frigidweirdo
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You guys are idiots if you think the collapse of oil prices is because of some ingenious US foreign policy.
Our foreign policy is a cluster fuck at this point. Obama may have run a clean presidency and have been pretty good with domestic policy but his foreign policy leaves a lot to be desired.
And Israel certainly had exactly nothing to do with it.
No ingenious foreign policy at all. Taking out OPEC members in no ingenious.
However you only need look at what the US has done to the four OPEC members who were opposed to the US in 2001, to see where US foreign policy lies.
Syria? Fuck Syria, who cares about Syria? Not worth invading. The Ivory Coast? Where?
Libya, hell yeah, Libya is bad and evil and needs to be taken down instantly.
However it's not just this that has led to lower oil prices. However this has helped massively.
So the nations in the Gulf that are the leaders of OPEC and produce the most oil are who exactly. Would it be Saudi, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE by any chance ?
You don't seem to understand what I'm saying.
Those countries aren't anti-American.
If OPEC isn't strong, then they can't work together to do as they wish. If they are united, then they control like 40-50% of the oil in the world. That's a lot.
Now OPEC are weak, and have been since those who tried to bring OPEC together and form a proper cartel, ie, Hugo Chavez and he had an easy task to convince Iran, Libya and Iraq, with four countries on side, it's easier to get a few more OPEC countries on board. With no one to lead them towards being against US interests, then what?