It happens.
If I’m overestimating your interest in international affairs just say so...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/syrian-oil-minister-estimates-us-has-pirated-92-billion-crude
Now I’m very strict on obeying our Founders- and they most deliberately put the Executive at the mercy of funding by Congress for foreign military adventures.
Yet here Trump put the funding of his Syria “adventure” in the hands of the oil taken from Syria, and protected from the whims of Congress.
An exception that proves the rule IMO.
Since Congress would have demanded “nation building” -or whatever excuse to enrich their donors- as they did with George Bush in Iraq.
The oil pays for the Kurds to resist Assad at no cost to the Congress.