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Opinion: Biden crowned world energy czar as diplomacy triumphs over Putin’s tantrums
Fortune via Yahoo ^ | December 5, 2022 | By Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Steven Tian

Posted on 12/05/2022 1:44:59 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book explained how leaders and groups need each other for power: “For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” President Biden has breathed new confidence into allied unity and resolve—and has in turn been strengthened by our international allies.

Overcoming the self-destructive America First isolationism of our recent past, Biden has rebuilt trust through collective action. Most recently, America’s continued triumphs in international energy diplomacy—ranging from reining in OPEC+ to the successful rollout of the Russian oil price caps to helping the EU work through its gas supply challenges, all in the face of tremendous skepticism—have stabilized the global energy markets and brought down prices all while cutting into Putin’s profits.

These accomplishments remain underappreciated. Contrary to Putin’s hopes that Europeans would freeze with insufficient gas to heat homes, splintering allied unity, his gas gambit has thoroughly failed. Europe has secured enough supplies to avoid an energy crunch this winter, with the proactive help of the U.S. and the international coalition, as we correctly predicted months ago.

And contrary to the analysts who gloomily forecasted Saudi Arabia’s oil intransigence would drive prices up, Biden has proven his mettle by helping the G7 and 27 EU nations realize that oil-producing nations need to sell their oil at least as much as customer nations need to purchase it.

After 62 years of one-sided bullying in the marketplace, the U.S. and its allies finally banded together to fight back.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hilarious article. Biden has alternated friend and foe alike.


41 posted on 12/05/2022 3:18:50 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden crowned world energy czar as diplomacy triumphs over Putin’s tantrums

Axel Foley: "Get the f%#& outta here!"

42 posted on 12/05/2022 3:20:27 PM PST by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is this Mad Magazine? (They had wine in the water cooler)


43 posted on 12/05/2022 3:26:31 PM PST by Shady (The #JihadJunta: "We are now a nation of Men, Not of Laws. You are not as equal as we are...")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


44 posted on 12/05/2022 3:30:47 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Has anyone, recently, seen a Biden sticker on any vehicle and in particular at/in a gas station!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Overcoming the self-destructive America First isolationism of our recent past, Biden has rebuilt trust through collective action.

“Collective”. The go to word of the globalists.


45 posted on 12/05/2022 4:09:12 PM PST by Flick Lives (Cui bono)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This guy is smoking something.


46 posted on 12/05/2022 4:53:48 PM PST by vivenne
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This could be the WORST headline ever...


47 posted on 12/05/2022 4:55:34 PM PST by CDB
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To: cranked

Too bad that’s now just a fantasy. Americans are lining up to bend over and take whatever the government tosses their way (yeah, yeah, many here will claim otherwise - results mean more than bloviating).


48 posted on 12/05/2022 5:19:52 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; All

There are dozens on this site that agree with the authors.

Dozens.


49 posted on 12/05/2022 5:48:01 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Classic propaganda.: Distort the reality, demonize the opponent, glorify the Dear Leader. Works every time, if you’re a stooge.


50 posted on 12/05/2022 5:54:33 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

(President Biden has breathed new confidence into allied unity and resolve—and has in turn been strengthened by our international allies.)

Wow. Those must be some powerful drugs they’re (the writers) are taking.


51 posted on 12/05/2022 6:22:15 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Grampa Dave

Elon Musk 😀 LOL 🤣


52 posted on 12/05/2022 6:25:02 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: PGR88

Funny you should say that.

Isn’t Fortune mostly or wholly owned by the Chinese?


53 posted on 12/05/2022 6:30:56 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Overcoming the self-destructive America First isolationism of our recent past,”

We’ve been so isolationist & inward looking recently.(Sarcasm)

Is this guy drunk?

We’ve been nothing but globalism on steroids since WW1 and WW2.


54 posted on 12/05/2022 7:06:04 PM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
North Korean dictator/superstar golfer Kim Jong-Il has died at 69 -- a fitting age, because 69 is under par on every regulation golf course.

Kim Jong-Il never needed a swing coach to master the sport of golf.

Kim shot 38 under, including 11 holes-in-one, at the 7,700-yard championship course at Pyongyang in the VERY FIRST golf round of his life, according to North Korean state media. This was in 1994, when Kim was 52 years old. Even more impressive, Kim stood just 5-foot-3, yet he was able to overpower a course as long as any ever played in major championship history.

http://www.espn.com/espn/page2/index/_/id/7369649

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55 posted on 12/05/2022 9:02:42 PM PST by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The most ridiculous spin of this situation I have seen to date.


56 posted on 12/05/2022 10:24:42 PM PST by NorseViking
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“self-destructive America First isolationism of our recent past”

Please demonstrate how it is self-destructive and “isolation” is a bad word.

George Washington preached this. Our country prospered.


57 posted on 12/06/2022 4:22:34 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden has proven his mettle by helping the G7 and 27 EU nations realize that oil-producing nations need to sell their oil at least as much as customer nations need to purchase it.

I thought his goal was to make G7 and EU nations realize that they DON'T need oil. Just green energy and rainbow farts. Did they just abandon the Green New Deal?

58 posted on 12/06/2022 4:43:22 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Biden has proven his mettle by helping the G7 and 27 EU nations realize that oil-producing nations need to sell their oil at least as much as customer nations need to purchase it.

I thought his goal was to make G7 and EU nations realize that they DON'T need oil. Just green energy and rainbow farts. Did they just abandon the Green New Deal?

59 posted on 12/06/2022 4:43:23 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Mariner

“There are dozens on this site that agree with the authors.

Dozens.”

......probaly the same people who deem “The View” objective journalism.


60 posted on 12/06/2022 7:48:03 AM PST by EODGUY (God's Will...nothing more....nothing less.....nothing else!)
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