Message from @allgoodguy
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That by definition is deflationary, and is what drives economies into depression.
We could collapse the entire middle easts economy if we felt like it
Not that they need our help
I'm not so sure we shouldn't, except that is how OBL was so damn effective at recruitment for his Jihadi movement.
I wouldn
Internationalism doesn't really come into this. The high prices earlier in this century created a demand that resulted in a whole technological revolution in this country. That cannot be undone. And so whatever we previously considered the dynamics of the energy industry to be that has now been permanently changed.
I wouldn't advocate for us to militarily get involved over there any more. THAT doesn't make any sense.
It really does. Oil was one of the first international markets.
What about sugar
copper
Slaves
copper was traded all throughout eurasia in the bronze age
Crusades
flint was traded around before then
tbh we should either go all or nothing in the middle east
ok, in the current, post-colonial economies.
i'd prefer nothing
Copper and tin were pretty major in the bronze era because they are rarely co-located.
but if you don't fully invest in essentially colonizing a place you're spending more in the long term
No colonizing has a lot of maintenance costs.
right but at this point it'd be nation building
And it cost both dearly in military upkeep.
islam is too cancerous to do anything about
i don't think there will ever be peace in the ME
better to contain it
Why do you suppose FDR's main foreign policy was to dismantle Britain's colonial structure?
idk
It goes much deeper than Islam. Again, this is the two empires of Persia and Arabia who will never stop their fight until one is dead.
The media tries their best to sell this as sectarian violence, but it really has nothing to do with Islam.
The only thing they hate more than each other is Israel.
even then, islam has cyclical effect of people transitioning into mysticism/secularism and then a fundamentalism movement is born and takes over
perennial martin luther that beheads people
The sand-people will return, and in greater numbers.
That's why I'm not averse to them going at it full throttle.
Trump just embarked on a good will mission to the third world. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXiF-uhq_RY
The God Emperor has shown patience to the barbarians.....
ROFL
I bet some people were cussing when he made this trip.
