https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/petroleum_rules_the_world_we_control_most_of_it.htmlPetroleum Rules the World: We Control Most of It
By ignoring all the bright thinkers and conventional analyses the President’s genius strategy has placed us in the driver’s seat. We are now the world’s top source of oil and gas and control major distribution flows of petro supplies from around the world.
Clarice Feldman | April 19, 2026
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Like the barnyard colleagues of the Little Red Hen, European leaders are likely to try to jockey themselves into position to regain some control over the Strait of Hormuz. Victor Davis Hanson explains why like the little hen, we opened the Strait and we should alone enjoy the product of our labors:
I think now that all the heavy lifting has been done and Iran is flat on its back, you’re going to see all these opportunistic, carrion actors come in. You’re going to see the UN say, ‘Well, we’re going to be in charge of the peace,’ or you’re going to see people say, ‘This is what we’re going to do with Lebanon,’ or individual European states, or the EU, or NATO. But none of them were to be found when it was very unpopular, very risky, and Iran had this reputation -- unfounded, I think -- but it was the terror of the Middle East. We were told it was indomitable. For 47 years, you might want to go to Iraq or Afghanistan, but you don’t go near Iran. They’re too crazy. They’re too dangerous. And Donald Trump, in less than six weeks, with the help of the Israeli Air Force, demolished it. And now all of a sudden, everybody wants to pile on and think that they’re somehow responsible for the future of the new Middle East. It’s really shameless. It really is.”
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