Oil, the US, Geopolitics
There are days when geopolitics intersects with our elections and somewhat lousy policy. Yes, bombing Russian oil infrastructure could be a problem. Yes, it could raise the fuel price for the average American consumer. Never mind that if we get into a major war, the cost of gas will be the last of our concerns.
Today, it was confirmed that we are losing sleep now that Ukraine is hitting refineries in the Russian Federation. So Yigal Levin shared this today, which connects so many aspects of geopolitics:
There cannot be any other new comments here, so I will simply duplicate my text written a couple of weeks ago. Now that this information is a fact, it has become as relevant as possible:
I have already said that Russia, in the event of a difficult situation, will run to the United States to ask for help, plus, I will once again redirect you to this revelation of Kissinger. I have already cited it as an example many times, but it is as relevant as possible, there is also a case with global oil supplies.
We’ve already been through this. It was not for nothing that Moshe Dayan in those days came up with the maxim:
“Our American friends offer us money, weapons and advice. We take money and weapons, we refuse advice.”
We must continue to strike at oil refineries. You won’t have a second chance. Moreover, the Americans have nothing to blackmail you with; they already give you almost no help. It’s better to bring Russia to such a mess that then the Americans will have to invest in you, since you will become a guarantor of stability in the region, on the fragments of the collapsing Russian Federation.
And the only thing the Americans can wish for is that they would finally take care of the Houthis and destroy that shithole that is causing oil prices to rise, and not turn the arrows on the Ukrainians.
https://t.me/yigal_levin/65053
Now, here are a few things that Levin pointed out. He is correct; the Houthis are a far more significant threat to the global logistics chain than Ukraine hitting oil facilities. At least in the short to medium term, the Houthis have had a significant effect already:
Freight costs from Asia to northern Europe have more than doubled in recent days as attacks by Houthi rebels on commercial vessels in the Red Sea force shipping companies to re-route cargo around the southern tip of Africa.
The Iranian-backed militants have staged at least 24 attacks on commercial vessels since mid-November, according to the International Maritime Organization. The group, which has been engaged in a civil war with Yemen’s internationally recognized government since 2014, claims to target Israeli-linked vessels in support of Palestinians in Gaza, although several ships with no links to Israel have been attacked.
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