Also:

“I didn’t want to hit the pipes because, you know, years of work to put them together,” he added. “It’s dead militarily now, totally. Every military area … they’ve fled.”

And

Trump said by phone Monday that “the oil prices will drop like a rock” as soon as the war is over.

When asked by PBS News when exactly that would be, Trump said, “Well, as soon as the war is over and it won’t … I don’t believe it will be long.”

  • SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    No one involved in this wants those refineries to be damaged. Damaging them would be a sure fire way to make sure oil prices don’t drop once this is over. Iran will call this bluff.