Trump’s Venezuela plan just got a whole lot more expensive, as he says the U.S. could give ‘tremendous’ sums to oil companies building there

Despite capturing Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores, Donald Trump’s intervention in the nation has so far been relatively light-touch: That is to say, it hasn’t racked up a huge bill. The United States doesn’t have troops on the ground, isn’t deploying any major resources, and has reportedly already secured a $2 billion oil deal.

As such, markets have been fairly indifferent to the action, despite it raising geopolitical tensions. Their reasoning is likely...