Washington’s Oil Wars Come Home: Diesel Crosses $6 a Gallon for the First Time

While Washington pursued and implemented decades-long campaigns (including sanctions, proxy wars, and direct military action) against Russia and Iran to weaken or collapse their governments, those policies have also produced adverse effects at home, the most visible being surging energy prices and inflationary pressure.

How are the Wars Coming Along?

Be Careful What You Work For

Policy papers such as Rand Corporation’s ‘Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground—2019′ and Brookings Institution’s ‘Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran-2019 urged the US government to undermine petroleum exports from both countries as a way of defeating and dominating them. Both painted rosy pictures of how only the targeted countries would be affected and not the US citizens. Furthermore, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the Washington Institute, which are funded by parties that make governance decisions in the US, have produced other papers plotting how the country should restrict energy exports from Russia and Iran, and hence gain energy dominance. Tellingly, the White House adopted a national energy dominance council in February 2025, a decision that flies in the face of free trade and sovereign equality of nations, which should guarantee all nations’ freedom to make lawful commercial decisions. Washington’s........

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