RE: Hi BB4 Jan 2020 10:42
Cautious..
virtue signalling isn't needed here. The facts are that conflict in these areas will push the oil price up, oil stocks will go up and O and G investors will benefit financially - this is the way of things.
after the 2003 iraq war ended, the real winners emerged.... business, oil barons and mercenaries..
Just 18 months after the invasion, commercial airliners packed with security personnel and business investors were flying daily into the capital Baghdad.
Private security contractors from the UK, European, South African and US special forces were lured by the offer of £1,000 a day to guard dignitaries and prime terror targets.
Tycoons had their eyes on the big prize – a slice of the first £6.6billion in reconstruction money being flown into the city on US military aircraft.
The US government, eager to reduce casualties and convinced that private firms could do the job more efficiently, awarded huge contracts, mostly to US firms.
In the Second World War, there was one contractor deployed for every seven soldiers. During the 2003 invasion, that number had increased to two in five. By 2006, contractors in Iraq were outnumbering the soldiers.
Private security firms were first in the queue for work and British firms won some of the biggest contracts.
Aegis, then run by ex-Scots Guards officer Lt Col Tim Spicer, won a £250million deal to oversee all private security operations. He founded Sandline along with mercenary Simon Mann, later jailed for plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea.
Another British firm, Global Strategies Group, won a contract to provide security to diplomats in the southern city of Basra, in a deal worth up to £265million over five years.
A third London-based firm, Erinys, landed a £90million contract to secure the country’s oil fields, training 20,000 Iraqi guards to protect pipelines from sabotage
Opponents of the war have claimed the real reason for the invasion was for the West to get its hands on Iraq’s massive oil reserves.
Suspicions were heightened when oilfield specialists Halliburton, which used to be run by ex-US Vice President Dick Cheney, profited from the war he helped to launch.
Between 2003 and 2010, Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR earned £20billion in US Government contracts in Iraq. KBR was accused of overcharging and investigators found that £365million in payments should be held back.
British firm Amec won a joint £600million contract to rebuild Iraq’s water supply, while a group of companies led by BP is set to earn £1.3billion per year to develop Iraq’s Rumaila oil field.
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Iran has been on the list for ages...
John Bolton, former ambassador at the white house said... he hopes this is the first steps to regime change in iran.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-bolton-hopes-soleimani-strike-first-step-to-regime-change-in-iran
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You think any of them care about body counts.
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