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Re:MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE by whatshisface on Thursday April 04, 2019 @02:22PM (#19575487)
>We pretty much invaded Iraq for the oil.

I have heard that before, but did we ever get any oil out of it? Was there ever any chance of getting any oil out of it?

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Re:MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE by cf498 on Sunday April 07, 2019 @05:25AM (#19595749)
The interesting part about oil is not so much who can extract it but who controls if it gets extracted. Which in turn means who can control the oil price by extracting more or less of it.
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Re:MIT cuts ties with Chinese tech firms Huawei, ZTE by chrischen on Thursday April 04, 2019 @03:12PM (#19576008)
By securing the region they almost definitely factored in the control of the oil.

Obviously they couldn’t factor in the eventual shit show and complete destabilization of the region that spawned Daesh/ISIS.

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