What do Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei have in common? For starters, both exerted a loathed dictatorial hold over their countries. In addition, both have been dealt with by this administration, the first through abduction, the second through assassination. The other important trait that they shared is that they lorded over oil-rich nations. Now that this president has eliminated the green conspiracy, oil is again a triumphant commodity. He has already seized existing Venezuelan reserves, and when the time comes, and it may be a matter of days not weeks, he will all but control Iran’s. This is a businessman-president who has always been inspired by the trappings of wealth and gilded luxury. Those who assign nobility to his actions, both in Venezuela and Iran, should pause and take stock of the matter of oil and its pathways, which assume primary importance now that the green “distraction” is over, at least in America. In effect, the man with dominion over all or most of the oil also has dominion over most or all of the world. To repeat my mantra, welcome to the New World Order.