US involvement in the Middle East is driven by a strategy to control oil flow, set prices, and dictate international energy trade.

“I mean, I think that the whole game plan is to us is for us to control the oil and set the price and determine who and who and who is and who is not going to get the oil.”

The U.S. government's sale of Venezuelan oil to China contradicts the administration's rhetoric regarding China as an adversary.

“I thought China was our enemy. I thought the whole point of us taking over that was so China didn't have didn't get their oil and didn't have their influence and all that the the the Donro doctrine and all that stuff and here we are taking over a country taking their oil sending it to China”