Republican lawmakers have unveiled a bill to authorize $901 billion in military spending for the next fiscal year. House Speaker Mike Johnson says the National Defense Authorization Act would “ensure our military forces remain the most lethal in the world.” In a statement, Public Citizen’s Robert Weissman responded, “The last person who should be entrusted with an even bigger budget is the dangerous and lawless Pete Hegseth. As Hegseth illegally targets civilian boats near Venezuela with expensive Hellfire missiles, wastefully and recklessly deploys the National Guard in cities around the country, and teases an unconstitutional and costly war, Congress should refuse to add a penny to his budget.”
Meanwhile, lawmakers have attached a provision to the NDAA that would withhold money from Hegseth’s travel budget if the Pentagon refuses to hand over video of the September 2 boat strike.
I don’t honestly think it’s oil, it’s rare earths we already have oil deposits larger then we can refine locally we don’t particularly need their. What we don’t have is rare earths, the oil is just a fun bonus to them.
Lol one word. Greed.
But there are tons of other reasons as well. Imperialism, anti communist, “the war on drugs”, they hate brown people, etc. Pick one and I bet there’s a billionaire pushing for this. If we control 2 of the top five oil deposits that’s a win by it’s self regardless of we take it out of the ground.