U.S. Said to Be Looking at Relaxing Venezuela Sanctions https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/oil-prices-today-51665043162?mod=mw_latestnews

Not sure what part of trump made that call you do not understand.

Oil crisis on the way. Bombing Iraq isn't going to help this time around. At the same time, EU wants max price on Russian oil with sanctions.

Before when you said that parts of the world was aligning with Russia as a result of the war I thought it was bit of a stretch. But tbh public displays of snubs like this one reinforces that. We just don't have the influence we once did. The global south is tired of taking orders and instead is increasingly doing what's best for themselves. India & Saudis are prime examples front and center. Even if we get Ukraine into our NATO camp and degrade Russia significantly, we got kind of exposed by this move.

We were always going to be a waning power with China surging, but our geopolitical influence is eroding far more rapidly due to Joe Biden's foreign policy. Trump tried to restore some of our clout, and succeeded in some ways, especially when it came to the Arab world and aligning with Israel against Iran. We made some serious gains. Then we had Joe Biden's catastrophic Afghan withdrawal expose us as toothless and rudderless, which was seized on by Putin in Ukraine to which Joe Biden started acting faux-bellicose and challenging our allies, opponents and unaligned world without any substantive threat to back it up, which results in the rebukes and cold shoulders we've been seeing. I don't blame Joe Biden for our inevitable decline from global superpower, but I do blame him for failing to throw our weight around when it mattered and then trying to throw our weight around in the most counterproductive way.

At least under both Bush and Obama with the misguided foreign interventionalist foreign policy that kept making things worse for us, it was still enough of a madman threat that the rest of the world took us seriously. Like Nixon wanting the commies to be scared of him leaving 'Nam. Vladimir Putin was legitimately concerned Hillary Clinton would try to stage a color revolution in Russia and overthrow him. Under Joe Biden, we've stolen China's title of paper tiger. They aren't afraid of us anymore.

Joe Biden is a pedophile
Hunter Biden is a crack fiend

I sad because when Trumpy was President I pay 2$ now I pay 5$ for gasoline

1k a day? Unless that's a typo... that's less than a rounding error.

If you mean 1m a day that's still not a big deal. USA is up something like 600k barrels a day since the invasion. Still not a big deal.

Typo. 1m/day in an already tight market. It’s significant, that’s why oil jumped like 10% on the announcement, that’s why the White House rebuked it. When the SPR flows stop artificially keeping prices low in the US between that and this cut we’re going back to 4+ dollars a gallon easily.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Oct 6 2022 09:27am

if only america had oil on its own soil......oh wait they have, but the government is sabotaging domestic production

So you hate trump, but give biden a pass when he does it?

That's orange man bad syndrome dude