Some Key Points.
With pro-American governments expected to run Venezuela and Iran soon, Trump will be able to regulate a good 70% of Communist China’s present-day oil needs. Russia, by contrast, supplies about 18-20% of China’s oil imports.
The expected quick recovery of Iranian oil production, along with the slower, long-term recovery of Venezuela’s decrepit oil infrastructure atop the world’s largest reserves, will keep oil prices down. That’s good for America and terrible for Russia.
The critics have it wrong when they accuse Trump of dividing the world with Putin and Xi. Trump has succeeded in pushing a howling Europe to empower itself to ensure its own self-defense. He similarly persuaded Australia, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan to do the same against China. His corollary ensures a peaceful American hemisphere, with foreign empires keeping their political, military, and subversive influences out. That principally means China.
Iran and Venezuela helped fuel the Communist China-dominated order. By helping remove hostile regimes in both countries, Trump is pulling out the linchpins without resorting to war.