THE PEOPLE’S FREE PRESS: It appears that Venezuela’s Oil Wealth is Senator Lindsey Graham’s Secret Retirement Nest Egg?

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham ratcheted up US rhetoric against Venezuela to a new level on Sunday. He was not ruling out American land strikes or a US attack on Colombia.

The war warrior politician claims President Trump has ample authority to target both nations.

But is there something behind the warmongering comments going beyond Graham’s typical ‘bomb them all’ position?

‘Lindsey Graham has never met a war he didn’t like. As long as he’s not at risk, he’s all in favor of America killing other people, unfortunately,’ ex-CIA officer Larry Johnson told Russian media.

‘We know, we saw with respect to Iraq and Syria, and with respect to what’s going on in Ukraine. So, this is, you know, it’s nothing unusual for him to take this position,’ Johnson stressed.

But there are personal financial interests at play.

Of the $414K in publicly traded assets in Lindsey Graham’s publicly disclosed portfolio, about 1/4 are concentrated in the Dodge & Cox Stock Fund (DODGX), which has major holdings in the oil and gas sector, according to Quiver Quantitative.

Independent but Russian and Chinese supported, Venezuela is home to the largest untapped oil reserves in the world. To some of the biggest offshore natural gas reserves as well ($14.3T+ in total natural resource wealth, per a 2016 estimate).

Then there’s freeloader Lindsey Graham’s list of donors.

During his last senatorial race in 2020, he received over $18.7K in contributions from ExxonMobil and $17.5k from Chevron, per OpenSecrets.

From 2019-2020, of $2.5M in PAC contributions to his campaign, $182.6k came from the energy and natural resources sector (BP, ConocoPhillips, Koch Industries, Marathon Petroleum and others)

$84k More came from the arms industry, including BAE Systems, DynCorp, General Dynamics, L3Harris and Raytheon.

And that’s just in 2020. As Graham gears up for 2026, PAC money is already pouring in from Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Xcel Energy, Devon Energy, Oshkosh, GE, Palantir and Huntington Ingalls, the same companies standing to gain most from a US attack on Venezuela.

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Vagabond Venezuelan opposition figure and Nobel Prize winner Maria Machado has put it bluntly in interviews with US media: Overthrow Maduro, and Venezuela’s oil will be yours for the taking.

QUOTABLE QUOTE: ‘Senators who voted to attack Syria received 83 per cent more campaign money from military contractors than lawmakers voting no.’

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