America’s Friends Without Benefits

February 21st, 2016

Awake Goy

Everyone navigating the complexities of life today is aware, at least on some level, that modern existence – the global situation – is truly headed towards a “convergence of catastrophes.” Yet it’s clear that many of these catastrophes we’re headed for stem from unnecessary complexities, brought about by unnecessary alliances. On this point, the smart set seems clueless, so allow me to act the fool.

Recently I was told by some establishment economist in some establishment rag that the low price of gas, the lowest its been in decades, is a serious problem; it’s not good, it’s bad news!

Saudi Oil Fields — Do we really need Saudi oil?

In my no-doubt quaint, provincial thinking, I was previously confident that low gas prices were good. Aside from paying less at the pump, thereby giving the consumer more money to spend on other sectors of the economy, I had reasoned that this also decreased the price of shipping goods, which in turn reduces the overhead for retailers, allowing for both lower costs for us, and higher profit margins for those companies.

But you see, I was thinking about everyday life in my own country. Low gas prices are bad, not because its bad for the US and the rest of North America — but because its bad for Saudi Arabia. And it weakens the petrodollar, and the value of the US dollar is tied to the petrodollar, and other countries might stop trading in dollars and go to rubles and yuan. And then the dollar will stop being the world’s reserve currency.

I’ll admit my ignorance; I’ve never understood why the US needs its currency to be the world’s reserve currency. I assume our global trading partners will still accept our money even if we don’t control how everyone buys and sells oil. We do have a triple-A rating by Moody’s after all.

And I’ve never understood why Saudi Arabia is important to the US. We have plenty of our own oil, as does Iran (and Russia). And Iran is a Shia muslim nation, and Shiite muslims seem to be the most sensible muslims, or so the past 15 years have demonstrated. That’s just my opinion though, but my government doesn’t seem to agree, even though all the supposed 9/11 hijackers were Sunni.

But we don’t want to be friends with Iran. Well, I do, personally, but my government doesn’t. They want to pretend that Iran’s Islamic theocracy is oppressive and totalitarian, but the Saudi’s Islamic theocracy is not. And from what they say on TV, Iran supports Palestine. John Kerry says he supports Palestine too, but not like Iran. Iran’s different, and they support Lebanon, and Assad’s regime in Syria, which means they’re friendly with Hezbollah. And Hezbollah are terrorists!

Notice anything odd about the shadows on the two Japanese hostages? — Did you notice the two Japanese hostages being lit from two different angles, rather than one sun?

Except, Hezbollah is fighting ISIS, the worst of the worst, the people that want a global Caliphate, beheading everybody in front of green-screens. Iran is also fighting ISIS, and so are we (and Russia)! And the Kurds are fighting ISIS, and they like Hezbollah, and we like the Kurds! But, the Sunnis don’t like Hezbollah very much, or Assad. Oh dear, all these complexities!

So, it seems that if it’s a problem for Sunnis, or Israel, or both – it’s a problem for the US. Catastrophes for them are catastrophes for us; but I certainly can’t find a good reason why that is. America doesn’t seem to be doing what’s in America’s best interest, and this is because of the petrodollar, the existence of which is in America’s best interest. Things are ever so complex!

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman

It would seem that we are on the precipice of collapse because of situations that are of a benefit to us. That only makes sense of one clause of that sentence is actually false. I hope, but I sure doubt, that it’s the first one. I would meekly suggest that we are not benefitting from the Sunnis, and that we don’t need to control the way oil is purchased. Our government’s insistence on these make-believe benefits is constantly creating actual-real problems. The more you look into these complexities, the less complex they seem and they more they just seem made up for ~reasons~.

It makes one feel like our government’s not actually stupid, making allies that don’t do us any good out of incompetence, but rather that it’s being controlled by forces for whom American interests are not important. But that would be a conspiracy theory, and I’m told those are ridiculous and illogical – unlike the situation in the Middle East, which is serious and complex… or so I’m told.

This is the real problem: until we stop agreeing that the “complex” fantasyland of US foreign policy is real, we will keep having to deal with its catastrophes.

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