We’re there. This is 1962, and Obama is about a quarter of the President Kennedy was.
We better have some very excellent Admirals and Generals running around Pentagon City, or we are well and truly cooked.
It’s going to happen with us or without us, so you build your case on invading Iran, or just surrender now, because Saudi Arabia is next, followed by Israel.
Russia’s goal - Global petroleum hegemony. Never mind that fracking may change that. If Russia doesn’t do something now, fracking WILL change everything and Russia’s done.
Nobody wants to do business with them anyway, but Western Europe has to. At least the Saudi’s woke up to the fact that, given other options, no one wants to do business with them either, and as such, keeping oil stable and cheap was in their long term national interests.
Without oil, Russia’s influence in the world goes away, permanently.
“If Russia doesn’t do something now, fracking WILL change everything and Russia’s done.”
The Russians aren’t stupid. And they have been using fracking for years.