Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Bill Fairchild's avatar

You asked "Do we have World War III over the remaining oil?" I found the answer in 1975 when I watched the movie Three Days of the Condor:

(CIA officer) Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?

(young novice CIA researcher and movie hero played by Robert Redford) Joe Turner: Ask them?

Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

Expand full comment
1 more comment...

No posts