India, Jan. 22 -- the final frontier," stated the opening line in the "Star Trek" series. For President Donald Trump's vision for Venezuela, the iconic line may be rephrased as "Oil: the final frontier." In the latter case, one can add that no man has ever gone there before, unlike the marines on board the USS Enterprise's expeditions. The US sent troops to Venezuela to capture the latter's president, Nicolas Maduro, a move that was dubbed as a campaign against drug trafficking, and "narco-terrorism." Trump, who does not hold back his thoughts, spelt out an added US intent to capture the country's oil.

The US president hopes to send American oil giants to the world's largest reservoir of crude oil, although extraction is a difficult prop...