Chapotraphouse

Purge the liberal in your head

This is the result of a web of forces of varied nature pushing history in different directions at the same time. It feels the way you're describing because you're taking the end result and using it to look at the whole process in retrospect. Meanwhile, actual history followed the reverse course.

Instead of "these nations made a secret deal to destroy us," like libs tend to think and inevitably end up becoming racist genocidals, you'd get "these nations built themselves an advantageous position into the process of fuel production in the span of decades, and now they get generally positive results in most feasible attempts to redesign global fuel production"