I believe that the US will take Kharg island and hold it in perpetuity. But maybe we should take the islands in/near the strait of Hormuz. They include: Qeshm island, Larak island, Hormuz island, and Hengam island.
Also, maybe we should control the tiny islands in the Gulf.
You are giving reasons as to why it would be justified to take control of the islands forever. However, I was asking if there is anything from Trump administration indicating they were thinking of this.
From the Nat Sec document Trump put out recently, he made it clear that America wants to stay out of the rest of the world and focus just on its own hemisphere.
I think ending all sanction regimes / shadow economies, opening up all oil to the market, ending cheap oil supply to China and India, ending Climate Agenda, along with baseline tariffs would be enough to free America and the world and specifically recuperate the wealth lost due to these shenanigans. If it results in no income tax, we know that the job is done.
With Venezuela, I think it was done specifically to:
Protect that oil from any deep state elements still lurking around
Create a buffer for the upcoming (at that time) Iran attack.