• MachineFab812
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    15 hours ago

    Venezuela borders Brazil, which has deep-sea ports itself and borders Peru, which is getting its own mega-port. Technically, a line down to the Rio Negro River would be sufficient on the Brazil side; Might require dredging in some spots, but its average depth is more than deep enough for the largest tanker-ships, and its wide-enough to fit more than a dozen-abreast.

    The US is playing a stupid, stupid game. Committing acts of terrorism and piracy on the high-seas. I don’t want the Amazon contaminated, but should it happen, its not Venezuela or Brazil to blame.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      13 hours ago

      it’s not that brazil CAN’T trade oil with venezuela; it’s that it will take more time than they have before the war starts to trade in this way.