“According to the New York Times:
The United States plans to release 172 million barrels of oil from its strategic reserves over four months, the Energy Department said, to try to prevent prices from rising further because of the war”
So is it okay if Donald The First does it?

In the short run, America can usually win. President George Herbert Walker Bush had enough sense to leave shortly after defeating Iraq while we still looked invincible. However, this DID inspire Osama bin Laden to attack and kill thousands of Americans later. The current administration keeps redefining it’s goals such that actual victory is hard to define unless your goal is to spend lots of money and gets lots of people killed (including ours and us, not just little foreign school girls or government officials).

Pyrrhic victory:
a victory gained at such a cost to the victor that it is tantamount to defeat.
The phrase references a statement attributed to Pyrrhus of Epirus. After his victory against the Romans in the Battle of Asculum in 279 BC, Plutarch reports that Pyrrhus exclaimed “One more victory over the Romans and we are completely done for!”

Donald The First is winning because he has admitted he doesn’t care about those unimportant things or Constitutional requirements.