From Iran to Venezuela to New York, Trump wants to control the world's oil

As far back as 1987, Donald Trump suggested the United States should attack Iran and "take over some of their oil." Over the years he also spoke about seizing resources in Venezuela, Iraq, Syria, Kuwait, and Libya. What once read as a smash-and-grab idea has been reframed in his second administration as a core strategy under the banner of "energy dominance." The policy is simple in outline: maximize America’s share of the world’s fossil-fuel supply, leverage those assets, and use that leverage to bend rivals and opponents.

Speaking in Corpus Christi the day before he ordered the recent assault on Iran, Trump said he was "cementing America's status as the number one energy superpower by far anywhere on earth." The offensive included strikes on a hospital and on a girls' elementary school that left at least 60 dead, and possibly as many as 115, The New York Times reported.

Soaring US production gives the approach real heft.

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