There’s a lot out there on this.
Here’s another thought. The one thing that can really hurt this black market oil trade of ISIS is for the price of oil to go down. The Keystone Pipeline would take years to develop, BUT PASSING THIS WOULD HAVE AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT ON THE PRICE OF OIL.
IOWs Obama has done hat he can to allow the ISIS oil trade to flourish under the disquise that ISIS is better left alone, so they can go after ASSAD and also to some extent neurtralize IRAN’s influence in Iraq.
What a pure Cluster you know what. Obama on the political side pretends to be going after ISIS, when he himself is approving the bombing sites, and a good number of our bombs are not dropped.
It seems like ISIS in turn has stopped the execution of Americans which was politically an embarrassment to Obama.
It all makes sense now.
Democrats have always used regulatory power over energy markets to finance our enemies. Reagan broke the Soviet Union by deregulating those markets. The Russians could then no longer afford their blue water navy.
Part of the reason oil is so cheap now is that ISIS is running boot leg wells.
Bombing the wells will raise the price of oil.