There is profound resentment in many oil-producing countries among citizens about what looks to them like foreign extractivism with heavy legacy undertones of imperial past, shown by domestic resistance that Western oil companies faced in Iraq and inability to succeed after the age of energy nationalism in the 1970s.
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“there is still very profound resentment in a lot of oil-producing countries amongst citizens, about what looks to them like foreign extractivism with heavy legacy, heavy undertones still of the imperial past... direct attacks on the headquarters of oil companies from angry Iraqi citizens.”
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Helen Thompson: "The Complex History of Energy and Geopolitics" | The Great Simplification #98— Nate HagensCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:08:12 PM
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