Lindsey Graham, the veteran Republican senator who has been pushing for war against Iran for decades, has issued a dire warning to the Iranian government, saying it was worth spending money to “take this regime down”.
“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going [to] make a tonne of money,” Graham, a longtime proponent of US military intervention abroad, told Fox News on Sunday.
Graham, who has been one of the Trump administration’s most vocal supporters of Israel and the war against Iran, appeared to suggest that the US abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro and the attack on Iran were launched to gain control over each country’s oil supplies.
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves. This is China’s nightmare. This is a good investment,” said Graham.
Conservatives are so clownishly selfish.
They’re the hamster that gets mad at the other hamster and shits in the shared food bowl out of spite.
I guess that’s ok then. Just go to war for money, loke every fascist regime ever.
Lots of people made lots of money off the German Nazis.
That didnt make it right then, and it doesnt make it right now.
Same old Republican party. Waste of oxygen IMHO.
No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it’s worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
The hilarious thing is that the American voter is supposed to be thinking of themselves when he says “we”. I would kinda understand the logic of continuing the forever war as a voter if everyone got a fat check once we ended the Iraq war. At least then I could understand that it is pure greed driving people to vote for war mongers.
In the end “we” is a small group of oil barons who made billions while footing the multi trillion bill to the tax payer. Unfortunately this just means that the average voter is greedy, but to stupid to actually benefit from their own avarice.
Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.
Golden Shower economics, surely the rich will start pissing on our heads any day now.
Meanwhile, China has been hard focused on renewables and lowering their need for oil.
Good plan Lindsey…if it was 2006 not 2026.
These old fucks are still thinking like it’s 1986.
They have a big focus on nuclear power as well, they have 59 operating nuclear power plants with over 28 under construction. Nuclear is just as important as renewables at this current time in our technological evolution. We need better energy storage technology for pure renewable to work well.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
That will never happen, without scarcity they can’t make obscene profits year over year so Fusion will be patented and shelved.
Fuck you “we.” “We” who!? When oil companies profit “we” don’t see a fucking dime of that money especially with your corporate “taxation” bullshit where they get loophole after loophole to pay nothing.
Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they’re dropping on Iranian kids.
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to put into words how much I hate them.
BUY A BIKE!!!
Remember when we joked about america invading anything for oil and then we all stopped for a bit because they tried to convince us that there was more to the US than being the state equivelent of a crackhead with a dozen shotguns? And then they launched a self described war to bring about the apocalypse and also steal all the oil… can we stop pretending everything is ok!?
This is China’s nightmare
Forget everything else, this is the essence of it.
The one thing you want even less than the Near East dominated by US oil interests is a Near East dominated by the Chinese.
Then maybe the West shouldn’t have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they’re using to hang them with.
Even some of the near east is starting to think about what happens when the goo runs out. Only the US is doubking down.
Then maybe the West shouldn’t have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they’re using to hang them with.
Yeah, thats… kinda unfortunate. Everywhere, anything resembling longterm strategic planning went out the window with the fall of the USSR. With the possible exception of France.
Aaaannnddd there it is!
It’s all the American government has ever cared about.
Assault! Homicide! Blood for money, money!
As if there was any pretext before
Believe in the underpants gnomes theory!
- Invade Iran at an estimated $1B a day and service men dying. And do that for several months (I hope not longer)
- …
- Profit!
Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator’s pockets via the MIC.
Who do you think that billion dollars a day goes to?
Is step 1 also Profit!?
And it’s the same people. Who are also clever enough to profit from a bull market or a bear market. Who cares, just as long as one or the other doesn’t stay too long so they can profit off the swing.
Profit every step of they way.
Petroleum based economy and governmebt craves petroleum at any cost.
And ironically seek to make the economy even more petroleum-dependent even though alternatives have gone from barely workable to actually superior.
We’re going to have the HOTTEST economy ever! - MAGA
It is a hot economy when everything is on fire…
Americans, for a ton of money they will sell their own mother, zero morality.
Oh fuck off. You’re not the victim here.
Thank you for your shitty reply. I’m glad to know who you are so I can eliminate seeing anything from you in future. It’s delightful when people just come out and let you know the kind of person they are.
Just an upstanding member of Harris’s coalition, nothing to see here.
Edit: WTF I mixed him up with Dick Cheney. Nothing to see here folks.
Is Harris in the room with us now?
She really living rent free up there
