Its not so simple. After all, some of the largest oil producing companies are SOEs (Equinor and Aramco being examples). The issue with venezuela's oil production decline may be down to lack of investment and mismanagement but that isn't really the case for Mexico.

That has more to do with demand for domestic oil production increasing in the US, which means less demand for Mexican oil.You can see the result of that for New Mexican oil and Mexican oil production. One goes up whereas the other goes down because people are buying less from Mexico.

>I see a future where one party launches 10,000 kamikaze drones (whether anti-personnel, high explosive, or incendiary) to start or end a war.

It would be a mistake to think that in the future there will be no way to counter this threat.

Every time when something as goundbreaking as small drones, or tanks, or jets appear on the battlefield, militaries will find ways to counter these new threats.

In the case of tanks, they way we countered that was with anti-tank guns/rifles. In the case of jets it was anti air missiles. In the case of drones, it be jamming, self propelled anti air guns and lasers (not available at the moment but work is being done right now).