Exactly. What happened was geologists knew about shale oil and gas deposits in North America for years, and then finally someone figured out how to extract it economically given prices in the mid-late 00s, probably because they wanted to make money. They made money, hundreds of firms copied them, and the Saudis responded to the threat of market share loss by pumping lots of oil. There was no centralized decision making in this process, just a bunch of individuals, firms, and governments reading the tea leaves of the oil market independently.

I suppose trade deals would require too much coordination between those inept national administrators. I guess it is also too bad that there are no international standards like TCP/IP becuase that would require coordination as well. And its a good thing there is no coordination, that way we dont't have any international spying programs on citizens.

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Where did I say CIA plot? That is a strawman you have erected. The Russian economy was helped substantially over the past decade by rising oil prices, this economic improvement formed the cornerstone of the current Russian administration. When oil prices were slashed, the Rubble fell by half. Suddenly now there are problems at home, and Russian military expansion has been curtailed. Nation states are perfectly capable of grasping the economic importance of certain key resouces for the modern economies and know where to turn the screws to encourage behavior without jumping straight to war all the time. The Saudis did not voluntarily give up billions of revenue, they calculated that the opportunity cost of pissing off America, which has significantly helped keep the royal family in power for decades, would be too high. Not every decision is a straight up comparision of projected revenue numbers, sometimes large and powerful entities take into account expected value as well.