'The real goal lies elsewhere': Economist lays bare why Trump launched military raid

A leading international economist said Sunday that the US invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its socialist leader are about reasserting control over the world’s largest petroleum reserves by Washington imperialists and Wall Street shareholders.

Gabriel Zucman—a professor at the Paris School of Economics and University of California, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy—said on his Substack that the US invasion is motivated by the “$100–$150 billion per year to be captured by US shareholders of oil companies...