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.
Kinda saying the quiet part loud there, aren’t you, Lindsey? In prior decades the government at least pretended its wars were about anything other than oil…
No it’s not. China has been embracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.
War isn’t a fucking investment! Are dollar signs all you see?
I’m not usually one to talk nice about the PRC, but in this case it’s just the truth.
And if the US is turning into an authoritarian oligarchy surveillance state, then I might as well side with the authoritarian oligarchy surveillance state that’s at least converting to green energy. There’s literally no reason to side with the US against China anymore, and it’s the US’s own damn fault!
China has never produced a lot of energy relying on oil in the first place. They did improve a lot adding renewables to the pie, but sadly, they still heavily rely on coal.
China has a 100 year plan, the orange dotard himself doesn’t know what he is going to be doing in the next 100 minutes…
Oil is still very useful. Especially when we stop burning it to make cars go forward or to fertilize crops.
A mostly electric future is a safer place
Another point I don’t see brought up often is how much we use oil for basically everything else. Clothing (polyester), packaging, flooring, so many consumer goods globally are made from polymers. I hate it but the oil problem doesn’t go away with just transitioning to renewables for energy.
The biggest use of oil is in the energy to run transportation.
Not that the would problem would go away but it would be an actual manageable problem.