Oil‑funded regime interventions

A policy model where an external power removes or detains a hostile regime and proposes to underwrite post‑transition occupation, security or reconstruction by appropriating or directing the target country’s hydrocarbon revenues. This ties tactical law‑enforcement or military actions directly to extraction‑financing and creates incentives for long‑term external control of strategic resources. — If normalized, using a country’s oil to finance foreign interventions would reshape sovereignty norms, create pay‑to‑occupy precedents, and complicate legal and diplomatic responses to regime change.