Archived Why Russia is Serious About Fighting Terrorism and the US Isnt (journal-neo.org)
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Archived Why Russia is Serious About Fighting Terrorism and the US Isnt (journal-neo.org)
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[–] pray_the_gay_away 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This is about oil. Oil makes the world go round. And if everyone uses your currency to trade oil, you can use your central bank to print it.
For decades, oil has been traded in dollars which has given the US an enormous economic advantage. But in the mid 2000s with the rise of China, that paradigm started to collapse, so the US invaded Iraq to securure dollar denominated oil markets.
Enter Barack Obama, the shittiest US president to ever serve, who bombed 8 countries and turned the ME into a steaming pile of crap because he used Sunni extremists to accomplish this goal. Them Putin comes along, and in a masterstroke of foreign policy, props up a series of dictators to restore order to the region, kills the terrorists, and effectively becomes a hero. Now the oil markets are his, and the US is fucked.
tl;Dr everyone is a terrorist for fucks sake. But Putin just won the game. And rightfully so.