Comment by MagicWishMonkey on 02/02/2025 at 15:26 UTC

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View submission: If a U.S. president attempted to dismantle democracy or impose authoritarian rule, how would the military likely respond? Would they prioritize their oath to the Constitution or follow orders from leadership?

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This is an incredibly dumb take. The only war we’ve been involved in where the country had oil is Iraq and we never touched their oil.

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Comment by mofo69extreme at 04/02/2025 at 05:01 UTC

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We don’t have to touch the oil, the availability of the Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil reserves on the market absolutely affects the price of oil in the US, even though we’re buying it from Mexico or Canada.

We import almost the same percentage of our oil from Saudi Arabia as we do from Iraq (~5%), but if you think our relationship with the Saudis isn’t about oil then I’m very curious what you think it is about.