“....the richer the Western countries become....”
How so? Americans sure don’t feel richer.
Instead of buying oil from the Mideast the world is buying it from America. Those profits are going to increase our capacity to produce more oil. It will also get the Venezuela oil brought to market as well . When this conflict finally ends the price will go way down because of all the extra production in the West those profits have made possible. Be of good cheer your gas money is not helping the enemy now but helping American oil producers instead .
I do.