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Funny!
Except they made some sense. In general the nations they were talking about already are unstable, repressive regimes. As their only source of money goes away, they will lash out (or fall). There are plenty of cases in history where a country that used to have monopoly on a commodity suddenly falls when the good or service demand goes away.

But the issue is that they are going to fall one way or another. Oil rich nations tend to be distorted in that oil becomes the main, or only, pillar of their economy. That weakens the state in the long term. Like a company town when the factory closes, the oil country dies. They don't have any other source of income to transition to.

For the US, long term, this can be a good thing. If we have someone who actually does long term strategy (which I doubt), it would place us in a stronger position.

[C. Edmund Wright]

They did not make sense. They spouted some correct facts, but connected dots that do not connect, took a vacuous view of cause and effect, and filtered everything through moral equivalency.

In other words, liberal bullshit.