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Re:Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco by nemothekid on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:23PM (#27829307)
>The USA sends in some aid for the Queen ... That is exactly what happened in Iran

This seem disingenuous as you completely remove the motivations of the actors. You forgot the part where the US bribes the queen to dissolve the parliament so that Boris doesn't nationalize British Petroleum. That's a HUGE detail that you are handwaving away.

So yes, if the US bribed the queen to dissolve parliament because the people of UK democratically decided to nationalize BP, that would be a very bad thing even though the queen "has the absolute right to do" so.

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Re:Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:28PM (#27829350)
> You forgot the part where the US bribes the queen to dissolve the parliament so that Boris doesn't nationalize British Petroleum

Also the part where the CIA pays for and stages a coup attempt just so that it can use it as a pretext to use other forces that it is also paying to suppress the armed uprising on behalf of the Queen, with the resulting security situation being the public pretext used for the disillusion of parliament.

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Re:Dividend Cripples Saudi Aramco by p_l on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:59PM (#27836936)
Also don't forget US-trained and provided for oppression campaign which radicalizes opposition and ends up in revolution and ultimately the heavily religious shift.
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