I was doing something unusual for me the other day – thinking. I was considering the sudden increase in fuel prices because of the Arabic Consortium’s decision to get rich even faster, thinking about the prediction of the ‘war to end all wars’ that is supposed to come at the end of 2000 years – which ends on Jan 1, 2001. Predictions that the war will be in the Middle East and all of the nations of the world will join in.
Not one to be a firm believer in such prophecies, I did consider the possibility that the Arabic nations are working on committing suicide by being overtly greedy and not handling their enormous power very well. I considered the point that they had not ‘grown into’ their current power and wealth the way the other major powers in the world have grown into theirs and considered their potential for not having ‘matured’ much in the short time they have had from being a 3rd world nation, with much squabbling among themselves and then being thrown into near super power by the discovery of their oil fields.
I considered America, which has shut down most of its own Texas wells and others and buys much of the Arabic crude, of International banks being stupid enough to base their investments on the volatile prices of crude, of the English, already paying enormous fuel prices and the Russians, caught in financial turmoil and not needing any more hardships. I considered Japan, already functioning as economically as possible, then the combined European Nations struggling with increased fuel costs. I tossed Australia in there also because their fuel prices are high also.
Normally, when one nation provides a needed product to the rest of the nations and then gets greedy and starts extortion, it always leads to one thing. War. Someone or some group gets thoroughly pissed off, goes in and bombs the shit out of the offensive nation and takes what was once restricted after killing off the majority of the local population.
With the Arabic nation being mainly Moslem, that does not make them exactly popular with the rest of the world in general because they mix religion and politics. Not all Moslems were pleased when Dessert Storm took place during their religious holiday and they were not all that pleased that fellow Moslems were slapped with sanctions that caused them to starve. Curiously, they seemed to have little sympathy for the nation which was invaded by Sadaam and seem somewhat unconcerned that he happily slaughters everyone who disagrees with him.
This indicated that if the Arabic nations are attacked, then virtually all Moslems will join in the fray. This will shortly escalate into major war. (Even WW2 started out small.) Sooner or later, someone will start tossing in nukes, though it probably will not be America, England or Russia and most likely Pakistan or France or one of the Middle Eastern nations who by now have Nuclear capability. Of course, Sadaam will cheerfully release all of his still hidden biological weapons and the Chinese, with a major chunk of surplus population they want exterminated, will hop in.
Anyone else think the Arabic nations are starting to get real close to provoking a war? They wrecked the American economy in the 1970s, which forced the US to develop smaller cars. Well, after some time, fuel prices dropped and, Americans being somewhat stupid in some areas, promptly started churning out 8 and 10 mpg SUVs and luxury cars again. The fuel prices went up and the economy staggered slightly. Then they dropped again and people became complacent. Especially after the Dessert Storm show of force. I suggested ages ago, that a good way to screw up the US is to wait and drop fuel prices, let the industry start churning out gas guzzlers again, then jump the prices up and plunge the country into economic crisis. Now, with our stock boom and our construction expansion, plus the increase in gas guzzlers, a massive fuel ‘shortage’ could do massive damage to us.
Russia would love a war, because, as a slogan stated in the 1960s, ‘war is good for the economy.’ Plus it would settle some of the political turmoil and drain off surplus population they have to contend with. We here in America have all of these great new lethal toys we’re just waiting to try out and the Brits have a few they’d like to test also. Plus Pakistan is just itching to dump a nuclear missile on anyone and France has been testing their nuclear weapons for ages against all international bans.
The way I figure it, if suddenly the new wealthy in America discover that they cannot drive their $30,000 SUVs, their $80,000 Hummers, their $60,000 boats, afford their new homes and have their investments start screaming for the bottom of the page, they will promptly encourage the government to ‘send the boys over’ to kick some Arabic ass. (The majority of the newly rich are above mandatory draft age anyhow.)
The goal will be to gain control over the oil fields through a mix of the super powers and regulate the flow of crude at a designated and affordable rate. Blasting the Arabs back into the age of camels and sword fights would be considered a necessary evil.
Think this is possible so long as the Arabic Nations continue to screw with the oil prices? Most other nations already pay higher fuel prices than in America so dramatic increases would hurt their economies faster than ours and piss them off even more.
Someone will act if it gets too tight. (Look at how the French sank the Rainbow Warrior which threatened to get too close to their nuclear military tests and then defied attempts to prosecute the spies by the US.) Someone will send in an attack if their national security is threatened. Any atrocities can be sorted out later, after the war, like what has been going on concerning WW2.
What do you think?
What? Me worry?’
