--I think I understand what's going on. Problem, reaction, solution. Problem, his making mostly. Reaction, the workers strike from the problem he creates, so he fires them. Solution. This is the
slick part. Because you can't just waltz in untrained thousands of grunt soldiers and like bookeeping clerks and just start running a complex oil producing operation, he'll need trained workers, technicians, etc. So, were to get them, real quick like? Solution=cuba and china. It's an emergency ya know.
That's his big plan, and it was planned all along, that and keeping martial law up and running.
Place yer bets