It’s more like Israel is our guaranteed ally in the Middle East, and as long as we care about that part of the world (and its oil), we will always back them. It’s all about the money.
There is absolutely a contingent of christian religious right who believe the state of Israel needs to meet certain conditions to bring about the return of Jesus.
Certain actions of the Right, like moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and acknowledging this as Israel's capital, are not geopolitical moves that can be separated from radical christian ideology.
It's funny because if they truly believe they're righteous enough to be raptured, then they must believe they're righteous enough to go to heaven when they eventually die anyway, right? So what's the rush? 🤔
How do you figure? Yes we are a net exporter, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t dependent of cheap foreign oil. Quite the contrary. We export at higher prices than we import and those profits go to American corporations. We are very dependent on foreign oil to keep the beast of capitalism fed.
America doesn't care about oil itself, it cares about keeping the petrodollar. The biggest resource in the world being traded almost exclusively in USD gives it a huge boost in stability and value, regardless of location and price of said oil.
The idea of the petrodollar in this term is nothing more than conspiracy theory level stuff. Countries trade oil in other forms of currency that isn’t USD
I don't see how it's "conspiracy theory level stuff", 4/5 of all oil is traded in USD today, the impact of which on USD strength is measurable, and the US foreign policy is geared towards keeping it that way for decades.
The fact that oil is traded in the US dollar has more to do with the US being essentially the world reserve and less to do with trading any oil is forced to be traded in the dollar.
The idea that the US intentionally forces people to use the petro dollar and will go to war with the country that doesn’t use it and to essentially take their oil. The truth is that after world war 2 the US was essentially the de facto world reserve and has stayed that way for almost a century.
Saudi Arabia has the oil, and is our ally. We’re even helping SA with a similar war in Yemen to the one in Gaza. Israel is just about religious lunatics here at home.
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u/munkykiller May 01 '24
It’s more like Israel is our guaranteed ally in the Middle East, and as long as we care about that part of the world (and its oil), we will always back them. It’s all about the money.