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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.

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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 41 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it's worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Still hoping for that trickle down 40 years later.

[–] TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Golden Shower economics, surely the rich will start pissing on our heads any day now.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

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.