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Miles Archer

(23,215 posts) Sun Mar 29, 2026, 09:55 PM 9 hrs ago

SO...If you ask Trump WHY he's taking the oil in Iran ("my favorite thing"), you're apparently "stupid people."

Trump made several telling remarks Sunday in an interview with the Financial Times, revealing some of his administration’s potential war plans as it relates to Iran.

“To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran but some stupid people back in the US say: ‘why are you doing that?’ But they’re stupid people,” Trump told the Financial Times, the outlet reported.

Trump told the outlet that his “preference” in his administration’s war against Iran would be for the United States to “take the oil," invoking a comparison to the U.S. takeover of Venezuela’s oil industry in January when the Trump administration halted Venezuelan oil shipments to the Cuban government, and started oil shipments to Israel “for the first time in years.”

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2676635997/

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SO...If you ask Trump WHY he's taking the oil in Iran ("my favorite thing"), you're apparently "stupid people." (Original Post) Miles Archer 9 hrs ago OP

take the oil lapfog_1 7 hrs ago #1

Dick Cheney is jealous. He had to look for all kinds of sneaky ways to steal the oil in the ME Marie Marie 7 hrs ago #2

So he called it a "war" again (or not?) Justice matters. 4 hrs ago #3

lapfog_1

(31,903 posts)

1. take the oil

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:19 PM

7 hrs ago

is one of the most moronic things he ever says...

he complained trhat we did not "take the oil" from Iraq too.

He really just doesn't understand scale or logistics.
Take the oil with what ships? take the oil WHERE exactly?

That presumes we control the oil fields and that Iran will sit back and watch us take it.
But even if that was true, take it how and where do you put it?

Marie Marie

(11,285 posts)

2. Dick Cheney is jealous. He had to look for all kinds of sneaky ways to steal the oil in the ME

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Sun Mar 29, 2026, 11:28 PM

7 hrs ago

Never occurred to him that he could come right out and say and do it.

Justice matters.

(9,784 posts)

3. So he called it a "war" again (or not?)

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Mon Mar 30, 2026, 02:35 AM

4 hrs ago

If he did, that's not a "military excursion" or do we have to wait for the transcript?

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