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Originally posted by TheRedneck
That title is not a prophesy. It is a realistic interpretation of several facts surrounding recent events.
I apologize for the length, but so many things tie into this one story that it will take a few posts to explain even a condensed version.
Originally posted by greyer
I wish we all loved each other.
*There must be another way to save the US $??
. That was just pure brilliance. Let us all mentally chew on that one for a bit. Yeh. I know that's really the way it is How then can I ever take any of this seriously ever again?
Originally posted by BardingTheBard
Originally posted by greyer
I wish we all loved each other.
The capacity to love implies the capacity for the opposite being possible, viable, and by necessity... equally relevant.
I assure you, you would be bored stiff if we all loved each other... and would quickly find "differences" to "compete" against.
Initially friendly and innocent... after a few generations will have lost the "fun" and will be taken seriously and have serious implications on day to day life.
Then a true conflict where one or the other must prevail will arise.
Oh dear... what to do what to do...
There has never been a reasonable explanation given by the US for leading its invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. I argue that is because the real reason could not be spoken of plainly: The need to preempt hostile foreign (Chinese) occupation of key Iraq oil fields as soon as UN sanctions against Iraq were slated to expire in late 2003.
The Saddam Hussein regime had crossed a critical line in the sand when it granted equity ownership rights to vast undeveloped in-ground oil reserves to Chinese state-controlled oil companies in return for development funding and a revenue share. More such deals were in line to be signed, creating the potential for a broad client-state relationship between Iraq and the PRC akin to what China had achieved in The Sudan.
Since at least 1980, the US has had in place the so-called “Carter Doctrine,” which states the US will regard any effort by an outside power to gain control of Persian Gulf region oil reserves as a direct threat to the US national interest, to be met if necessary by the use of military force. To avoid a direct military confrontation with the PRC, the GW Bush Administration was obliged to act before large numbers of Chinese nationals could be installed in Iraq and the oil deals finalized.
The current very high-price world oil regime is thus a challenge to the cartel and oil majors aiming to avoid a glut of production. Thus, you see oil-related capital spending by the oil majors being held to historically very low ratios of cash flow, significant production restraint in Russia and throughout OPEC. Oil-exporting countries that attempt to cash in on the windfall and over-produce can expect to be beset by engineered civil unrest, “terror” incidents and other destabilizing forces.
China won’t continue its foreign-aid projects in Syria, the official news agency cited Zhong Manying, head of West Asian and African affairs department at the ministry as saying in an interview on the sidelines of a press conference today. Zhong didn’t specify the companies that had pulled out.
Originally posted by HUMBLEONE
Yeh. I know that's really the way it is How then can I ever take any of this seriously ever again?