Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare

Re:Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare by Kaveren on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:22PM (#18506579)

I think that's an oversimplification of current affairs. It's complicated. Iran wants to spread its sect of Islam, and that is at odds with a lot of the Arab world. Iran also hates Israel much more than Saudi Arabia does, and that comes into play. The Middle East is also important because of radical Islam (you can debate the role of Saudi Arabia in 9/11 and whatnot but I don't see that being about oil).

I don't see how the coup in 1953 means that we don't have a distaste for Iran today. Obviously it's an important part of recent history, but the government is not the same. The US and the UK used to fight in wars, but now we are allies.

Arms deals don't go back to oil because it benefits the American military industrial complex, not the energy industry.

Edit: Clarified statement on coup.

Edit again: I clicked on your old unedited link so I replied to a false understanding of what your point was, now my reply looks dumb.

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Re:Texas Is About to Create OPEC’s Worst Nightmare by rcMgD2BwE72F on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:37PM (#18506659)

Sorry for the late link change, it was to correct a copy-paste error

>Iran wants to spread its sect of Islam, and that is at odds with a lot of the Arab world

That had nothing to do with the US.

>I don't see how the coup in 1953 means that we don't have a distaste for Iran today

I understand that the Iranian Revolution is an obvious reaction to the 1953 coup, which made the two nations distaste one another for a gooood time. Without oil, no coup. Without the coup, one less big reason for Iranians to put Islamist to power and chant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_America

All these things became complicated because of oil. Switching to renewables would slowly but surely simplify all of this.

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