With his statement that his ‘favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran,’ Trump ‘completely discredited’ his war on Iran, said Amir Handjani, an energy lawyer and resident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a partner at KARV Global.
‘It undermines all of the other reasons Trump has given for waging this war, and makes it look like what everyone always suspects when the US engages in military confrontation, which is a play for natural resources.’
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