While missiles were flying over Tel Aviv, Trump was quietly brokering a gold deal in Caracas

Trafigura is the intermediary. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum flew to Venezuela personally to shepherd it through. The deal is worth over $150 million. This is the third extraction deal the Trump administration has brokered since ousting Maduro in January.

Gold. Oil. Now gold again.

Look at what happened this week while the world watched the Gulf burn.

Japan and India signed a rare earth deal in Rajasthan. India opened the Andaman Basin to oil exploration. The US and Ecuador conducted a joint military operation. And now Venezuela is shipping gold to US refineries under a government-arranged contract.

One pattern. Four moves. Three continents. Seven days.

The Trump doctrine is not just a military campaign against Iran. It is a simultaneous resource-securing operation running across the entire Global South while the news cycle is consumed by explosions and intercepts.

JUST IN: While missiles were flying over Tel Aviv, Trump was quietly brokering a gold deal in Caracas.

Venezuela’s state-owned Minerven just signed a contract to ship up to 1,000 kilograms of gold to US refineries.

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