Quote Originally Posted by rickschoppers View Post
I do not think they are interested in embargos, but rather the cash that the oil brings.

Maybe they think they will take it all back at some point.
I think that IS long term strategy is to control the oil fields which are largely in northern Iraq and in Kurdistan.

So the main struggle for oil will be with the Kurds, there.

Oh, Jordan and Iran are also buying up the IS oil.

Iran and Russia take a load of Afghan heroin, so does USA, black tar heroin there, West Coast, all of that is financing IS.

All the fields guarded by US military.

Where the rest of the opium crop goes is into dodgy processing and released on the black market to pharmaceutical chemists.

It could be interesting to forensically audit some of those European/ME drug houses. India and China have their own supplies of O.