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I am tired of this world, these people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
I had previous learned that we will run out of oil soon. It seems this is not the scientific consensus - it's just that known reserves will run out in about 50 years. In other words, this meme can repeat itself ad nauseam. We should look at every US geopolitical strategy or even statement through this lens. Greenland? Canada? Oil!
Thanks to the improvements in efficiency and price fluctuations that allowed shale oil extraction and the like, as well as new exploration, for all intents and purposes, we still have a basically unlimited amount of oil.
When oil gets expensive, it justifies infrastructure that was previously economically unfeasible and not part of our reserves. And once that infrastructure is in place, the price can still go down and it can sustain itself. Is it really unlimited? Absolutely not. But innovation and economics have stretched what's available to a level of surprising longevity.
At this rate of price fluctuation and investment, in 300 years we will be extracting the oil from your facial pores and still have a "50 year reserve".
It's kinda a neat thing if it wasn't for all the shitty side effects, tbh.
And since BASF already invented methods to revert plastic to oil, if the price is right, we wouldn't even need oil anymore, just trash.
Do you think Americans were not bombing brown people when Democrats were in power? Didn't Obama get a Nobel Peace Prize while having a top score in drone kill strikes? Lol. The empire is evil and murderous, regardless of who's playing the part of the leader.
We aren't both-sidesing this, are we?
Obama was a breath of fresh air on the international stage and widely respected, globally for good reason. It was clear to anyone paying even half attention that he was confronting powerful forces.
Couple points of fact to mention:
By the way:
Republicans start wars; Democrats usually get them out. Perfect? No. But there is a very, very clear trend.
Getting tired of seeing this false equivalence nonsense.
Obama was awarded the Nobel only nine months into his first term, so he hadn't really had the chance to rack up the requisite number of war crimes to be awarded the peace prize.
Who’s ready to send there kids off to war to die for oil, I mean freedom? 🫲🍊🫱
No, this time it's drugs.
How Americans don't take this as a sign that their electoralism is always bound for failure will forever remain a mystery to me. You emerge from the fallout of Republican leaders by voting democrats and joyously claim, "the storm has passed" and "we should never repeat these mistakes". Come 8 or so years and a Republican is re-elected.
How have you guys not en masse realized that democratic reign is merely a refractory period for Republican governance? Why have you not organized and promoted other parties? The greens are slow and will take a lot of work to build, but Rome wasn't built in a day. This cycle will continue until you've en masse woken up to the real contradictions driving your politics.
Spiel over!
our constitution is intentionally structured to favor the wants and needs of capital holders instead of the working people
It's less that than people think dems are doing OK then go back to their shitty apathy that lets Republicans back in. Rinse, repeat.
The Gulf War was about kicking Iraq out of Kuwait, after Iraq invaded. It had a wide support, both worldwide and within the Arab world. Saudi Arabia and Egypt actively participated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
Check the coalition drop down.
Iraq invaded Kuwait because economic collapse and oil disputes thinking the west won't go to war for this emirate.
Don't come citing the deep magic, I was there when it was written.
The 2003 Gulf war was about oil, that's why the US started it in the first place. It was also about defending the souverainity of an invaded country, that's why a lot of countries followed.
From your Wiki link:
_The invasion was primarily over disputes regarding Kuwait's alleged slant drilling in Iraq's Rumaila oil field…
The conflict's environmental impact included Iraqi forces causing over six hundred oil well fires and the largest oil spill in history until that point._
I hope Biden runs again in 2028 to fix this back up.
obama will really break thier minds, if trump runs a 3rd time, so can he.
He might be a zombie by then. It would still be a step up.
The 1980s were another big part of this trend.