More here: As Trump spelt out in the interview, the U.S. is no longer as dependent on oil from the Middle East as it was, thanks to burgeoning domestic production.
More here: As Trump spelt out in the interview, the U.S. is no longer as dependent on oil from the Middle East as it was, thanks to burgeoning domestic production.
Ain’t irony delicious? Like revenge, it’s a dish best served cold.
Meanwhile Trump explains to the world the concept of proportionality and deterrence: you don’t kills ours, we won’t kill yours.
“… I asked, how many will die. 150 people, sir, was the answer from a General. 10 minutes before the strike I stopped it, not … proportionate to shooting down an unmanned drone. I am in no hurry, our Military is rebuilt, new, and ready to go, by far the best in the world,” Trump said. “Sanctions are biting & more added last night. Iran can NEVER have Nuclear Weapons, not against the USA, and not against the WORLD!”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-called-off-retaliatory-strike-against-iran-in-last-minute-wsj
How reckless. Peace will break out everywhere once all the progressives who take us for idiots are finally rooted out of power.
Who’s teetering on what brink? Now everybody repeat: no boots on the ground. Let China deal with the Islamist civil war.
I can’t wait for the protests when China and/or Russia are forced to take military action: No blood for oil!!!. Hilarious if not so tragic.
The Warmongering GOPE’s must absolutely HATE MY President …
Please, oh please, oh please let’s see Iran block off the straits of Hormuz. Then when those eastern b@$#@#&$ are cueing up for gas and demanding western oil we’ll point out the lack of “social license” for the western product.
You beat me to it!
Agree 100%. I’d love to see them have an oil shortage.
Also interesting would be the Chicom response to Iran, which is a Russian client state.
It’s been rumored that the Chicoms love to eat pork and have little tolerance for Muhammadan shenanigans.
Canadians are so dumb that the government would charge us 7 dollars a liter before allowing Canadian oil to flow to Canadians, and yes, we are that stupid.
The EASIEST FIX to the Iran Nuke situation is this: Canada builds tidewater access on both coasts to replace Iranian oil and gas supplies to Asia and Europe with ethical environmentally responsible product. Canada can easily double its output long term and all the air goes out of Iranian nuclear ambitions. With no hole in World energy supply many more nations including from the EU and Asia would be willing to ratchet up pressure on Iran. This would also give leverage to Canada at the bargaining table with pretty much everyone including the U.S.
Canadian oil producers sell to US refiners, not to the US government, and receive a competitive price for bitumen.
There are literally dozens of separate buyers of crude oil in the United States. Oil refiners are private corporations and seek to maximize profit: if Canadian crude was somehow a screaming bargain after accounting for the difficulty in refining it, it would quickly be bid up in price to the point where it was no longer a bargain. Oil pipelines in the United States are regulated as common carriers, they publish rates at which they carry product, there is no need for negotiation.
All of this is a long way of saying that Canadian crude is sold into US market under the best possible terms: many buyers who are out to maximize profit. Price gouging is impossible when you have many buyers of the product in the market, and the profit motive ensures that collusion among them to hold down the price of the product will be impossible to coordinate.
Likewise transmission of the oil through pipelines that are regulated as common carriers ensures that Canadian oil is charged the same freight as US crude.
The main causes of the price differential that have held Canadian crude at historic low prices is a lack of pipeline capacity so that the oil must be carried by contract on rails and who knows what rate and the fact that a barrel of bitumen will always bring a lower price than a barrel of West Texas intermediate because it is a special product that requires additional costs in the refining process.
Probably th only reason Trudles supports transmountain, is it will allow him and the Liberals to better cut deals with the Chinese.
If Canadian producers want a higher per barrel price they will have to invest more money in upgrading facilities, instead of selling it as raw bitumen.
Great idea. It would not take long for China to rectify the situation. A New York minute comes to mind.
Russia and China are pals. They even share a very long stretch of border. Russia has plenty of oil and gas.
Russia needs Iran to sell a lot of Iranian oil. WHY?
Because Russian and Iran have already inked a deal for Iran to take 6 more Russian nuclear power plants and the only way Iran can pay for them is to sell it’s oil.
President Trump is hobbling their plans with his sanctions. That’s why Iran is acting out.
If the international Oil market is choked by Iran, the price goes UP in USA & Canada….Win…. Win
Nobody has explained yet why fucking the persians is necessary
Do you need someone to explain it to you? Why don’t you look it up yourself. You can start with the Act of War they committed in November 1979 when they invaded American sovereign territory and took 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
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Fast forward to today, they want to get their hands on nuclear weapons while almost daily chanting Death to America.
Pro Survival Tip: If someone tells you they want to kill you, you should believe them.
*Do unto others…before they Permanently do unto you.* ~stuff Joshua might have said before the Hebrews entered Canaan.
Dude, have you met Persian women? If you have, you will agree how desirable that would be! I otherwise agree with your sentiment.
Oz, Iran is no longer our (the US’s) fight. They don’t need the oil, the expense or the loss of life. But if limited measures are needed, a few cruise missiles into Kharg Island would put Iran down for the count.
Okay gloves off. Our ally that we’re doing this for is SAUDI ARABIA. Let me say that again. SAUDI ARABIA. You know, the sunni country that orders western girls on Instagram as whores while they severely restrict they’re own womenfolk. The country that executes gays. The country that has undue influence on our own country so as to export their wahhabism and take over our cities financially. So basically the muslims you hate yet you support their war.
The reason Iran had a revolution against the Sha, is because the Americans and British overthrew Mossedagh in the 1950s and set out to control Iran’s wealth. They also so the corrupting influence of Western culture. A fucking gross disgusting culture of fat sex perverts that takes homosexuality and consumption to evil extremes. I hope Iran takes the piss out of us. We deserve it just for being gross.
“We deserve it just for being gross.”
No, YOU deserve it for being a gloveless idiot. Mossedagh was Russia’s pick for ruling Iran. You think Russia was better?
The Shah was royalty. The Bolshevik’s murdered the Russian royal family and then went on to kill 50+ million of their own people. The Iranians have no problem killing their any number of their own people for any Islamic whim. That’s gross.
So we should go to the MidEast and kill and cause chaos for any stock market whim. Got it.
Who, other than you Dood, mentioned the stock market or whims? Nobody. You use strawmen like a true Marxist.
“The reason Iran had a revolution against the Sha, is because the Americans and British overthrew Mossedagh in the 1950s and set out to control Iran’s wealth.”
This is a fairy tale on so many levels. Mossadegh was a weak despot who sent commie thugs to beat people who didn’t fall in with his land reforms, and held a ‘vote’ to abolish the legislature and give him one-man rule whereby to vote ‘no’ you had to go to a special booth and give your ID etc. Amazingly he got 99% of the vote.
Further, it was not about oil. US oil companies weren’t interested Kuwaiti oil was a way better ROI. America and Britain were NOT allies in the ME at the time. The CIA coup against Mossadegh failed; he was ousted by street protests. CIA assets had involvement but MI6 was probably more pivotal. The Shah wasn’t even that bad-at first. He got worse and worse through the ’70s. It may be appropriate to blame US aid and dollar devaluation for this problem.
No one is urging doing anything to Iran, except continuing and tightening the embargo. The only way the military action will come down on them is if they close the Strait of Hormuz or try to act as a total keeper of the Strait, or attack shipping.
Speaking of gross practices, a quarter of Iranian couples report they cannot conceive children, and the government is putting it down to the she ate practice of “temporary marriage “, which is a license for sex outside of marriage.
Plus you seem to forget the last 40 years of war that Iran has waged against the west through terrorism. And their pursuit of nuclear weapons
First of all, if Iran were to get nukes, they’d already have them.
Secondly, why can’t Iran have nuclear weapons? Doesn’t Israel, India and Pakistan already have nukes? I mean N Korea has them for f’s sake.
Thirdly, noone has acknowledged the fact that our main ally on this little gambit is Saudi Arabia, you know, that country of goatherds from whence the 911 bombers came?
Iran is just a country looking out for it’s interests like any other country and every Muslim Iranian I’ve ever known was a standup individual. Can’t say the same for Arabs or Torontonians
hey Dud, besides being weapons grade stupid, do you have any other redeeming qualities. You know 3 1/2 Iranian mooslimbs and you think that makes you a Iranian expert. You and I don’t know the civil dynamics of countries that we have never been to, countries that have social and civil orders that can’t be understood at a distance. I find in here that manufactured opinions on schitt people have no first hand knowledge on to be at about CNN quality level. Yer’s and so what’s included
Giveme66dicks, You must be an Arab or from Toronto to be this offended. Having said that, aside from your proclivity for relations with exit organs, it’s impossible to disagree with your spot on analysis. However, it only led credence to the fact we shouldn’t be messing with Iran and strengthens my argument that we have actually zero business in the Mideast.
This wasn’t directed at So What
The Altering of the Deal is Iran and confederates being pushed into the arms of Russia and China. Pushing China’s Belt and Road ahead. They won’t need a waterway when they have a land bridge around a super-continent.
A confederacy written of long ago in Ezekiel 38, and Trump is providing the pressure for it’s development.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/most-crucial-pipeline-middle-east/5680144
The art of the deal
While Iran’s participation in regional politics was necessary for creating the right environment for cooperation, Russia’s involvement has proven to be crucial. The Kremlin’s decision to participate in the Syrian civil war on the side of Assad’s forces was a pivotal moment in reestablishing control over territories essential for the Kirkuk-Tripoli pipeline to commence operations. Moscow has also established good political relations with both Iraq and Lebanon to become a broker for facilitating an agreement.
The participation of Rosneft was very useful for Moscow’s efforts in the region. The Russian energy giant maintains good relations with the Iraqi government where it operates several oil fields and the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline. Recently, Rosneft signed an agreement with the Lebanese government to operate the storage facility in Tripoli for the next twenty years. Therefore, Russian involvement was important for the Arab countries to consider refurbishing the outdated Kirkuk-Tripoli pipeline.
Despite the modest capacity of the pipeline, reestablishing trade could have a long-term impact on regional politics. The new pipeline would be a physical link between the participating countries and will cement the political ties for decades due to interdependency regarding energy security and the economic interest of energy exports.
You realize oil is fungible right? The price of oil and gas would skyrocket for all in this scenario. There’s no such thing as ‘self-sufficiency’.