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> The petrochemical revolution guides the way we've

conducted foreign policy should have received top billing. Unless you were intentionally excluding items not in both sets.

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Petrochemicals also enabled mechanized warfare. That's a bigger impact on killing power than any squabbles in the Middle East. I expect deaths in Levantine squabbles are also dwarfed by road accidents.

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