• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I have to wonder, are you and people like you just making a common joke? Or do you really think the US extracted oil from Afghanistan? Because they didn’t. They used the invasion to strong arm OPEC; but they themselves didn’t take oil. It wasn’t about increasing oil supply.

    The US grew heroin there instead. And only left when stronger synthetics (fentanyl) made heroin unprofitable.

    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      I was under the impression that the point was to decrease the oil supply to force people to buy more American oil.