Posted on 12/12/2022 1:17:51 PM PST by RandFan
America does not "need allies", and if we did, the rotten, doomed al-Saud regime is the last place we should be looking.
How?
Good. Let them fight it out.
None of our business.
Ukraine on the other hand is of no national security issue whatsoever to our nation.
It was nonetheless a call made without enough information available to make a solid assessment. I had called on others to see if they could find more information. In the absence of any new information coming forth, I did not see the necessity to contact my state Representatives or Senators.
So, it was kind of a follow up response to the article I had offered up. Now that a month has gone by and seeing no further information or issues, I don't see anything negative that has come about to change my initial assessment that was made at the time.
I'm not an isolationist. So, minimal engagement I look upon as not a big problem. If that engagement were to start increasing, I would reassess my position.
Must admit that I don’t really know much about it. It was about the only site I found any information about our troop deployment in Yemen.
Exactly.
Can’t do that. Biden needs his blood money from Ukraine. Biden worshipers will see that he gets it. Biden worshipers put their god’s wishes first.
It’s interesting how conservztive foreign policy has come full circle. I was listening to the late, great Senator Robert A. Taft recently, and his foreign policy sounded like Trump’s. (Or more precisely, Trump’s sounds like Taft’s, since Taft came first.)
You are supporting Sunni and Shi’ite Jihadis, including Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and have the the unmitigated gall to speak of treason?
Isolationism is a good thing.
They’ve never seen a country they didn’t want to attack.
The Saudis, under Trump, made peace with Israel.
The US doesn’t, but the whole rest of the world does. Saudi stability is a bit important. And the Persian Gulf too.
The Saudis are making peace with Israel.
The US is again a net oil producer, just about at the level of 2019. Production steadily improved since the end of Covid problems. Arguably the Biden admin hindered even greater production increases, but it increased anyway.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M
However, that does not mean that the US is immune from global prices, which a lot of people miss. US oil is also traded on global markets. So if oil spikes globally it will happen in the US too.
If one were to try to prevent US domestic prices from rising with global prices, such as by banning US oil exports, that will handicap US production. That sort of price control was the problem that reduced US production and hooked the US on imports in the first place.
For once, because of you, I got a great analysis.
You are welcome.
Thank you for your efforts to end our role in this tragic war. Untold numbers of children have suffered horribly. We’ve got to stop the deadly meddling that has become our national trademark, thanks in the last several decades to the NeoCons and the NeoLibs.
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