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The reason US army is always fighting is economic. US dollar is reserve currency of the world and thus US has almost unlimited credit. But one important elemen
by vl 5y ago
The reason US army is always fighting is economic. US dollar is reserve currency of the world and thus US has almost unlimited credit.
But one important element of dollar stability is that carrier group shows up on the doorstep of those getting out of line and shows them errors of their ways. Thus there is a constant need for some pretext to deploy military somewhere.
- demadog 5y agoDo you mean purely for economic reasons or a whole array of reasons and the economics are a part of it? Securing oil fields and the Persian Gulf is more than money and oil, it’s about securing trade via maritime traffic in the gulf for liberal capitalist democracies worldwide. And keeping oil access secure is about pure security but also keeping prices low to not disrupt economies. At least that’s how I understand it.