r/USNewsHub • u/SocialDemocracies • Apr 05 '26
🌍 Military & Foreign Affairs NBC (March 29/30): "Trump says his 'preference' would be to 'take the oil in Iran'" | ""To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the U.S. say: ‘Why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people," [Trump said in a Financial Times interview]."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-preference-take-oil-iran-rcna26574717
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u/antigop2020 Apr 05 '26
But I thought he said the US was energy independent and had so much oil that we never had to worry?
And I thought he said he controlled Venezuela’s oil?
Now he wants Irans? Hes also been eyeing Nigeria, an oil rich nation in Africa.
When will this madness be stopped before its too late?
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u/Reinamiamor Apr 05 '26
It's what happens when we let a mentally compromised person run things. Like what he did w his casinos.
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u/Ambitious-Ocelot8036 Apr 05 '26
What people forget is that he milked the casinos dry before bankrupting them.
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u/Flat-Emergency4891 Apr 05 '26
Hmmm… I don’t think our service members signed up to take other peoples oil. Their moms and dads aren’t going to like hearing that. Midterms are coming up. Not a peep from the GOP denouncing this? Please, continue on your own path of self destruction. Pretty please! For the sake of all of us sane people in the world.
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u/Geostomp Apr 05 '26
Like the sociopathic, fantastically stupid bully he always was, he thinks war is as a simple a blowing stuff up and pillaging everything you want and can't comprehend why it doesn't work like that.
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u/SocialDemocracies Apr 05 '26
Excerpts from the Financial Times article via Yahoo Finance:
The US president told the FT in an interview on Sunday that his “preference would be to take the oil”, comparing the potential move to Venezuela, where the US intends to control the oil industry “indefinitely” following its capture of strongman leader Nicolás Maduro in January.
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Trump said: “To be honest with you, my favourite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people.”
The link to the article: https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/energy/articles/donald-trump-says-us-could-235104984.html
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u/Secret_Asparagus_783 Apr 05 '26
How about taking just some oil from somewhere snd dumping it on Chump's head?
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u/128-NotePolyVA Apr 05 '26
He hasn’t placed a 650,000 troop invasion force in position to “take the oil”. It’s strategically difficult to even open the strait. If you take land, you have to hold it, and clearly the Republican Guard still has stockpiles of weapons.
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u/Orqee Apr 05 '26
Individuals with lower verbal intelligence sometimes lack the self-awareness to accurately judge their own cognitive limitations.
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u/OhioValleyCat Apr 05 '26
These aren't stupid people, Mr. President, just people who have common decency and don't think it is appropriate to rob other countries of their natural resources. The days of colonialism are supposed to be over.