The oil cartel in the US, the billionaires and the gas/oil industry who gave Trump billions of dollars for his election, totally ignore the pollution and the threat to the planet as long as they dominate and make their petro dollars.
We are in the OIL WARS
By Sue Ann Martinson, Editor Wings of Change
The oil wars are both regional and global. While the focus is on Iran with attacks from the US/Israel, Trump continues to support fossil fuels by ignoring the fact that the US is the world’s largest polluter of CO2 caused by fossil fuels and the release of methane gas. The US, purportedly does not have enough money to provide our needy citizens with the SNAP food program or Medicare and Medicaid. Instead the Trump regime is spending billions of dollars a day to fund the oil wars, especially against Iran. Recent polls show that the majority of American voters oppose war with Iran.
Background: As a global source for oil Iran ranks third. Saudi Arabia, second—Trump and its leaders are buddies. First with the largest oil reserves in the world is Venezuela. The recent kidnapping of Venezuela’s Madura and essential takeover of the country was about getting access to their oil.
The oil cartel in the US, the billionaires and the gas/oil industry who gave Trump billions of dollars for his election, totally ignore the pollution and the threat to the planet as long as they dominate and make their petro dollars.
Their rank-smelling greed is summed up by saying “There is no Planet B” There is no contingency plan to save the planet as long as oil is king. Under Trump’s so-called presidency pollution has increased.
No Kings? We need to dethrone oil as king, to reverse the use of fossil fuel/oil and bring down Trump’s oil regime. Much more is at stake, the future of the planet is at stake.
The links between oil and the climate crisis are manifest whether you look at Iran and the Middle East or Venezuela in South America. Trump and his minions are dead set on destroying not only American democracy with neo-fascism but on destroying the planet earth with their greed for world domination and money.
The Current War with Iran
Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz through which one fifth or 20 percent of the world oil supply passes (as well as many other essential materials). Iran has blocked the Strait.
Jeffrey Sachs on Democracy Now! explains how the US/Israel war is illegal under the charter of the United Nations and in direct defiance of international law. He condemns Trump in no uncertain terms as a liar who is provoking WWIII. Netanyahu does not have the power under the charter to declare war but has done so anyway.
Trump is convinced that military power is the solution. Murdering innocent civilians in Iran as they have in bombing the country has forced many Iranians to leave their homes for refuge as the death toll escalates daily.
Can we stop them? Military force will ultimately fail to bring peace, as it always does in the long run, because it carries the seeds for the next war; in the current case of Iran it also carries the threat of WWIII,
While many may not agree with the form of Iranian government, which is authoritarian, Iran has a right to sovereignty and to not become a neo-colonial state under the thumb of the US, as, for example, Venezuela and other countries now have.
The global nature of these oil wars has now expanded to making Russian oil available with the Trump regime releasing the ban on its use by allied nations or nations under US control; we hope, as does rest of the world, those weapons will not be used anywhere no matter what country has them. Both Trump and Netanyahu have been called insane by what many are calling a US provoked war that is being called unnecessary.
The “apocalyptic” chess game between the superpowers, that is, between those that move on the highest plane of our civilization, is being played according to the rule “if either ‘wins’ it is the end of both”; it is a game that bears no resemblance to whatever war games preceded it. Its “rational” goal is deterrence, not victory, and the arms race, no longer a preparation for war, can now be justified only on the grounds that more and more deterrence 1s the best guarantee of peace. To the question how shall we ever be able to extricate ourselves from the obvious insanity of this position, there is no answer.
—Hannah Arendt, On Violence
Is there an answer? The US, claiming military superiority with both conventional and nuclear power with Trump’s hyper-militarism has been using military superiority as a threat for a long time, but now especially under Trump. Iran has dared to challenge that threat. We are now facing the dilemma in reality again. Trump has foolishly systematically withdrawn from or refused to renew the international treaties that were some protection.
Here is an assessment on March 20th by Heather Cox Richardson of the status of the ongoing US/Israeli war, which changes daily as Trump continues his lies and waffles back and forth in his approach about what has been called a planless war by many sources. But really the oil wars are for US homogeny for unilateral US control of global oil and for the war industry that also profits reaps great profits from the wars.
If the Trump regime continues they will destroy the planet earth.
If the threat of nuclear war or even of WWIII is prevented another threat that is related is being ignored: Trump’s regime is a March to Armageddon of a different sort. Already the slow march has begun with the melting of the polar ice cap, the flooding of coastal cities, and with ferocious storms, pollution of the air with fossil fuels, of the water with PFAS chemicals like tritium and the building of data centers that overuse of our limited water supply, of the land with copper mining (see the fight to save the Boundary Waters), and not the least by the environmental destruction caused by wars, the manufacture and use of weapons, and of expansion of nuclear reactor energy plants that pollute both land and water with radioactivity and chemicals. Plastic, also an oil product, is also polluting not only our land and seas but has been found in human bodies, including newborns.
Most obvious, of course, is the extensive military use of CO2 air-polluting carbon from ground transportation and the worst offender, jet planes, along with the release of deadly methane gas. These are the Oil Wars.
Can we stop them? Again that question. So if not with military force then what is called fo: A global movement by the people of all nations to hold their governments accountable. Even if no nuclear weapons are used—and we hope and pray they will not be—and the oil–agarchy continues the planet earth will be destroyed.
As always in wars it is the people who suffer most, the ordinary citizens who have no way to defend themselves as now in Gaza/Palestine, as in the Ukraine, as in Somalia, which the US regularly bombs, and via Israel the bombing of Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries such as Qatar. And Trump wants Congress to authorize billions more for Israel to fund his oil wars and the power drive for global homogeny.
The talk about nuclear weapons keeps us in the warp of FEAR so Trump can play the STRONG MAN who will take care of us, a “savior” in what is a common tactic by fascists. Instead he is spending billions of our tax dollars on war.
One comment I had on Facebook was “Trump will take care of it. ” A chilling thought that people believe that he can take care of everything.
COURAGE
Related
Trump withdrawal from international treaties and organizations, 2025-2026, including key climate-related entities.
Iran Outsmarts Trump: The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
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