Lindsey Graham, the veteran Republican senator who has been pushing for war against Iran for decades, has issued a dire warning to the Iranian government, saying it was worth spending money to “take this regime down”.
“When this regime goes down, we are going to have a new Middle East, and we are going [to] make a tonne of money,” Graham, a longtime proponent of US military intervention abroad, told Fox News on Sunday.
Graham, who has been one of the Trump administration’s most vocal supporters of Israel and the war against Iran, appeared to suggest that the US abduction of Venezuela’s left-wing leader Nicolas Maduro and the attack on Iran were launched to gain control over each country’s oil supplies.
“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves. This is China’s nightmare. This is a good investment,” said Graham.
Fuck you “we.” “We” who!? When oil companies profit “we” don’t see a fucking dime of that money especially with your corporate “taxation” bullshit where they get loophole after loophole to pay nothing.
Yeah but on the upside you do get to pay for the bombs they’re dropping on Iranian kids.
He means “the business.”
People like Graham treat the US like a corporation, and they are a model employee.
Profits over people once again.
Republicans are genuinely traitors to the US. It’s hard to put into words how much I hate them.
Aaaannnddd there it is!
It’s all the American government has ever cared about.
No blood for oil. It was evil and stupid in the 00s, and it’s worse today now that oil is increasingly replaceable
I almost throw up when I heard it.
“Let’s kill people by the thousands. It will make us money”
Primitive baboons.
They rape children and will go to prison for life if they don’t keep it up. Nothing should be shocking they will sell their own grandmas to stay free and unaccountable.
Ah it’s the 2000s again. They’ll top it off with a global financial crisis. Probably the AI bubble collapsing or succeeding and destroying all the jobs.
Maybe the Americans will elect an Obama 2.0 after. Maybe not. There wasn’t MAGA last time. More likley it’ll be president mecha-Hitler or something this time around.
Remember when we joked about america invading anything for oil and then we all stopped for a bit because they tried to convince us that there was more to the US than being the state equivelent of a crackhead with a dozen shotguns? And then they launched a self described war to bring about the apocalypse and also steal all the oil… can we stop pretending everything is ok!?
Textbook psychopath. A truly immoral, sadistic, bloodthirsty bastard of the sort Hunter Thompson would conjure to represent the foulest archetype of American politics.
Thompson has said that as much as he hated Nixon, he would vote for him against Bush and Cheney. If he learned that USians elected Trump just one time after the 2015-16 campaign, his head would explode on its own.
“He was so liberal! Look at what he was running on. He started the EPA. He opened China. He gave 18-year-olds the vote. His issues were education, drugs, women, minorities, youth involvement, ending the draft, and improving the environment. John Kerry couldn’t have run on this! What would I give for a Nixon?”
Same old Republican party. Waste of oxygen IMHO.
War-mongering, conquering, and looting the spoils. Some things never change.
Zionist prostitute
There’s no way he said tonne with the e at the end like that.
Shoddy reporting by Al Jazeera. Graham was clearly speaking American, not English.
For those not old enough to remember, they said the Iraqi war would pay for itself with all of that oil.
It did not.
But, Graham isn’t talking “we” the US people, but “we” as in the club we’re not in, AKA bOtH pArTiEs Super Friends.
The humans on this planet really are going to incinerate themselves over little green pieces of paper.
This whole timeline feels like Vogon poetry
Conservatives are so clownishly selfish.
They’re the hamster that gets mad at the other hamster and shits in the shared food bowl out of spite.
