>> I'm not talking just about that. I'm talking about propping up all
>> the oil despots, who serve to keep "our" oil out of "their"
>> people's hands.
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>
> I'm a little skeptical of this argument. If "they" got control of the
> oil, they'd still need to sell it to "us." They'd have a huge cash
> flow to deal with, and enormous temptations to siphon it off and/or
> invest it in London and New York. The material circumstances almost
> inevitably generate the incentives for a resource rentier class.
but they can be overthrown, perhaps one way to understand what is happening in Russia.
john mage