Long, expensive wars with oil-rich nations like Iran could be a thing of the past if we'd invest in something borderless, like solar and wind.
Take oil out of the foreign policy picture, and American presidents would have lacked motive to preemptively attack Iraq, Libya and now Iran. There were equally authoritarian leaders of other countries at the time, operating with even greater propensity toward violence, yet the U.S. didn't intervene. Why? Little oil. Yemen is an obvious example, but so are Sudan, Myanmar and Ivory Coast. The list goes on.
What the U.S. has done, historically, with all of the top reserve-holding countries is first cozy up in order to control. If that didn't work, then destabilize in order to control. And if that didn't work, then invade in order to control. Last month's escalation by President Donald Trump, then, in killing Iran's top General Qassem Soleimani, reopens an old, festering wound that had been healing, albeit slightly, from President Barack Obama's—and Europe's—agreement with Tehran to negotiate nuclear rights and responsibilities, an agreement Trump shredded upon arrival in the Oval Office.
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