but...

"america is a violent country"

impossible to tell a drunk to stop drinking, they will be violent to all hell to get at that next drink.

Bush said it all https://www.c-span.org/clip/call-in/user-clip-addicted-to-oil/4484705

Hence its attack on canada and mexico - gulf of mexico etc... who's next?

Biden tried to get at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/07/biden-venezuela-oil-russia/ but Putin will have nothing to do with that https://www.reuters.com/world/venezuelas-maduro-expected-visit-russia-putins-oil-point-man-says-2023-10-16/

oil runs this economy from the production of goods to the movement of goods, oil is so critical (so too is housing to falsely drive up GDP )
Oil up inflation up interest rates up housing dies so too does the immigration conveyor belt gotta blame/shame/guilt someone (debtpawns/taxslaves) can't print/borrow money or sell bonds (inverse proportion to interest rates - smoke and mirror black magic show ever see monkey business https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZTVg07Je-8 )

https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=709 USA needs 20 million daily china 15 million who will win the oil war?
Pull out the big guns?
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/largest-defense-budgets-in-the-world/

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/5-Oil-Producing-Nations-Ask-To-Join-BRICS-Alliance.html

what if canada and mexico joined BRICS... the biggest threat to the USA I suspect. If mexico and canada loaded up with weapons as the USA has. Hey, who threw the first atomic bomb anyhow. (worked big defence, lockheed, seen my share of shit there as we hung government over a ledge. Military industrial complex is alive and well!) ref https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/review-usas-military-industrial-complex-is-alive-and-well

If the USA just kept its dirty hands off of other's soil perhaps the world would be a better place? who knows.. lots of dirty shit goes on to get at that oil
https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/20/64-years-later-cia-finally-releases-details-of-iranian-coup-iran-tehran-oil/ planet oil https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048dpqp (and housing too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_2BPs1zYMo plus the casino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Q9AOp2FW8 )

Bunch of addicts...an addict will do anything for their next fix, anything. https://www.zdnet.com/article/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-oil/ time for a 12 step program?