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We can’t ignore the Middle East and hope the problem will sort itself out. It’s naive and childish to think we can. We have to remind everyone we have power and will use it.
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It’s naive and childish to think we can sort this out. Our success rate after some 30 years is exactly zero.
Really. Ok let’s go there. You enjoy gas, petroleum flowing freely through the world. Were you alive in the 70s? During the OPEC embargo?
What do you think the world would look like if the Straits of Hormuz weren’t open? Huh? Do you think everything here in the good ol USA would be hunky dory?
That’s what 30 years plus of US interference in theMiddle East bought us. So many of you have no idea how to see the bigger picture. Stable economies rely on stable energy sources. Until recently, that meant the ME. So yes, we interfered and labeled it with some bs reason, but all of it goes back to economics.
I’m not naive nor childish and I think you have some world history to catch. Upon.