The G7 plan to create another economic sanction against Russia by capping the price anyone could pay for Russian oil has a serious downside. If Russia slows down the export of oil, global oil prices will jump dramatically. That policy outcome would mean a massive increase in the price of gasoline for U.S. consumers.
Because the consequences are horrible, that’s precisely the reason Joe Biden might push to have the Russian price cap. Every policy Joe Biden has historically supported, has been the exact opposite of what should have been done. Biden has a profound and innate ability to screw up anything.
[Bloomberg] – Global oil prices could reach a “stratospheric” $380 a barrel if US and European penalties prompt Russia to inflict retaliatory crude-output cuts, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts warned.
The Group of Seven nations are hammering out a complicated mechanism to cap the price fetched by Russian oil in a bid to tighten the screws on Vladimir Putin’s war machine in Ukraine. But given Moscow’s robust fiscal position, the nation can afford to slash daily crude production by 5 million barrels without excessively damaging the economy, JPMorgan analysts including Natasha Kaneva wrote in a note to clients.
For much of the rest of the world, however, the results could be disastrous. A 3 million-barrel cut to daily supplies would push benchmark London crude prices to $190, while the worst-case scenario of 5 million could mean “stratospheric” $380 crude, the analysts wrote.
“The most obvious and likely risk with a price cap is that Russia might choose not to participate and instead retaliate by reducing exports,” the analysts wrote. “It is likely that the government could retaliate by cutting output as a way to inflict pain on the West. The tightness of the global oil market is on Russia’s side. (link)
Or course, we all know it ISN’T BIDEN doing it.
Bingo!
CHY-na ?!
“Of course, we all know it ISN’T BIDEN doing it.”
Hmm…
Is it Al Gore and his global warming FEAR?
Is it Obama, Islam, end of world, LOVE ?
Is it the mormons?
Hmm..
Yeah none of that. Just the normal group of people who think they are little kings or gods and want to usurp power in every nook and cranny they can find it. Because being a Bajillionaire isn’t enough. You also have to have the ability to tell everyone how they should literally think and live and make their lives worse (but better!) in the process.
Sometimes I think we traded a few Hitlers, Maos, and Stalins for a whole heap of little Hitlers, Maos, and Stalins that have too many dollars and too little sense.
👍
Whenever I think of these people I’m reminded of how Musolini ended up!
Seriously. Biden couldn’t figure out how to cap a bottle (hence the sippy cup).
Get these people out by any means necessary.
Expect more transshipment specifically to evade the sanctions and more middlemen to split the increased revenues for the still highly sought-after commodity.
Who cares about energy costs!?
Im worried about white domestic terrorists!
Thats our biggest threat, or so I was told.
Them and global warming…
I’m worried about white domestic terrorists who don’t care about global warming. There fixed it for ya. lol
Hasn’t any politician ever taken Econ 101 or read a history book.
General Milley has read Marx and Lenin. He said so himself.
Left unsaid on his part was his study was more to fully emulate them, rather than understanding their worldviews as a means to defeat their ideologies.
Milley needs a CIA orientation class. Waterboarding 101.
The Milley-Tary is studying negligee‘s, latex missiles and flavored whip cream at the United States Army War College in Carlisle. PA.
They are too smart to do that. Just ask them, they’ll tell you.
Their ideology prevents brain engagement.
FJB is a vicious buffoon with a tiny intellect. In his current decline he’s even more so. And he’s surrounded by leftist who have fantasized about a moment to force their green agenda with no care for political consequences. Don’t believe for a second that Biden thought this up…he’s being led.
Yes, but Political Corruption 101 pays off faster and bigger and NO CONSEQUENCES! And pay your “dues” to Dominion and even Republicans can “win” an election!
I think the problem is they have all taken the same Econ 101 class from the same professors at Harvard and Yale. So they live and converse in a bubble of positive reinforcement.
They never have a converstation or debate with the people that took Econ 101 at, say, Auburn. Last time they did anything like that – President Trump, Wharton School of Business, U. Penn – it didn’t go too well for them. Went well for us, but not them.
The puppet masters of these G7 eunuchs must sit around trying to find ways to force disastrous impacts on citizens of the West. Obviously the quicker they destroy the global economy the faster they can bring on the one world government they’re attempting to force.
it is amazing that all of the g7 leaders may as well be biden.
It is stunning that 8 brain devoid leaders of western nations would all be in power at the same time to wreak havoc on their populace.
Biden
Van der Leyen
Macron
Boris
Trudeau
Sholz
Drahgi
The guy from Japan
It is because they are all controlled by the CEO’s of international financial Investment institutions. These people want to bring back feudalism. They have all the money and power and the rest of us are poor peasants.
The Puppet Plan
-No, it’s not a musical
All groomed by Noel Harari and Klaus Schwab for the WEF’s OWO funded by Soros.
Boris is slobbering all over Zelensky. Boris can’t do enough for Ukraine.
Boris just told Scotland and Wales that he will take the funds from their Health and Education departments to buy more weapons for Ukraine.
Boris is killing the UK.
Boris is another bobble head chief executive like Biden, et. al. The more ludicrous their behavior the greater impact on citizens’ morale. It’s a constant reminder that we the people are powerless minions who have not hope of fighting off hostile international hegemony.
That sends the price of gasoline over $10/gal & the cost to fill my own tank to $220+/week.
Food becomes unobtanium because nobody can afford to haul it.
Over $20 to fill the lawn mower.
I’ve stopped mowing my lawn. What they gonna do?….call the FIB, CAI, DJO or maybe Xiden will come to my hood and browbeat me?
When the “neighbors” start to complain I’ll tell them they should be so happy that the “nasty tweets” are gone and they’re paying out the wazoo for gas after a STOLEN ELECTION that they wanted?
F.U.
I find myself thinking about Keifer Sutherland in “Designated Survivor” on a regular basis. That’s what these communists deserve.
On a more practical note, I bought enough gas & stabil to make it through this mowing & the next snow blowing season but even that will run out.
I’ve often wondered if actual old school eunuchs wouldn’t be better than the asylum inmates we have in charge today. At least Eunuchs aren’t so obsessed with sexuality all of the time.
We need to shake off our complacency, put down our computers and take to the streets saying NO MORE of this bull crap. Until then we deserve what is happening to our once great country. BLM, anifta, pink hats, abortion supporters and others have no qualms about making their voices heard when they feel wronged. We are, for the most part, quiet and terrified of the repercussions of the steps needed to be taken to stop this madness.
The reason for our inaction is NOT complacency. It is fear. There is severe legal penalties including arrest, imprisonment without bail or speedy trial, fines, personal attacks, job loss for Trump Supporters, Conservatives and Populists. But absolutely no charges against Woke Leftist when they commit major felonies on camera.
You my friend win the The Conservative Treehouse Award for honesty, bravery and the guts to tell the truth.
I assume you mean going to the streets, stop going to work, stop paying taxes and stop feeding the MACHINE?
Many American aren’t there yet but it’s getting closer.
This is all intentional at this point.
To implement a tyranny, you must first make the people desperate for relief.
It has to be intentional. No one is this dumb and stupid.
These people are in desperation and panic. They know treason isn’t the normal walk in the park. They have no clue what Trump’s next move may be. Nothing Trump does including nothing can they bait or figure out.
Precisely!
See France 1787-1789, Russia 1916-1918, Germany 1924-1932.
Some revolutions did not result in tyranny for various reasons (mainly they were Conservative revolutions, e.g. England’s Glorious Revolution 1687-1689 and America’s).
All revolutions have a majority of adherents who believe that tyranny will not be a possible result.
Certain revolutionary leaders, however, had the intention of establishing themselves as tyrants from the beginning, and used rhetoric of freedom as a mask.
I feel like I am watching Pharaoh tell Moses, over and over again, that God was wrong and no plague was coming. Hoping we get to cross the Red Sea, and escape Egypt, soon.
More reasons to keep your lamp full of oil for when you need it. Prepare yourselves.
Yes…and those that have not made provisions, also likely have no idea to what Book you refer.
The parable of the wise and foolish virgins.
Judas goat Presidency
Hanlon’s razor states that one should “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” In the hands of Judas goat bureaucrats propping up a CCP-compromised Weekend at Bernie’s presidency ala Edith Wilson, it’s the perfect camouflage for disguising their treasonable intent as “innocent mistake.”
Nearly every Biden administration “mistake” has enriched China and the globalists at the expense of the United States:
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Nowhere are these systemic (read: intentional) breaches of fiduciary duties of loyalty, good faith, and prudence more clearly demonstrated than the ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan.
To be sure: A reasonably prudent and loyal American president would never:
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An English poet once declared:
“Treason doth never prosper. What’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
— Sir John Harington
To which a model American replied:
“I’ll do it. But I’ll probably hate myself in the morning.”
—Bugs Bunny
Bravo!
Corollary to Hanlon’s razor: “Don’t rule out malice.”
Yeah you can’t rule out malice. There are definitely truly evil people in this world. But still, the vast majority of evil done is through ignorance and incompetence. Think about all of the Twitter mob that drives the cancel culture. How many, percentage-wise, do you think could have a real cogent conversation about any topic whatsoever? Probably very few. Yet the destruction they cause to people’s lives is real and massive.
If you enjoyed that, then you’ll definitely want to read what I wrote to Naomi Wolf in an open letter that concludes thusly:
… Or did I misunderstand the question you left me with?
[Quoting Naomi Wolf] (block quote doesn’t work)
What did I do? You mean aside from the jobs of the New York Attorney General, Department of Justice, and the U.S. Military?
I sat down and wrote you a long letter
It was just the other day
Said, sure as the sunrise, [Naomi]
[The Communist Chinese are on their way.]
But I’ll live on, I’ll be strong
‘Cause [you made it] my cross to bear …
Kidding; sort of.
Stay in your own movie,
Bob Stone
Full letter here: https://www.houseofstone76.com/
I will wager ANYTHING that Sundance won’t be able to contradict my conclusion.
World War Xi.
Yep.
Bugs Bunny was more wise than most give him credit for.
And that’s exactly why he’s doing it.
The idea of capping prices paid for a scarce commodity is idiotic…Why would they sell a valuable commodity to an enemy for less than top ruble, when they can keep it or sell it to friends?
What changed between the Russia/Saudi oil war during PDJT that resulted in record low prices and now? Is oil really a scarce commodity? IDK.
I watched wells being drilled/reactivated, in the fields I used to work, during PDJT and then, by 2021, the horses were silent and the workers and vehicles gone and the tumbleweeds blew. That’s one tiny example in California.
Back in the 70’s I made my living working on the steam that got that thick crude to flow. Remember Carter? Yeah, then. There was an ‘oil shortage’ back then too. Man-made one. Sounds familiar.
“But, but, but everyone is going through record inflation”
Says the dummy who sniffs little girls.
With a Commander in Chief like him what could possibly go wrong?
Andrei Martynov is an American citizen living in the Seattle area. He discusses our chances of surviving a nuclear war with Russia per the Congressional Budget Office’s recent assessment of 2021. Grim.
https://thesaker.is/lugansk-pr-liberated-3m22-zircon-as-strategic-factor/
Disturbingly accurate.
Yet 100 times larger….
Let’s not have nuclear war please.
That’s succinct.
Cortez burned his boats with his men made to stand and watch, so they knew for a fact that there was no going back.
The Biden admin is definitely not Cortez, but they have Russian gold in their sights and they are purposely “burning the ship” so the people will have no choice but to follow.
We are entering dangerous times.
I believe this one tops the chart for stupidity so far.
We are going to tell India and China how much they can pay Russia for oil, or we will do what?
Are we going to cut off the Indians from answering the phone for companies and quit sending money to China for biolabs.
Mr. Modi might’ve stretched a little for PTrump.
I blogged with Indians-4-Trump for about a year before the election. Modi-groupees transferred a lot of love to PT.
(My neice married a Hindu, so I got curious.)
But we NEED to do this for a clean environment, climate change and the liberal world order. /s
The question is whether they can steal enough votes in November to retain power and make it appear that this is what the people in this country want.
Maybe Obama was correct when he said to never underestimate Joe’s ability to mess things up (cleaning it up to be family friendly) because he and his ilk are definitely doing that. The difference is they are doing it in purpose.
Mexico keeps looking better and better. Like I wrote earlier, at least you know going in Mexico is corrupt.
Mexico told the US they won’t be selling us oil after 2023.
AMLO is turning his gaze away from the US and facing south.
AMLO is set to visit Brandon at the White House on July 12th. That should be interesting.
AMLO’s upcoming visit is bad because he is visiting Biden to propose the “American Union,” to be like the European Union. AMLO said:
“In July I’m going to see him [Biden] in the White House and I want to talk to him about the integration of all América [the Western Hemisphere]. My proposal is that, as the European Community was created and later became the European Union, we need to do the same in América. But this means a change in policy, leaving behind confrontation, hate, threats, embargoes, meddling and instead choose brotherhood, for the Good Neighbor Policy.”
Read more at https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/mexican-president-meet-joe-biden-propose-western-hemisphere-union-just-like-eu/
If the “American Union” were to be formed, it would destroy the sovereignty of the United States and such a union would be governed by a supranational governing body. This goal was written about and planned many decades ago by the globalists. It would be another gigantic step to setting up the one-world government as regional unions similar to the European Union are formed around the world and linked together through multilateral trade deals and directed by the United Nations, World Economic Forum, and other globalist institutions. We need to pray against this betrayal of the citizens of the United States and that these plans will not succeed.
Look…?
Better get bullet-proof goggles along with your body-armor.
“Mexico keeps looking better and better. “
It’s too bad MEXICO doesn’t let non-citizens own land,
can’t drink the water,
and they have to cover their caskets,
at funerals,
with ready mix concrete
while families watch,
to discourage grave robbers.
Bring it!
“Biden has a profound and innate ability to screw up anything.” So true.
Oh I hope they are stupid enough to do it. Let it burn, let it burn, let it burn.
We AMERICANS are a tough and hardy lot.
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All adversity that evil dishes out is only moving us closer to our Creator who has endowed us with certain unalienable rights.
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Perhaps we might be a bit uncomfortable but these evil shites are only making it worse for themselves at the time of their inevitable downfall.
Even Jeff Bezos sees is now seeing the end of the line is inevitable.
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Nice try Klaus Martin Schwab, you and your buddies at the WEF have lost.
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The WEF did not take the most important criteria into account in their calculations, Our Lord reins!
Bezos tweet is listed as reference below:
Jeff Bezos @JeffBezos
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Ouch. Inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this. It’s either straight ahead misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics.
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President Biden
@POTUS
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My message to the companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple: this is a time of war and global peril.
Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you’re paying for the product. And do it now.
I’ve never followed Dr. Evil on Twitter, but I’m actually surprised he would say that. Maybe Biden is upsetting his own handlers now. Then again, if gas prices are that high, people aren’t buying Chinese-made garbage on Amazon, so I guess I get it.
Maybe, for Bezos, and maybe, for other leftists, they all love destroying the USA until it hits them in the wallet.
FJB
Our Lord Jesus Christ alway first ,then the fact that Bezos doesn’t want to loose billions in his transportation delivery co. gone up in smoke dueto the greenies woke .
Prices going HIGHER? That’s just Joe’s plan. He wants Americans riding the bus–NOT driving their cars. And, no, he doesn’t expect most to drive electric cars. He’s actively shutting down power generating facilities across the country. There wouldn’t be enough generating capacity to recharge the batteries on those cars. He wants you on the city bus–or a bicycle…
His handlers want us getting mugged & worse on busses & trains/ subs ! No thanks !
All the years Russia trying to defeat the US. All they had to do was wait for Biden to become President.
Maybe not. Didn’t Obama convey to Putin that he (O) would have more “flexibility” after he was re-elected? Can’t recall the reason O’s remark was made. Only recall his self-assurance that he would be re-elected. (Even then, the fix was in…)
They probably helped.
I’m employed in the upstream side of the oil biz in Texas.
All this is totally unnecessary.
FJB and F his supporters.
Standard Biden Inc policy is to cause trouble everywhere, diagnose everything incorrectly and then misapplying all the wrong remedies.
– ‘Groucho’
They are working together
Biden is looking at that thumb, right after Mr. Putin told him where he was going to shove it!
Biden’s policies are going to create a clean environment only problem no one will be around to enjoy it because we’ll all be dead from starvation.
Obamas policies will make the environment worse. BRICS countries do not have strong environmental regulations and more dirty energy will now have to be produced. Regardless, a cleaner environment never had anything to do with the BBB agenda.
there is no man made climate change. All the pollution is already being produced by the BRICS countries. Now they will produce more of it. If they were really concerned about the environment, they would create more manufacturing, energy and self reliance at home and away from the third world polluters.
I don’t think the Earth will be clean either bathed in Nuclear Fallout.
They are working together so Nuclear war wouldnt make sense. That would hurt everyone on earth, not just us rubes. We are all assuming the war in Ukraine is real. Im sure its not. Im convinced they are all working together to achieve this global reset. However, they will use any fear narrative to scare people into submission. Thats why theres a covid test.
Thats what I see.
It seems they have already started. Several countries have the same concern. Starvation must be the cherry on the top.
Hungary: Most Vaccinated Counties Have Worst Birth Rate Drops!
Budapest is the new Taiwan — Birth Rate Drop of -22.2%!
Disruptions in female periods after vaccination seem to be mostly temporary (please correct me if I am mistaken)
The decline in sperm quality seems to be permanent, with a minor rebound around 6 months, and that did not even consider booster doses
Further vaccination past July or so was extremely extensive, including booster vaccination of young fertile people, possibly further damaging their fertility.
https://igorchudov.substack.com/
There were reports on non-MSM sites a few months ago that fertility clinic whistleblowers were saying embryos made from either vaxxed sperm or vaxxed eggs were having high failure/defect rates.
I’m pretty sure it’s a population control injection, and we still don’t know how it will affect any offspring of the vaxxed that might still be produced.
What a great idea. Tell someone you won’t pay them what they want for something you absolutely need. The art of the deal it ain’t.
Well, one thing Obama was right about…”Joe’s ability to f*(k things up…”.
Ain’t no need for hammering out any complicated mechanisms. Best way to cap the price of Russian oil is to open back up the U.S. energy industry to once again produce oil, gas and shale.
Behind the scenes, the Biden administration is working feverishly, day and night, to come up with a list of who to blame for the expected policy failure. Once the list is ready the policy will get the green light.
How dare you
This came from Yellen.
The only ones that will buy into this cockamamie scheme are the unfriendliness of Russia who should be paying in rubles at the CONTRACTUAL rate. The collective west want to violate the contractual rate at a price THEY think is fair, which is lower.
The friendlies of Russia will pay their normal contractual price and won’t adhere to this scheme.
Russia will say nyet to the west. They can starve themselves of oil and gas. The oil producers will just produce less, and because it is a commodity, prices will rise.
Klaus Schwab wants us off oil and gas real bad. And right away.
Yellen isn’t smart enough to dream this up herself. Wonder who gave her the plan.
Whoever it is, he is a coward.
Do solar panels and windmills make gasoline?
If they did, they wouldn’t let us have them.
How would they enforce this? How would they force China to pay only a certain amount for petroleum? How would they force India or any other country to pay only a certain amount?
At this point, Russia should just cut off oil and gas to the G7, NATO, and the EU and let them enjoy their sanctions. Putin has been forbearing beyond belief when they are doing everything to hurt Russia. He is wise enough to know that it is only hurting the west. But, what worries me is that if he does anything, the G7 and other can claim that Russia is weaponizing oil and go to war over a halt to oil sales.
Another question in my mind, what would be the reaction of OPEC to these countries trying to cap the price of oil?
Apparently Yellen thinks this Russian oil price cap can be enforced through the maritime insurers. I guess she hasn’t heard that Russia is self-insuring some Russian flagged vessels. No doubt Russia will do it for the Greeks too if necessary since the Greek tankers move a great deal of Russian crude.
For several weeks, I’ve heard / read that Russia is selling crude to India for about $70/bbl. Breakeven for Russia is said to be about $40-$45/bbl.
Ok so Biden. and the people around him, are well= intentioned but dumb. Somehow, they don’t understand how oil prices work. I don’t believe that. Maybe we should analyze what Biden is doing and assume he knows Oil prices will skyrocket. Because he probably does. And that lead to…. why?
If Russia pulls back on the west
Is Saudi maxed out to fill the void?
Russia will honor their contracts. Putin already said this and isn’t pulling the plug on anyone. Only the unfriendlies have to pay in rubles because Russia is sanctioned against the USD and Euro. Russia has loads of product but the market controls the price.
The west is pissed because their sanctions have backfired on them, drove oil and gas prices higher, so Russia is making bank. These funds are helping to pay for the Ukrainian Special Military Operation and the west is trying to find a way to defund the Russians by using alternate sources, figuring out how to lower prices so that Russia makes less money.
They are also playing this up as PR so their constituency thinks they are working hard to lower gas prices, putting the screws to Russia for the benefit of the masses. When Russia doesn’t lower prices, because they can’t, they’ll blame Russia leaving themselves blameless. It’s all a head fake.
Someone recently posted on here that Saudi is maxed out, and Justin Trudeau had to explain that to Biden. It was within the last week.
Obiden can’t be doing this by himself – ALL the Dems and Rinos are supporting him – or they are terrified of him.
ALL the so-called Republicans are doing nothing.
They lack testicles or if not so equipped, they don’t have any rectal hair.
If the 3rd party was started after the 2020 election, I believe it could have been a viable factor in “influencing” the election.
Now, the GOP is led Ronna – – God help us.
“Honey – – pour me another double – I need it and hold the ice”
I’ve said it before, but they know they have until Jan 2025 to inflict as much damage as possible on the American middle class. They can’t hurt the really wealthy and the poor are already poor and living on aid. If you want to”fundamentally change America” and move to a global ruling authority, you must wipe-out the independence of the American middle class. Covid made a huge dent, but it wasn’t enough. These people have many more tactics available to finish the job, including their now proven ability to steal elections in the open with no opposition.
The republicans are useless in this fight. If you are pinning your hopes on them, forgetaboutit.
So Brandon is attempting to issue price controls over other countries trading with other countries?
That’ll work lol.
Did anyone run this by the Greek shipping tycoons?
Since BlackRock is buying up property in the U.S. and Bill Gates farm land. They are not planning on us being able to keep our homes. Heat for rent houses will cost more, and they will be smaller.
Forget the pants-soiling dotard. He has nothing to do with this idiocy other than to read the teleprompter put in front of him by his handlers who work for [Soros, the Chinese, Klaus Schwab…pick your villain]. There is no mechanism under which this ludicrous “plan” could work. Except to enrich those who will benefit from its implementation [again, Soros, the Chinese, etc.].
These people that think they run Russia’s oil and gas markets are delusional, at this point all they can run is their mouth. A lot of Russia’s customers don’t care what they think. They just want the oil and gas.
Joe Biden is the King of Lies and the Emperor of Stupidity.
And village idiot wherever he goes.
Maybe this is why our President Trump is going to announce he’s running in the very near future.
He is the only true leader who people will follow into battle.
Shit getting real now
What is it Trump would run again for something he has already won? If what makes the difference is what the difference was the first time then what’s the difference?
Incompetency does not ever deliver such consistent results.
Worse still, these consistent results are completely in line with previously stated objectives.
The fact that the results are very, very bad does not in any way mean that the person achieving these results is incompetent.
Incompetence is a deception used by evil people to achieve evil results. If they admitted their evil, they would be stopped. Getting themselves excused as incompetent lets them continue achieving yet more evil results.
It works really well because no one ever wants to believe that the person hurting them is doing so intentionally. Refusing to see the evil in front of us, we make excuses for the evil doer. Saying that they are incompetent is just such an excuse. One guaranteed to keep the evil things happening.
They want Putin to drastically reduce oil output so gasoline will go to $9/gal. It’s exactly what these globalists want to get people off fossil fuel. So what if the economy collapses? They can blame it on Putin.
How can they blame it on Putin?
Does Brandon have any idea how irrelevant he is? It makes me wonder about his puppet masters. Are they purposely trying to make him look really really bad in order to send us a “savior” to “rescue”us; who would throw a few bones to appease the populace before continuing on with their evil agenda? Or is it really accurate that the entire deep state has become so blindly arrogant that they think they can push all these horrific things upon us and get away with it?
They are fighting for their lives. They will throw everything in the World to keep themselves out of jail.
I like that answer. Knowing they really are desperate is actually encouraging.
Think about it. Wouldn’t you be desperate if you were in their shoes? The sound of “treason” has a significant ring to it.