There is no basis for democracy in the arab world due to the absence of a civilsociety, tribal and sectarian divisions.pic.twitter.com/KjzgM1LooL
Apparently, the Iraq war business is a lot more complicated than I knew.https://quillette.com/2019/05/06/the-iraq-war-was-not-about-oil/ …
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John Bolton is pretty blunt about it thoughhttps://twitter.com/GrayzoneProject/status/1090382364646260736 …
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Taking out threat to Israel and Saudi Arabia https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4529120/netanyahus-expert-testimony-iraq-2002 … Mantain petrodollar hegemony https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare …
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Duh! Google "Oded Yinon"!
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US foreign policy in a nutshell: spending trillions to shoot our selves in the foot and help our enemies
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Not neccearily. Keeping open gulf oil supplies was often a geo strategic goal, ie it wasnt directly in US interests but was done for allies and the global economy in general.
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I’m not sure invading Iraq improved our position there though. Possibly made it worse by emboldening Iran.
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Yeah I think it probably made it worse. Though Im not sure, Ive never seen the argument actually made, just assumed.
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I mean Iraqi oil production increased significantly iirc.
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Right, but it was only depressed bc of US sanctions. Saddam was willing to play ball with as as well.
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Ideal alternative is some sort of deal with Saddam in 2003 under the threat of war. Opening up Iraq but with numerous concessions on security. I do think that's possible from Saddam's end, if the US wasnt so commited to war.
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From everything I’ve read he was open to that sort of thing. I’m still not sure why we were so quick to invade.
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