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FrodosPet

(5,169 posts) Mon Jun 23, 2014, 03:23 AM Jun 2014

No matter who wins in the Middle East, they will still sell us oil

They may talk about the satanic Americans, etc... but they'll still be more than happy to take our cash.

I guess it all comes down to haggling about the price.

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No matter who wins in the Middle East, they will still sell us oil (Original Post) FrodosPet Jun 2014 OP

And the USA, no doubt, will sell them weapons. Spider Jerusalem Jun 2014 #1

Maybe. It kind of does depend on whether the social construct supports it. cali Jun 2014 #2

Of course they will Javaman Jun 2014 #3

Nationalize the oil and kill the apostate Shia and bring about the global Caliphate is all they seek FrodosPet Jun 2014 #4

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

1. And the USA, no doubt, will sell them weapons.

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:21 AM

Jun 2014

Just like they did to the Shah, and Saddam, and the Saudis, et cetera.

cali

(114,904 posts)

2. Maybe. It kind of does depend on whether the social construct supports it.

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 04:30 AM

Jun 2014

A country enmeshed in civil war or deep unrest may well not produce oil. In any case, we don't get a lot of our oil from Iraq, oil is a fungible item, and it will all be used as an excuse to frack more and use more tar sands oil. and what to you mean "who wins the Middle East"? It's not like it's all up for grabs and enmeshed in war.

Javaman

(62,521 posts)

3. Of course they will

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 12:11 PM

Jun 2014

What is at play here isn't the selling of oil, per say, but WHO will be selling the oil.

My money is on the idea that if they rebels take Baghdad, they will soon re-nationalize Iraqi oil.

And THAT is what this is all about. This is why we are "suddenly" getting involved again (as if we stopped being involved to begin with).

Can't have a nations oil going back into, you know, the nation.

"corporation are people too, my friend". Some halfwit once said.

FrodosPet

(5,169 posts)

4. Nationalize the oil and kill the apostate Shia and bring about the global Caliphate is all they seek

Reply to Javaman (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 07:59 PM

Jun 2014

I've been reading that radical Islamists are anti-capitalist, so "Go team ISIL"?

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