Be kinde to folk. This changeth the whole habitat.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 34
ConocoPhillips stock up 7.5-8.5% in pre-market. Chevron a pinch more. Venezuelan oil all around?
In the olden days, when the US started a military action in an oil producing region, it was only the cynics and conspiracy theorists (occasionally realists perhaps) who said the real reason was to get the oil. This time around at least that is clear and up front so nobody needs to argue about hidden motivations.
Jim
No. of Recommendations: 5
SLB (Schlumberger) and Hal (Haliburton), both of which are oil services stocks are up 9-10% in pre-trading
"Laissez les bons temps rouler"
Jeff
(On the other hand, in 2002 when the US military took down the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2003, when our military took out Saddam Hussein, and in 2011, when we helped remove Muammar Gaddafi from power in Libya. These were very, very bad people, much, much worse than Maduro and Venezuela, which was never a significant national security threat to the United States, we were left with a multi-year quagmire which is still playing out. At least two of the above was to gain control of oil fields).
No. of Recommendations: 1
Canada not only has oil, but many other resources. Someone is looking at it seriously.
No. of Recommendations: 3
I love the smell of conspiracy theories in the morning.
It smells like ... victory.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Not sure how any of this is pertinent to the Berkshire board.
BRK-B 500.70 +3.85 (+0.77%)
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Sorry, but you guys are pikers.
Now
here is how it is done properly:
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/major-question..."BREAKING: U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio admits that abducting Maduro did not solve anything:
“All of the problems we had with Maduro when Maduro was there. We still have those problems in terms of them needing to be addressed.
We are going to give people an opportunity to address those challenges and those problems. Until they address it, they will continue to face this oil quarantine."
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Now it becomes clear: Trump’s adventure was little more than a callow vendetta against Maduro himself, with no further constructive plans for the actual management of the country or situation after Maduro’s fall.
This was even underscored today by NYT’s revelation that the final “straw” which made Trump pull the trigger was Maduro’s constant and insufferable “dancing”, which Trump’s fragile ego was greatly chafed by, as he felt that it was Maduro’s way of mocking and defying him.
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Rodriguez appears to affirm the above, that she has been selected to pacify the Venezuelan people as a kind of ‘Maduro-lite’ while slinkily handing the country over to the neoliberal economic hitmen from the West.
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Drowned in the neocon swamp of his administration, Trump appears to be tilting into psychopathy,
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Drunk with power, it seems Trump has become a rabid mad dog attacking the entire world at the behest of his Israeli masters. But to accelerationists like myself, it’s not an altogether terrible development as it hastens the awakening of the world to the US’s naked imperialism,
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" He doesn't give the EU any regard either.
"[As if those threats weren’t enough, today Trump’s admin again reiterated their intent to take Greenland by force] It has set off a veritable firestorm of…..deafening silence and murmurs from the decrepit and paralytic EU kleptocrats. The hypocrisy and double standards were on full display
"But finally a bit of calm(er) reflection:
" It’s the law of the jungle now, might is right, and Trump has become a kind of ill-fated Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse figure, ushering in the new age of chaos just in time for the final arc of the Fourth Turning to transform the world into something unrecognizable.
This is not altogether a bad thing. The old age is dying, and something new is being born; this is a natural process and should be welcomed, albeit with great caution and an emphasis on awareness. "
No. of Recommendations: 15
Victory?
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
No. of Recommendations: 2
No. of Recommendations: 1
Flooding the country with drugs that kill thousands of our citizens a year had nothing to do with it in your calculations?
No. of Recommendations: 0
“At the behest of his Israeli masters.” Are you ok,Rayvt?
No. of Recommendations: 0
China,Oil,Drugs. In that order I think.
No. of Recommendations: 4
“At the behest of his Israeli masters.” Are you ok,Rayvt?
First, these are not Rayvt's words. You picked them out of a long substack article. (I had to look because I didn't believe it's something rayvt would write).
Second, that sentence was written in the context of the looming possibility of a regime change attack on Iran, which doesn't make it sound so outrageous.
No. of Recommendations: 2
”At the behest of his Israeli masters.” Are you ok,Rayvt?
actually, i think he is being ironic, suggesting that you could go further in your opposition to the president, as others have, and that your response is relatively restrained. but i could be wrong. in any case, none of this (including my response, admittedly) is relevant here, and we should all be ex-filtrated as punishment.
No. of Recommendations: 5
“At the behest of his Israeli masters.” Are you ok,Rayvt?
That was a quote from that, um, interesting article.
My son & I were talking the other day and I told him that, being retired, I had plenty of time to read many sites and purposely read sites that were on both sides of the current issues.
No. of Recommendations: 19
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and an estimated $9 trillion dollars later, what do we have to show for it?
fd
No. of Recommendations: 2
a bad reputation ?
