I was thinking about the strange rise of Radical Conservative Islam recently too, why is the reglion so conservative now?
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When Trump got everyone in the media all riled up when he said "Take the oil" during the Matt Lauer forum, I sort of thought "aren't they just taking back the oil?" Western companies made those discoveries in Iraq, Iran, Saudi, etc. But the US government willingly let the Muslims nationalize their reserves and production in the 50s to the 70s, allowing the Wahhabi Saudis to fund the growth of their sect across the globe. Why don't they simply crush them and take control back if the goal is to cripple Radical Islam?
On one hand, you raise all sorts of questions on morality and ethics regarding taking control of the resources of sovereign nations.
On the other hand, most of these countries still need Western technology and knowledge to exploit petroleum reserves. I know a guy in a high level position at Aramco and he said the actual Saudi workers are total retards and all major discoveries and production efforts are led by Western engineers and geoscientists, with a few Chinese guys as well. Look at Iraq's fields, all operated by foreign companies (USA, Angola, China, Russia):
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleu...ry_in_Iraq
The technologically adept foreign entities do all the work, and the governments just rake it in for the good fortune of sitting on these reserves.
Why is the USA enabling these countries to find Islamist groups with oil money? It does make you wonder if this is some Elitist maneuver to promote the growth and spread of Islam to promote instability. But maybe that's just my tinfoil hat speaking?