Why do we fight wars for Saudi Arabia — in Yemen, Libya and Syria?
Why do we sell Saudi Arabia weapons?
Why do we ignore Saudi financing of 9/11?
Why do we stand by as the Saudi prince murders journalists?
...Because they have us over a barrel (of oil).
The “petrodollar” is an arrangement whereby Saudia Arabia only accepts US dollars in payment for oil.
This boosts international demand for the dollar, empowering the Federal Reserve to print trillions financing our national debt without significant price inflation.
If Saudi Arabia were to end the petrodollar, the US dollar’s status as the world reserve currency would be threatened — and our ability to finance our global empire would be threatened as well.
The Mueller Investigation, enabled by the national corporate press, was a clear attempt by members of the Washington elite to gaslight the American public with a false narrative — and it worked.
Why did they wait until after the 2018 midterms to reveal that there was no evidence of Russian collusion?
Why was @RepAdamSchiff allowed to lie to the American public ahead of the elections, telling us all there was secret hard evidence of collusion?
The Mueller Investigation may have failed to prove “Russian Collusion,” but it succeeded in its real goal — blowing enough smoke to create the illusion of fire, sweeping Democrats into a majority in the House and setting the stage for a partisan, baseless impeachment.
Neocons in Washington DC have been standing in the way of potential diplomatic deals between Syria and the Kurds --- because they want to maintain an excuse to keep our soldiers in the region FOREVER.
Let the Kurds negotiate with Damascus --- and Turkey won't be a threat.
We can have concern for the lives of the Kurdish people, while also recognizing the solution cannot be permanent US occupation of the region.
America is not an empire, nor are our soldiers policemen of the world.
Turkey has been our ally in NATO for seventy years. They fear the emergence of an independent Kurdish state because of historical conflicts between the two peoples.
It is a tribal conflict lasting many generations that our soldiers should not be asked to stand between.