[abdusco]

It has enough oil and gas reserves to warrant some freedom™. People there need democracy for God's sake!

[Y-bar]

The whole meme of "America isn't a country, it's three corporations wearing a trench coat" seems to have been mostly correct, albeit that trench coat is starting to look a lot less like a modern trench coat and more like an actual Trench Coat.

[oneeyedpigeon]

The Emperor's New Trench Coat