Trump Unleashes an Epicly Unequal Treaty—Signing It Is Equivalent to Selling One’s Soul for 100 Years! | Earth Knowledge Bureau

Earth Knowledge Bureau Text | Chao Qian Proofreading | Chao Qian Editing | e How long can a foreign power occupy and control the vital resource lifelines of a sovereign state? America’s answer is: 100 years. On August 28, Trump announced on social media that the United States and Venezuela had reached a petroleum agreement; on August 31, the White House released an official statement: 17 oilfields—with approximately 65 billion barrels of proven reserves—granted under a 100-year concession. Trump hailed it as “the largest oil agreement in world history.” Regarding Venezuela’s strategic national assets—the very lifeline of its sovereignty—the U.S. demands equity participation and profit-sharing, purchases oil at rock-bottom prices, and even takes over oilfields previously operated by Chinese and Russian enterprises. This arrangement delivers American benefits for a full century—making it even more humiliating than China’s Treaty of Shimonoseki. Venezuela’s interim President Rodríguez (right) meets with U.S. Energy Secretary Wright (left)▼ Currently, Nicolás Maduro remains detained in New York, awaiting trial scheduled for June 2027. Thus, this agreement may also be viewed as a major outcome of Operation 'Absolute Resolve': a surprise raid lasting less than three hours has effectively placed the U.S. atop Venezuela for 100 years—an ROI beyond calculation. Let us examine closely how this profoundly unequal treaty is actually worded. The Pentagon Now Collects Dividends—At Gunpoint The first shackle transfers operational control over Venezuela’s core resources to a company in which a *foreign military* holds equity. Per the White House’s official statement: Venezuela’s interim authorities granted NABEP “a 100-year concession over 17 oilfields, holding approximately 65 billion barrels of proven reserves”; in exchange, NABEP transferred 35% of its parent company’s equity to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Strategic Capital—“with zero cost borne by the United States.” The key player here is North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP). It secured operating rights over those 17 oilfields—accounting for roughly one-fifth of Venezuela’s total proven reserves. The company is currently led by Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt, producing about 200,000 barrels per day—already Venezuela’s second-largest private oil operator, trailing only Chevron. Venezuela holds roughly 300 billion barrels of proven reserves—nominally the world’s largest—but most consist of ultra-heavy crude from the Orinoco Belt, with comparatively little actually developed. These 17 fields are different: previously operated mainly by Chinese and Russian enterprises, they remain among the few still delivering stable output—in plain terms, the nation’s most reliable cash cows. ▼ Meanwhile, the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital acquired a 35% stake in NABEP’s parent company. Reuters disclosed specifics on September 4: the U.S. side received “penny warrants”—entitling it to purchase shares later at a nominal price—but pays nothing upfront. Even more aggressively, dividends accrue *immediately*, prior to warrant exercise—and built-in anti-dilution provisions ensure that if NABEP issues new shares to finance field development, the U.S. stake remains fixed at 35%. Venezuela supplies the resources; the U.S. military sits on the board as shareholder—even preemptively blocking dilution from future financing rounds. One Barrel of Oil, Exploited Repeatedly for Free The second shackle is near-free procurement pricing. Twenty percent of project output may be purchased by the U.S. side at cost; for the remaining 80%, the U.S. retains priority purchasing rights.

Iran War: Trump Risks Strategic Deception by Europe

On September 2, the United States and Venezuela signed a formal petroleum agreement. According to Trump’s description, the U.S. gained 'majority control' over Venezuela’s 65-billion-barrel proven reserves. Simultaneously, a U.S. executive order established a special mechanism whereby all Venezuelan oil export revenues flow into accounts under American control—granting Washington enormous influence over fund usage. The U.S. publicly declared non-recognition of third-party creditors’ priority claims, significantly worsening the recovery environment for overseas creditors—including China’s past 'oil-for-loans' arrangements. Unquestionably, this deal represents a highly successful transaction for both the United States and Trump personally. Yet substantial uncertainties persist in practice: developing the 17 strategic oilfields requires over $100 billion in total investment—but Venezuela’s oil infrastructure is severely degraded and aging, and the U.S.’s extractive approach leaves scant resources for Venezuela’s comprador government, critically undermining its long-term capacity to maintain domestic stability. Consequently, markets widely doubt whether the promised $100+ billion in investment will materialize fully—or whether projected production targets will ever be met. Nonetheless, regardless of these doubts, a single tactical blitzkrieg has effortlessly neutralized a hostile regime in America’s backyard, secured vast paper assets, and delivered a potent deterrent across Latin America. Trump’s Venezuela operation has been a resounding political and economic success. Yet no one anticipated that this militarily dazzling operation—viewed from virtually every angle as extraordinarily impressive—would become the catalyst propelling Trump into a catastrophic blunder in Iran. In hindsight, analysts broadly agree that Venezuela’s swift, low-cost victory dramatically inflated Trump’s confidence, convincing him he could replicate this success in Iran. Precisely because of this, he launched a full-scale war against Iran in late February—going so far as to conduct a decapitation strike against Supreme Leader Khamenei immediately upon commencement, thereby eliminating any possibility of de-escalation. This very overconfidence plunged both the U.S. and Trump himself into an unforeseen quagmire. To date, direct U.S. military expenditures in Iran have already exceeded $100 billion, while estimated losses to U.S. Middle Eastern military bases likely match or exceed that figure. Moreover, this conflict has laid bare America’s military vulnerabilities—revealing to the entire world that the once-formidable U.S. military has deteriorated to the point where it cannot even decisively overcome a single regional power like Iran. The damage inflicted upon America’s military prestige—and the credibility underpinning its global hegemony—is incalculable: even adding a zero to the direct $200 billion cost would fail to capture its true magnitude. And if we further consider the long-term, structural harm inflicted upon the petrodollar—the very bedrock of U.S. imperial dominance—the financial reckoning may require yet another order-of-magnitude escalation. By such calculations, Venezuela’s gains are unlikely to cover even a fraction of the losses incurred in Iran. From the perspective of both the United States and Trump, this is truly regrettable. Strategically speaking, after swiftly securing Venezuela in January and stabilizing America’s Latin American backyard, the U.S. faced two viable paths forward: one leading toward Greenland; the other toward Iran. These two routes represent divergent strategic orientations—toward Europe and toward the Middle East, respectively. Why juxtapose Iran with Greenland—or, more broadly, the Middle East with Europe? Because the choice between Greenland and Iran reflects a fundamental decision about America’s overarching strategic direction. Everyone knows Trump’s top priority upon taking office was always raising money to plug America’s fiscal deficits. After China slapped back hard in the tariff war, Trump—though reluctant—acknowledged he could no longer carve out this largest piece of the pie.

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