In a move that redraws the map of hemispheric energy power, President Trump announced that the United States has secured majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's proven oil reserves — a transaction he called the largest in oil history. Brokered through the combined efforts of the State Department and Pentagon, the deal marks a striking reversal of years of adversarial U.S.-Venezuela relations, and positions American energy dominance as both a diplomatic instrument and a domestic economic remedy. Whether the promised abundance at the pump and the pledged prosperity for Ve