| | That is why it is a joke to think of "big oil" as a danger when Exxon Mobile is small compared to the state-owned companies that have their own armies... I think we need our companies to join together and refuse to do business with these thugs. The sad thing, too, is that this causes these countries to neglect true wealth and actually they get poorer as a result. For example, the economies of a Taiwan or Hong Kong vs. Saudi Arabia with all the oil wealth. In the former, the average citizen does well and the economy builds, in the latter a wealthy cabal holds power and keeps it by doling welfare handouts to the masses. Perfect example of why welfare doesn't work, no matter how "rich" you may be.
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