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RE: OPEC’S Expected Cut In Production Underscores Biden*s Dangerous War on the Oil Indust
WaPo Columnist on OPEC Decision: Biden Did ‘Fist Bump’ with MBS, Now, Saudis are Giving More Money to Putin
Quote:Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson had some fierce criticism for Biden’s foreign policy and for the rising threat in Europe stemming from the Russia-Ukraine war. Watch:
https://rumble.com/v1mzx2g-eugene-robins...ney-t.html
“Eugene Robinson, I want to bring you in here, because you look inside Russia, you look around the world, whether you’re looking at Modi, or Xi, or Erdogan. And Vladimir Putin is isolated. He doesn’t have many friends at home or left on the world stage,” Joe Scarborough said. “But you write about one of them this morning, and that would be MBS in Saudi Arabia, who gave Vladimir Putin a big, big 70th birthday present by giving him a lot more money to kill a lot more Ukrainians. As you said, Biden gave MBS a fist bump, his reward: a gut punch. Explain.”
“Well, you know, the Saudis, who lead OPEC, engineered this cut in production, OPEC+ oil production of 2 million barrels a day, which will raise the price of oil, and that’s all good for Vladimir Putin, and obviously MBS knows that,” Robinson said. “This is his call. This is — you know, Biden — President Biden tried to sort of reset this relationship on a more reasonable footing, and, you know, no good deed goes unpunished. He went and did the fist-bump, and now, yeah, so more money for Putin.”
“I mean, it is fascinating because on the one hand, you know, world leaders are not coming out, you know, in India and China or whatever,” Robinson went on. “They have doubts about this war than he’s waging, MBS probably has doubts about it, too. Yet, they’re not taking actions to put pressure on Putin to stop what he’s doing.”
Robinson then drew parallels to the origins of World War I.
“I keep looking back to the years before World War I and the sort of great power dynamic that seems to be taking shape… before World War I, there was this sort of momentum that built, that nobody quite knew how to stop,” he went on. “So, now, you know, you look at Putin talking about existential threats to Russia. Well, in fact, his invasion has moved the center of gravity of NATO to the east, closer to his borders, and has strengthened NATO, and now Finland and Sweden want to come into NATO, which makes the Baltic Sea into a NATO lake.”
“So, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy almost for Putin, and that’s what makes it so difficult for me to see how we end this cycle, how we get on a better track, because the track we’re on now seems to be a really, really bad one,” he added. “The momentum seems to be heading in a really, really bad direction and no one seems able to stop it. So, if anybody has an idea of what that magic lever is that somebody can push or pull, it would be a good time to surface it.”
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