But that's the thing, West Asian Oil was already American Oil. The Gulf States are part of the continuum, US colonial control of Iraq's economy was more or less uncontested. With US sweet crude flatlining for years, US gas and shale-gas at capacity since the Ukraine War began, Canada and Mexico being, in essense, annexes of the US economy this entire misadventure is a net loss to US control of the oil markets.
They didn't go into Iran as part of a grand strategy. They went into Iran because Netanyahu and others assured Trump it was gonna be easy pickings. Now Iranian Oil might make a come back like never before.


". Denmark sent sacrificial troops to absorb one day of the munitions used against Iran, but there was no more consequence from NATO or the EU than any of Trump's other threats against them.