I would think that any interested parties would instead chip away..bit by bit...the political infrastructure to achieve their means. ...what advantage is there for an oil company to foster instabity ?, what do they get out of it ? ...I would think that oil companies would prefer a stable situation
John Perkins details the methodology corporations use to rape nations in his book
Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
Stable, strong governments demand higher prices when they sell natural resources to corporations. They are more independent.
Weak, unstable governments accept lower prices, and are more
dependant on the continued grace of a transnational corporation to stay in power.
This is why corporations prefer weak, unstable governments, and work to create them.
Couple of Examples:
Lybia. Gaddafi sold oil at world market prices and provided his citizens with free, world-class housing, education, healthcare, and public infrastructure. Wall Street's CIA took him out. Citizens now suffer horror, but Libyan oil flows out cheap.
Syria. Assad is the least onerous dictatorship in the region. Women have freedom. It's very secular. CIA proxy armies are working to overthrow him.
Russia. Was making good money selling natural gas to freezing Europeans. American-installed government in Ukraine is now working to cut their pipelines, so bank-owned Qatari dictatorship can sell gas to Europe.
It's an old, tried-and-true formula...
- Pay terrorists to create chaos so western soldiers are needed.
- Install corporate-friendly brutal dictator.
- $Profit$