Resource war getting ugly: genocide, years-long oil crisis, or both?
Posted by quequotion@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 23 comments
Posted by quequotion@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 23 comments
Inconspicuouswriter@reddit
Colonial powers have been plundering the resources of the global south for centuries.
Cultural-Answer-321@reddit
Coulda just stopped there.
agorathird@reddit
That’s what they always say, but back then you couldn’t destroy the lives of millions with a single weapon and it would take months to travel around the globe to do said plundering.
It’s whatever the war version of instant gratification is.
Inconspicuouswriter@reddit
you could destroy the lives of millions with a single weapon then. It was called smallpox and the weapon was blankets. If that didn't work, it was called killing all the buffalo and starve them, or send them on a trail of tears and relocate. The methods are many, but the common narrative is/was always dehumanization and extermination.
Cultural-Answer-321@reddit
Both and more!
quequotion@reddit (OP)
Submission statement:
While the president of a certain country is saying things like "a whole civilization will die tonight", the civilization he's referring to promises to let loose on critical oil infrastructure throughout the region, indiscriminately.
Either the guy who never keeps his promises, yet always seems to do the worst possible version of what he said he'd do, commits war crimes on a scale we have not seen since Germany and the USSR split up Poland or the terror-sponsoring theocratic regime that has been holding the world hostage for a fraction of the cost of the US assault, which always seems to have more missile launchers however many we take out, does what it said it would, again, and wrecks the global economy about thirty years earlier than the capitalists would have.
eternal_pegasus@reddit
Love the optimism with the timeline for wrecking the global economy, I think you are mixing it up with the global environment.
quequotion@reddit (OP)
Oh, that too.
The world isn't ready to give up oil; choking the supply from the Middle East will devastate numerous national economies.
On top of that, oil tankers burning in the sea, oil wells burning on the land... Yeah the environment is also fucked by this.
bottom_armadillo805@reddit
I mean, he literally just threatened them with genocide, of course they're closing diplomatic channels. Would you try to negotiate with a guy who randomly attacked you and now is threatening to murder you and everyone you know?
It's a mad world, and most of us are just along for the ride.
B4SSF4C3@reddit
Someone who randomly attacked you during previous negotiations. Twice.
Striking-Access-236@reddit
As they say, don't negotiate with terrorists...
RicardoHonesto@reddit
Both and decades.
accushot865@reddit
Both. When two governments of differing religious extremism fight, the world loses.
NolanR27@reddit
This has nothing to do with “extremism”. This is imperialist aggression against Iran.
accushot865@reddit
Hegseth was recorded calling it a “holy war”
hotacorn@reddit
Its three. Israel as well
Certain-Birch153@reddit
It's like nobody learned anything from the resource wars of the 90s. Feels like we're just repeating history, but with nukes this time. Anyone else read Michael Hudson's takes on debt and resource extraction?
UncleBaguette@reddit
Yes
Delcane@reddit
I think Iran is trying to portray Trump as a liar that will TACO the last second by taking his opportunity to say " negotiations are going great!! Nuclear genocide can wait. Thank you for your attention".
I just hope Trump isn't desperate and demented enough....
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Oh yeah, we're probably getting a bit of both.
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quequotion@reddit (OP)
I know what you're thinking, ¿Por que no Los dos?
Oh yeah, we're probably getting a bit of both.
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