Posted on 10/27/2017 3:09:57 PM PDT by davikkm
Hint: since 1990 to present day.
As I said, do your own homework and stop being a dummy.
How much oil has the USA got out of IRAQ? Who is the dummy?
The issue is the US Dollar. Not oil per se.
Apparently you have little or no background in this area. Please, take the time to educate yourself.
You mentioned the Vietnam War. Was there any connection? I don’t know back then, but Nixon took us off the gold standard in the early 1970’s. And around that time the USA made an agreement with Saudi Arabia to accept only American Dollars for their oil. In return, we pledged our military power to protect the Saudi’s.
Connect the dots.
Neither China or Japan can manage the creative destruction and resurrection, the chaos, that keeps us renewed.
No they won't. That's why you have to make up crap like "preserving the Union" or when that wears off, "freeing the slaves".
But yeah, the Washington DC/New York power cartel only goes to war to protect it's financial hegemony. Other people see it too.
That is one of those historical decisions that could have gone either way. I read one explanation — take it for what it’s worth — that FDR’s policy during the Lend-Lease period could be interpreted as the culmination of the Monroe Doctrine. The Brits lost their most strategic bases in the Caribbean in exchange for 50 obsolete destroyers. Plus we got bases in Bermuda, Iceland and a bunch of other places — all at the expense of an overstretched British Empire.
Recall that when the Monroe Doctrine was conceived it was mostly aimed at France, Spain & the Neatherlands as the USN was then not up to the task of ejecting the English RN. The genius of it, was that the Brits realized it and actually reinforced the policy at the expense of the others.
In the longer term, all we did was enable Germany's and Japan's economies to rebuild -- with our dollars -- and to ultimately become some of our strongest competitors. Not exactly consistent with the long-term "hegemony" thesis.
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