No is that the way off bit I know it imports from Canada and Mexico etc to met it’s refinery needs of heavy crude which it more than balances with exports of sweet crude. Reuters reported the cost to modernise Venezuelas oil production is estimated at 58 billion dollars Daft Donald’s said that...
That's pretty much it sadly, no chance of us being a Singapore in my opinion our populations far to big for that. Having nuclear weapons keeps us relatively safe on the world stage but no longer world policeman. Can't see a Federalist Europe in anybodies lifetime to many disagreements.
Not sure the whole of Europe would want to be fronting up the Yanks to be honest unless we wanted to put vast amounts of money into defence spending and there's not much enthusiasm for that. American operates 11 Supercarrier groups the whole of Europe has half a dozen carriers. We just don't...
Certainly is, obviously the one's who fled the country because of the regime will be happy he's gone. Over the coming weeks we're bound to find out more about how those living there feel, they should at least be able to speak their minds now.
Unfortunately you're right how do you stand up to the more powerful countries in the world though, had we been more powerful in 1997 I'm sure we'd have told China to fuck off we're keeping Hong Kong, same way we can't directly front up Russia or the US anymore.