I hope my last two or three posts weren't misunderstood - I am not hammering on America, I am just pointing out the discrepancies between propaganda (the "official truth") and history.
History can only be denied or manipulated fo so much before it comes out "as it really was", and it's darn hard to convince people the moon is made of green cheese.
There is a fundamental difference between "national interest" and "corporate interest".
If Goodyear want Vietnamese rubber, OK, go out and buy it.
But if somebody else makes a better offer, you can't just go and declare war and seize it anyhow.
In a small scale it would be called "bully attitude" like the school bully who steals snacks.
In the real world, it would be called "imperial approach" (not empirical, whomever wrote that) or outright "piracy", i.e. "hit&run".
The
Shah of Iran was important because it was far better to have Iran on OUR side than on the Soviet side.
And, since Iranians are NOT arabs, they are Persians, Indoeuropeans, they made excellent soldiers, extremely skilled fighter pilots and very competent generals.
Which is why the Imam Khomeini had them all arrested and executed when he came to power, you just can't trust a cmopetent high-ranking military professional, he might even THINK! (I'm being sarcastic - what I really mean is that they were too well trained to be "westerners" to be "reliable" to Islamic rule)
Saddam was put in power by the USA in the early '70s, waged war against Iran because he was told to do so by the US, but when he misbehaved, he was first frowned upon, then got fingers wagging, eventually saw Iraq invaded and he was deposed, arrested, tried (???) and hanged.
Now, since when is a Head of State hung ? Not since the English murdered King Henry III and beheaded James I, IIRC.
A civilized nation does not execute Heads of State.
Now, I do not see how "the free world" could be at danger because somebody wants to sell rubber, or oil, or lithium, to an Indian manufacturer rather than a US, or UK, or Dutch, or Russian manufacturer.
The goods will be on the international market anyway.
You may think I am foolish, but considering my Country only produces the final, finished industrial product, but has no natural raw matter to start with, it can't be all that bad.
Unemployment is not as bad as in those nations who have former colonies or current Territories or satellite states to buy from, it's all "money or nothing" to the Italian economy, but our industry is doing very well, thank you very much.
So, a little more focus on international peace and a little less on corporate fat cats. They could use some Diet Coke.