They're going to get Venezuela's recoverable oil, even if it's a small fraction of the theoretical reserves, and the people of the country be d*mn*ed.
Not to derail to far but if Iraq was not about the oil, a position widely held, then what was it about? I ask because I’m completely confused about our ME policy, most recently Syria, which makes zero sense to me.
Cog wrote:Its not so much that the USA wanted to directly seize Iraqi oil or even exploit them as a reason for the Iraq war. It was considered in US national interest that one country(Iraq) could not totally dominate Middle Eastern oil supply to the detriment of the rest of the world. Had the invasion of Kuwait not been responded to, Saddam could have invaded Saudi and the rest of the Gulf states and they could not have stopped him.
The Second Gulf war(to conquer Iraq) was optional since Saddam was boxed in and no real threat to the region as long as there was US presence in theatre.
Newfie wrote:Thanks for that.
It still feels a bit hollow, but maybe that is just the way it is. Maybe Bush needed a kicking boy after 911 and Iraq was convenient. Still leaves me baffled on Syria.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Revi wrote:I guess we are moving on to Iran now. I guess we are not at war with Eastasia, now we are at war with Eurasia.
As tensions with Venezuela mount, the United States is planning to announce on Tuesday the deployment of a military hospital ship to the region, U.S. officials say, in the latest sign of the Pentagon’s limited, and targeted, involvement in the crisis.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, did not specify where in the region the ship would travel to. Last year, a hospital ship — the USNS Comfort — cared for Venezuelan refugees and others as it stopped in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Honduras.
By which I mean, using the standards of the Western World, versus SA, where the King decides what figure will get published.
and just about everywhere, the accuracy of reserves is questionable because somebody somewhere has an agenda you don't know about.
Venezuela before Chavez nationalized all the petroleum was using US standards to state reserves, because there were US companies there drilling.
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