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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
economics dictate political strategy and therefore influence the cultural climate of nations, not vice versa.
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well it can be vice versa some times, oil is a good example, the rattling of sabres there often raise oil prices when ever threat of reduced flow from either say Iraq or Venezuela, then Iran which if i remember correctly doesn't export to the US, then would deal heavily with the EU, the US has gone into a small spike in the last few weeks up about 20cents per Gal. has there been a spike in petrol prices since the hostage situation happened?