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- politics
Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal government now does unconstitutional.
“I don’t think there’s any way to solve this permanently without military action,” Meckler declared. “[We need a buffer zone] like the DMZ between the Koreas. It needs to be a kilometer of cleared territory that is a no man zone; you come in here and we believe you have hostile intent, we’re going to clear you out.”
“We need to exterminate the cartels and that means going into Mexico,” Meckler asserted. “Now people would say, ‘You’re violating a sovereign country’s territory.’ Well, Mexico is not a sovereign country any longer. Mexico is a failed narco state. The federal government is not in control of their military. The federal government is not in control of their police Their state governments are not, their local governments are not in control of their police forces. That is a failed narco-terrorist state and so we have to treat it as such.”
“To me, this is like Gaza. They’re invading our country. They’re invading our country every day. They’re killing our people, and we have to go in and use maximum force to oust them and create a buffer zone along the border. If we do that, we’ll have border security. It’s that simple.”
Eh, their ideology is enough. Especially since we’ve got more than enough lithium in the Salton Sea, which is already an environmental disaster zone.
US doesn’t go to war without an economic incentive. Oil, opioids, etc.
No we solved that in Iraq. The big money maker is the war itself. Supplying the soldiers, bases, and Reconstruction needs. All at an outrageous markup and done as cheaply as possible. (If it gets done at all)
Right, absolutely no oil in Iraq…
Iraq famously retained control of its oil. International news conferences and everything. While some American companies got contracts to run oil fields from the Iraqi government, there’s also Chinese and Iraqi companies with significant holdings there too.
The disruption of supply while the fields burned and had to be rebuilt made a killing for the Saudi Arabian friends/sponsors of the Bush family.
The contracting for services to the oil fields is up to the companies that won the auctions from the Iraqi government. Which also falls under, Reconstruction and service contracts. Furthermore, that doesn’t mean we get the oil. That oil is still owned by the company that owns the rights and most of it goes to Asia.
The closest we came to “doing it for the oil” is to increase the global supply of oil. And when I tell you they made ten times as much supplying and building the FOBs, I am not being sensational.