Jeet Heer argues in The Nation that Trump and Vance are waging war to enrich cronies, citing Reuters's report that Vance met Vitol executive John Addison a week before the US invaded Venezuela and kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, and that Energy Secretary Chris Wright then bypassed competitive bidding to give Vitol and Trafigura licenses to sell Venezuelan crude, earning hundreds of millions. Pointing to Thomas Massie's accusation that Pete Hegseth deploys troops to seize oil for big corporations, Heer calls Trump's foreign policy rancid with corruption and urges Congress to shut down the racket.