In our column “Obama Widens Carter’s, Bush’s Global-Rule Policies”, we wrote how the United States’ endless Middle East wars are a lust
for world domination through controlling Eurasia, especially its energy
resources. Donald Trump is showing he’s preparing to expand that continuum to
the max.
The present president, America’s Chief Exceptionalist, for
years has obsessed over forcefully taking the Middle East’s oil, his eye
specifically on Iraq and Libya. It’s clear that he believes America has the
right to other countries’ oil, and needs not be concerned about international
law in going and taking it.
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| Trump: Obsessed with Middle East oil |
As the National Review reported in mid-2015, the early days of the presidential campaign:
Case in point: American policy in the Middle East, where Trump has in recent years repeatedly endorsed the bizarre, bellicose fantasy that the U.S. could and should seize oil fields in Iraq and Libya.
In 2007, Trump said that the U.S. should “declare victory and leave” Iraq, “because I’ll tell you, this country is just going to get further bogged down.” Four years later, as Obama prepared to withdraw U.S. troops from the country, Trump was more or less getting his wish. But by then he appeared to be arguing that the U.S. should maintain its troop presence simply to seize Iraqi oil fields…
…At CPAC 2013, Trump said… ““When I heard that we were first going into Iraq, some very smart people told me ‘well, we’re actually going for the oil,’ and I said, ‘Alright, I get that, there’s nothing else, I get it. We didn’t take the oil! And when I said, we spent $1.5 trillion we should take it and pay ourselves back. What are we doing? What the hell are we thinking?”
… To this day, Trump sees the oil fields as the fulcrum of power in the Middle East. After being prompted by Anderson Cooper to elaborate on his plan to deal with the terrorist group ISIS, Trump declared, “I would bomb the hell out of those oil fields. I wouldn’t send many troops because you won’t need them by the time I’m finished.”
Trump's Calculated Moves
Now,
nestled impishly in the White House, Trump has made calculated moves which show
he’s aiming to “take the oil” and let Big Oil and Wall Street profit away, the environment be damned. Here
are significant actions which show his plan:
1. He has brought in Big Oil’s major
mover as his chief foreign-relations rep, i.e. Secretary of State: Rex Tillerson, former chairman of
ExxonMobil, the largest of the Big Oil corporations. Rexxon, at this writing,
is visiting Moscow for his first official government face-to-face with Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s
foreign minister. He eventually met with President Vladimir Putin, who’s
upset with Trump’s recent bombing of a government airbase in Syria, where Trump has also
begun to send U.S. ground troops in country.
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| Secretary of State Rex Tillerson |
But Tillerson, as ExxonMobil’s head, held friendly meetings with Putin in the
past on his company’s lucrative projects in Russia, some stalled by U.S. and EU
sanctions. As The New York Times reported last December:
Exxon Mobil has various projects afoot in Russia that are
allowed under American sanctions. But others have been ground to a halt by the
sanctions, including a deal with the Russian state oil company to explore and
pump in Siberia that could be worth tens of billions of dollars.
Russian officials have optimistically called the agreement a
$500 billion deal.
2. Trump has wiped clean from theWhite House website any mention of climate change. This is an Orwellian move to turn American minds off to dangers
from the planned increased burning of fossil fuels. It's also to implant the propagandized necessity of oil
production at home and invading other countries to secure their oil for U.S.
purposes – increase jobs and grow the economy.
. 3. He has appointed Wall Street execs, military brass, and neocon politicians to major cabinet positions, aiding his effort to secure the
banking industry’s and military support for his pro-oil policies. He’ll
probably get it from the bankers and neocons, whose top priority is profit.
The military contingent may prove tougher. Experienced military
officers often push against aggression. For one reason, because aggressive war
was the chief accusation and conviction against the Nazis in the Nuremberg
trials following World War II. But also because they see that the Washington
neocons who push America into wars tend to have an unrealistic view of the
consequences.
James Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary and a former army general,
in February quickly tried to buffer Trump’s “get the oil” statements by saying flatly, “We’re not in Iraq to seize anybody’s oil.” But Mattis may not be able
to stand up against Trump and the Exceptionalist, neocon clout in D.C.
4. Trump has proposed drastically increasing the defense budget, because he’ll need military might to take over
other countries’ oil, and even greater might if he’s going to move against Russia.
5. He wants to balloon Washington’s nuclear-arms capability as a threat to any who oppose his Exceptionalist effort
to control the world’s oil. We wrote of concern about this neocon effort
creating a New Cold War in our column for The Clyde Fitch Report: “Nukebuild:This Will Not End Well”. This was even before Trump sailed into office, calling
for the U.S. to become the world’s greatest nuclear power.
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| Nukebuild will not end well. |
Can’t you
also see Trump envisioning what to do after getting Iraq’s and Libya’s oil? Go
for Iran. Then Saudi Arabia, once a CIA-led revolution starts against the
kingdom’s royalty. Maybe even go in to Russia and secure all those oil and gas
reserves for Rexxon. Don’t you
think that’s how his mind works?
There are
foreign relations experts, economists, and press who say Trump’s brash desire
to move in and take Middle East oil won’t work. But, if you asked him, he’d
probably retort that’s what they said about his chances of becoming president.
Too, he has a Congress packed with millionaires who want to be billionaires.
They’ll tend to go with the Wall Street banksters rather than the military
realists. Of
course, by the time Congress understands what’s going on, climate change or
mushroom clouds – the Earth's and civilization’s greatest threats -- may have taken
final control.
Meanwhile,
what will you do? For years we’ve suggested you need to get organized (you can’t
do it alone), educated to issues, and active in bringing change, if you want
change. If you don’t want change, or are afraid of activating it…your children
will evaluate you one way or another. If the world’s around for them.
