I can’t figure out why we are so concerned about the Middle East. Can you?
If we are swimming in shale oil and our future is driver-less electric cars, why are we so concerned about the Middle East?
After 15 years in Afghanistan, the opium crop is at record high levels. How could that be? I thought we were there to modernize and democratize their country. At least heroine in the U.S. is now cheaper than a happy meal at McDonalds.
Saudi Arabia, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Iran, and Oman were all among the top 15 exporters of crude oil in 2015. Russia and Kazakhstan, countries on the Central Asian part of the map, were also members of that same group.
Regimes in the region found that there were many other corollary benefits from this economic might. Unrest could be stifled by rising wealth, and these countries would also have more influence than they otherwise would in global affairs. Saudi Arabia is a good example in both cases, though a major driver of Saudi influence has been slipping in recent years.
Outside of Oil
Aside from exports of oil, there are some other interesting subtleties to this map. One of the most advanced economies in the region, Israel, is not dependent on oil exports at all. The country has had to find other ways to create value in the global market and its three major exports include electronics and software, cut diamonds, and pharmaceuticals.
War-torn Afghanistan, which is not a significant producer of petroleum on the world market, gets the majority of its export revenue from different natural resource. Opium is Afghanistan’s most valuable cash crop, and opiates such as opium, morphine, and heroin are its largest export. Fetching an estimated value of $3 billion at border prices, it was estimated to make up about 15% of the country’s GDP equivalent in 2013.
Lastly, countries on the map without oil wealth tend to be less influential on the world stage from a geopolitical perspective. Armenia, for example, mainly exports pig iron, unwrought copper, and nonferrous metals and is the world’s 138th largest exporter by dollar value, ranked in between Jamaica and Swaziland. Surrounded geographically by countries that Yerevan considers hostile, Armenia has increasingly turned to Russia for its support.
Hmmm
“We” are not overly interested in the Middle East. Back in 2000 Israel was getting very frustrated. They wanted to annex the rest of Palestine. They had over 40,000 troops literally sitting on the border waiting in the days leading up to 9-11. (another amazing Israeli 9-11 coincidence) But until Israel staged their false flag op on 9-11 the world, in general, and the US specifically continued to block Israel’s lust for Palestine. The reason the US suddenly became “interested” in the Middle East was because Israel created the perfect “Pearl Harbor type event” as called for by their agents in Washington just months before 9-11. And in setting up this false flag, Israel planted evidence which pointed to “Muslims”. Despite Israel’s heavy handed attempts at planting evidence, the phony phone calls from the planes that turned out to be physically impossible, the perfectly preserved passport found in the rubble of the towers. 2 110 story skyscrapers weighting millions of tons are turned into dust and rubble, but the Muslim terrorist’s passport is found in perfect condition, obvious plant. Then there was the steady stream of “intelligence reports” that named Islamic fundamentalists as the bad guys. Naturally it quickly became clear that the vast majority of this “intel” was coming from……Israel.
At this late date, it is now painfully obvious to even the casual observer, that Israel was responsible for 9-11. The purpose of the attack was to trick the American people into accepting the destruction of the 3/4 of the entire Middle East (Minus the oil fields, production facilities and pipelines of course- the fact that they remained relatively untouched is a massive red flag in itself) the 3/4 of the Middle East that opposed Israel’s annexation of Palestine, the Golan Heights etc. etc. ) T
The plan was simple: get the US to invade and destroy all the vital civilian and military infrastructure in in Libya, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and eventually Iran. After which the current governments could be toppled and puppet regimes more favorable to Israel installed. But, governments which under no circumstances had the power or resources to oppose Israel’s ongoing death and destruction as it annexes the region. The countries the US destroyed also just happen to coincide exactly with the Zionists dream of a Jewish only empire from sea to sea.
By the way, those 40,000 Israeli troops on the border on 9-11, poured into Palestine in the days following 9-11. As of 2016 Israel has effectively annexed Palestine and is busy exterminating the remaining Palestine Muslims and Christians who refuse to leave. Israel is also waging with help from Turkey and the US to complete the destruction of Syria to enable Israel to steal the Golan Heights. Syria got a last minute reprieve when Putin decided enough was enough and stepped in. Though at this point I don’t believe the Syrian people and their duly democratically elected government will survive intact if Russia decides to leave.
@DD,
You have given a fair assessment of the situation.
Collusion and conspiracy are obvious. The passport/ID
left/”found” at various “terror attacks” events apparently
is a signature tell.
A good question would be, when will the perps/dual citizens
be thrown out of the US gov? After all, the intentions/plans
have been written about and are in plain sight. War crimes
have been committed against so many for the “greater good”
of Israel? Another one is, why is the US Israel’s biatch?
There have been rumors of intended law suits far and
near for financial crimes. Thus TTP, “to protect the banks,”
and give them immunity. The corporations can literally put
shite into our food, and we are banned from knowing about it.
The gov can spray into our skies with a toxic brew, and apparently
they are dumping viruses now. Corps are allowed to dump their
industrial waste and all variety of garbage into oceans and waterways
freely and without penalty and destroy ecosystems.
Why and what exactly is the plan? Israel becomes the world’s bank
and the world’s central authority? Extraneous peoples are to be
either exterminated or driven into abject poverty and eventually starve?
It is getting more obvious that the tiny country is vastly influential. And
patently evil. Greedy beyond avarice and diabolical. Something has to
be done. But, so far the US and GB seem to be captured and are acting
to advance the grand scheme. Why? Is it so some colluders are given
extra monies to feather their nests…or are they just useful idiots?
More questions than answers.
I read in a USAF Air War Staff College textbook prior to the Vietnam War that the oil companies thought that there was a lot of oil to be found in SE Asia. That was added to the list of reasons (Communist Human Rights Violations, Domino Theory, Global Sea Lanes, etc) that we should assist South Vietnam resist Communist aggression.
Venezuela has the worlds largest proven oil reserves of any single country that has oil reserves.
Close to 300 billion barrels IIRC, and that’s a lot of oil.
That’s why they are a wealthy and prosperous country.
Anon, I think you mean Venezuela before it became a Socialist Cesspool.
The situation in Syria is directly tied to a planned natural gas pipeline – running from Qatar, up through the disaster previously known as Iraq, through Syria, to the Turkish coast, and (presumably) under the Mediterranean to Eurotopia. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar-Turkey_pipeline ]
Of course, if the Saudi-Qatari pipeline is going to provide natural gas to Eurotopia, the current provider (Russia) has to be denied access to that market.
The Russian natural gas pipelines, conveniently, mostly run through the ongoing disaster previously known as Ukraine.
Israel has also recently discovered – or, at least, admitted that there are – sizable natural gas deposits off their coast. It looks likely Israel has reached some sort of understanding with the Saudis – presumptively in exchange for access to the planned natural gas pipeline(s), and thus to the European market.
[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leviathan_gas_field ]
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