By Mojmir Babacek
Global Research
July 15, 2026
Donald Trump planned to secure Russian support for an attack on Iran in exchange for "handing over" Ukrainian territories that, in opinion polls conducted before 2014, identified much more strongly with Russia than with the European Union.
After cutting off China's supply of Venezuelan oil by simply seizing it from Venezuela, and after blocking the transport routes for Iranian oil shipments to China, the USA only needed that Russia-China's largest supplier of oil and natural gas-starts using this position to cooperate with the USA in subjugation of China to the USA by deciding whether or not China would have sufficient energy resources for its industry.