They couldn’t afford it.
Under the Trump presidency, Putin was crying for global production cuts and iran was on skid row.
In 2013 oil spiked to $140 or something, Putin invaded Crimea in 2014.
On January 28th, 2021 Biden energy policy via EO resulted in doubling fuel costs. In 2022, Putin invades Ukraine and 2023 Iran attacks Israel.
This is not new. For my entire life, Dems jack up oil, enriching the malcontents to malcontent.
Not true at all. We benefited greatly from a KSA and Russia oil price war in 2020.