Possible hostility in Venezuela could make it difficult for the US to access oil by sending troops, a former NATO commander told CNN not Saturday (3).
“In the past, countries did not like great powers intervening just to steal resources, even if the president claimed that those resources were American and that the United States invested first, and that there was expropriation,” said retired General Wesley Clark, former Supreme Allied Commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
“It will simply be difficult,” he added.
Since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the country’s vice president, Delcy Rodríguez, has demanded the couple’s “immediate release” and stated that the territorial integrity of the nation was “brutally attacked” by the US operation.
Clark said the consequences of the military operation are “still unclear.”
