🧩 BND Motif Index · M1385
Blood money
A war is said to be waged or backed so the rich can cash in, the leader's friends on the contracts and the rebuilding, the oil companies on the price, and the dead are the price of their profits.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ War motifs🗂️ Money and power
- 7claims filed under it
- 5left shows it came up on
- 4claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Peace for profit 🧩 War profiteer
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (5 left-leaning, 0 center, 0 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- left-leaning
- crossover
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 U.S. Oil companies report record profits amid war-driven refining surge 2026-10-30 to 2026-11-01
- 📰 Trump says Iran wants settlement, deal could happen 2026-11-02 to 2026-11-04
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “all will get those blood money contracts, the Epstein class” “Greedy BP did not have to profit from the suffering of Iranian children.” “His friends are getting filthy rich. His family is getting filthy rich. He is getting filthy rich.” “People die, homes are destroyed just to move $ to billionaires.” “Record profits for Big Oil, thanks to Trump’s Iran War” “Senator Collins and her husband making money more off this war” “Start a war. Make money in Oil.” “that's why this doesn't doesn't stop because they got us in another forever war” “The IRAN WAR made A LOT OF MONEY for Oil Companies” “The oil companies profit while children die.” “This secretary has used our troops to go seize oil for large corporations in America.” “to reward his oil buddies with increased profits from higher oil prices”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 3
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
- 2026-11-10 “Pete Hegseth is accused of using American troops to seize oil for large corporations.” 2
- 2026-11-02 “Susan Collins and her husband are said to be making money off the war, which is why it doesn't stop.” 1
- 2026-11-01 “Trump is supporting a genocide in Gaza to benefit Epstein-class associates.” 3
Told on the right 0
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the right so far.
Retold online 4
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-04 “Trump's Iran war has driven fuel prices up and handed Big Oil record profits, and prices crashing on Election Day is called no coincidence.”
- 2026-11-01 “Donald Trump and big oil companies are profiting from an illegal and senseless war in Iran that increases fuel costs for Americans.”
- 2026-11-01 “Donald Trump's war with Iran is making a fortune for oil companies and billionaires.”
- 2026-11-01 “The Trump administration and oil companies are profiting from the suffering and deaths caused by the war with Iran.”
M1385 · first seen 2026-11-01 · last 2026-11-10 · what this is · how the index works