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in most folks view

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We went into Kuwait in, I forget, 1990 or 91, because Kuwait's sovereignty was breached. Ukraine's sovereignty was breached and we only provide weapons, and do not directly intervene.
We are the world's police. But you have to have oil.
Maybe in 50-years if you are invaded, we will be your police if you have solar and wind power, but for now, you have to have oil.

If Russia invaded Kuwait, we wouldn't have been in a shooting war to liberate them.

If Iraq invaded Ukraine, we probably would.

Because Russia has nukes and Iraq doesn't.

I would guess most people feel Putin can do whatever he wants, within reason

You're probably confused why there always seems to be problems in the middle east, huh?

Maybe it's because of all the sand.

The only thing oil had to do with the Iraq war was the fact that a defenseless Kuwait was invaded by Iraq

Kuwait has large oil reserves and the US wanted to restore Kuwait's freedom and stabilize the oil crises

The US did not retain ownership in the oil nor benefit from receiving any of it

The United Nations supported the US in this action

Every post like that only strengthens my idea that Putin can do whatever he wants.

We are about to find out if thats true

Every post like that only strengthens my idea that Putin can do whatever he wants.

^ terrified of COVID....fearless when it comes to potential nuclear war....

Not sure what oil has to do with it

I dont think the US got a drop of oil from the Iraq wars

nor was it the reason we went in

I do know this, Saddam started denominating his oil in euros exclusively instead of the US dollar in about 2001-2002. In 2003, the US invaded Iraq illegally on a bunch of trumped up bullsh*t charges that Iraq had WMD's and links to Al-Qaeda. Both of which were preposterous claims- even at the time. As soon as Saddam was toppled and the Ba'ath party was disbanded and US had control over most of the oil fields, Iraqi oil went right back to being denominated in US dollars.

Not sure it's ever about taking a drop of oil with these wars. US has plenty of oil on our own shores and so does our neighbor to the north Canada. It's about securing the flow of said oil and to another extent having it traded exclusively in US dollars.

US intelligence services helped Saddam's Ba'ath Party seize power in Iraq in 1963. Saddam was for all intents and purposes an American client. US backed him in the 70s and 80s. During the Iran-Iraq war, US shipped Iraq arms, helped train it's soldiers, gave them aid (money), intelligence, and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors. And as many as 90 US military advisors supported Iraqi forces and helped pick targets for Iraqi air and missile attacks on Iran.

He wasn't an enemy of the US until he started going against the wishes of Washington DC - ie - invading and annexing Kuwait.