The man calling the shots has no understanding of technology, of oil, of the economics of tariffs. He is operating from a world view that reflects what his understanding of the world was in the 1980s. He came into office with a desire to emulate William McKinley, a man who even at the turn of the 20th century represented a dying age, an age of robber barons.

Today I believe at least one oil executive said that Venezuela was 'uninvestable" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c205dx61x76o. Trump promised "total safety" for the oil companies. How to do that, to extract this oil we don't need, without boots on the ground?

It's all so irrational and destructive.