America is already blockading Cuba and ran a hostile takeover of Venezuela, america also destabilised Iran in the 50s or thereabouts was because they wanted to privatise and keep their own oil, so they did a bit of their ‘regime change’ and suddenly the heavily oppressive highly religious leader is happy to sell oil to big america.
I won’t claim the empire was ever a good thing but that was less resources and more straight up territory landgrabbing touted as ‘spreading civilisation to the colonies’ (where do you think america got the idea for ‘spreading democracy’-learned it right from papa britain)
America is already blockading Cuba and ran a hostile takeover of Venezuela, america also destabilised Iran in the 50s or thereabouts was because they wanted to privatise and keep their own oil, so they did a bit of their ‘regime change’ and suddenly the heavily oppressive highly religious leader is happy to sell oil to big america.
We’ve been in the resource wars for a long while.
Go back just a bit further to when Britain invaded Iran for full accuracy.
I won’t claim the empire was ever a good thing but that was less resources and more straight up territory landgrabbing touted as ‘spreading civilisation to the colonies’ (where do you think america got the idea for ‘spreading democracy’-learned it right from papa britain)
Britain literally invaded Iran during WWII and found every reason to stay (well oil but ya know)