividends are never free; oil is the ultimate currency for settlement. The higher the cost recovery multiple, the more thorough the transfer of resource control. On the surface, it appears to be freedom, but at the core, the pricing power of the industrial chain is always being restructured.