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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
You really think that we sent troops to Afghanistan for oil?
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He is right, but the reason is not that obvious. It is not about the opil industry in Afghanistan itzself, but the trafficking schemes of oil distribution, and establishing covering shields for pipelines running in and through that region.
It is much the same with Iraq. Initially it was the reaction to 9/11 of course, but that reaction also opened a window of opportunity for what else would have been tried by other means. Here again it was not about stealing Iraqi oil by filling it into bottles and smuggling it out of the country, but abvout establishing as much ifnluence in the Iraqi oil industry as possible to be able to influence and if possible control the flow of oil from iraqi production: where does it go, how much gets priduced,
and who can optionally be denied to be supplied by Iraqi oil (China...). That Halliburton and Carlyle group and their subordinate contractors and comanies additionally tried to catch as many lobbied business cointracts at "profit-intensified" conditions int he wake of this operation, and at the cost of the American tax payer, was just the cream on the cake by which to take some word-leaders and key supervisors with close monetary ties to these companies (Cheney and the others) wanted to fill their own pockets and that of their buddies as well.
It's not always about oil in the meaning of getting it for oneself. But it is almost always - at least
also is about - about
global oil distribution and selling patterns, their control and manipulation, at least securing the options to manipulate them.
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On Afghanistan, I am still absolutely pessimiostic, as I always have been since I wrote that long long essay of mine in 2006. There will be no peace becasue a peaceful Afghanistan is absolutely against Paklistan'S interest which needs control and infleunce in Afghanistan to secure it as a geo-strategic resource against India, and to prevent India gaining influence in Afghanistan. One day Wetserners will be totally fed up, to a degree that even the meaniest of polticians no longer can sell to the public that the tropps must stay, then the armies from North america and Europoe will pullk out - and civil war will break out. Not too much has been gained in freedom and welath in Afghnaistan in the past 10 years - and the little that has been gained is doomed to get lost to Pakistan-influenced fundamentalists again, with tribe leaders again fighting for their own power and drug profits.
It's hopeless, and thus a waste of Western resources.