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In reply to the discussion: Yes, this is all about energy--Syria, Iraq, IS, and the President's Speech. [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)6. Indeed....Laeth does package it beautifully....But leaves out the ugly parts...
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Not criticizing, necessarily...and would love to be hopeful about how neatly this has been navigated to get us through the Mid-terms and make peace for everyone involved while stabilizing Europe and our Dollar at home. That ISIL is now on the run and we have achieved success working with Turkey and Kurdistan to thwart Russia's control over Gas/Oil to Europe by overthrowing the Ukraine Elected Government to start conflict Russia will have to deal with while all becomes "Pleasantville" for the U.S.
When the TPP and other Trade Agreements, written in secret, are signed after the Mid-Terms and our Asia Pivot challenges Russia even more aggressively in the future we should be confident that the Captain of our Ship has done the best he could by us navigating us through the treacherous waters so that USA keeps its 1% Thriving and Comfortable while the 99% slides further into poverty the coming the domestic unrest will assure that our Militarized Police will prevail over the "rebels/separatists" demanding fair wages for work produced. We can maintain strength in the world with our Mighty Military Industrial/Corporate/Media Complex and Wall Street comfortable that there will be no more Upsets in its hold over the world economy for awhile longer.
So perhaps Laeth is correct for awhile things will be fine...and we should be thankful for that.
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Yes, this is all about energy--Syria, Iraq, IS, and the President's Speech. [View all]
Laelth
Sep 2014
OP
I certainly expect politicians to advance the interests of the people in a republic.
Laelth
Sep 2014
#56
Humans have been killing each other over resources since the beginning of time. Doesn't make it
liberal_at_heart
Sep 2014
#17
This starts out looking informative and ends up saying absolutely nothing of consequence
Maven
Sep 2014
#19
You did not provide any links for the gas going from the Kurds to Europe.
former9thward
Sep 2014
#31
The fuck? For a fraction of the cost of war(s), we could be up and running on renewable energy.
grahamhgreen
Sep 2014
#38
The problem for oil would be if ISIS threatened the oil production areas in southern Iraq,
amandabeech
Sep 2014
#40