Distrust politicians, let them own oil business instead! 
Nationalists are cringe.
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@waltercool
>nationalize the oil industry
>arrest CEOs
Sounds more like socialist talk than nationalist.
@alyx Well, at my country those “radical nationalists” (loud but small movements) want to “recover” private companies of natural resources and banking business from foreigners, and put “natural born citizen” people in charge.
Because of course, a person born in the country would do it better 🤔
They don’t specify how to do it, they may want “expropriation”,or just force them to fire every person who is not natural born citizen. They are not against private companies.
@waltercool
There's been some phobia of foreign companies in my country too, also when dealing with natural resources, but the approach here has been just: "kick those companies out, it's our resources that they're trying to steal, we should profit from those resources, not foreigners". They forget though that we don't have the technology to exploit those resources, and unless you accept these foreign companies, our country literally gets less use out of those resources.
We had a big controversy some 10-12 years ago, when a Canadian company wanted to extract some gold here, and they were promising our country a great deal. They were going to hire local people, they were gonna invest in the economic growth of the area, which at the time and now is very poor and underdeveloped, they had a plan to protect the ecosystem, everything you could have reasonably wanted. And then street protests started from retarded ecologists that gained traction in the wider public and forced the government to back down on a deal they already promised with the Canadians.
But so far I haven't heard of calls of nationalizing such companies. It's always limited to "kick them out, don't let them touch our land".
Several people between left and right are mad because a Chinese company won a contract with government to extract Lithium. Some people want a "national company" instead, others a "state-owned company"... and radicalized left-wing wants to ban exports and produce a whole industry of Lithium based products (like batteries).
And me: How are you gonna fund that? The country is operating under deficit right now...