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Iraq made some sense if you see it as a war to make sure no major energy-capital flows went through the Euro (Iraq started selling their oil in Euros in the late 90s). The US war machine wants to go to war with everyone, from time to time American economic interests lets them.

Ah, interesting, thx!

Iraq: Saddam wanted to move to the Euro for his oil trade.

Libya: Gaddhafi wanted to move to a gold backed African Lira.

Afghanistan was initially due to 9/11 and then became a weapons testing ground.

Syria: "We're keeping the oil."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/keeping-oil-syria-trump-cons...

> By contrast, not sure what Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan etc gained us (unless you happened to be a military contractor or weapons manufacturer

Pretty sure it's a big point, gotta keep the war machine running