Perspective on Iran

[That Guy]

Originally Posted by firstdown

But what would have happened if the Russian arny had won those battles and had control over the worlds oil? Now we are dealing with third world countries and not a mega power which the Russians would have become. So I'm not sure what we did hurt us rather than helped in the bigger picture.

afghanistan didn't have oil and iraq's oil alone would not have saved their economy from collapse or destroyed ours.