> Just admit it, we live a very wealthy life partly because we've plundered the world I dont like this take. It suggest that the sole source of US wealth is na

> Just admit it, we live a very wealthy life partly because we've plundered the world I dont like this take. It suggest that the sole source of US wealth is natural resource theft. It is not (sole source). The US fucks/fucked with many countries for many reasons. Ideological - fight vs spread of communism, figting 'terror' in afganistan. Those can be also tied to interest of Military–industrial complex - war is private profit. Other reasons is to secure the flow of resources, all coups and dictators in middle east were an attempt to stabilise oil flow. State doesnt care much how it will be done. All they care is that oil will arrive cheaply at steady rate. Private companies will help for some cut. Saudis did what us told them, they are now building indoors ski slopes on their deserts, US doesnt care - even though wahhabism is in practice an ideological opposite of US. They hardly sound like poor oppressed people who's oil being stolen.