The oil wars: How America's energy obsession wrecked the Middle East | Eugene Gholz | Big Think

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Funny you claim it's about oil yet we get 50% of our Oil from Canada and another 10% from Mexico, The middle east only accounts for 3% of U.S. oil. and the U.S. hasn't relied on Middle Eastern Oil since the 70s, but keep pumping out lies.

only if America came to know that North Korea have oils..............rest is history 💀💀

All these problems because the American v8 engine

You still spread the same lies of the whole radical islam and Sunni vs shia nonsense

Oil💀

you can see it in the brothers eye, his country is guilty of henious war crimes and they rub it off as if was the recipient country fault.
We are a failed world , one that does not deserve this planet , our human nature consumes us and the innocent and the poor are left to suffer for our inner faults.

Do not forgive America as a state .
War on terror is not true.
They fabricate and have history of killing in there own country.
As aSwede I'll tell you this country is not well.
All this admiration .do you really put yourself lower than this to admire this self-proclaimed importance.
I have seen real order and unbelievable peace and happiness growing up in sweden and the respect for others and appreciation .
I am sorry this is so low and primitive operation internationally.
I want nothing to do with this terror freakshow.

These wars are the reason for immigration crisis

Great way to look at ourselves and understand how to back away from unmeasurable means and come back down to a level that gains normalcy levels before a scenario of crisis; so, that other countries are not affected by interrogative and obscene reasoning of fault by culture differences that are not true but are used to ignite fights and squirrels to produce division in different local groups that needs to end so that energy and different occurrences do not occur. It's important to stop bad occurrences so that better and good occurrences can occur. A tree grow's when you water it, not when you smoke it- true.

It is great to have Biden in office. World record oil production!

Then why the hell did they invade Iraq If the global oil market can adapt ??? Surely the administration knows that the market can respond even if there are disruptions due to political instability

The US has plenty of oil on our own soil. But the US would rather murder millions for there oil.

America for the winn, in all situations. Here Here😊

The only thing wrong with this video is that you assume its an accident that the west created chaos in the middle east. Its not a mjstake. Its part of the plan. What isnt part of the plan is the people in the west protesting against it

The United States has always looked for easy answers to difficult questions, and because they haven't found them or have imagined they have, the solutions have been very black and white. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan have been unnecessary. Hindsight is always easy, but you could say that even the US alliance with the Soviet Union during World War II was a mistake, even though the Nazi regime fell. Securing oil resources has also been very expensive, considering how much money is spent on wars, maintaining the armed forces and trade. Maybe someone has benefited and someone hasn't.

First Trump then Biden.... Yep Americans don't understand their own politics

Proud to be American still?

USA there for ISREAL

“No one would have guessed that Donald Trump would win the election.”

Lol. Lmao even.

God bless America. Go on boys smash this muslim infidels:)))))) next one is Pakistan worst nation in the world. I will support that.

Has anyone ever though that maybe the true reason why the US is obsessed with oil is not to "protect" the global oil market, but to manipulate it in ways that benefit its petrodollar as well as to maintain its global geopolitical hegemony by putting pressure on nations to become more dependent on US/Canadian oil/gas?

Since the fall of the USSR in 1991, the overarching goal of the USA has been to maintain its position as the supreme global superpower. China and Russia - both with massive amounts of resources and relatively powerful economies and militaries pose a challenge to this. The US has been terrified that Russia would end up with more influence over Europe through Europe's dependence on cheap Russian oil/gas, which could threaten its hegemony and thus wants to keep its dominion over Europe. Part of how it plans to do this is by switching European oil/gas dependence from Russia to North America. If you've been paying attention to what the USA has been doing internally for the past 30+ years, you'll notice its psychotic obsession with drilling oil and fracking gas everywhere. It's doing so because that infrastructure is what's needed to get domestic production levels to a power where the USA can compete with Russia to make Europe dependent on North American oil/gas. If you also pay attention to the places the USA has been getting involved in, you'll notice it picking fights with or destabilizing large oil and gas producing nations: Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Yemen, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, etc...Governments can't stabilize oil prices or compete with North American oil/gas if they're destabilized, decreased oil production means record prices which means record profits for US/Canadian oil companies.



P.S. There's an recent interview with Condaleeza Rice about oil and gas where she literally tells the interviewer that the goal is to transition European dependence from Russian to North American oil/gas. It's not even a secret.

"We didn't get their oil, we just made them desperate to want to sell their oil at heavily discounted prices and we traded stability for their oil. So, we didn't take Iraq's oil. Technically."

Why countries fight for oil, instead buy it from grocery store


World peace with one step at a time.

This can all be fixed in an easy way,GET THE US TO CONVERT TO RENEWABLE ENERGY

I dont think most these people are evil; I think they are fucking retarded. At some point in the last century, the elite sat down and knew full damn well that we didnt have to keep doing capitalism; that technology has presented the opportunity to settle down, prosper, and still insure law and order. No. Same as it ever was, the evil people always seep through the cracks and take advantage of everything. Doing the right thing is rarely an incentive. It is wild to me that we cant fucking admit that its time to flip it all inside out and just do ANYTHING else. ANYTHING else sounds stupid until about ...idk.... 4 decades ago. Ban capitalism as if it was gambling.

The History will never forget, will never forgive.

You are on the wrong side of history. Iraq was invaded because Saddam Hussein tried to ditch the dollar. Historians agree that the US fabricated the lie about WMD.

Oil is America's Kryptonite

Do not mess with their wealth as it all comes from blood 🤐🩸Dead Sea

What the fuk u mean Muslim controlling the middle East, it's their land.

Gee,too bad there is no oil Here at home.

Yes. America was energy independent from the rest of the world when Trump was president. No more need for wars over oil like in the 1970's, 80.s, 90s and later. Now, the Biden/Obama administration screwed America by claiming its new goal was to reverse it's fake climate change impacts. Dear American Kids: You need to understand this more than the Biden/Obama administration wants you to. If you don't trust me...do some research on your own...if you aren't too lazy...and prefer just to believe the fake information this Biden/Obama administration is spoon feeding to you. I am certain that you are smarter than that. Check it out! Take care. Gd bless!

Thanks

The United States, Great Britian and France conquest of the Suez Canal gave them a taste of blood seeing the Middle East as Middle Age tribes with no technology to exploit and conquer many lands in the Middle East. Isreal alone and all the instability in the Middle East was all the work of the west to keep control of the Suez Canal which ultimately was the main transport for the oil that was being drilled in the Saudi Arabia UAE and Kuwait.. if there was oil in Iraq like there was in those countries the US would have stayed there this whole time and blamed it on war on terror which was literally just a war on a “gang” of no more than 2-3000 kids and young adults brainwashed by the older men to fight for their lands that are being exploited by the west for oil leaving their dirty satanic lifestyle with them.. I promise if the Middle East didn’t have any oil or the Suez Canal the west would have never cared for the state of isreal and the Middle East would be the most peaceful region in the whole world. It’s always the big superpowers that try to invade(Russia to afghan, the Allies to isreal for the Suez canal, the Americans to the oil rich Kuwait UAE and Saudi Arabia) that bring war and instability with them that stays for decades on end.. I think it was very hypocritical that the U.S went to war with Iraq because they wanted to setup a base in Kuwait to get some of that oil when they literally had bases themselves in Kuwait UAE and Saudi Arabia lol .. and we wonder why the Middle East hates Americans.. the little tragedy of 9/11 where 2000 people died was nothing compared to all the innocent civilian children women and men that were murdered in the millions in Iraq and Afghanistan from their powerful AC130s.. they would just shoot explosives that could wipe out miles of a region because they thought they had intel that a few bad gang members were in the region do they decided to blow up a whole city full of civilians and no one says anything about that except that 9/11 was worth the millions of dead innocent children and women smh.. I’m surprised that the Middle East didn’t do anything more compared to what america has done to them ever since the Suez canal.. I mean millions of kids is never worth a few thousand because of a GANG CALLED AL-Queda

This explains why Israel was created! That is why Israel gets supported by America and Britain to keep the Muslims country divided.

Creating a hostile environments shame

All the country’s including china, don’t mess with United States 🇺🇸. They have the best, and most modern country. I’m so lucky I live in the United States 🇺🇸.

Sadly, other countries haven't stepped up their gas production enough in order to compensate for Putin's shutdown of the gas going to Europe.

So if this mechanism applies to all natural ressources then it takes at least more than a month before the process has been completed.

At this point, i'm on Russia's side