While the price of oil would be reduced a great deal, they would still be raking in cash by selling to China and other industrialized nations with little or no oil production.
They were the same with oil at $20 a barrel as they are at $100. Jihad is not very expensive.
Oh, it’s not the csh they’re making as much as it’s our entanglement with them. If we didn’t have to kiss their butts in order to keep our supply lines open, it would give the US a great deal of freedom to make more sensible decisions.
Globalism is a huge vulnerability.