Horse****. You have troops in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.. the 2 first ones are clearly oil related. Your whole military is designed to fight for oil and has been for decades. Protecting our oil supplies? HAHAHA.. if you were, then you would not be trying to pick a fight with Iran, nor invited Iraq.
You have been protecting your bum as much as our bum..what you and your far right wing friends forget, is that US policy since WW2 has been to protect the US and only the US. This was done by propping up governments around the world to one degree or another. It was all in self interest and to spread US economic might. And it is STILL in the US interest to manifest its military power and hence its economic power. Only problem, is that the world has grown tired of the US bullying.
Awww defending the chief pee idiot in power are we now?
Wow, you speak English but don't really understand it?
Have any idea how much oil you folks get from the middle east? Y'all get 40% from OPEC, mostly from Saudi Arabia and Libya. We get absolutely NO oil from Syria, we do import from Iraq... about 25% of their oil exports go to us but does not even come close to our needs and we ARE the largest producers of energy worldwide.
Limited is your understanding of geopolitics it appears. We are defending our allies in the middle east from Iran, especially our ally Israel, but also one of your chief suppliers of oil, Saudi Arabia.
"...nor invited Iraq"? Explain what is meant by that statement, please.
I will not disagree with the US doing what is in our interests... sure, we could have just allowed the Soviets to come in and take you folks over. For as grateful as you are, we probably should have, you folks could probably use a few gulags to give you an appreciation of freedoms you've been bestowed. Maybe some gumption, maybe the actual will to stand up, fight for yourselves and your own freedoms instead of always relying on US to make sure.
Eastern Europeans know.
US bullying? You have no idea what you are talking about in relation to actual totalitarian bullying as we defeated your inner bullies and kept the real bullies out. Euros should say thank you for god sakes, a bunch of spoiled ingrates that would more often not help us in times of a real crisis any more than the man in the moon would.
It's time you support your own armies. Hell, you folks cannot even come up with 2% on your own with us pushing you hard... how you ever going to field a military worthy of battle? And if you do, then you start untold needless and destructive wars... bullying my ass, we just have to cover for you folks so you don't follow senseless failed ideologies and mess up so terribly again.
No proof, eh? Obviously. That last silliness expresses you got nothing but your own sick fantasies.