• SippyCup@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Assuming human civilization lasts this long, in a hundred years they’re going to call this period the Resource Wars.

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      24 hours ago

      A lot of wars are over resources. The Gulf War and Iraq War were fairly recent wars that were also specifically over oil on the middle east.

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          16 hours ago

          You can make an argument everything is economics, but I don’t think Trump got into this war for economic reasons (other actors may have, but not Trump)

          • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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            12 hours ago

            Trump’s a useful idiot with motivations like “being near gold”, “not shitting himself”, and “getting away with fucking kids”. I guarantee the guys at raytheon, palantir, haliburton et al ran the numbers before they let him start dropping bombs