This quote is from an editorial by a conservative writer in the US published in the British newspaper Financial Times. Ignore all the mumbo jumbo and focus just on this paragraph, which I found very interesting:
In 1988, of course, the Piper Alpha platform, operated by Occidental Petroleum, a US company, exploded in British waters due to poor safety precautions, killing 167 people. It was the most deadly oil disaster ever. History leaves us no record of Margaret Thatcher urging her public to distrust American accents or to ignore the British constitution in the interest of vengeance against foreign corporations. This incident is virtually unknown to Americans. There has not been a single recounting of it in any US newspaper since the Gulf explosion.
I didn’t know about this, did you? Why is no one talking about it?
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