Thread: US carries out ‘precision defensive strikes’ in Iraq and Syria against Iranian-backed

Originally Posted by bowie

it’s oil, always has been always will be.

It's actually the retention of all paying, for oil in US$, as demanded by an unexceptional country. Thus ceating a need for all countries buying oil to have a cache of US$ in their bank. Any disobeying the edict is why "some" countries are designated "terrorists" by one unexceptional country and it's vassasl bend their knees to their "protector/mafia Don".

Like many things, it originated in Asia.

"Because Sicily was once an Islamic emirate from 831 to 1072, mafia may have come to Sicilian through Arabic, though the word's origins are uncertain. Possible Arabic roots of the word include:

• ma'afi (معفي) = exempted. In Islamic law, Jizya, is the yearly tax imposed on non-Muslims residing in Muslim lands. And people who pay it are "exempted" from prosecution."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia