The whole thing was 1000% fake.
The Venezuelans are certainly not fighters, so they took a bunch of money in exchange for handing over their leader, and allowing the FAFO American military to stage a public operation -- when the dilapidated US military comes away with a win, you know there must have been something going on behind the scenes.
However now the MAGAtards get to brag, 'Heh, no more regime change, no more bringing democracy to the 3rd world savages... now we just go in there and take what we want. Fuck around, find out... heh.'
Well, despite this verbalistic slop being posted everywhere on social media, they still have no actual physical control over the oil or influence over the Venezuelan gov't -- they never have, and never will (they only do in the deranged minds of Trump cult members).
And even if they did, it would take years to build up the infrastructure, assuming our shithole economy even has the people with the skills required for those tasks (doubtful). Not to mention that the amount of oil that is being sent here is so tiny, that it won't even put a dent in the upcoming Iran-war-related economic collapse.
Such laughable BS!
The important thing to understand, and then remember, is that collapsing empires don't suddenly resuscitate, regain all their powers, and then go on to conquer new territory -- this literally has never happened, in all of history. They just die, and that is what America is doing now, with one defeat after another: in Iran, in Lebanon, in Venezuela, in Yemen, in Ukraine... and maybe soon in Taiwan, too, for good measure.
Remembering this will keep you from being scammed into thinking that there will be a W somewhere down the line -- there won't be.
All that's left during the collapsing stage is concocting, and selling, fan fiction, in the hopes that the audience will be dumb or desperate enough to suspend disbelief, disconnect from reality, abandon all logic, etc and not notice just how ridiculously implausible the slop actually is, and how obviously it is contradicted by the actually-occurring events, which anyone whose brain isn't plugged in 24/7 to a digital hallucination machine can notice.
The billionaires are betting on the audience members being in such desperate straits that they'll abandon all their dignity, just to get a little rush of copium.
(And with the Trump Cult, it seems they were correct -- but you shouldn't stoop to that!)