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by srean 90 days ago
Indeed. Having petroleum reserves is almost always a curse. Norway seems to be the only country to have escaped unmolested.
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Having anything a rich person in the US wants is a curse. We've overthrown governments for bananas and sugar. We tried to overthrow a government for cigars.

Basically the only reason Norway escaped this curse was they were next door to the USSR and the US knew fucking around there could easily land it in the USSR potentially also taking Sweden with it.