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Originally Posted by Bazia
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we produce almost double the oil russia does annually, so tell me again why americans should care
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Okay, so there's this thing called the Atlantic Ocean, and it kind of makes shipping natural gas and even oil (although honestly, oil is easymode, but it is still a lot cheaper to not transport it that far) to Europe pretty fucking hard, but mostly the natural gas. This big, big wet thing means that our geopolitical rival (Russia) doesn't have to bother with all of this expensive, annoying business, and can just pipe it all right to Europe or ship it far shorter distances in expensive LNG ships as natural gas requires liquefaction before it can be shipped overseas (this is our big problem in the states fyi, the process is expensive).
Perhaps you have now come to the realization that our rival having control of most of our allies energy sectors is not a good thing, and that could do rather serious things to the current global balance of power that we do not want. Hopefully.
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says the guy agitating for poor white kids from arkansas to protect sunni muslim kurdish terrorists
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A) That kid signed up to join the military to protect America's interests
B) This is America's interest
C) The Kurdish population is in the tens of millions, generalizing them as terrorists is stupid
D) Conflating the Kurds in general with the PKK is an extremely incorrect brainlet view.
E) We have been operating in conjunction with the Kurds since before even Gulf War 1. We've stabbed them in the backs multiple times, but they are an absolutely different breed from Sunni terrorists.