America’s new era of energy imperialism is about more than oil
TL;DR
President Trump's focus on 'energy dominance' is used as a pretext for power grabs in resource-rich nations like Venezuela, beyond just oil interests.
President Donald Trump has no shame in admitting what he wants to get out of attacking Venezuela and threatening other energy resource-rich nations. "We're gonna get the oil flowing the way it should be," he said January 3rd, soon after his administration stunned the world with what many policy experts and Democratic lawmakers are calling an unlawful incursion into Caracas that led to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro.
Trump's fixation on so-called "energy dominance" is also more pretext - on top of federal drug trafficking charges against Maduro - for a plain-old power grab. "Under our new national security strategy, American dominanc …