With war breaking out in Europe and the Middle East, why not have a new one in South America for kicks, eh? That’s what’s brewing on the border of Guyana and Venezuela, where troops are massing along the border as the two nations squabble over an oil-rich province that both nations claim as their own, NBC News reports.
Guyanese President Mohamed Irfaan Ali called Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro “an outlaw” after Maduro started giving licenses to Venezuelan oil drilling companies for Guyana’s Essequibo region, which Maduro claims voted to join Venezuela suspiciously after oil was found there in 2015. Election experts–real ones, not like Sidney Powell–question the legitimacy of the claimed outcome, however.