by Stefan Stanford, All News Pipeline:
Last Friday, Tyler Durden offered these intriguing insights at Zero Hedge:
If anyone is wondering what is the one, sole driving force behind Joe Biden’s foreign policy, here is the answer: It’s always been about the oil, stupid.
What’s grabbed Durden’s attention is the drone strikes by Ukraine on oil refineries deep inside Russia. Durden declared:
[snip] the handlers of the senile president have been terrified of any false move that sharply reduces the supply of oil or its byproducts in the global market, sending commodity prices — and inflation — surging, and crushing Biden’s re-election chances.
More interestingly, Durden claims:
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Now granted, Ukraine can do far worse and sink Russian oil tankers, but Kiev understands that this would spark outrage at the White House as it would instantly send oil prices surging, although once Trump is in the White House, Ukraine will have no such concerns as we pointed out earlier this week.
On the face of it, spikes in oil and gas costs in the U.S. would spell doom for Biden’s reelection. A faltering economy might drive Democrats to cheat on a heretofore unprecedented scale. A Trump landslide would be that large. But election rigging might not be the biggest worry. An engineered “black swan” event might be the greater danger. Desperate people act in desperate ways.
Joe Biden’s handlers’ unremitting hostility to expanding domestic conventional energy production has damaged the nation in many ways. The U.S. is more — not less — reliant on foreign oil and gas production. That includes Russian production. Higher energy costs are slamming working-class and middle-class Americans — that’s most everybody. Credit-card debt continues to rise. Corporate media bleating about downticks in inflation seem a ruse. Anyone who fills his tank, grocery shops, and pays utility bills knows that costs are stubbornly high.
The Biden administration has hit hard at conventional energy to appease green constituencies and enrich alternative energy outfits. Democrats ran a boondoggle, the deliberately misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act.” It was typical D.C. pork barrel politics. Recipients of the largesse are expected to kick back some of those dollars to Democrats and whoever else helped.
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