trump has now proven what many have been saying for years: we're in it to steal the oil in some other country;

The reality of American foreign policy all in one stunning image: regional Iraqi Kurdistan24 television has broadcast the first footage of the United States Army seizing and 'protecting' a Syrian oil field in the country's northeast. 

Specifically the images are of a US armed convoy at Rumelan oil field, and are the first to show Trump's ordered "secure the oil" policy in action. A Salon op-ed aptly quips in reaction: "It’s about the oil, stupid: Trump wants to end the forever wars, except the one about oil and money."........https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/first-images-us-troops-occupying-syrias-oil-fields-cause-outrage