On today's podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett speaks with <em>Lawfare </em>Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson about the recently announced U.S. plan to take possession of Venezuelan oil, sell it on the world market, and hold the revenue from those sales in accounts based in Qatar. Scott and <em>Lawfare</em> Contributing Editor Alex Zerden recently published&nbsp;<a href="https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/unpacking-the-trump-administration-s-plans-for-venezuela-s-oil-revenue" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">an article in <em>Lawfare</em></a>&nbsp;digging into the complexities of the plan. Scott and Natalie talk through them all—what exactly this plan is, how it’s supposed to work, why Qatar is involved, and all the many challenges in play.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>