Lindsey Graham, the veteran Republican senator who has been pushing for war against Iran for decades, has issued a dire warning to the Iranian government, saying it was worth spending money to “take this regime down”.
“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going [to] make a tonne of money,” Graham, a longtime proponent of US military intervention abroad, told Fox News on Sunday.
Graham, who has been one of the Trump administration’s most vocal supporters of Israel and the war against Iran, appeared to suggest that the US abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro and the attack on Iran were launched to gain control over each country’s oil supplies.
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves. This is China’s nightmare. This is a good investment,” said Graham.
I almost throw up when I heard it.
“Let’s kill people by the thousands. It will make us money”
Primitive baboons.
Yup. I used to think Lindsay was just a clueless idiot. I mean he is, but think carefully about what he said there . . . the utter contempt it shows for the ordinary people on both sides who will be maimed and killed for his greed. That is just 100% concentrated evil.
They rape children and will go to prison for life if they don’t keep it up. Nothing should be shocking they will sell their own grandmas to stay free and unaccountable.
Let’s be real I don’t know very many Democrats who are picking voluntary service these days.
Now, when a draft comes about, I’m sure they’ll figure out a way to target primarily Democrats and BIPoC’s…but we aren’t there yet.
I guess i dont understand what point you’re making?
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves. This is China’s nightmare. This is a good investment,” said Graham.
You don’t have “partnerships” with people whose countries you’ve bombed and invaded and whose resources you are stealing. Those people hate you and want to kill you. You fucking fool.
There’s no way to hold territory without boots on the ground and another Forever War.
Not to mention what good does it do. China is moving to electric vehicles, and solar power. Sure you’ll want to use gas powered ships for now, but half of the ships traversing oceans are simply moving fuel around, which won’t be needed as the electricity doesn’t need to be shipped if it comes from solar. Will large shipments still be needed, of course, but wouldn’t it be against the U.S. own interest to have high oil costs for the country shipping them items. As in every item would cost more for American consumers to have it shipped, it would be like putting a tariff on Chinese goods… Oh… I forgot making the American worker pay more to line the pockets of the oil companies is what they want, got it.
War-mongering, conquering, and looting the spoils. Some things never change.
Zionist prostitute
I think that might be an insult…to the prostitutes.
Who is this “we” that keep talking about? I haven’t seen Jack shit.
They are, did any of you get rich from the war on terror, or any other war for that matter?
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves."
Kinda saying the quiet part loud there, aren’t you, Lindsey? In prior decades the government at least pretended its wars were about anything other than oil…
“This is China’s nightmare.”
No it’s not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.
"This is a good investment”
War isn’t a fucking investment! Are dollar signs all you see?
China has never produced a lot of energy relying on oil in the first place. They did improve a lot adding renewables to the pie, but sadly, they still heavily rely on coal.
China has a 100 year plan, the orange dotard himself doesn’t know what he is going to be doing in the next 100 minutes…
Oil is still very useful. Especially when we stop burning it to make cars go forward or to fertilize crops.
A mostly electric future is a safer place
Another point I don’t see brought up often is how much we use oil for basically everything else. Clothing (polyester), packaging, flooring, so many consumer goods globally are made from polymers. I hate it but the oil problem doesn’t go away with just transitioning to renewables for energy.
The biggest use of oil is in the energy to run transportation.
Not that the would problem would go away but it would be an actual manageable problem.
No it’s not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.
Fuck you “we.” “We” who!? When oil companies profit “we” don’t see a fucking dime of that money especially with your corporate “taxation” bullshit where they get loophole after loophole to pay nothing.
(a la thejuicemedia) Oh sweetie…
Political English is tricky.
The “we” in, “we are going to make lots of money”, has absolutely no relation to the “we” in, “we have to make sacrifices”.Other terms that often confuse proletarians: beautiful justice tax cuts freedom security unprecedented elites transparency socialist free speech patriot …
Well, he means himself and his friends, which is what all politicians have always meant when they say “we” are going to benefit from their decisions.
“We, the people”… except for women, non white, non Protestants, poor, …
Wait, so those white, mouth breathing, MAGA hat wearing guys are going to make money off this?!
Not unless they’re aristocracy.
They’ll get robbed like the rest of us, and gladly blame the rest of us for it instead of their greedy little puppet-masters.
Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they’re dropping on Iranian kids.
He means “the business.”
People like Graham treat the US like a corporation, and they are a model employee.
Why is their tonne in kilograms? That’s weird, Americans use pounds, it’s almost like this was written by a foreign agent, eh? I once learned a story from my Ukrainian coworker many years ago about a kremlin spy working in the US government, and he was only discovered because he crossed his 7s like they would in Russia, not like an American, as they do not cross their sevens.
Imagine this regime trying to catch a mole 🤣
Interesting
I cross sevens, put no loop in two, complete the triangle in four and fully hook six and nine because I’m a surveyor
Lots of Americans cross their sevens. Not the majority, but I see it all the time.
Because you are a multicultural melting pot, like Canada. This was like from the 70’s the guy was old. Americans did not do this, this comes from European and more specifically eastern block countries and has been adopted by others as well I’m sure. I’m not from there, but I think they look nicer with a little hook and a cross. This is where the story came from, he saw me writing and broke into his story.
The humans on this planet really are going to incinerate themselves over little green pieces of paper.
This whole timeline feels like Vogon poetry
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to put into words how much I hate them.
Traitors to humanity
The post jimmy carter dream of the american corporate elite is finally being realized.
Ah it’s the 2000s again. They’ll top it off with a global financial crisis. Probably the AI bubble collapsing or succeeding and destroying all the jobs.
Maybe the Americans will elect an Obama 2.0 after. Maybe not. There wasn’t MAGA last time. More likley it’ll be president mecha-Hitler or something this time around.
If we’re going by extremes maybe we can get a socialist president this time round? Actual universal healthcare?
I’m still not down from my hate-high after the last election. America doesn’t need someone else to step in and responsibly commandeer the government. Not yet.
The pain must go on long enough for the lesson to stick.
Conserv卐tives don’t learn until they’re personally affected. Not all of them are as yet affected.
No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it’s worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
The hilarious thing is that the American voter is supposed to be thinking of themselves when he says “we”. I would kinda understand the logic of continuing the forever war as a voter if everyone got a fat check once we ended the Iraq war. At least then I could understand that it is pure greed driving people to vote for war mongers.
In the end “we” is a small group of oil barons who made billions while footing the multi trillion bill to the tax payer. Unfortunately this just means that the average voter is greedy, but to stupid to actually benefit from their own avarice.
Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.
Golden Shower economics, surely the rich will start pissing on our heads any day now.
They softened it from horse and sparrow. See, if the horse eats enough there will be a lot left over for the sparrow that passes through undigested.
Basically, eat shit, commoners.
Meanwhile, China has been hard focused on renewables and lowering their need for oil.
Good plan Lindsey…if it was 2006 not 2026.
These old fucks are still thinking like it’s 1986.
I feel like the background and skin tone in the meme could be swapped. 🤔
They have a big focus on nuclear power as well, they have 59 operating nuclear power plants with over 28 under construction. Nuclear is just as important as renewables at this current time in our technological evolution. We need better energy storage technology for pure renewable to work well.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
It would also be sick if nuclear fusion becomes a reality and makes all other power generation obsolete, generally.
That will never happen, without scarcity they can’t make obscene profits year over year so Fusion will be patented and shelved.
Fusion is not like the movies where you make a tiny star that just generates free excess power forever after.
It requires fuel. It’s repeated tiny explosions which get harnessed to usually heat water and run a turbine. That fuel needs to be created and transported.
There’s like a dozen companies building out fusion reactors right now in the US, some claiming they’ll be operational as soon as 2028. THEY want to be the ones selling that energy. Capitalism isn’t stopping that desire to capture a market even if it threatens another market
In a capitalist country sure, maybe some other country’s will take advantage.
You don’t think America will attack another country to protect it’s economic intrests?
No, they’re not doing this for rational economic interest. They’re bombing iran to cover up the elstein files. They bombed Iraq to get bush re-elected after tech bubble and 9/11.
You give them way too much credit assuming they make rational economic decisions, they start wars for ego and panicking to cover up crimes. It’s a shit show in every way.
I was making a hypothetical about future military intervanetions to protect economic intersts, not the pedophile in cheifs current distraction campaign Operation Epstein Folly
Yes and when in history has the US rationally started a war for economic motives?? Not Iran, not Iraq, not Vietnam, not Korea, heck not even WW2 and WW1. So maybe the Spanish American war? But i dont think we ever made money in Cuba Phillipines or Puerto Rico either.
War is not economically rational, and the US leaders aren’t rational when they start wars either.
I don’t doubt it, I just doubt they’d go after china. They both know they have too much to lose from that
