The Europeans decided to embrace green energy at the cost of outsourcing their actual energy needs to Russia and Ukraine. After a war of over 200 days, tens of thousands dead, skyrocketing energy prices, they are slowly realizing that green virtue signaling is no substitute for an energy industry.
The United States is doing the same thing under Biden. Except that we’re not dependent on Russia for our energy (except in the nuclear industry). Instead after shutting down energy production, Biden has to run around with one hand extended to the likes of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela to lower gas prices. Even as his administration continues suppressing domestic production and blaming high prices on “greedy companies” who suddenly got greedy when he took office, but were humble and self-effacing socialists under Trump.
After the latest shrug, Biden, Bernie Sanders, AOC and the other lefty Dems are furious and demanding that we do something about Saudi Arabia. They keep mentioning Jamal Khashoggi, as if the death of a Qatari agent and old pal of Osama bin Laden were more serious than 9/11. (That it is to them, ought to tell you everything about their loyalty to this country)
The Saudis do have a bunch of oil that we helped them locate and that they then nationalized while our government compensated U.S. companies. It was a bad deal, but the new deal was that the Saudis kept prices stable in exchange for getting control of our regional foreign policy. This was arguably a worse deal. Post 9/11, which the Saudis had their hands in, the Bush and Obama administrations set that deal on fire. Bush overthrew Saddam, whom the Saudis feared, but also knew was preventing Iran from breaking out. Obama went one better by going into the terrorist business in such a big way that the Saudis ran in the other direction, tossed away support for the Muslim Brotherhood and became actively hostile to some terror groups.
(This resulted in a struggle with Qatar and the death of Jihadist ally Jamal Khashoggi.)
Obama also nuked the deal with the Saudis by making one with Iran instead. Biden keeps trying to restart the deal, offers Iran sanctions relief and then asks the Saudis for a hand.
Shockingly, this goes over badly.
The Saudi side of this is pretty clear. We’re to stabilize the region and check Iran if we want lower prices. The Biden side assumes that the Saudis will accept the same happy talk about legitimizing Iran’s nuclear program that Jewish Democrats are willing to snort at J Street.
Not happening.
We can have cheap Saudi oil, or we can drill our own. Or we can live in that same fantasy world in which our energy needs will be met by erratic and inefficient wind and solar systems that the Europeans were living in until Putin’s tanks showed up.
The Biden administration, the Democrats and its media allies are going through door three. They also want the Saudis to bail them out while they provide Iran with sanctions relief. When the Saudis fail to do that, they want to threaten the Saudis with the withdrawal of military support in the face of a growing Iranian threat. That might be more of a threat if Biden weren’t actively in bed with the Iranians.
Adults don’t function this way, but this is a government of occasionally senile petulant children who want things their way, but have no sense of reality or give and take, who understand how to seize power, but don’t understand the limitations of that power because they have been cosseted by the boundaries of liberal democracies among whose political norms leftists look tough. They’re out of their depth, in over their heads and they’re taking us down with them.
It might have been better to leave Saddam in place, so that he would keep the Jihadis under control.
After 9/11 we were supposedly fighting a global war on terror. Any such war would have to topple the epicenter of islamic terrorism, the mad mullahs. That would require first neutralizing the Iraqi threat. Even absent that threat, a purely amphibious invasion of Iran would be a very dicey and bloody affair, even if we didn’t lack the amphibious capability to do so by then.
Logistics and that long border Iraq shares with Iran makes it the logical and necessary move, to apply pressure(and help the numerous domestic enemies of the mullahs take them down), if not invade. By supporting the shia and even the sunni terrorists in Iraq, the mad mullahs gave us ample pretext to go after them early.
Their strategic thinking, was sound, and predictable, War isn’t so much about those sexy weapons systems and battles. It’s mostly about plain Jane deepwater ports, train tracks, hardballs(paved roads), trains, trucks, and transport ships. But if we lacked the will to take down Iraq( pop. 45 million), we certainly wouldn’t be taking down Iran ( pop. 150 million).
Making friends with saddam and getting the willing use of his ports and Eastern border to pressure or invade Iran might possibly have been doable, but I don’t think it would have been domestically politically survivable, even if a Bush would try, I think there was too much water under that bridge already.
“we can live in that same fantasy world in which our energy needs will be met by erratic and inefficient wind and solar systems”
lol, well said 🙂
Biden loves America the same way taxidermists love animals.
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Our ultimate choice of national aviary symbol was the Bald Eagle.
Ben Franklin’s preference was the Wild Turkey.
Joe Biden’s preference is the Passenger Pigeon.
I think Harridan Hillary’s favorite bird is Wild Turkey, too. Or Russian vodka recycled by hairy female athletes from the Olympic trials.
And EVERYBODY F’s with the Bidens, even hasbeens like Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. He’s such a bitch.
Oil companies were just as greedy under Trump. Remember when Trump picked the former CEO of Exxon Mobil as his Secretary of State? (it wasn’t that long ago…). Unfortunately Tillerson found out too late that Trump is, in Tillerson’s words, “a fucking moron.”
Oil company profits are a function of the international price of oil. Thus, as oil prices have gone up, their profits have soared. They could take steps to help the American economy, yet they don’t. Hence “greedy oil companies.”
You know even less about the oil industry than Tillerson does about being Secretary of State and President. He was shit canned for incompetence. And he approves of “green,” Affirmative Action and tranny policies for oil companies. He’s truly a fucking moron and so are you.
NOBODY believes Diaper Joe or Gayboy Newscum when they blame “greedy oil companies” and gas stations (derp) for high gas prices but the terminally stupid.
Yea, it’s the people’s fault that put gas in my car, not the people that do nothing yet make more money off every gallon sold than they do that are greedy. Got it Numbnuts. Now make yourself useful and go play in the freeway.
Exactly how are the oil companies in America supposed to drill for and refine oil when the Idiot-in-Chief of the United States won’t allow it? The “Big Guy’s” notion of running energy supplies in this country is to deplete the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, without replenishing it.
Just two years ago, the price of a gallon of gas where I live was $1,87 per gallon. Just today, it is $4,49 per gallon, and it goes up about twice per week.
In The Military,it’s called a”Self-Inflicted Wound”?Joe”Bite Me”has “Invented”something similar;”Self_Inflicted Inflation”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks Jeff!
Now they are sticking a “windfall profits” tax on them.
Petulant child is good one. I feel like I’m sitting on chair in the middle of a room all tied up, while a 4 year old runs around with a loaded revolver.