07-19-2020, 01:51 PM
Quote:they are predominantly STS
A government is an empty tool - it acts according to who you put in control.
Elect sociopaths based on self-centered sentiments like those in US, the government becomes a plunder-machine.
Elect pro-people representatives, the government becomes the backbone of your society.
Quote: I think that's just a more or less true smokescreen for even more urgent assets we were trying to acquire, based on the suspicious and professional lootings of Iraq's biggest museum
Control of oil resources by compliant regimes in order to ensure the foreign reserve currency status/value of dollar based on oil trade was necessary. All the rest were peripheral objectives.
US , since a while, does not need oil - after the neocons were able to push through fracking and get shale oil in US at the cost of poisoning the groundwater. But US needs those countries who trade oil to trade it in dollars so that Fed can issue more dollars without dollar losing value.