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So if the economy gets bad its the job of the US military to invade something to get their resources?

by rb808 7y ago

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
Yes. It's like clockwork. The US is coming due for another war soon.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  Sure. That's why we kept Grenada's beaches, and Kosovo's industry, and Iraq's oil. Oh, wait...
  - WillPostForFood 7y ago
    To suggest that the American foreign interventions have been positive for the economy is crazy. Neither left nor right believe that lunacy.
    - chatmasta 7y ago
      Sure. But ultimately, debt is meaningless unless collected. In a scenario of global economic collapse, anyone who wants to collect their debt (if it even means anything anymore) from the US would have to go through the US military first.
      - EETruth 7y ago
        Too bad that a decent chunk of the US debt is owed internally... Maybe 1st Armored will go and collect what's rightfully theirs from 101 Airborne?
blotter_paper 7y ago
If the US really ran out of resources, I wouldn't count it out. In the mean time, it's more like we prop up dictators who agree to sell oil exclusively in our currency (see Saudi Arabia) and invade every country small enough to push around that tries to sell oil in anything but US dollars (see Saddam being in talks with France, or Gaddafi planning to sell oil in the gold dinar). Since the whole world has to buy oil, the whole world has to have dollars. Then we print more US dollars, devaluing the existing US dollars in global circulation and effectively stealing wealth from the rest of the world for the benefit of our banking system. Yeah, we also give sweet contracts to Haliburton so that they can pillage third-world oil fields in the middle of our wars and there is some immediate benefit from that as well, but I'm betting that propping up the petrodollar is the most important way that we're leveraging the military for economic ends.

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So if the economy gets bad its the job of the US military to invade something to get their resources?

by rb808 7y ago

So if the economy gets bad its the job of the US military to invade something to get their resources?

kevin_thibedeau 7y ago
Yes. It's like clockwork. The US is coming due for another war soon.
- AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  Sure. That's why we kept Grenada's beaches, and Kosovo's industry, and Iraq's oil. Oh, wait...
  - WillPostForFood 7y ago
    To suggest that the American foreign interventions have been positive for the economy is crazy. Neither left nor right believe that lunacy.
    - chatmasta 7y ago
      Sure. But ultimately, debt is meaningless unless collected. In a scenario of global economic collapse, anyone who wants to collect their debt (if it even means anything anymore) from the US would have to go through the US military first.
      - EETruth 7y ago
        Too bad that a decent chunk of the US debt is owed internally... Maybe 1st Armored will go and collect what's rightfully theirs from 101 Airborne?
blotter_paper 7y ago
If the US really ran out of resources, I wouldn't count it out. In the mean time, it's more like we prop up dictators who agree to sell oil exclusively in our currency (see Saudi Arabia) and invade every country small enough to push around that tries to sell oil in anything but US dollars (see Saddam being in talks with France, or Gaddafi planning to sell oil in the gold dinar). Since the whole world has to buy oil, the whole world has to have dollars. Then we print more US dollars, devaluing the existing US dollars in global circulation and effectively stealing wealth from the rest of the world for the benefit of our banking system. Yeah, we also give sweet contracts to Haliburton so that they can pillage third-world oil fields in the middle of our wars and there is some immediate benefit from that as well, but I'm betting that propping up the petrodollar is the most important way that we're leveraging the military for economic ends.