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In reply to the discussion: Trump Warns: 'We Had a Lot of Oil' In Venezuela And 'We Want It Back' [View all]moniss
(8,603 posts)oil extraction issues in the Middle East from at least the 1930's on to the present day. Once a political leader would gain strength around "getting a better deal" the oil companies and their respective bought and paid for governments would set out to destroy that leader any way possible. One of their favored methods was to form and arm terrorist groups and flood them with cash. Once that group would have success they would form another group to attack the first group. Lather, rinse and repeat. Especially a jumble when the US, Great Britain and France would all have various competing terrorist groups.
So now we have the "War on Terror" to supposedly protect ourselves from people who we taught that using terror to achieve goals is not only permissible but profitable as well. Bottom line is we created most of our own problems through unfettered greed and duplicity and we arrogantly thought we could control it all.