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Originally Posted by crockett
This is the samething I say.. I mean hell when we attacked Iraq, we took out their power stations yet ISIS can still pump oil? I can u dears tans not wanting to bomb the oil tanks due to the problems that would cause, but why the fuck do their controlled areas still have electric?
In fact these fuckers had actually taken over electric plants and were forcing Assad to buy electric from them at one point. Why after all this time is the infastrucre still there tha allows them the ability to make millions of dollars a day?
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Pentagon realized that its 1+ year long campaign had been an epic debacle, that a suddenly surging ISIS was stronger as ever, and most importantly, that its critical revenue lifelines had been largely untouched for years.
Results in massive profits for the enterprising middleman who are engaging in openly criminal transactions.
If you cut off the oil trade, they lose the ability to battle the regime.