Radiation spikes in Chernobyl

Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl by Retric on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:07PM (#30474374)

Oil is fungible so increasing or decreasing the global supply still impacts US prices. This is because unlike say concrete US suppliers can easily ship oil to the France if people in France are willing to pay more than US consumers.

Now that doesn’t mean the second Iraq war was about oil, but it does explain why we care more about the Middle East than say Africa.

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Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl by lazide on Saturday February 26, 2022 @12:00AM (#30475306)

Iraq was a lot more about making Hussein pay for various personal bs, expending vast amounts of built up ordnance, and getting the next set of officers combat experience than oil.

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Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl by arcticbull on Saturday February 26, 2022 @04:06PM (#30481970)

I always assumed it was just Bush Jr settling the Bush Sr vendetta for having not finished the job in the first Iraq war.

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Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl by arcticbull on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:09PM (#30474386)

That’s fine but the Iraqi government was already exporting their oil no?

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Re:Radiation spikes in Chernobyl by Retric on Friday February 25, 2022 @08:14PM (#30474422)

There where sanctions between the first and second Iraq war, so somewhat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iraq

Double checking and it does look like they increased after the war, though not to an extreme degree. Things had largely returned to normal by 2000. https://tradingeconomics.com/iraq/crude-oil-production

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