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.
Aaaannnddd there it is!
As if there was any pretext before
It’s all the American government has ever cared about.
Assault! Homicide! Blood for money, money!
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.
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, …
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.
Just an upstanding member of Harris’s coalition, nothing to see here.
Is Harris in the room with us now?
Yeah that’s not true at all
Except for all the times she and people on her campaign kept bragging about his endorsement.
That’s old news and not relevant to today’s fiascos out of the WH.
Okay apparently I mixed up Lindsey Graham with Dick Cheney so I messed up anyway, but also Harris does keep trying to return to politics after her pathetic defeat (which would be an unmitigated disaster), so she’s not exactly irrelevant to current politics.
Her ‘pathetic defeat’ where her opponent very likely stole the election?
C’mon, we resorting to conspiracy theories now? Harris spared no expense in pissing off her base and thought pop singers and appeals to democracy were a substitute for actual policy. It’s not like this outcome was even unexpected; plenty of people were sounding the alarm and pre-election polls had the election as a toss up.
It’s not a conspiracy when the data shows that there’s the appearance of manipulation.
Furthermore, Harris had plenty of policy statements vs mr ‘concepts of a plan’ so don’t pretend this was a battle of policy.
She really living rent free up there
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to pick words and how much I hate them.
Traitors to humanity
Believe in the underpants gnomes theory!
- Invade Iran at an estimated $1B a day and service men dying. And do that for several months (I hope not longer)
- …
- Profit!
Who do you think that billion dollars a day goes to?
Is step 1 also Profit!?
And it’s the same people. Who are also clever enough to profit from a bull market or a bear market. Who cares, just as long as one or the other doesn’t stay too long so they can profit off the swing.
Again, this is standard wealth transfer to corporate America. All that cash goes into these senator’s pockets via the MIC.
Petroleum based economy and governmebt craves petroleum at any cost.
And ironically seek to make the economy even more petroleum-dependent even though alternatives have gone from barely workable to actually superior.
Remember when we joked about america invading anything for oil and then we all stopped for a bit because they tried to convince us that there was more to the US than being the state equivelent of a crackhead with a dozen shotguns? And then they launched a self described war to bring about the apocalypse and also steal all the oil… can we stop pretending everything is ok!?
This is China’s nightmare
Forget everything else, this is the essence of it.
The one thing you want even less than the Near East dominated by US oil interests is a Near East dominated by the Chinese.
Why? The Chinese are in no way my enemy.
Then maybe the West shouldn’t have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they’re using to hang them with.
Even some of the near east is starting to think about what happens when the goo runs out. Only the US is doubking down.
Then maybe the West shouldn’t have spent 50 years selling the PRC the rope they’re using to hang them with.
Yeah, thats… kinda unfortunate. Everywhere, anything resembling longterm strategic planning went out the window with the fall of the USSR. With the possible exception of France.
We’re expected to believe Graham was speaking in metric?? Fake news!
In an appearance on Fox News, no less.
The source is AlJazeera so even tho Graham likely meant tons, the source took it as metric tonnes.
A simple error.
I believe that was the joke.
For the longest time, I only heard about “Kia Stahma” on UK panelshows. The first time I saw his name in print (“Kier Starmer”) I was llke - wait - not one, not two, but THREE r’s??? WTF! lol
I still feel weird when I head a American broadcaster talk about “Kier Starmer”. It just sounds wrong to me. heh.
But yeah, as the other person replying mentioned, it’s Al Jazeera, so they heard “tons” and wrote “tonnes”. I’d almost not even call that an error, just an accidental choice. Transcription gets rough. You think “How hard is it to transcribe?” but written and spoken language are VERY different, even before you get into regionalization and accents. :)
“Kier” is not a common name, nor is “Starmer.” So at a certain point, it’s just a bunch of syllables and you have to just do the best you can.
I knew a Japanese person who, upon hearing former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s name, couldn’t hear anything except a common phrase in cooking recipes, “golden brown.”
“golden brown”
For the remainder of my years, that former British Prime Minister shall have no other name. This is the only way I know how to reference him now.
aww, that is hilarious and delightful.
We’re going to have the HOTTEST economy ever! - MAGA
It is a hot economy when everything is on fire…
Americans, for a ton of money they will sell their own mother, zero morality.
Oh fuck off. You’re not the victim here.
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.
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.
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?
I don’t doubt it, I just doubt they’d go after china. They both know they have too much to lose from that
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.
BUY A BIKE!!!
Way cheaper, healthier, funnier, less pollution, no money given to warmongering oligarchies
Sounds good
Same old Republican party. Waste of oxygen IMHO.
Conservatives are so clownishly selfish.
They’re the hamster that gets mad at the other hamster and shits in the shared food bowl out of spite.
