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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Claims to Have Taken Control of Mideast Oil
Trump Baffles With Claim to Have Taken Control of Mideast OilWeve taken control of the oil in the Middle East -- the oil that were talking about, the oil that everybody was worried about, Trump said during a White House event to mark the first all-female space walk. The U.S. has control of that.
Trump ignored a shouted question about his oil remark, and the National Security Council declined to comment on the matter.
Oil fields in northeastern Syria had about 2.5 billion barrels of oil reserves as of 2018, according to BP Plcs annual Statistical Review.
U.S. control might be news to OPEC -- the producer group that meets periodically to boost or cut production to keep the oil market in balance -- and has five members in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran and the U.A.E.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-18/trump-baffles-with-claim-to-have-taken-control-of-mideast-oil
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Trump Claims to Have Taken Control of Mideast Oil (Original Post)
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Oct 2019
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dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)1. "We've taken control of control of oil in the middle east"
The we've doing a lot of heavy lifting. Him and Putin. Not us.
Botany
(70,581 posts)2. Trump, "We've taken control of the oil in the Middle East."
The fucker is just nutz.
Sinistrous
(4,249 posts)3. Our beloved MF45 seems to have added
delusion to his ever present projection.
MineralMan
(146,329 posts)4. Trump hasn't taken control of anything.
He's just Putin's puppet.
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)5. More like Russia has taken control of the oil.