An oil-and-gas-exporting country, the #USA, has seized the #oil assets of a hemispheric neighbour, #Venezuela, and now waged #war on an oil-producer, #Iran, which has additionally cut off a further #20% of the world's supply of oil and gas in the #Straits of #Hormuz.

An #agent for the oil-and-gas-producing country #Russia could hardly do better work for his #employer

But there are probably other explanations for all these unrelated actions.