How Oil Became Strategic Vulnerability of Venezuela, Orchestrated by China
A Shock That Was Years in the Making The dramatic U.S. capture of Venezuela’s sitting president on January 3, 2026, is not a random flash of geopolitics. The imposition of a full oil blockade is also not random. They are the logical end stage of a broken financial system. This crisis is not fundamentally about ideology or democracy. It is about what happens when money fails. Power replaces trust at this point. When Money Dies, Force Takes Over Venezuela’s trajectory follows a familiar pattern seen in fragile economies across the world. Governments debase their currency to survive in the short…
