Study shows that Oil is the dominant reason countries go to war

[n2doc]

Researchers have for the first time provided strong evidence for what conspiracy theorists have long thought - oil is often the reason for interfering in another country's war.

Throughout recent history, countries which need oil have found reasons to interfere in countries with a good supply of it and, the researchers argue, this could help explain the US interest in ISIS in northern Iraq.

Researchers from the Universities of Portsmouth, Warwick and Essex modelled the decision-making process of third-party countries in interfering in civil wars and examined their economic motives.

They found that the decision to interfere was dominated by the interveners' need for oil over and above historical, geographical or ethnic ties.

more
http://phys.org/news/2015-01-crude-conspiracy-theories.html

[meaculpa2011]

1. Resources have always been the primary motivation...

for aggression.

Water, farmland, trade routes, warm water ports, slave labor........

Nothing new here.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. However, when Shrub invaded Iraq, anyone who said it was about oil and pipelines, was booed.

And rarely was it discussed that our Middle East strategy was about trying to confine oil and pipeline routes so that Russia and China would not have them.

A plan that did not work our very well, btw.

[sarge43]

4. Second that

Religion, nationalism, king and country, whatever, are excuses, seldom, if ever, the reason.

[meow2u3]

5. You mentioned all the pretexts countries us to justify war

The conspiracy theorists were right for a change. The real reason is oil and the proof is in its price.

[sarge43]

7. If you like the oil wars, you'll love the water wars.

We might figure out a way to substitute oil (eventually we'll have to), water not so much.

What always amazes me is someone spent money to state the obvious. Ever since the Agricultural Revolution, circa 12000BCE, human history has been pretty much Them What Got It and want to keep it and Them What Don't Have It and want to get it. Doesn't look like it will end any time soon.

I left out one important, useful pretext: The Other, different therefore bad and must be destroyed or at least robbed blind.

[Hoppy]

9. Japan invaded Manchuria for its coal deposits.

[whatchamacallit]

3. No! I'm shocked, shocked...

[Takket]

6. I thought wars were fought over freedom???????????

[Hoppy]

8. --- shows what the hell you know. We were stopping the mushroom cloud in Iraq

from becoming a smoking gun over here.

[ChosenUnWisely]

10. No Duh...back in days of old Salt was the main reason for war, the war over water has already

begun that will be the next large scale war.

Resources and land, plenty to share but some just want it all.

[JonLP24]

11. Conspiracy theorists?

Personally, I thought it was obvious.

http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/1/208.full

[Enthusiast]

12. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[daleanime]

13. K&R....

[Mister Ed]

14. A childhood friend of mine is now a highly-paid geologist working for Chevron

The last time she visited her old friends here in our hometown was in 2006, when the Iraq War was raging. She said at that time that everyone, absolutely everyone in her line of work - that is to say, everyone who knows where the oil is - also understands that the Iraq War was about oil, and nothing but oil.

[libodem]

15. No Doubt