When USA is "expanding," it is trying to open up more countries to international trade, so that countries will have their economic levels brought up and supported by other major world economies. And sure, sometimes that means deposing dictators that stifle economic and personal freedoms, and steal their country's resources.
this is just BS, complete bananas, explain to us how you opened up Iraq and Syria to international trade. Dick Chaney was one of the major shareholder in company that started drilling oil in Iraq and ripped Iraq of its natural resource, without paying anything to Iraq.USA helped ISIS to gain power in Syria because USA didn't like Ashad and they wanted to export 'democracy', now ISIS poses threat to pro-US government in Iraq and executes journalists publicly. US simply raised new terrorists.
Maybe the ultimate idea behind your imperialism is good, but the reality is this - dirty schemes, plain scam, people die, poverty rises
LUKOIL signed a 20-year contract in 2010 to develop West Qurna-2 in Basra Province, which has recoverable reserves of about 14 billion barrels of oil. LUKOIL holds a 75-percent stake in the project, with the rest in the hands of the Iraqi states North Oil Company.
West Qurna-2 is one of the largest oil fields in the world with a crude output of 280,000 barrels per day. It was discovered in 1973 and explored by Soviet geologists in 1970s and 1980s using 2D seismic acquisition and exploration drilling technologies.