wimmuskeeMar 4
Randahl Fink

“Americans are very lucky, because wherever they go to bring freedom… they find oil.”

— Italian journalist and satirist Michele Serra

#iran

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Show threadDrakfotMar 3
@randahl
Show threadWTLMar 3
@Drakfot @randahl @blogdiva 🤣🤣
Show threadJanPVMar 4
@Drakfot @randahl Just like sample cores, they'll be sent back home in boxes.
Show threadHolyCrapMar 3

If your neighbor finds oil in his garden, you might suddenly see your house on CNN.

@randahl

Show threadHolyCrapMar 3

"Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs."

"If you Control oil, you control nations"

— Henry Kissinger

@randahl

Show threadIngrid_DemokratinAusOLMar 3

@randahl

Das ist zu wahr um schön zu sein...

Show threadzetabetaMar 3

@randahl
wait a minute, greenland does not have oil. something doesn't add up.

i need to think about this.

Show threadOzzelot Mar 3
@zetabeta
only whale oil.
@randahl
Show threadBjörn ThorstMar 3
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Show threadPaul_stilgarMar 3

@randahl

To be fair sometimes they found bananas

https://www.thecollector.com/the-banana-wars-how-the-us-plundered-central-america/

#usa #itan

The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America | TheCollector

The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?

TheCollector
Show threadJMar 3
@randahl Hopefully those in charge never figure out that Lithium is.
Show threadSu_GMar 3

@randahl
“How did our oil get under their sand?”
Protest poster seen long ago.

#oil #protestPoster

Show threadSimon BrookeMar 3

@randahl but all the people the Americans liberate always live contented and joyful lives, grateful for the stable and competent social democracies America establishes and suppo...

I'm sorry, I'll read that again.

Show threadThadMar 3
@randahl Hey, he's got the same name as the kid from that show about the Iraq war.
Show threadDaniel LatzMar 3
@randahl only a cynic could find a connection between those two things, of course you and me are above that
Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘Mar 3
@randahl "God's reward" I guess. (satire).
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Mar 4

@randahl

I blurted out it was about oil and land last Saturday, and that Russia would try to intervene because they need Iran for more weapons against Ukraine. I felt maybe I was too cynical. But now I no longer feel this, thanks 😄

Show threadSarcasm is all I have LeftMar 4
@randahl 🤣👍
Show threadSoozcatMar 4
@randahl And then they free the oil
Show threadcmw199Mar 4
@randahl Sad that’s so true.
Show threadCamille - stature de tragédienMar 4
@randahl Do you have the quote in original language please?
Show threadGreg Walker Mar 4
@randahl true that. #theorangebaboon isn't a strategic thinker, but taking Venezuela's oil, in advance of a raid in the middle east was a genius stroke to ensure the confederates don't pay much for oil/petrol/gas while we Europeans pay through the nose for it. #fucktrump #fuckiisrael #fuckNetanyahu
Show threadChristine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖Mar 4
@randahl Uncanny.
Show threadSubashMar 4
Show threadSubashMar 4
yep that's it
Show threadArtInHasteMar 4
@randahl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujYTqVYYqF4
1987 Massimo Troisi predicted it all: Why America Needs War

YouTube
Show threadsarpauMar 4
@randahl Hey Randahl, am I detecting sarcasm here🤔
Show threadRobin BartonMar 4
@randahl Brilliant quote
Show threadTofm2 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Mar 4
@randahl Iran venezuela irak