Is it true that the wars that Western world gets involved in nowadays are all about resources ?

Question

Is the Iraq problem really only about getting oil/laying pipelines/any other resources.What about all the other conflicts going on at this time?

Answer 1

Exactly
It's all about greed

Answer 2

The Iraq war is about oil. The Americans don't want to get their hands on it for nothing but they want to force OPEC to reduce the price of oil in general. Iraq is either the second or third biggest producer in the world when running at full capacity so having the American thinking goes that having defeated Saddam and freed Iraq the Iraqi's would sell them oil at preferential rates therefore forcing OPEC to reduce the price of oil overall. A very simplistic idea, typical of the Americas. It appears to be floundering at present but may well work in the long run. The question is will it all have been worth it, loss of lives, great expense etc etc... It's a difficult one.
The other conflicts are all about resources as well, Sudan, Various African countries. People don't fight over ideas or ideals.

Answer 3

Yes, most wars have been over resources or political goals/objectives.

The United States in particular has viewed the world as a sphere of influence, sending off troops thousands of miles away to fight obscure battles in order to achieve percieved objectives. The USSR viewed the world in similar fashion. Since the collapse of the USSR, the USA still has not "stood down" from its cold war posture and continues to fight faraway wars due to percieved interests.

Generally speaking, the US military fights wars to protect big business interests rather than defend the country against any threats. Our economic system and our government/military are interlocked in a rather incestuous relationship.

Answer 4

Yes. And as resources get scarcer the fighting will increase until we have a global war which will destroy the human race. Then the Earth will breathe a sigh of relief that the blight that has corrupted her for so long has removed itself and start to return to the verdant paradise filled with plant, insect and animal life it was before our emergence from the primordial soup.

Answer 5

Every war is waged on the pretext of religion or military build-up but the hidden agenda is to get the resources of the occupied territory just like what the colonizers did to the poor subject states.

Answer 6

OIL ( GAS ) EVERYTHING BOUT IT ONLY.
u know a country called equedor ( played in WC FOOTBALL)where there are resources and now its 70 % oil is only for clearing the debt to US and each UNIT will give those poor people only 2 cents.

US planned such a way that it can do this way

Answer 7

Read Noam Chomsky, Greg palast and their ilk and you may find youself thinking a different way about the world. Personal experience, as in my own case, also changes ones perception of what is going on behind the scenes. Truly frightening.

Answer 8

I can said yes but at one hand i can said.Because 60% of war that western world gets involved in nowadays is reliogion war, most of them are figth against islamic country and their people more espiciely America and their friend (England,Isra'il).
But some time their war it always about resourses.But war in Iraq is against reliogion and to depend Isra'il.

Answer 9

The USA will not get one single drop of oil from Iraq that we don't pay for.
It's amazing that anyone could be so unlearned as to ever believe that lie.
The US never takes. We give.

Answer 10

Just the rich and powerful getting richer and more powerful whilst the poor get shot.

My history teacher many years ago, god bless him, said, follow where the money goes and you will find the true perpetrators of war.

Nothing changes.

Answer 11

I think if you look at history then you will see that resources (or lack of them) are often key to war..