You pose an interesting thought.
And in the next decade their biggest “customer” by far for the oil will be the ChiComs.
Who do business more like the mob than the US or Europe the ragheads are used to dealing with.
Yes, and China will send in troops too. And they won’t leave like we do. The global hegemon is going to switch from a philanthropist (model) to an occupier (model).
China’s territory will expand exponentially.
I can’t wait until our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren get to deal with this, because their parents, grandfathers, and great grandfathers were so obsessed with sitting on their hands.