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Originally Posted by Ryzorian
Kozyra; Not everyone is decieved by governments. I know why they are there and it's got nothing to do with "saveing civilians", that's just pretext for dismantleing Gadafi's army. The real problem is that the "democractic" movement is mostly Muslim brotherhood wackadoos and I trust them less than Gadaffi.
All these "democratic" upriseings all going off around the middle east at once, highly suspicious. Something else is afoot here and I think it will have far more dagerous results for the west than people realize.
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Between this theory and our resident Russian's ranting about the greedy westerners, another possibility came to mind and it would contribute to a justification for Russia's absentention in the UN.
The nation with the most to gain from disorder and destruction in the oil fields of Libya is Russia.
Libyan oil comprises less than 5% of the U.S. oil trade, so it doesn't really impact the U.S. directly. But Russia has been trading heavily in oil futures in Geneva of late and to knock their competitors out of the market, even temporarily, at the hands of others, is an amazingly "lucky" turn of events for them.
And when it comes to greed, how about the idea of a single company buying the entire port of Murmansk? Now
that is greed. At least we buy out others product, not set up major ports as private enterprises.