Trump appointed on Iraq's oil .. US President offered Baghdad to replace the debts of
Trump appointed on Iraq's oil .. US President offered Baghdad to replace the debts of «invasion» with oil!
The American Axios website quoted what he said were well-informed sources that US President Donald Trump had twice presented the Iraqi prime minister with the idea of paying back US war debts to Iraqi oil, a highly controversial demand that ran counter to international standards and logic. While Trump appears to have given up on this idea, he has not been revealed to have offered the idea twice as prime minister to the Iraqi prime minister, and raised it separately in the operating room with his national security team. Trump, in March of last year (2017), at the end of a White House meeting with former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, raised the issue of America's access to Iraqi oil as compensation for the cost of its war in Iraq, according to a report published by Axios.
What does Trump want to do about oil?
"It was a very ordinary meeting in general," a source in the meeting room told Axios. Then when the meeting was about to close, Trump said something, a malicious sideways smile on his lips as he said, "What are we going to do about oil?" In his campaign, Trump complained that the United States had spent trillions of dollars in Iraq, lost thousands of lives, and got nothing "in return". He regretted that "spoils usually go to the victor" in wars. He has repeatedly said that the United States should have seized Iraqi oil fields as compensation for the cost of the costly war. Leading national security figures from both parties have condemned Trump's idea, calling it a disgrace and a failure, and a violation of international law that would fuel propaganda campaigns by America's enemies. At the March 2018 meeting, according to the source in the room, the Iraqi prime minister replied: "What do you mean ?!" "Well, we did a lot, we did a lot there, we spent trillions of dollars there, and a lot of people talk about oil," Trump said. "It seems obvious that Abadi was ready for this," he said. "Well, you know, Mr. President, that we are working closely with many US companies, and US energy companies have interests in our country." He was smiling. The president merely wiped out the table with his hand, as if to say, "I had to ask." The source said: "I remember that I said to myself: Oh God! He said it. He could not hold himself. " A second source in the room confirmed this version of Axios. "It was an embarrassing moment," the source said. A third source, who was then briefed on the conversation between Trump and Ebadi, said members of the National Security Council were "taking turns" to walk back and forth in tension. He added:
Trump has a desire to seize Iraq's oil
Trump's desire to seize Iraqi oil is illegal and unattainable, but it reveals much about his approach to the Middle East. Trump is still determined to collect payments from countries in the Middle East in the form of natural resources, compared with trillions of dollars spent by America since the early decade of the century. Bob Woodward and others talked about Trump's official steps to push his team to extract rare metals from Afghanistan to pay for the war. (Security concerns have hampered these efforts; although the Afghan leadership has been more receptive than Iraqi leaders to Trump's ideas). Trump's national security team has often refused - or ignored - these desires to seize natural resources in the Middle East. The president again raised the issue of oil with Abadi in a phone call in the summer of 2017. The conversation was vague and did not end, but Herbert McMaster, the former national security adviser, later scolded Trump, according to a source familiar with the matter.
But the US administration refused
"We can not do this, and you should not talk about it, because talking about this is simply bad," said the source, according to Axios. It is bad for America's reputation, it will frighten allies, scare everyone, and make us look like criminals and thieves. "You will not be able to do it anyway, and it will hurt your reputation and reputation by talking about it," he said, adding that he could not remember whether he had used such harsh words, but stressed that this was the idea he was trying to reach. The source said Trump did not respond kindly. "It was frustrating to try to push his advisers to do things he wanted to do and then resist him like that," he said.
This was not the only time Trump had tried to do so. Two sources spoke of their presence in the Chamber of Operations in 2017 with Trump, Defense Secretary Mattiece and national security officials discussing Iraq. Both said Trump had raised the idea of seizing Iraq's oil, and Matisse met him. One of the sources, who were present in the operating room during the conversation, recalls: "It was Trump's tongue saying, 'We are fools, what are we doing there?
The same idea McMaster spoke about earlier said there was no physical way to do that. It will violate international law, weaken the allies' morale in the region, and give our enemies an opportunity to launch propaganda campaigns against us. They will be able to accuse us of theft. " "We do not discuss internal deliberations, and the advice of the minister and his advice to the president is a special matter," said Dana White, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon. "We do not comment on the details of the president's talks with foreign leaders," said a National Security Council spokesman. "We have long sought to help Iraq achieve independence in the energy field, and we continue to do so.
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