WHEN Donald Trump returned to the White House last year, "energy dominance" was the bedrock of his economic and foreign policy plans.
But an unpopular war with Iran and soaring household fuel costs have now made energy policy a major liability for the United States president heading into next month's midterm elections.
In the first two years of Trump's second term, vast US oil and gas resources emboldened Washington abroad, strengthened its hand in trade disputes and underpinned a broader effort to restore US geopolitical dominance.
Yet the Iran war exposed the central weakness in that vision: dominating energy production does not mean controlling its prices.
