{"id":143689,"date":"2026-01-07T08:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143689"},"modified":"2026-01-07T08:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:30:14","slug":"energy-markets-are-political-venezuela-is-the-latest-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143689","title":{"rendered":"Energy markets are political \u2013 Venezuela is the latest proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States\u2019 forcible removal of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from power has reignited a debate over international law and sovereignty. But this risks obscuring a more consequential fact: global energy markets are not governed primarily by liberal market logic, but are shaped by geopolitical strategy.<br \/>\nVenezuela matters less as a case in itself than as a signal of how energy is being repositioned amid intensifying US-China economic competition.<br \/>\nFor decades, many assumed that energy&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3338823\/energy-markets-are-political-venezuela-latest-proof?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe United States\u2019 forcible removal of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro from power has reignited a debate over international law and sovereignty. But this risks&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}