Comment by bawolff
8 hours ago
US has tons of interests in the region. This is just as much for america's benefit as it is for Israel's.
8 hours ago
US has tons of interests in the region. This is just as much for america's benefit as it is for Israel's.
"Interests." I'd love to know what the price per barrel the U.S. has paid in the last few years when you factor in additional costs incurred due to involvement in Iraq and Syria.
While oil is a major interest its hardly the only one.
USA is still playing at being world hegemon in competition with china and to a lesser extent russia. Maintaining alliances is a part of that.
> USA is still playing at being world hegemon in competition with china and to a lesser extent russia. Maintaining alliances is a part of that.
The US has been actively disrupting its most critical alliance, NATO, recently. Threatening to invade an allied nation's territory or force them to hand it over to us to prevent an invasion. Now threatening to block trade with NATO nations. The current administration is doing a terrible job of maintaining alliances.
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We're certainly paying more than it'd cost to just drive EVs.
Retail fuel prices are already higher than that, even ignoring subsidies, military operations and environmental externalities.
This is not in the US's interest at all. What do we get out of destabilizing the region? This is entirely for Israel.
This won't help Israelis.
It will help multiple industrial military complexes on both sides of the conflict.
> This is just as much for america's benefit as it is for Israel's.
Citation needed.