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Trump’s Energy Dominance plan is predicated on keeping control of the flow and pricing of oil around the world. This is why he’s meddling around in Venezuela, a project more than twenty years in the making by the U.S. but which he philosophically agrees with.He has no ability to stop the drive within our government to keep the Middle East a powder keg because Israel acts as if peace is an existential threat.But none of that will change the trend that now dominates, which is that the U.S.,...

As Alistair Crooke succinctly put it last year at Strategic Culture: The US – were energy dominance to succeed – simply would control the tap to the economic development – or its lack thereof – for rivals China, and Asia. And the US could squeeze Russia’s revenues in this way, too. In short, the US could put a tourniquet on China’s and Russia’s economic development plans. Is this why JCPOA was revoked by President Trump? Here then, is the squaring of that circle (more US power, yet less...

Must-read. The method behind Trump's "madness."Seeking AlphaEnergy Dominance And America FirstChris Cook See also Strategic Culture FoundationThe Geostrategy That Guides Trump"s Foreign PoliciesEric Zuesse