Quote from admin on May 23, 2026, 1:11 pm

Trump discussed how the world views his decisions to attack Iran and Venezuela during his speech. “How did we do in Venezuela? Not bad,” he said. “We’ve taken out so much oil in Venezuela, we paid for the cost of the war [on Iran] about 25 times over.” The Pentagon said the US war on Iran has cost some $29bn as of earlier this month, although some estimates put the figure much higher. https://aje.news/io46ga?update=4594828

Seems like securing Venezuela first was a strategic move because even before US attacked the Maduro led Venezuela government they already had tensions with Iran and a lot of people would’ve wondered why they went ahead to attack Venezuela first before Iran and here is the reason and it does look like a classic chess move. I’ve been telling some monikers here that US has the luxury to play a long game with Iran or apply more brutality in their attack but they keep on arguing needlessly…..they can keep the blockade and just feel the impact a little while the impact of Iran losing revenues from oil sales daily will be immense on them. The US were well aware that conflict with Iran can affect oil prices and availability hence they secured somewhere they could get a good amount of oil…. somewhere that would’ve naturally not sell to US if they had shortages because their allies were mostly in the east…..That move also reduced the global impact of oil shortages with Venezuela oil now in the market to cushion the effects of Shortage from the middle east. Applying sound strategy is part of warfare….. we’ve even seen countless times where strategy won over numbers(huge armies) and sheer power(attack power).