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No! War, for oil

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I’m afraid that the subtleties of the non-interventionist mindset will be permanently beyond your grasp:

President Donald Trump said Sunday that he would like to “take the oil in Iran” and is considering seizing the export hub of Kharg Island, which is responsible for more than 90% of Iran’s oil exports.

In an interview with the Financial Times, Trump said his “preference would be to take the oil.”

“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,” he said.

The interview marks some of Trump’s most direct comments about his thinking on what to do with Iran’s oil.

In an interview with NBC News this month, Trump sidestepped answering whether he had plans to try to take Iran’s oil.

“You look at Venezuela,” he said. “People have thought about it, but it’s too soon to talk about that.”

Trump’s “critique” of the Iraq War, which earned him so much fake anti-war cred among various liars and morons (and there’s plenty of overlap in these categories), was literally that Bush wasn’t brutal and rapacious enough and should have taken the oil. But some of these people will never give up the claim that this is all some kind of surprise and they had no way of knowing better when they were glazing Trump.

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