Is Trump Looking to Acquire Real Estate in the Middle East?

Watch what he does around Kharg Island.

John Kudla | March 18, 2026

Ah, yes.  Donald Trump, ever the savvy real estate man, may be looking to add some Middle Eastern real estate to the American Empire.  

Can I call the homeland plus all the bits and pieces around the world an empire?  Yeah sure.  Why not.

You can tell that acquiring property is part of his mindset, and developing it is part of who he is.  

First, it was Canada becoming the 51st state.  Then he wanted the Panama Canal returned to American control.  Then it was Greenland.  Later, he mentioned getting title to a chunk of Palestine as part of a peace settlement.  For a while, he was talking about building luxury hotels there.

Right now, the only possibility for the U.S. to gain any new territory, short of a war, rests with the Canadian Province of Alberta.  They have a Canadian separation plebiscite scheduled for this fall.  If it passes and they ask for statehood, Alberta could become the 51st state.  But that is a long shot.

Yet, despite what many see as bullying or negotiating tactics, Trump has had some significant success.  The United States now, directly or indirectly, controls petroleum exports from Venezuela.

This matters in the world of geopolitics.  By virtue of controlling Venezuelan oil exports, Trump also controls oil imports to Cuba.  You might have heard that the island nation depends on oil to run its old, decrepit Soviet-era power stations.  Without oil, the island is slowly returning to the Stone Age.  Let us declare the glories of socialism, no electricity, little food, and maybe a pot to pee in.  Every American teenager should be forced to study this in school.

Is regime change coming to Cuba?  Who knows?........

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