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Even that purported rationale for the second invasion of Iraq was false. “We” secured that Iraqi oil to export it mostly to Asia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by consumer451 7y ago
Even that purported rationale for the second invasion of Iraq was false. “We” secured that Iraqi oil to export it mostly to Asia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Iraq
- chiefalchemist 7y agoIt doesn't matter where it goes per se, as much as who controls it. Oil (read: the price of) is a weapon. Look what the crash (of the price of crude) did to Venezuela. If energy (read: oil) is essential to your economy then you can't let someone else yo-yo the price at will. And thus, the first foreign country for POTUS DJT to visit was Saudi Arabia.