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The US government is telling you in plain English that an attack on Saudi oil is an attack on America. Saudi Aramco = America. They've stopped trying to even conceal the fact that we're living in a globe-spanning plutocratic empire.
You know things are getting crazier because "an attack on Saudi oil is an attack on America" was a satirical line from The Onion four months ago.
These increasingly brazen acknowledgements that Washington DC is the capital of an empire are also seen today in the way US government officials are treating the Solomon Islands' diplomatic pivot to China over Taiwan as a secession from the union.
