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"...for reasons that have nothing to do with oil" "...win influence with oil producing Arab states..." Yeah, nothing to do with oil. It's all about oil. That
by astrodust 10y ago
"...for reasons that have nothing to do with oil"
"...win influence with oil producing Arab states..."
Yeah, nothing to do with oil.
It's all about oil. That whole area is about oil. A case could be made that World War I was about oil, that British naval supremacy depended on it, and everything since then is a mostly direct cascade from that.
Also don't forget that the extreme Evangelicals believe that the establishment of and subsequent destruction of Israel is a necessary precursor to the Rapture. What a psychotic viewpoint.
- alnoxs 10y ago"...for reasons that have nothing to do with oil" "...win influence with oil producing Arab states..." This is cherry picking sentence fragments to produce a misleading statement. The GP clearly states that US involvement in Israel was to avoid Israel using a nuclear weapon, not because of any interest in oil.
- astrodust 10y agoThe US has had an interest in Israel long before nuclear weapons were a factor. Stability is only a concern because of the critical suppliers there. Notice how little interest is paid to places like central Africa where, apart from Nigeria, there's no productive oil fields.