It's just that they have such a massive population, are highly developed yet are still developing, that this still isn't enough to meet their energy needs.
"Israel" is a US colony; it's entire existence hinges on the latter.
Its formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named "Colonization Commission", "Jewish Colonial Trust" and the like.
Theodor Herzl, founder of the colonial ideology he called "zionism", was himself also just a racist colonizer by his own admission, and saw it as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:
“We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]
Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe.
And capitalist governments work for the interests and profit of capitalists rather than workers as is the reason for the genocide here (keeping the middle east unstable and unable to unite against imperialism with a colony right in the middle of Africa and Asia), so yes that does matter.
The government does not represent you since you're not a capitalist, so trying to change something as massive as a genocide through it is pointless, specially when the only other option is just as bad, if not worse. The only thing that will change it is organizing and pressuring it from the outside.
Rather than "intervening" like you want other countries to do against a nuclear state, has the US considered not directly funding and facilitating the genocide?
Love that americans are still worried about elections of all things as if anything other than organized violence will stop a capitalist government from committing genocide.
And Russia has a long and ongoing history of supporting Global South countries' sovereignty against US and its proxies' agression, even after the USSR has been overthrown and taken over by capitalists. So this isn't surprising.
I have nothing good going on in my life, so I’ve adopted an extreme viewpoint
Correct. Oppressed peoples tend to support "radical" movements that would improve their lives, and this is a stupid comment for trying to make that sound like a bad thing.
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