And our Israeli masters have got their ding dong up our asses.

I agree, the US is being rogered to a spectacular degree.

But, I also think that it is no coincidence that Trump the Conqueror made sure he had control of Venezuelan crude locked up, before he started the war. iirc, back in January, as soon as he made himself the new Generalissimo in VZ, I was posting, on this board, speculations about how he could disrupt production in the Persian Gulf, to make the VZ venture pay off bigly. It was easy enough to cut off Iranian exports, but, to make a real dent in the market, I said he would need to take Iraq off line too.

Oil prices top $112 after Iraq declares force majeure, Kuwait refineries attacked

cnbc.com - Oil wti brent US weighs releasing sanctioned iranian crude

Ta-da! Iraq is off line. I knew there is a pipeline from the northern Iraqi fields, through Turkey. Apparently, that line is shut down, due to the Baghdad government and the Kurds being in some sort of snit; So, Iraq is really off line.

I'm glad I don't have any loot in producers or sellers of discretionary goods.

Steve