The colonial and capitalist West is so used to getting the wealth of other nations for next to nothing that it turned to destroying any State that attempts to keep its wealth for the benefits of the local people. The socialist States of the Middle east and N. Africa have been victims of this determination. Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan have all been targets of the West. Iran has been disrupted by arbitrary sanctions--it is too difficult to attack at this time. Big business wants the wealth rather that have it spent on the 'natives'. The flow of oil has been insured by by all kinds of schemes. In Syria a kind of civil war was the excuse for the West to step in. But since Russia and the US want to take control the outcome have been a disaster.
