Take the oil

Apr 01, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – In early January it was Venezuela. In the waning days of March, the plan is for Iran next. If U.S. President Donald Trump has his way, Iran’s oil could follow the path of Venezuela’s oil. He himself said so in words that leave no room for discussion or uncertainty.

In an interview with the Financial Times, the U.S. president said that “his preference would be to take the oil.” Using his own words, it seems that democracy and the welfare of the Iranian people are no longer the first priorities. Taking the oil is the vision, the first consideration. We wonder where this leaves Guyana’s President, Irfaan Ali, for whom democracy has become his rationale for any kind of U.S. action, regardless of the means used to achieve it. If Trump’s stated goal, his preference, would be to take the oil, then democracy was a decoy intended to mislead the naïve and unsuspecting, just as is now the case in Venezuela. Who exercises control, has the first and last say, over how those 300 plus billion barrels of oil are managed, exploited, and sold? Suffice it to say, it is not Venezuela, where the U.S. removed Nicolas Maduro, a resister who had to go, and replaced him with willing aiders and abettors, installed for just those purposes.

Iran has 208B barrels of proven reserves, which accounts for 11.82% of the total global reserves, and produces 1.5M barrels of oil daily. It could be another sweet haul for the U.S., if it decides to wage all-out war against Iran to seize its coveted oil treasures. If Iran caves before the current high-level destructive capacity of the U.S. and Israel, the former could, in effect, take control of the world. Take control of the oil, and the world is held hostage, and at the mercy of the U.S. and its partner in crime, Israel. Like Venezuela, a puppet group would be quickly installed to respond to every beck and call of the U.S., and the rest of world stuck in helplessness. The reality is alarming due to one fact that does not brook any argument.

When the Venezuelan oil haul made possible by the ouster of Maduro is combined with what may be a foregone conclusion in Iran, the future looks grim. How quickly the world has gone from godless communism and its visions for world domination, to naked and ruthless capitalism and the relentless moves of the U.S. to do the exact same thing, viz., take control of the world. When Venezuela’s 300 billion barrels of oil are added to the 208 billion barrels in Iran the total in U.S. hands is about one in every three barrels of proven reserves. We are interested in knowing if President Ali is still continuing with his marketing of democracy in Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran, as spearheaded by U.S. President Trump.

We note that behind the U.S., the next leading global oil consumers are China and India, the world’s two most populated countries. Taken to the extreme, not only would the U.S. control about one third of the world’s oil reserves, it could hold one third of the world’s population in its grasp. To call a spade a spade, one third of the world’s population could be held to ransom, if Iran should collapse under the weight of expanding military bombardments from the U.S. and Israel. Smaller, weaker countries would have no choice but to fold under the charging U.S. juggernaut. It could be, do as the U.S. (Donald Trump says), or be prepared to be lashed into submission.

The Government of Guyana, with Ali at the helm, is too slavishly attached, too far gone, to separate itself from Trump’s destructive visions. His flair for the melodramatic, and now total disregard for national sovereignty and international law have sucked in both the government and national leadership. It is now not only an ominous time, but a dangerous one. To stand against and challenge is to risk being crushed, like Venezuela and with Iran pending. Where there is great national wealth, sovereignty and law are no barriers. Iran could be the last obstacle in a bitter fight against U.S. ambitions, and it’s for oil.

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