Libya: So it was all about oil after all!

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So, when do we invade Nigeria?

 

[forumstalker]

Yet fascinatingly, in Afghanistan...
Conservation Bulletin, Summer 2011, Issue 66 “The Heritage of Death”, published by English Heritage, available online Conservation Bulletin | English Heritage

The key quote being: "...The United States and other Western nations that have borne the brunt of the cost of the Afghan war have been conspicuously absent from the bidding process on Afghanistan’s mineral deposits, leaving it to mostly to regional powers..."

I dunno, maybe it's not always about natural resources...

Haha, he implies the Type 45 is a "super destroyer". I'm proud of the effort gone into them and what they can do compared to the Type 42s, but calling them that is a bit hysterical!

 

[King Solomon]

Yet fascinatingly, in Afghanistan...
Conservation Bulletin, Summer 2011, Issue 66 “The Heritage of Death”, published by English Heritage, available online Conservation Bulletin | English Heritage

The key quote being: "...The United States and other Western nations that have borne the brunt of the cost of the Afghan war have been conspicuously absent from the bidding process on Afghanistan’s mineral deposits, leaving it to mostly to regional powers..."

I dunno, maybe it's not always about natural resources...

Haha, he implies the Type 45 is a "super destroyer". I'm proud of the effort gone into them and what they can do compared to the Type 42s, but calling them that is a bit hysterical!

Ofc its not all about oil/natural resources. As I outlined above, Libyan invasion had plenty other motives beside oil.

Afghan invasion was mostly to prevent a regional alliance (SCO) from becoming a full-fledged economic and military alliance. Due to Afghan invasion Pakistan and Iran cannot be included in SCO. Besides, there are others such as : Keep opium trade alive (Opium trade flourished after Taliban fell), Destroy and de-nuclearize Pakistan (in the process) and give India a stronghold in Afghanistan to keep China in check. etc!

 

[Cheetah786]

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So, when do we invade Nigeria?

Nigeria's President Umaru Yar-Adua who won office in one of Nigeria's most spectacularly rigged elections. That's saying a lot, since Nigeria is without doubt the world's most corrupt nation. But Nigeria has oil, and may supply up to 25% of America's future requirements. The US is also building bases in West Africa to oversee the region's growing oil exports.

Obedient western-backed dictators who rig elections are hailed as "statesmen." Insubordinate rulers who don't cooperate are branded "dictators" or "tyrants."

Invited guests at the G8 summit included Ethiopia, which is inflicting wide-scale atrocities in Somalia and on its own Oromo minority, and is now facing another major famine. Oil and gas-rich Algeria, whose brutal military rulers, one of the world's most repressive regimes, proudly call themselves "the eradicators."

 

[Cheetah786]

You link to a blog of some nobody? What else, right.....

..after reading a bit around that site it's quite clear thig guy has a thing for the UK in regards to the Falklands island war....So, a biased source as well as a nobody...you are Pro.

#edit: uh nevermind, it says he works for RT Spain. A beacon of objectivity and impartiality!

France feels like a winner as the first power to recognize Libya's rebels, the first to bomb the country and now the first in talks with rebel leaders. Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says victory gives him “great satisfaction.”

Opposition MP Jack Lang adds that “everyone can be thankful that France inspired action at the United Nations.” Corporations in states that voted for the UN intervention in Libya are certainly now rubbing their hands.

“One of the first members of the French team in Bengazhi in March was a representative of Total, the French oil company, and Total is not very far from all this of course,” says Rony Braumann, president of Doctors without Borders (1982-1994).

French oil giant Total has been named as this war's big winner. Rebel oil firm AGOCO has threatened to block Brazil, Russia and China for “political issues”. They are three states who refused strong sanctions against Gaddafi.

Those nations had vast contracts with the former regime. One Russian official says “we've lost Libya completely.”

“It's well known it's a war for oil, the so-called opposition government has promised to give the oil to France,” investigative journalist Michel Collon told RT.

France officially claims its war mission is over. But analysts tip it to secretly stay on in Libya, and make sure it profits.

France and the UK are maintaining their military presence in Libya, even though it's not part of the resolution,” Pierre Guerlain of Paris West University has said.