I'm wondering about US attitudes here.
Is it common (maybe in the Trump circles) to view USA as the "makers" and everyone else as the "takers"? That would play into a sort of Going Galt narrative for the USA.
I sort of see that attitude to foreign trade regardless of whether the prices are high or low. OPEC takes your money, because they're sneakily expensive. China takes your jobs, because they're sneakily cheap.
I'm going to address this, and I'm going to try to remain calm about it.
Most US citizens feel as though they have little to no power over their daily lives, while we 'enjoy' some of the highest standard of living in the world we have almost no ability to actually 'live' due to our obscene legal and work environments. You can say we brought it on ourselves if you like, but the corporate interests in the States have a stranglehold on the government, and fanatically oppose any attempt to improve worker protections i.e., improved wages, standard benefits, paid leave, etc. Because these forces have total functional control of our system and media sources, they can create whatever narrative they desire, so while OPEC has held their oil prices at a reasonable level for years now, they still get blamed for rampant futures speculation driving the prices insane.
Then we get told by these sources that we have to engage in foreign adventures in order to secure the future of democracy and ensure that peace and freedom still reign supreme throughout the world, when in reality those same corporate entities are manipulating policy and the media so they can increase their holdings and obtain resources more cheaply. Then foreigners who are supposedly our allies call us 'imperialist', 'terrorist', 'murderer' and a vast assortment of other insults, leading us to hate them for being assholes when we can't even actually exert any control over our government.
TL/DR: We can't do shit about the government and their corporate masters, but foreigners who insult us make good targets for our repressed hate.