{"id":672295,"date":"2026-01-04T01:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672295\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T01:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T01:18:15","slug":"fears-russians-will-starve-to-death-after-trump-captures-putins-ally-in-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/672295\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears Russians ‘will starve to death’ after Trump captures Putin’s ally in Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Russian military blogger feared any US takeover of Venezuela’s oil reserves could lead to a “nightmare” collapse of the country’s economy which is reliant on energy exports<\/p>\n

22:31, 03 Jan 2026Updated 22:33, 03 Jan 2026<\/p>\n

\"ARussians fear US control of Venezuela’s oil could tank the country’s economy (Image: POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Russians have been left in fear they will “starve to death” following the swift capture of Vladimir Putin’s ally Nicolas Maduro<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> sent shockwaves throughout the world<\/a> after he ordered an explosively effective operation that whisked Maduro and his wife out of Venezuela<\/a> in the early hours of this morning. The pair are now slated to stand trial in the US on numerous crimes, including narco trafficking.<\/p>\n

But as the Trump administration celebrated, fears grew in Russia<\/a> over what it could mean now the country’s staunchest ally in South America had fallen. The Kremlin blasted Maduro’s removal, branding it as “an act of armed aggression” and said it was “deeply concerning.”<\/p>\n

\"ATrump greenlit the swift capture of Maduro(Image: AFP via Getty Images)READ MORE: Trump utters horror four words as Venezuela threatened with ‘second wave’<\/a>READ MORE: Donald Trump shares astonishing picture of captured Nicolas Maduro<\/a><\/p>\n

Fears have also seeped out from the Kremlin and have infected online spaces where Russians have shared concerns that oil prices will collapse and damage the country’s economy which is reliant on energy exports. Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska said American control of Venezuelan oil could have serious negative consequences.<\/p>\n

Writing on his Telegram channel, he said: “If our American ‘partners’ reach Venezuela’s oil fields (and they have already reached Guyana’s), they’ll control more than half of the world’s oil reserves.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “And apparently their plan is to ensure that the price of our oil doesn’t rise above $50 (\u00a337) per barrel. This means that our sacred state-capitalism will find it difficult to leave everything as it is.”<\/p>\n

A pro-Kremlin military was more damning of the situation, calling it a “nightmare” and dared to call Russia’s leaders traitors. “This is not f***ing funny,” the blogger said, reports the Daily Express<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"AMaduro was captured by the Americans in the early hours of the morning (Image: US President Donald Trump’s TRUT)<\/p>\n

“Soon it won\u2019t even be profitable for us to extract oil. In a couple of months we\u2019ll starve to death. This is checkmate for the entire economy.<\/p>\n

“They will drop the price of oil below the floor and take over the entire market. Now, on top of everything else, they\u2019ll also have oil.<\/p>\n

“This is a total f***ing disaster. And we\u2019ll be left without internet, drowning in taxes, hugging our f***ing oil. (…) The Americans have just extended their existence for several more centuries, while ours will end in a month.”<\/p>\n

Trump said the US would take over governing Venezuela “until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition.” He added: “We can\u2019t take a chance that someone else will take over Venezuela that doesn’t have the good of the Venezuelan people in mind. We\u2019re there now. But we\u2019re going to stay until such time as a proper transition can take place. We\u2019re going to run it, essentially\u2026”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Russian military blogger feared any US takeover of Venezuela’s oil reserves could lead to a “nightmare” collapse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-672295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115834198778094633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}