America's Oil Myths
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The First Gulf War, You Know?
The 19 90 war is imagined to day, you know, as one, as proof of the fact that states go to war for oil o or that oil matters strategically in war. But there are a bunch of problems withthat, with that analysis,. And what analysts should be doing is debunking those arguments, rather than simply accepting them as the true reasons for any particular conflict. The real motivation for sedam was his belief that the regime would collapse. He he succeeded. If he believed he was going to be destroyed, he, as emily says, of course pushed the push end off to 13 years later. Because today you will have testify to congress, if souti arab
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