Posted on 02/10/2015 9:53:05 PM PST by lbryce
Hey, wait a minute, Ivan, that's for the U.S. President to do!
Better act quickly, though, while he's still a Democrat...
The two articles (the post here and the previous one it links from last week) provide the best explanation I have read for what is happening right now in Ukraine and the Middle East as well as the crash in oil prices here. It is all about pressuring Russia to abandon Assad so a natural gas pipeline could be built from the Saudi Peninsula across Syria to Europe. The only thing the two consecutive articles below miss is that the Iranian nuclear negotiations are tied into to this to get Iran to also cut off Assad. This could all lead to a permanent ISIS state, a nuclear Iran, a much more capable Chinese military. It is deliberate Obama policy, and none of it is in the best interest of the United States
The reason is, Putin is a dictator who means to conquer more territory. Sorry my irony went by ya.
H*rs#sh*t. There’s never been a strong, stable Syria, there is and has been an enemy state, allied with much more powerful enemy states, a dictatorship that morphed (like North Korea) into a hereditary despotate. The jackoff running it started a civil war by rounding up and beating schoolchildren, and opening fire on crowds of unarmed protesters. As his army shrank through defections and drumhead trial murders, he pulled them back, leaving behind well-armed violent militias allied to himself. He allowed another enemy state to ship in large numbers of thugs.
indeed, very very sad. The language of OPEC is pretty much one we taught them in our. union supporting Universities.
Same thing goes for Obama. He cannot be impeached so long we do not realize he is a foreign agent of a third world war, because in a world war he would have been quickly outed.
Irony wasn't necessary. Reagan defeated the Soviets by releasing American oil production, making the maintenance of a deep water fleet too expensive. The current fracking boom is helping to do the same thing. With a LOT of deregulation and a little serious fiscal discipline (like doing something about military procurement) the same can be done again to make acquisition of Crimea too expensive. So we know about the stick. What about the carrot? What do we have to offer these stupid thugs that will get the Russians to toss Putin and play straight? Mining technology? I thought you might have some ideas.
One car bomb and Putin would be no further threat to the world. THAT is what it WILL take.
LOL, well then get packing! Really, with as many Chechen terrorists as want his a$$ don't you think Putie's praetorian guard has got that one down?
“indeed, very very sad. The language of OPEC is pretty much one we taught them in our. union supporting Universities.”
Since I posted, I have seen some commentary that suggests that these price increases ( and they continue today) are simply the oil companies taking advantage of the optics of this situation to gouge the public. Going to and from my place of business I pass the Shell Refinery in Martinez, CA ( it’s right next door to the another small refinery and across the Sacramento River from a big refinery that used to be owned by Exxon. All three appear to be running normally. If true, it just adds fuel to my notion that we have be come a nation of unpatriotic Gibbsmedats (of all colors) each of whom will screw their countrymen if they have a chance for personal gain.
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