The author of the material comes to the conclusion that now “Trump has his own oil empire” in the Western Hemisphere (the observer calls this half-jokingly the “Donro Doctrine”) and he can use these resources for political pressure, in particular, on the aggressor country Russia.
No US president has had such economic and geopolitical leverage as Trump has since Franklin Roosevelt, whose presidency spanned 1933–1945.
For example, the Trump administration can now keep oil prices at about $50 per barrel (as, in particular, the sanctioned Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska believes) and influence the global energy market (this was admitted by the Kremlin’s special representative Kirill Dmitriev), writes Bloomberg.
Its text indicates that the White House is now superior to both allies and adversaries in the oil industry – Saudi Arabia, Iran, Nigeria, Russia.
Blas notes that the seizure of Venezuelan oil gives the United States an important “trump card” that will allow it to refuse the Kremlin’s “baits” in the latest negotiations – offers to the United States for access to the oil wealth of the Russian Federation. The columnist believes that Trump can now tell the illegitimate Russian President Vladimir Putin that he does not need Siberian deposits, because the United States has “more than enough of them.”
Trump has actually united all oil “under the security umbrella of Washington,” the journalist believes.
