Version 1: Fri, May 29, 2026
Energy independence - Illustration by Linas Garsys, The Washington Times
Everybody is looking at the war against Iran but there may be something bigger going. What exactly is in Trump’s mind? A few links that may help, somewhat.
How the US Pulled off an Armed Robbery of the World’s Energy Supply and Created the Petrogas-Dollar: A forensic investigation into how Washington leveraged the war in Iran to replace Nord Stream, save the dollar, and establish total command over the world’s fuel from the Arctic to the Indian Ocean https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-pulled-off-an-armed-robbery by Richard Medhurst - Richard Medhurst’s Newsletter - May 1, 2026 - Archive https://archive.ph/40b1c> - SOTT https://www.sott.net/article/506079-How-the-US-Pulled-off-an-Armed-Robbery-of-the-Worlds-Energy-Supply-and-Created-the-Petrogas-Dollar
Lengthy article, printed to about 20 pages but with many diagrams and graphs.
The main point is that Trump’s goal is to move from the petro-dollar to what Medhurst calls the petrogas-dollar or LNG-dollar. By that he means moving the center of ‘energy’ in the western hemisphere. Trump continues a policy set down a long time ago:
The “Donroe Doctrine” is widely misunderstood. Many think it’s just a rehash of Monroe, or simply about controlling the Western Hemisphere. But it’s not. It’s about turning the Western Hemisphere into something else. The goal is to make the market come to America, and move the world’s energy corridor to the Western Hemisphere.
These plans are not exclusively Trump’s, nor were they cobbled together overnight. They are the fruits of the Bush administration and neoconservatives like Dick Cheney.
In 2001, while serving as Vice President, Cheney held 40 secret meetings with energy giants to author America’s strategy for the 21st century. The White House fought all the way to the Supreme Court to try and keep these meetings secret. If you’re picturing something like a shady gathering of executives, you’re not too far off: the heads of literally every major oil company were in the room with Cheney and his aides.
The blueprint born from those secret meetings was a strategic document called the National Energy Policy (NEP). Even 25 years ago, the White House knew that capturing Venezuela’s oil reserves was key to “diversifying” the US’ oil supply … Building up the Western Hemisphere and US domestic production is a core pillar of the NEP. The document effectively treats oil imports from countries the US dislike almost as a national security threat …
Report of the National Energy Policy Development Group https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/energy/2001/index.html 2001 - PDF 170 pages
Of course is not enough to control the western hemisphere if the competitors can still produce and transport oil in other parts of the world. Hence it is necessary to be able to block them, and that requires a strong military fleet and LG and oil vessels. Enter the MAP:
Restoring America’S Maritime Dominance <https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-americas-maritime-dominance/ The White House - Executive Orders - April 9, 2025
Maritime Action Plan (MAP) https://www.whitehouse.gov/maritimemight/ The White House - February 2026
Russia of course is fully aware that Trump is not trustworthy:
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with RT India, Moscow, May 13, 2026 https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2107824/ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation - Archive https://archive.ph/1jrYP
President Trump has repeatedly argued that Ukraine was Joe Biden’s war, not his. We appreciate the fact that President Trump initiated dialogue with us and with President Putin. We have communicated at the levels of heads of the US State Department and our Foreign Ministry, and the Aide to the President of Russia holds meetings with President Trump’s special representative. Many good words are being said about the enormous potential for mutually beneficial, modern, technological, energy-related, and other projects between Russia and the United States.
However, nothing is happening in real life. Aside from this regular dialogue - which is normal in relations between people and countries - everything else follows the pattern initiated by President Biden. The sanctions imposed under him have remained in force. Moreover, the Trump administration has adopted its own initiatives in order to punish Russia’s economy.
You mentioned Lukoil and Rosneft. The goal – and no one is trying to hide it – is to make these companies leave international business altogether. In fact, the United States has adopted a series of doctrinal documents, one of which proclaims that the United States must dominate global energy markets.
And he continued:
Pressing everyone into not buying Russian oil is a dirty tactic. You can describe it in different ways – colonial or neocolonial – but these are methods of exploitation. Deep down, they are designed to strong arm everyone into buying expensive US oil and liquefied natural gas rather than cheap Russian oil. In this way, they seek to rule the world through controlling global energy supplies.
The following article may show the planner for this administration:
The schism between the Pentagon and the Vatican https://www.sott.net/article/506269-The-schism-between-the-Pentagon-and-the-Vatican-video by Thierry Meyssan - Voltairenet.org - 21 Apr 2026
It is common knowledge that Pete Hegseth is more concerned with the culture war against the woke movement than with military matters. Elbridge Colby is in charge of US military strategy. He is a Catholic, grandson of William Colby, who was director of the CIA during Nixon’s presidency, and a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Elbridge played a central role during Donald Trump’s first term and wrote a strange book: The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict. In it, he explains that, to be free, the United States must prevent any other state from becoming more powerful than itself. He develops a strategy to stop China’s development, not by waging war directly against it, but by waging war against its energy and raw material suppliers.
The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an Age of Great Power Conflict https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300268027/the-strategy-of-denial/ by Elbridge A. Colby - Yale University Press 2022
Additional Information
Weaponizing the World’s Oil Trade Is the Bedrock of the U.S. Rules-Based Order https://www.unz.com/mhudson/trashed-3/ by Michael Hudson - Unz Review - Jan 13, 2026 - Archive https://archive.ph/a3heC
Iran (1953), Iraq (2003), Libya (2011), Russia (2022), Syria (2024), and now Venezuela (2026). The common denominator underlying the U.S. attacks and economic sanctions against all these countries is America’s weaponization of the world’s oil trade. Control over oil is one of its key methods for achieving unipolar control over the world’s broad trade and dollarized financial arrangements. The prospect of the above-mentioned countries using their oil for their own benefit and diplomacy poses the most serious threat to America’s overall ability to use the oil trade to enforce the aims of its diplomacy.
American Energy Dominance Is Back Under President Trump https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/02/american-energy-dominance-is-back-under-president-trump/ The White House - February 24, 2026
Understanding the Energy Dominance Agenda: What does this key concept in Trump’s energy policy actually mean? https://legal-planet.org/2026/04/20/understanding-the-energy-dominance-agenda/ by Dan Farber - Berkeley Law - April 20, 2026
Trump wants US energy dominance. Global markets may not agree: At first glance, the Trump administration’s energy dominance policy appears to have been a success. But shifting energy market dynamics has proven difficult https://www.chathamhouse.org/2026/02/trump-wants-us-energy-dominance-global-markets-may-not-agree by Heather Hurlburt - Feb 19, 2026 - Chatham House, The Royal Institute of International Affairs
‘Energy dominance’ reconsidered: From domestic abundance to global strategic leverage https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/energy-dominance-reconsidered-from-domestic-abundance-to-global-strategic-leverage/ By Sara Vakhshouri - March 10, 2026 - Atlantic Council
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