What if modern prohibitions and moral sentiments against colonialism, based in a difficult and rapacious world history, didn’t matter to you?
What if your sole focus was on making money?
What if you had more power than anyone on Earth?
What might you do?
Trump is hard at work, and he is so far ahead of everyone else that it is a bit scarry. He must genuinely think everyone else on Earth is stupid.
What!? Isn’t Trump just a buffoon? I mean, don’t we hear this all the time?
He has been hiding in plain sight. You can see what he is really doing if you abandon morality and assume today’s version of “evil intent”. We have made such assumption here at mewetree.blogspot.com.
Here is what Trump has been doing.
It’s about making money. To get there, you have to see Venezuela and Iran as two sides of the same coin.
The first has been successfully colonized. The invasion of that country and arrest of its leader has cowed the Government of Venezuela to the extent that it has signed a 100-year deal allowing American ownership and exploitation of Venezuelan oil reserves. The deal is as follows…
A new oil company that is 35% owned by the Pentagon (…you read that right; the US military via the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital owns a stake…) called North American Blue Energy Partners got a 100-yer concession on 17 oil fields in Venezuela containing 65 billion barrels of oil.
The board of directors is 100% American. The US State Department has the right to buy up to 100% of all production. Up to $100 Billion is to be invested to bring these fields online, and $200 Billion will go to the Government of Venezuela in the first 25 years. That government is nominally run by Delcy Rodriquez, who was in Maduro’s government. In fact, Venezuela is run by Marco Rubio now, who is effectively the Governor of Venezuela.
What does this have to do with Iran?
The knock against Trump is that he was told that if he attacked Iran, they would close the Strait of Hormuz blocking access to 20% of the world’s oil exports. The people making this point assume that he is an idiot. But they miss the game.
If you assume he is a moral person who opposes colonialism and is concerned about things like the price of gas paid by Americans, then the closure of the Strait of Hormuz was a problem.
If you assume, as we do here at mewetree.blogspot.com, that Trump’s only concern is making money and that colonialism and the suffering of American consumers isn’t a problem as long as it brings in more cash, then not only was he aware that Iran would block the straight, but he was actually counting on it.
As noted in a previous blog, blocking the Strait of Hormuz was a catastrophic error on the part of Iran because this signals to the world that the oil supply from the entire Middle East is not reliable. Their one action has shown everyone that oil from that region can be cut off at any time. Trump wanted this - causing chaos and destroying one’s future economic competitor is what this war is all about.
Every country that imports oil from the Middle East has been looking for a more secure supplier since Iran blocked the strait. That future secure supplier is now obvious – the new Colonial Administration of the Former Independent State of Venezuela. Again, the oil that the American Government now controls in their new Venezuelan colony is worth $6 trillion at today’s prices.
Money?
Do you think that Trump and his buddies will somehow come to have equity shares in North American Blue Energy Partners to reap the rewards?
Oh baby!
The Greatest Grift Ever just keeps on giving!
