Not a drop in the bucket, but a bucketful in the ocean. No doubt he’ll call it an “investment” either way.
You misunderstand.
When our strategic oil reserve is sufficiently depleted, and we no longer have sufficient POL to project force, Middle East oil production gets interrupted.
No strategic reserves. Minimal domestically produced oil. No ME production.
The US will be rendered irrelevant in maintaining world peace.
The butcher’s bill for the global war resulting from that “mis”calculation will be of Biblical proportions.