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2022-07-17 Arabia

Report: Saudi Arabia Doubling Purchases of Cheap Russian Oil

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-07-17 10:09|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 Mixing with Saudi oil and it's all legal

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-17 11:25|| 2022-07-17 11:25|| Front Page Top

#2 The insults are not even subtle. Peace is maintained by being powerful and credible. Worldwide, public opinion is that the US is rapidly declining in both areas, prompting more confrontational and provocative acts. This at a time when the Puppet Show is in panic mode and reactive on a far too emotional, simplistic level.
This is a very dangerous time...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-17 11:31|| 2022-07-17 11:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Apparently, Joe has now said MBS "lied" about Joe not bringing up Khashoggi. Well, that's certainly possible. I really don't see how accusing the head of state of an honor-based society can lead to the desired results.

Of course, Joe was not the adult in the room...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 11:34|| 2022-07-17 11:34|| Front Page Top

#4 accusing the head of state of an honor-based society of lying

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 11:34|| 2022-07-17 11:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Joe says Saudis lied...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 11:43|| 2022-07-17 11:43|| Front Page Top

#6 They should be required to paint a clown face on the front of Air Farce One. The Puppet Show insults a needed ally to help offset the Iranian menace, the Saudi's create a scheme to get more profit by mixing cheaper Russian Oil with theirs, hence circumventing the "sanctions" crushing our own economy, and we will have to buy this "increased production" gimmick caused by the moronic clowns that inhabit this administration.
Masterful stupidity, Jojo, even by Biden standards of the past.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-07-17 12:22|| 2022-07-17 12:22|| Front Page Top

#7 We will find out whose side GOP is on shortly. They will not be able to make Joe increase domestic oil production, but they can essentially gut Dept of Energy and Dept of Interior budgets until they come around.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 12:27|| 2022-07-17 12:27|| Front Page Top

#8 /\ My fear is the Pubs will do very little other than continue to permit the Dems to destroy their 2024 chances. We are drawing very near the midterm and none of the Pubs has articulated a plan or pasted a bullseye on any of the Dem programs.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-17 12:33|| 2022-07-17 12:33|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Given the lead time to get oil production up, the GOP needs to start squeezing the greenies immediately so that stuff happens fast after a Pub president is sworn in in 2024.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 12:35|| 2022-07-17 12:35|| Front Page Top

#10 What the GOP needs to do is start playing a long game, signaling that people like Buttgig, Haaland, Granholm and all the cross-dressers will never be confirmed to any political position ever again.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-17 12:38|| 2022-07-17 12:38|| Front Page Top

#11 This is the relevant bit:

Riyadh has recently indicated a reluctance to increase its oil production, an action unofficially sought by Western leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden to reduce record-high fuel prices in countries such as the U.S.

Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said on March 29 that attacks on Saudi oil facilities by Yemen’s Houthi terrorists in previous days had compromised Riyadh’s ability to provide the world with sufficient fuel supplies.

The Saudi energy minister referenced “attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels on Saudi oil facilities, including a wave of drone and missile strikes on Friday [March 25],” AFP reported at the time.

Bin Salman said the nefarious acts had “put into question our ability to supply the world with the necessary energy requirements.”

I've never understood the Western reluctance to help the Saudis crush the Houthis. Thanks to Dubya, Iraq is now a Iranian puppet state to the north of Saudi Arabia. The Houthis exist as a fighting force only because of the Iranians. Their victory means another Iranian puppet state to Saudi Arabia's south. Will the West only be happy if the Persian empire invades and incorporates all of the Gulf states? Is this part of the West's plan to phase out fossil fuels, by giving a greater Iran a 1/3 share of the world's oil supplies, thereby spiking oil prices to levels previously unimaginable?

Posted by Zhang Fei 2022-07-17 13:10|| 2022-07-17 13:10|| Front Page Top

#12 certainly true that Iran has some influence in Iraq and is trying to increase that influence

but much of the population in Iraq detests Iran and the more Iran pushes the more the detestation.

Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr had a big rally a few days ago. The theme was very anti Iran especially regarding the various militias inside Iraq that are supported by Iran.

Of course Muqtada can change his mind any day and then change it back again the next week but for at least the past few years he has been consistently anti Iran.

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-07-17 13:25|| 2022-07-17 13:25|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ Still pissed at their Dental Plan Coverage

Posted by Frank G 2022-07-17 14:10|| 2022-07-17 14:10|| Front Page Top

#14 they sure got cocky in a hurry after Sloe Joe shut off "Our": The USA's, oil supply to the world

Posted by 746 2022-07-17 14:26|| 2022-07-17 14:26|| Front Page Top

#15 Overthrowing the current Saudi government as a Biden Administration Policy Goal probably didn't help much either.

Might have been explained away as campaign speech but for the calling for the same with Russia and the weight thrown behind that.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-17 14:34|| 2022-07-17 14:34|| Front Page Top

#16 certainly true that Iran has some influence in Iraq and is trying to increase that influence

but much of the population in Iraq detests Iran and the more Iran pushes the more the detestation.

Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr had a big rally a few days ago. The theme was very anti Iran especially regarding the various militias inside Iraq that are supported by Iran.

Of course Muqtada can change his mind any day and then change it back again the next week but for at least the past few years he has been consistently anti Iran.

Iranian-sponsored militias in Iraq are a state within a state. Apart from US fire support, they claim to be the key factor in turning back ISIS in Iraq. Note that the Iraqi army was *unable* to do so. A militia force that is able to do what the army cannot is equally able to subdue that army. Iranian militias in Iraq are pretty close to having the power that Hezbollah does in Lebanon. The one thing holding them back from hosting more Iranian missile strikes on Saudi Arabia is perhaps the fear that the Saudis will start financing ISIS remnants (on the principle that the enemy of my enemy ...) and perhaps even stage an incursion or two into Iraq.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2022-07-17 16:16|| 2022-07-17 16:16|| Front Page Top

#17 Overthrowing the current Saudi government as a Biden Administration Policy Goal probably didn't help much either.

Might have been explained away as campaign speech but for the calling for the same with Russia and the weight thrown behind that.

The Democrat policy is to punish friends (e.g. Saudis and Israelis) and reward enemies (e.g. Iran). Increasingly many countries are starting to see the US as a dangerous friend. Whatever happened to realism (i.e. he's a bastard, but he's our bastard)? As long as they don't annex neighboring countries, what the heck are we doing getting into their business? The Saudis are basically trying to prevent the Iranians from adding Yemen to their empire, same as their opposition in the 60's in North Yemen to the Egyptian-sponsored revolt.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2022-07-17 16:23|| 2022-07-17 16:23|| Front Page Top

#18 ^ Solid point as ever, Zhang Fei.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-17 16:29|| 2022-07-17 16:29|| Front Page Top