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“Sooner or later” is not today; nor is it a motivation for events occurring in the past. As I said before, if oil control was really the US’ concern we would have gotten rid of Maduro when he started crashing Venezuela into the ground. And the whole little rant about “scarcity” only goes double to prove my point; if that was actually the US’ goal we certainly would have intervened. Instead we stayed out.
Again, which means the US would have intervened when Venezuela started crashing. Hell, if one was to use your lazy conspiracy theory as the motive for Iraq the US certainty would have ensured that an actual puppet state had been set up, rather than allowing the Iraqis to create their own democratic country.
You can complain about the US being allied with Saudi Arabia all you want(though given the kind of regimes, even in the region itself, that get a free pass it’s rather amusing) but they certainly aren’t a US “puppet”, they certainly did request US protection, and part of being allied with someone is giving them protection should they request it. You can blame that psychopath Saddam for that.
Except the US doesn’t control the oil states. Like I said before.
Yes, yes, you’ve made it quite clear you find women voting and middle eastern countries not being ruled by brutal anti American dictators to be “odious”.
If the Americans were smart and really interested in economic imperialism like the Russians or the Chinese they would do everything they could to disrupt and displace foreign resource production in any area where the Americans could act as alternative suppliers.
You like heat, going to have to get it from the Americans. You like cars, gonna need to get your fuel from the Americans. Economic strangulation of all other economies to create a series of bilateral subservient client states that can be punished by death and darkness for non-cooperation.
But the American approach following WWII was nothing like that. It was about defending and empowering allies, and promoting trade deals to build multilateral integration and prosperity, stability and growth.
Leftists don’t like the American project because it demonstrates the bankruptcy of their ideology and objectives. And so they lie about everything.
All while promoting economic illiteracy and incoherent “big pictures” of what is “really” going on.
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