Originally Posted by
Richard
So name one military intervention that was based on oil.
80s and 90s 70% of our oil cane from Venezuela,no US military boots on the ground.
80% of Saudi crude goes directly to the shipping industry so we can import cheap goods.
Afghanistan started out as a over the border tiny land locked country that had a pipeline going to the port that the rebel’s liked to blow up,do not forget Russia was already there fighting because the rentals were selling the stolen pipeline oil in order to fund terrorism.
It was not about the oil anywhere,we provided military assistance for lots of reasons,mostly because dictatorships have a history of slaughtering those that do not agree with them and exchange they paid the bill with oil.
Ever see anybody boycott petro products or give up their car or electricity because they do not agree with war?
I meen you always hear people taking that stance but when it comes to the sacrifice for what they believe in,they seem to fall short.
Kinda like boycotting China for human rights abuses while filling your house with their products.
Children are mining cobalt 18 hours a day in Africa,nobody seems to have a problem with that because it gives them cell phones and the politics of green wants them to work 20 hours a day instead.
You do not see any Americans sending their kids to the mines.
Do not like the military complex that dumps billions into the economy and are adamant that wars are about oil?
Stand up for what you believe in and stop using products produced from petroleum,driving cars,heating your house,buying food,because without petro the farmers cannot farm.
My experience is those who are the most vocal against something are the ones least likely to actually take a solid committed stand.
Stop supporting human rights abuses in China by stop buying their products or stop complaining about it.
Stop perceived wars for petro by stopping the use of petro products,see how easy it is.
True OUR democracy has not been threatened outside of the US sense WW2 because we already showed that most will protect it at any cost,while others showed that they will run.
It is just like all the ones who said they were going to move to Canada if a certain candidate won in 2016,did they actually believe in what they were saying ?
They would not know what standing up for what you believe in if it dropped out of the sky on them as a grand piano.
Freedom is not free and you can see some will run when it comes time to protect it but they do not have a problem enjoying it while they are there.
At the end of the day people only protest things like war,genocide human rights abuses etc because it is easy to do without putting skin in the game for a resolution.
Because they actually do not have to do anything in order to say they stand for something.