> I never knew until recently how tied up Russia's oil strategy was to their military / political thinking. Oil strategy is tied to everyone's military/politi

> I never knew until recently how tied up Russia's oil strategy was to their military / political thinking. Oil strategy is tied to everyone's military/political thinking. Especially the top oil producers like Russia, US, etc. US was the top oil producer from 1850s to 1950s. It's one of the reasons we became a world power. We aren't maintaining military bases in saudi arabia because we are fans of islam. We didn't invade iraq because of freedom or democracy. We've been trying to topple venezuela for 2 decades because they have the largest oil reserves in the world. Some even think we are suddenly concerned about muslims in xinjiang because the chinese found oil there. Germany invaded the soviet to take the baku oil fields. Oil has been central to most major world invents the last 150 years. What do you think our issue with iran is? Their huge oil and gas fields. You could argue the ukraine war is about oil and gas too. If we ever got fusion energy or anything like that, one of the major sources of war would be gone.