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After mocking Reagan's treaty. There is no doubt in Canada that the US will invade if we shut off the taps or demand more than the little we are now getting for our resources. That is how US friendship works.We've signed a treaty with Mexico and Canada.
Iran has again escalated by launching cruise missiles from Iran. It is not clear where the drones were launched from, but that matters little. Most of the oil capacity will be back on line soon. the effect on world oil prices has been minimal, and will be less whenever the US or others increase production or releases some reserves.
WHAT SHOULD THE US DO?
Congress doesn't know. There is no easy answer for anyone but the neocon hawks like Bolton who have wanted military strikes for a decade. Trump is waiting. He is consulting with Saudi Arabia, and will see the results of the Israeli election before acting.
One suggestion is that we give the Saudis all the military aid that they want, and have ZERO direct involvement by the US, other than the occasional advisor (as in Iraq). This theory would have withdraw from Afghanistan. After all, there is no real country, just 3 countries being forced together by the US.
Make America great again by returning to the ideals of WWII?We should sell both sides as much military weapons as they want. Then sit back and wait to see who wins.
We are capitalists and should start acting like capitalists. There is money to be made from war and we should be making as much money as we can
Make America great again by returning to the ideals of WWII?
Typical of the self serving will of man over loving all as self. Under those conditions we deserve annihilationWe do want to control the flow of oil on the planet. After all, that was why we invaded Iraq. It is a win/win for us if we sell them both weapons and then take over their oil fields after they are too weakened from fighting each other to stop us.
Chinese have a better idea. Nuke 'em all then send in a surplus of expendable population to harvest nuke free underground oil.It is a win/win for us if we sell them both weapons and then take over their oil fields after they are too weakened from fighting each other to stop us.
No, we should not. We are Israelis ally, they are not ours. We would gain nothing from the engagement.
Typical of the self serving will of man over loving all as self. Under those conditions we deserve annihilation
We can either let masses of people pathetically starve to death or give them the option of dying valiantly defending their country.
It's been considered here.they could turn our spigot off.
How noble. Do they get a flag to fly?
It's been considered here.
Tweet that we're locked and loaded, backtrack and do nothing, and then say we're waiting on the orders Saudi Arabia gives us.
True but I was referring to turning off our spigot to youThat we have considered turning off the spigot to others is why we know others might consider it against us. It pretty much is the mantra of America, "Do unto others before others do unto us...and make a profit while doing it".
And paid the price in a day when such actions were more politically correct, for bucking the military-industrial complexThankfully JFK was a good enough man to not want to utilize such sabotage.
There are those who think maybe Bush43 wasn't that good a man.....Honestly I don't know who to believe because United States is known for trying to make Wars happen by false rumors and even sabotage. Thankfully JFK was a good enough man to not want to utilize such sabotage.
Operation Northwoods - Wikipedia
Yes, I understand that reason to think it would be hard to make work.You need two parties willing to reach an accord. Egypt and Israel were at the time while Saudi Arabia and Iran are not now so inclined. Unlike the secular Egyptian and Israeli governments of the time, both Saudi Arabia and Iran are very much tied to powerful religious factions ( fundamentalist Sunni and Shiite) that view the other as apostates and have no tolerance for any compromise.
Carter was caught by surprise with that move engineered by Mossad.One of the amazing things about the Camp David Accord is that Egypt and Israel had fought several hot wars within the lifetimes of most of the people, and both leaders.
To answer the the op question: The United States should stay out of it...and go one step further, pull our military OUT of Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have more than enough firepower to take care of themselves.
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