Trump Middle East Strategy: Trade Blood for Oil – The Energy Mix
“Right now, the only soldiers we have in that area are essentially the soldiers that are keeping the oil,” Trump said in early December, explaining the new role he’d laid out for American troops in eastern Syria. “So we have the oil. And we can do with the oil what we want.”
“It was perhaps the most jaw-dropping moment in Donald Trump’s impromptu, marathon news conference” during last month’s NATO summit in the UK, CBC correspondent Murray Brewster wrote at the time.