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- cross-posted to:
- world@quokk.au
Lindsey Graham, the veteran Republican senator who has been pushing for war against Iran for decades, has issued a dire warning to the Iranian government, saying it was worth spending money to “take this regime down”.
“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going [to] make a tonne of money,” Graham, a longtime proponent of US military intervention abroad, told Fox News on Sunday.
Graham, who has been one of the Trump administration’s most vocal supporters of Israel and the war against Iran, appeared to suggest that the US abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro and the attack on Iran were launched to gain control over each country’s oil supplies.
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves. This is China’s nightmare. This is a good investment,” said Graham.
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Let me guess, polymarket
There’s no way he said tonne with the e at the end like that.
Shoddy reporting by Al Jazeera. Graham was clearly speaking American, not English.
Ah it’s the 2000s again. They’ll top it off with a global financial crisis. Probably the AI bubble collapsing or succeeding and destroying all the jobs.
Maybe the Americans will elect an Obama 2.0 after. Maybe not. There wasn’t MAGA last time. More likley it’ll be president mecha-Hitler or something this time around.
If we’re going by extremes maybe we can get a socialist president this time round? Actual universal healthcare?
Someone already made tonne of money on forex. Looking at the chart the war is over and it was just a forex scam.
Anyone else watch Rick and Morty, isn’t Graham basically Jerry in couple therapy place (mean outside of the ‘presenting’ that it does)? It’s just so subservient to whoever he latches on to. Mean from bomb Iran of McCain it just may be doing his previous hang on wishes here too. But seriously this guy is a senator that has a leadership ability of a wet noodle. Aren’t senators supposed to be strong in their own convictions? Mean maybe there’s lots I haven’t heard of Mr Graham but I don’t think McCain would be happy with his swap.
Least McCain had some principles and would now down to the orange turd, that’s the only good thing I saw from him (okay plus telling someone in an audience to be respectful of Obama, you’d never see that today)
Textbook psychopath. A truly immoral, sadistic, bloodthirsty bastard of the sort Hunter Thompson would conjure to represent the foulest archetype of American politics.
There is no textbook definition of psychopath that holds up to scrutiny or can even be verified using modern psychology research.
For those not old enough to remember, they said the Iraqi war would pay for itself with all of that oil.
It did not.
But, Graham isn’t talking “we” the US people, but “we” as in the club we’re not in, AKA bOtH pArTiEs Super Friends.
Make sure the shitbag’s grandchildren are fucking drafted! The MAGA fucks always said the USA has enough oil reserves to be self-sufficient. As usual, BS!
Conservatives are so clownishly selfish.
They’re the hamster that gets mad at the other hamster and shits in the shared food bowl out of spite.
meanwhile gas prices just doubled, thanks for that america. get rid of your fascist regime, please? :(
Please stop buying from the fascist regime and its allies, and please stop using the US dollar for international trade
please stop using the US dollar for international trade
Yeah I’ll get right on that, chief
Same old Republican party. Waste of oxygen IMHO.
Fantastic! That means no need to pay taxes for the next 3 years
No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it’s worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
The hilarious thing is that the American voter is supposed to be thinking of themselves when he says “we”. I would kinda understand the logic of continuing the forever war as a voter if everyone got a fat check once we ended the Iraq war. At least then I could understand that it is pure greed driving people to vote for war mongers.
In the end “we” is a small group of oil barons who made billions while footing the multi trillion bill to the tax payer. Unfortunately this just means that the average voter is greedy, but to stupid to actually benefit from their own avarice.
Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.
Golden Shower economics, surely the rich will start pissing on our heads any day now.
They softened it from horse and sparrow. See, if the horse eats enough there will be a lot left over for the sparrow that passes through undigested.
Basically, eat shit, commoners.
Fuck you “we.” “We” who!? When oil companies profit “we” don’t see a fucking dime of that money especially with your corporate “taxation” bullshit where they get loophole after loophole to pay nothing.
Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say “we” are going to benefit from their decisions.
“We, the people”… except for women, non white, non Protestants, poor, …
He means “the business.”
People like Graham treat the US like a corporation, and they are a model employee.
Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they’re dropping on Iranian kids.
Meanwhile, China has been hard focused on renewables and lowering their need for oil.
Good plan Lindsey…if it was 2006 not 2026.
These old fucks are still thinking like it’s 1986.
They have a big focus on nuclear power as well, they have 59 operating nuclear power plants with over 28 under construction. Nuclear is just as important as renewables at this current time in our technological evolution. We need better energy storage technology for pure renewable to work well.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
That will never happen, without scarcity they can’t make obscene profits year over year so Fusion will be patented and shelved.
In a capitalist country sure, maybe some other country’s will take advantage.
You don’t think America will attack another country to protect it’s economic intrests?
I don’t doubt it, I just doubt they’d go after china. They both know they have too much to lose from that
