{"id":49201,"date":"2019-10-28T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49201"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T16:20:07","slug":"trump-wants-deal-with-exxon-or-other-company-to-take-syrian-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49201","title":{"rendered":"Trump Wants Deal With Exxon or Other Company to Take Syrian Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2019\/10\/27\/trump-wants-deal-with-exxon-or-other-company-to-take-syrian-oil\/\">Trump Wants Deal With Exxon or Other Company to Take Syrian Oil<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8216;We should be able to take some&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Having sent growing numbers of troops into eastern Syria explicitly to control the oil, President Trump now says he is seeking a deal with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/10\/27\/trump-wants-to-make-a-deal-with-exxon-or-others-to-tap-syrian-oil.html\">Exxon Mobil or \u201cone of our great companies\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;to go into occupied Syria and take the oil.<br><br>Trump has long suggested that in his view, the US should be able to just take oil from countries it is involved in militarily, as a way to recover some of the costs of his various wars. Trump said on Sunday that the oil is valuable and \u201cwe should be able to take some also.\u201d<br><br>That Trump is sold on this idea is one thing, but convincing a US Oil and Gas Major to go along with the operation is another thing. The legal basis, particularly internationally, of taking Syrian oil without Syrian permission, and keeping US military forces there to keep Syria from stopping them, is going to be complicated, to say the least.&nbsp;<br><br>Trump\u2019s conviction that legally it\u2019s probably fine, after all, doesn\u2019t mean the US company, whichever it turns out to be, wouldn\u2019t get sued in the US or internationally for looting Syria\u2019s oil.<br><br>These huge multinational companies are notoriously risk-averse about conflict, and would likely be so about joining the president in an oil-taking scheme of this sort. That means while Trump continues to war to keep the oil, he\u2019s going to face a big job selling the idea to any company.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Wants Deal With Exxon or Other Company to Take Syrian Oil &#8216;We should be able to take some&#8217; Having sent growing numbers of troops into eastern Syria explicitly to control the oil, President Trump now says he is seeking a deal with&nbsp;Exxon Mobil or \u201cone of our great companies\u201d&nbsp;to go into occupied Syria and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[7844,588,827],"class_list":["post-49201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-oil","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49202,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49201\/revisions\/49202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}