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Greg Palast

How to Stop Putin’s War Windfall by Ending Our Embargo of Venezuelan Oil

Mar 8, 2022
11:30
The mayhem in Ukraine is a profit center for Putin. 43% of the federal Russian budget was provided by oil and gas revenues and royalties. Russia lives and dies, literally, on its oil revenues, and this mayhem has caused the price of oil to rise to over $100 a barrel, so he has a war-windfall of a half billion dollars a day. So the question is, what can we do to bring down the price of oil? Putin's a powerful man at a hundred bucks a barrel, but he's pretty weak at thirty bucks. So how do we do this? Well, we’ve been embargoing the nation with the largest supply of oil on the planet — Venezuela. Watch the full 30-minute TMI interview with Aldous Tyler: https://youtu.be/aVTl-t1cRqU Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/venezuela-can-bring-putin-to-his-knees/

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