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In Reply to: RE: " Other things going on in and around Russia..." posted by genungo on September 20, 2014 at 04:50:24
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Barry who? Barry the hatchet?
Doesn't look like that "control the oil" thing is working out too well and to be honest, I'm not even sure what you mean by control the oil.
From countries who've had or are having serious disruptions of the former political power structure, we import 0 bbls from Egypt, 0 from Tunisia, 0 from Syria and 0 from Libya (Libya formerly around .1mmbpd) and imports from Iraq are down from pre invasion totals of about 1mmbpd to about .5mmbpd. (note, we never really imported squat from Tunisia, Syria, and Egypt, just have em on the list as they've got new political paradigms or will soon)
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If we can't defeat or control our Islamist enemies in the region "we" ( the US and it's western allies) might lose access to goods produced by our Islamist "friends" in the region. It's not just oil we're concerned about. For instance, it has been known for some time that Afghanistan contains a spectacular wealth of minerals, but mining and transporting them from the region will continue to be a logistical nightmare as long as our *enemies* in the region remain undefeated.Speaking of enemies...
Because of it's confrontational nature, it might be said that Islam itself is the enemy of anything non-Islamic. Moderate Islamists (and modern, "commercialized" Christians and Jews) don't like to admit this, but absolute intolerance is a part of both Mohammed's and Moses' teaching. The difference between us and them comes from the fact that we generally don't follow Moses' creed of intolerance very strictly, as in centuries past. Many, many more Muslims do follow Mohammed's teachings strictly today, however.
The violent nature of Judaism has been transformed or subdued for the most part and now, in the 21st cenury, there is simply no room for things like *unadulterated* Islam (or Judaism). Ironically, our modern secular creed, the creed of corporatism, also allows for intolerance - but only for *the intolerant*. Intolerant Muslims, and all those who would defy the new corporate creed, must be subdued or eliminated!
Edits: 09/20/14 09/20/14
Our enemies, once they gain control of Afghanistan, and make no mistake about it, they will gain control, will either mine and market the minerals, meaning the supply will increase, thus driving down prices of existing rare minerals, or they won't mine it and the status quo, vis a vis these rare minerals, will remain unchanged. N'est-ce pas?
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OR they could only mine so much, to drive up world prices for these vital commodities.
China, which has large deposits of the 'Rare Earth' elements follows this strategy.
The article I link'd is 3 years old. I'm sure some things have changed since its publication:
Too much is never enough
thereby, if demand stays constant, driving down prices either a little or a lot (depending on price elasticity relating to supply changes, of which, in the case of rare minerals, I have zero, or possibly less, knowledge of).
I've written worse sentences, just not tonite. Hopefully my point, such as it was, wasn't obscured by my Sudzian writing.
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Even if demand increased ONLY 2% annually, that would result in a doubling of annual demand in only 36 years.
All mineral resources are finite in one sense or another.
Population is the same way. This is exponential growth at its finest.
Now, people have 'expectations'. When I was in Italy, even fairly conservative and non-wealthy towns sported about 8 cell phones per 10 persons. Or so it seemed.
Our beloved stereos and ALL our other hi-tech goodies are very resource intensive. You simply would not believe what it takes to manufacture semiconductors, for example.
You wouldn't believe what is going on in CHILE, for the sake of Lithium Batteries.
'The Limits to Growth' are approaching rapidly. And, as it turns out, it simply doesn't matter if the 'wall' is climate, resources, food. population, potable water, or alien invasion. (UFOs, not the guys from over 'there').
Too much is never enough
Too much means never enough.
The world is changing and growing pretty quickly, and in many ways it's growing differently than in times past. We'll just have to wait and see how things pan out over there, I guess.
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