The United States launched an aggressive political, economic, and covert intervention against Venezuela, an action widely portrayed as an oil-driven move. However, this interpretation no longer holds under closer scrutiny. By that time, oil had already begun to lose its strategic dominance in global power politics, and the United States itself was moving toward relative energy self-sufficiency. The pressure on Venezuela, therefore, cannot be explained solely through the traditional lens of oil imperialism. Instead, it reflects a deeper shift in global priorities, where future power is increasingly tied to control over strategic minerals and industrial metals rather than fossil fuels. Venezuela became a focal point not simply because of its oil reserves, but because it sits within a broader regional landscape rich in resources essential to emerging technologies-resources that are now central to the growing rivalry between the United States and China.

For more than a century, global power has been explained through one dominant lens: oil. Wars were justified, governments toppled, borders redrawn, and entire regions destabilized in the name of securing crude. From the Middle East to Latin America, oil dictated alliances and invasions. Yet history does not remain loyal to any single commodity. Power shifts when technology, scarcity, and strategic necessity converge. Today, oil is no longer the unquestioned king of resources. The real struggle of the coming decades is quietly forming around a metal long underestimated but now unavoidable: silver. In the emerging world order, silver is becoming the next god of power.

The assumption that modern invasions and geopolitical pressure are always about oil is outdated. Venezuela is often cited as a textbook example of an oil-driven confrontation, but that narrative ignores deeper economic realities. By the time external pressure intensified against Venezuela, oil had already begun losing its absolute strategic dominance. The world was transitioning toward renewable energy, electrification, and digital infrastructure. Oil remains important, but it is increasingly a declining asset-politically risky, environmentally costly, and gradually........

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