Government: The voters want me to tell you to give up some of your profits to finance the war that got you all this oil.
Oil companies: No.
Government: OK cool just making sure.
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It's piracy by another name.
Robbery by daylight.
Nah, it's a self-funding maritime expedition
Colonialism is almost always a net drain on the state, because paying for an occupying force is very expensive. Even during the height of British colonialism they were spending more on the colonies then they were getting back in tax revenue from them.
Colonialism only helps the oligarchs / capitalists who are able to exploit the new resources and cheap labor.
If we actually do get in a protracted quagmire in Venezuela it will cost the US taxpayers $1 trillion and make Exxon and friends $1 trillion.
Bullshit. US oil majors will extract all the oil wealth they can offshore and onshore, sell that oil internationally, keep the profits, pay a (small) portion in taxes and other fees, meanwhile the US will spend another 10? 20? years and fuck knows how many trillions of dollars in another endless vague undefined war while the defense contractors old and new (Google, MS, etc) get rich