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[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Usually it's oil. But this time it's airable land and water.

[–] uralsolo@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Perhaps the ethnic cleansing that started in 1948 had something to do with it.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's an option. An outpost in the Middle East that serves as a vanguard to easily start proxy wars with the oil countries. Then deploy boots on the ground while hiding behind plausible deniability. "We just supported our allies."

It's like War on Terror, an excuse for the corporations to get more dollaroos. The problem is not that they are running out, the problem is that others still have some.