Comments by "Mike Armstrong" (@mikearmstrong8483) on "China Arrests EAO Leader; Trump Election Boosts Hopes of Support" video.

@khaingaung What does oil have to do with anything? Whenever there is a US military presence anywhere further than Kansas City, people assume "oh, we're invading so we can take their oil". Completely ignoring the fact that in any case in which we did occupy a country that had oil, we paid full market price for it IF we even got any from there.
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@flarvin8945 Sending a single battalion overseas and keeping them in a hostile area for a year costs more than a half million barrels of oil. It is cheaper to buy oil than to seize it.
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@flarvin8945 Here's an equation for you. Sending a single brigade overseas and keeping them in a hostile area for a year costs as much as a half million barrels of oil. It is cheaper to buy oil outright, even at inflated prices, than to seize it by force. The concept of the US invading countries because they have oil is based on nothing but bar talk.
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@flarvin8945 You keep saying that the US will intervene in other nations because that gives us better access to oil. It doesn't. The intervention makes it more costly to get oil. We may intervene for other reasons, right or wrong, but oil is not a reason. It is flat out cheaper to buy oil, even from nations that aren't overly friendly to us, then it is to intervene to secure access to it.
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@flarvin8945 That is an uniformed position. The cost of intervention in Kuwait and Iraq was many times greater than the value of the oil that we have purchased from there since then. And why would countries who had nothing to gain, some of which were almost openly hostile to us, join the coalition? Do you really think the US or any other country only intervenes for self serving motives and never for humanitarian reasons? A lot of guys buried in Normandy would disagree with you. "It's all about the oil" is a fallacy, a common myth perpetuated by bar gossip; we can produce or buy enough on the open market that we don't need to invade anybody to get it, so why incur the excessive cost and public wrath to do so?
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@flarvin8945 Read a history book yourself, and not just a 5th grade one. There was far more to fighting Germany than just "they declared war" because Japan had. The US was actively involved long before Pearl Harbor, and it had nothing to do with getting resources from Germany. Now go back and look at your comments, right from the beginning. You said it's about the oil. It's right there in print. End of discussion.
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Of course China is happy to see him in office. He has threatened to imprison election officials that didn't declare him the winner, and is talking about using the military for law enforcement, so China couldn't pray for a better person in charge of the US. He is the proponent of exactly the kind of policy they like to follow.
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