>>519736084
>Why is America gearing up for war against Venezuela?
Oil, specifically heavy sour crude which is the type of oil used to create diesel. Ever since the commies in Venzuela busted up Citgo business interests have been raging ass blasted about having to buy diesel precursor from Russia. The oil reserves in the United States are light sweet crude, which is good oil for gasoline and petrochemicals, but its not good for diesel.
Also Aluminum; Venezuela has fucktons of aluminum, which due to new manufacturing processes has become HIGHLY valued in industrial, automotive, and aerospace manufacturing. Aluminum was previously viewed as a shit metal, but it is used in almost everything now.
Venezuela also has pretty decent gold reserves.
It is RUMOURED that Venzuela potentially has a fuckton of rare earth minerals as well, the true extent is not publicly known
Basically the communist government of Venzuela has pissed off the mining interests of the United States (and other Western nations); and the geopolitical climate has deteriorated to the point that the US is ready to depose the commies and install a regime that will allow the mining and oil production (the Venezuelans are too retarded to produce themselves) to start back up