The Trump administration is planning to meet with major oil executives to discuss how to exploit Venezuela’s oil reserves—a country the U.S. doesn’t control and whose resources aren’t ours to take.

WHAT’S GOING ON: According to Oil Change International, Trump is convening fossil fuel industry leaders to carve up access to Venezuelan oil, treating a sovereign nation’s natural resources like spoils to be divided among corporate donors.

This isn’t diplomacy. It’s a planning session for resource extraction from a country the administration has been threatening with military intervention.

The meeting reportedly involves discussions about how U.S. oil companies can gain access to Venezuela’s massive reserves—the largest proven oil deposits in the world.

OF COURSE: This is the logical endpoint of an administration that treats foreign policy as a business opportunity for wealthy backers. Oil executives get a seat at the table to discuss stealing another country’s resources, while the Venezuelan people who would bear the consequences of any intervention get nothing.

WHY IT MATTERS: This meeting reveals the naked imperialism driving U.S. policy toward Venezuela. It’s not about democracy or human rights—it’s about oil. It’s always been about oil.

And the fossil fuel industry isn’t even pretending otherwise anymore.

The brazenness here is stunning: openly meeting with corporate interests to discuss exploiting a nation’s resources before you’ve even seized them. It’s colonialism with a business casual dress code.

BOTTOM LINE: When oil executives sit down with the president to divvy up another country’s wealth, that’s not foreign policy—it’s a heist in the planning stages. And we’re all watching it happen in broad daylight.