Prevent US adversaries from controlling oil; secure national interest: State Secy defends strike on Venezuela

Washington DC [US], January 4 (ANI): US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday defended Washington’s military action in Venezuela, during which it captured the country’s president and deposed dictator Nicolas Maduro and his wife, saying that it was aimed at protecting US national interests in the Western Hemisphere and preventing adversaries from controlling the South American country’s oil resources. Speaking on NBC News’s Meet the Press, Rubio emphasised that the strike was not about seizing oil for the United States but about preventing adversaries from controlling it, particularly noting China and Iran. “The first steps are securing what’s in…