Why is the US so interested in the Middle East? - BBC World Service

We don't need to watch a 10 min video to know its OIL 😂😂😂

Us supporting all the autocratic monarches in the middle east...why u cant tell this bbc

1 - Oil. 2 - Oil. 3 - Oil.

I had such a high hopes for this video, hoping bbc is still capable of what it was 10 years ago. What a dissapointment.

A) Oil B) OIL C) Petroleo?

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If USA is a MOST POWERFUL NATION so how USA lose each and every war such as Vietnam, Iraq, Afghan War...

did someone say oil

Save Bangladeshi students. Plz focus upon Bangladesh

With diminished power comes diminished responsibility.

You cannot promise a land that isn't yours.

West Asia - Not Middle East

A-)OIL B-)Oil C-)oil

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Three countries in Middle East are very crucial for entire world, Hijaz formally known as Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Palestine. Any leader or government who can control Hijaz, Iraq and Palestine, will rule the Globe. But the U.S model politics doesn't work, but it will bring chaos upon chaos and no peace. The Leader who can bring social justice, economic justice and ethnic race justice, will build the type 1, 2 and type 3 Civilization. According to Dr Michio Kaku's analysis, today's humans are type zero Civilization and that's true.

This is the most comprehensive synapses I've seen on the subject. I've been talking about this for years and I find most people fail to see the big picture. It's normal to be moved by the pain and misery in Gaza. Most voters don't realize that whether trump or Biden wins, whether Netanyahu commits war crimes, or a decent person takes his place, the US (the country) has an alliance with Israel (the country) because we need them to maintain the status quo. We Americans as a people are too self centered and too ignorant about foreign policy to understand that our country is the first world superpower due to far more than ingenuity, hard work ethic and GDP. Is it pretty? No, it's a nasty business. But then again power is ugly, and in the end, the more power we have, the more money we make. Yet somehow, we (middle America), in our self centered perspective, think we don't earn enough, because we have no dimension of really how poor and middle class people live in other countries. Somehow, we end up electing presidents who promise us a better economy, but we don't question how the sausage is made.

What a question, PETROL of course.

Nothing but Oil.

The US is connected by a vast web of oil pipes, oil transporting railways and oil-carrying shipping lines with Canada and Mexico, not to mention the rest of the world. This far, in the US today nobody likely knows exactly how much oil, natural gas and coal the US actually produces from those imported. Without the seas of oil supplies going daily to China from the Middle East, Russia, Africa, South Asia and South America (<>17 million barrel daily), coal extraction in China would have come to a grinding halt - and China and the world as we know them would have ceased in a matter of weeks, including the US. Today, nobody wants to know how much exactly oil, n. gas and coal are produced and consumed in each nation - being a scary endeavour. An increasingly war-torn Middle East, Russia, Africa and South America, where oil produced there is dedicated for export rather than consumed locally - is a must in order to sustain the style of the world we are living in today - owing to oil depletion. A vicious Peak Energy Musical Chairs Game, if you like. This is "Why the Middle East is so important to the US" and to the continuity of our Western Civilisation. “In any system of energy, Control is what consumes energy the most. No energy store holds enough energy to extract an amount of energy equal to the total energy it stores. No system of energy can deliver sum useful energy in excess of the total energy put into constructing it. This universal truth applies to all systems. Energy, like time, flows from past to future” (2017).

OIL