Some good thoughts here as I would have to agree.
Just read a book shown below that gives the complete and detailed history how the west, England & what became BP then eventually USA, basically stole and is still robbing the middle east of it's oil. Very much worth a read to understand the current madness these days.
ty, have to check that
Sounds interesting. From opium to oil.
The second half of book really examines why the middle east is such a hot mess. since the very first users of the Silk Road millennia ago, corruption & bribery were historically the tools of the trading on the Silk Road. So in the 19th Century the British had to use the same corruption & bribery tools the Silk Road was ruled by.