That’s often the actual reason for conflict in modernity, religion is one possible validation, but America’s favorite is “Look at those suffering, oppressed people who *happen to be sitting on billions of oil dollars in bubbling crude. WE MUST USE OUR BENEVOLENT MIGHT TO BRING 🇺🇸FREEDOM🇺🇸 TO THESE PEOPLE…and integrate their oil, I mean their people, into the virtuous, global, free market!”
What about suffering, oppressed people not sitting on petrochemicals/rare earth metals/etc?
“Fuck em. We can’t be the world’s police after all🇺🇸.”