• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I have to wonder, are you and people like you just making a common joke? Or do you really think the US extracted oil from Afghanistan? Because they didn’t. They used the invasion to strong arm OPEC; but they themselves didn’t take oil. It wasn’t about increasing oil supply.

    The US grew heroin there instead. And only left when stronger synthetics (fentanyl) made heroin unprofitable.

    • hector@lemmy.today
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      2 hours ago

      The government and taxpayers did not receive a single benefit from Iraq or Afghanistan despite paying for it all.

      And yes true to form the CIA used money from the drug trade to pay for Black Ops we can presume.

      But that does not mean that our political leaders and their donor Pals did not get oil from Iraq. All gains are privatized and kicked back to the polits.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      I was under the impression that the point was to decrease the oil supply to force people to buy more American oil.