Societies outside of the Middle East have changed, time and again, on some cases radically, and also in rather short periods of time.
Been there done that: From Oil to Coal to Oil to Ethanol to Gas to, this time, national Oil.
They want to sell me Oil, good for them, even though I don't need their's anymore, they run out of Oil, bad for them, and when they run out, things will change again, maybe radically, maybe in a short period of time, but life will go on, mankind will have to learn to live without Middle Eastern Oil for better or for worse, it may hurt, it may be a disaster, but it will be certainly worse for the Middle East, over there they depend on it and haven't endured as many changes in a relatively longer period of time, if the system that supports law and order suddenly gets cut, I can only wish them good luck.
Oil is a thing of the past, I'm not careless, I simply care more about the future, I'm more interested to know who will succeed in creating the world's first fusion reactor and who's gonna mine the Moon, if the Middle East had cared more about the future in the past, perhaps today they wouldn't lag behind Israel, an infant modern nation, in the scientifical field, and maybe they would present the world with the first fusion reactor.
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