It wasn't pleasant and it was brutal and selfish but in a certain sense you really have to admire them for being able to control so much of the world from such a small island.
And frankly, if they had had the means to do so, other countries would have done exactly the same.
It strikes me as extraordinary that the countries in the world today who *truly* have the ultimate tool in world dominance - oil (the inavailability of oil is enough to bring the entire world to its knees: no food, no water, transport, no NOTHING) are so utterly powerless against countries like the US which depend on them.
It is the never-ending availability of Saudi oil which keeps the Western world in business. What are these foolish countries with pure mineral power doing with it? Selling it and buying fancy cars and diamond-encrusted private jets. They even allow the price of this life-giving commodity to be decided by "the Market" in New York.
Every so often a frustrated state like Venezuela or Iran tries to head up against the Western capitalist hegemony of OPEC but find no friends from the luxury-goods addicts in the Middle East. Who needs principles when you can have Prada?
My undiluted congratulations go to the USA. I don't care if you don't like their policies -you have to admit, they are smart, hard-working, tenacious and highly accomplished. [And while I'm on the subject, all the anti-Americans who are about to post just ask yourself .. what would the world be like with the Chinese (in cahoots with, say, the Iranians) running it? ]
Um, just give me another supersized cheeseburger, please.
It wasn't pleasant and it was brutal and selfish but in a certain sense you really have to admire them for being able to control so much of the world from such a small island.
And frankly, if they had had the means to do so, other countries would have done exactly the same.
It strikes me as extraordinary that the countries in the world today who *truly* have the ultimate tool in world dominance - oil (the inavailability of oil is enough to bring the entire world to its knees: no food, no water, transport, no NOTHING) are so utterly powerless against countries like the US which depend on them.
It is the never-ending availability of Saudi oil which keeps the Western world in business. What are these foolish countries with pure mineral power doing with it? Selling it and buying fancy cars and diamond-encrusted private jets. They even allow the price of this life-giving commodity to be decided by "the Market" in New York.
Every so often a frustrated state like Venezuela or Iran tries to head up against the Western capitalist hegemony of OPEC but find no friends from the luxury-goods addicts in the Middle East. Who needs principles when you can have Prada?
My undiluted congratulations go to the USA. I don't care if you don't like their policies -you have to admit, they are smart, hard-working, tenacious and highly accomplished. [And while I'm on the subject, all the anti-Americans who are about to post just ask yourself .. what would the world be like with the Chinese (in cahoots with, say, the Iranians) running it? ]
Um, just give me another supersized cheeseburger, please.
PS I'm not even an American.