[throw101010]

Isn't this one more related to the "War on Drugs"? The people who came up with these wars against abstract ennemies knew exactly what they were doing, fighting against another country/government is very limiting, once the war is settled you need another reason to start a war. When you go to war with an idea/concept you can continue your forever wars and raise taxes for/increase investment in the War related industries as long as you need to prop up your economy and get reelected.

Trump got reelected with slogans like "no new war" and in less than a year he started at least one (arguably I'd say two with the 12 days wars as Israel knew ut couldn't win this one without American bombers) also makes me think none if this is a "mistake", just a long term plan to keep power.

[christophilus]

This is about oil and resources and maybe a proxy attack on China more than anything. A friend of mine called this as soon as that huge oil deposit was discovered off a small neighboring country’s coast. He said, “Venezuela is going to try to claim it, and the US will take them out.” I thought he was full of shit when he said it, but now I’m pretty sure he nailed it.

[throw101010]

Oh yeah these are the true motives, I was talking about the usual pretext that they need to sell it on TV and these days on social media too.

[jacquesm]

It even has a name: 'the resource curse'.

[simoncion]

> Isn't this one more related to the "War on Drugs"?

"Good" news! The War on Drugs and The War on Terror have been combined with the invention of the concept of "narcoterrorism"!

[cma]

Trump pardoned the largest opiates by mail operator in world history on his first or second day in office (Ross Ulbricht).