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It's really hard to cry victim about others misrepresenting Trump's motives for the Iran war as oil, oil, oil when the US did in fact launch a military attack o
by Calavar 6mo ago
It's really hard to cry victim about others misrepresenting Trump's motives for the Iran war as oil, oil, oil when the US did in fact launch a military attack on a country - within the last six months - where the subsequent negotiated agreement on oil rights was quite literally described by the White House press secretary as "the president’s control of Venezuela’s oil" [1] and just a few weeks later the president held a public, televised conference with Chevron and ExxonMobil executives in the White House where he pitched them on investing in the Venezuelan oil industry [2]
[1] https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/trump-venezuela-oil-us-control-plan-265a39c1 https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/trump-venezuela-oil-...
[2] https://youtu.be/sD4x6T-u4XY https://youtu.be/sD4x6T-u4XY