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2022-03-13 Home Front: Politix

American Foreign Policy Is Adrift. If There Is A Plan, It's A bad One, And if There Is No Plan, It's Just As Bad

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Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-13 13:09|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top
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#1 In case you were wondering how the Ukraine controversy meshes together with the Iranian thing.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-13 13:15|| 2022-03-13 13:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Cui Bono? Who benefits?
That's what I'd like to know. Why are these idiots destroying our economy and making us poorer? Can't possibly be for Ukraine... the Ukrainians were already the poorest shithole in Europe.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-13 13:18|| 2022-03-13 13:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Russia benefits. Which is what certain people post several hundred times a week here trying to distract from, because they can't argue against it directly.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-13 13:22|| 2022-03-13 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, and Iran and China benefit.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-13 13:40|| 2022-03-13 13:40|| Front Page Top

#5 They must be buying up stocks in companies that produce oil, gas, wheat, metals etc. looks like the Gulf Arabs, the Canadians and Australians will benefit too
For Some Countries, Economic Ripples of Ukraine War Bring Windfall
Those rich in oil and gas, other commodities to get a boost from soaring prices, though inflation will sting consumers and weigh on global growth

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-13 14:20|| 2022-03-13 14:20|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, except for the United States. Biden took care of their oil industry.

One recent example:

Biden halts all new oil, gas leases

The Biden administration is delaying decisions on new oil and gas drilling on federal land and other energy-related actions after a federal court blocked the way officials were calculating the real-world costs of climate change.

The administration said in a legal filing that a Feb. 11 ruling by a Louisiana federal judge will affect dozens of rules by at least four federal agencies. Among the immediate effects is an indefinite delay in planned oil and gas lease sales on public lands in a half-dozen states in the West, including Wyoming, Montana and Utah.

The ruling also will delay plans to restrict methane waste emissions from natural gas drilling on public lands and a court-ordered plan to develop energy conservation standards for manufactured housing, the administration said. The ruling also will delay a $2.3 billion federal grant program for transit projects, officials said.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-03-13 14:39|| 2022-03-13 14:39|| Front Page Top

#7 to protect American interests throughout the world.

There's your problem. That's not our goal. That's NEVER our goal. Our goal is to protect the interests of the American people.

After all, these are the people responsible for a huge amount of terrorism (much of it directed at America) over the last 40 years.

Could that have something to do with the fact that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the brutal Shah, a dictator? How would we feel about a government that did that to us? Maybe stopping fucking with other countries would solve the terrorism problem. Just a guess! Let's give it a try, though. It couldn't be worse than what we've got going now.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-13 15:15|| 2022-03-13 15:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Could that have something to do with the fact that the CIA overthrew the elected government of Iran in the 1950s and installed the brutal Shah, a dictator?

It is my understanding that Britain took the lead on that project, to protect the interests of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, and that the Shah was already on the throne, having come to the throne upon the abdication of his father in 1941.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-13 22:23|| 2022-03-13 22:23|| Front Page Top

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