Do you see any real ‘neo-colonialism’ going on that is the product of any Western country?
No of course not, George Bush and Tony Blair were just extending brotherly love to Afghanistan and Iraq. Sadly those ungrateful foreign chaps didn’t return this brotherly love in kind. Now there’s gratitude for you, eh ?
What you say about the height of the British Empire and poverty is true, but what on earth does that have to do with fuel?
British/Western imperialism has never, and will never, secure resources for the sake of the people. If US/British companies get their grubby hands on the oil of other countries, it will not be for the benefit of ordinary people.
Although ordinary people will of course be forced to pay for the military adventures through their taxes. And in the blood of their young men.
BTW I know of no country which has refused to trade/sell oil to Britain, that is not the issue here – ownership is the issue. And who, owns what, has very little effect on the lives of ordinary Britons.
In the 1980s Britain had secured access to all the oil it needed, in fact we produced about 30% more of the stuff than we actually needed – so we sold it off to other countries.
By your logic this should have meant cheaper/falling fuel prices, and apparently cheaper “food on the supermarket shelves”, improved living standards, etc. So did it ?
Did it ****. Fuel prices continued to rise, as did supermarket prices, living standards did not significantly increase, and so on. What it actually meant was that oil companies made a lot of big fat profit. And there was plenty of spare cash to spunk on unemployment.
Your quaint, naive, and simplistic, logic, is deeply flawed.
