The extreme vitriol against the recent OPEC+ decision to cut oil output, specifically the extreme Biden anger toward Saudi Arabia, now takes on additional context as the New York Times writes about a secretly negotiated deal between the Kingdom and White House officials that was never executed.
As the Times reveals, over the summer the White House thought their team had negotiated a deal with Saudi Arabia for increased oil production that would have lowered oil and gasoline costs in the U.S, strategically timed before the midterm election.
With that agreement in mind, Joe Biden went to Saudi Arabia a few months ago. However, as the western alliance began putting more pressure on Russia and increased the activity within Ukraine, the Saudi’s aligned with OPEC+ to support Russia via lowered oil outputs. The White House felt double-crossed, hence the fury.
(New York Times) – WASHINGTON — As President Biden was planning a politically risky trip to Saudi Arabia this summer, his top aides thought they had struck a secret deal to boost oil production through the end of the year — an arrangement that could have helped justify breaking a campaign pledge to shun the kingdom and its crown prince. It didn’t work out that way.
Mr. Biden went through with the trip. But earlier this month, Saudi Arabia and Russia steered a group of oil-producing countries in voting to slash oil production by two million barrels per day, the opposite of the outcome the administration thought it had secured as the Democratic Party struggles to deal with inflation and high gas prices heading into the November elections.
The move led angry Biden administration officials to reassess America’s relationship with the kingdom and produced a flurry of accusatory statements between the two governments — including a charge by the White House that Saudi Arabia was helping Russia in its war in Ukraine.
[Democrat] Lawmakers who had been told about the trip’s benefits in classified briefings and other conversations that included details of the oil deal — which has not been previously disclosed and was supposed to lead to a surge in production between September and December — have been left fuming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman duped the administration. (read more)
This approach makes sense from the perspective of a White House intent on manipulating the U.S. economy to achieve ideological goals.
The climate change agenda is a larger picture scheme all about power and control. Downstream mechanisms of government, and institutions in the private and financial sector, collaboratively created by people in power, want to take advantage of the fraudulent dynamic for increased influence and affluence.
The love of money is always at the root of evil enterprise. The Build Back Better / Green New Deal is ultimately about controlling people and assembling more wealth amid a small tier of self-described elites. Inflation that crushes the working class around the world is an outcome of this larger dynamic of manipulating energy.
“The Great Reset” is designed to the benefit of the few.
…”I think they may have wanted a sword dance, lol”…
Quid Pro Quo? by them Dems? And basement Joe?
Yes, obviously, and as a means of manipulating the election results. Perhaps impeachment will happen after the new congress is sworn in.
Can we PLEASE find a way to prevent McConnell from taking leadership? Or any other RINO?
That’s what bothers me most right now. “Red wave!” doesn’t mean too much (it means something) as long as RINOs are in charge.
That is a great question, Daniel. I’ve asked it myself at times, can we do anything to prevent Mitch McConnell from assuming the leadership role again?
It isn’t only McConnell. McCarthy came out and stated that – I’m paraphrasing here – impeaching Biden is not on the table. These Mc’s are a thorn in our collective side.
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There is not much point in wasting time and money impeaching Biden. He’s not controlling anything, and next in the queue is nothing better and possibly worse. Only upside I can see would be dashing the ego of Hillary Clinton and ending decades of blather from feminists.
It also would risk the dangerous injection of a new VP — Pelosi, Newsom, Obama…
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You’re probably right. I think I’d go after people like Mayorkas (sp?), Austin or Garland. And probably a lot more. But trusting McConnell or McCarthy…..pffft!
We need to expose and get rid of the “man behind the curtain”.
Re “It also would risk the dangerous injection of a new VP — Pelosi, Newsom, Obama…”
Obama, having served two full terms as ‘president,’ has no Constitutional path to become VP.
I’m not sure that would stop them
I don’t think that Obama would even be eligible. In the event of the death, 25th, resignation or impeachment of a president the VP needs to be eligible to hold the office. SoS Albright was not eligible (citizenship issues) but she was pretty far down the food chain and she herself said that she couldn’t take over as pres. should the “opportunity” arise.
Obama is no longer eligible to take over as VP because of presidential term limits.
There’s another Obama: Michelle.
Unfortunately.
The GOP Congress will have some control over who becomes the new VP
McConnell needs to go too.
Quid pro Joe.
There, I fixed it for you.
Remember when Joe was chosen by Barry for his foreign policy skills?
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I thought he was chosen because he was an old white man.
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Quid Pro Joe
Hell hath no fury like a demented potato scorned.
Sleezebags. (Biden, et al.)
Even the Saudis miss Trump. He treated them pretty well.
I would guess they respected him.
They respected Trump because he wasn’t like the political types they were used to dealing with the last 80 years, hence the sword dance.
I think the Saudis didn’t like the results of his energy independence and its effect on the price of oil, resigned themselves losing on the fracking-shale oil war, and accepted a security alliance as a consolation.
Biden has screwed both up.
Exactly!
I like the idea that bullies are finally getting put in their place…………. It would appear that they made him grease his own……. bend forward and think of his backers.
Such poetic justice…and If I were him …I would forget that nonsense about repercussions…… cos they could have done a lot worse than this…….but I do have a feeling there is more to come
Sadly it’s true the bullies are getting slapped a little. However, whether they’re slapped around, ignored, double-crossed or lied to is really secondary to the fact that this stolen fraudulent administration is a disgrace on the world stage and regardless of what trash they’re attempting, the nation and mainly the US middle class is still paying the price for their total incompetence.
I would like to call this administration inept, but I can’t because the inept ones are the people who voted for them. Our government is a reflection of the people. Let that sink in.
I don’t believe this government was voted in.
Agree! But that still doesn’t discount the fact millions of idiots voted for him.
Also that all the idiots that “voted” for this clown show have done nothing to stop it or even speak out against it.
I also fear that a majority who voted for Trump have done nothing to stop this or put support/time/money into MAGA candidates.
I hope for a positive result on Nov 8 (or weeks later depending on volume of fraud ballots)
Don’t forget that Tulsi voted for Joe. She’s one of those idiots the right is currently fawning over now.
Maybe.
True, however, the Biden Administration is really THE BIDEN INSTALLATION
The Xiden Regime.
“Well, I hate to say it to you in quite this way (actually, no I don’t …) but: ‘BRICS.'”
In other words, a “Post Cold War” so-called “[new] world order” that just might be considerably more “old-school” than you prefer to think about. A world order that isn’t “terrified of nuclear weapons,” and that likewise isn’t terrified of you. Something that isn’t going to let “The West™” call the shots … even though “The West™” obviously still breathtakingly expects to do so.
A “world order” that still prizes the “old-school notion” of … “National Sovereignty.” “Redundancy.” What engineers call “fault-tolerance.”
Perhaps, “The West™” ought to right-now step back from the precipice that it has created for itself, stop, and think. As it probably has never occurred to any of you to do for the last eighty years or so.
Because, to put it simply: You are acting like Lemmings, and ‘the rest of the world’ is not. You simply assume that “you ‘own’ everything,” and that the world will obediently leap right off that cliff if you tell them to do so.
“Well, ‘the world’ has moved on.” Your “uni-polar ideas” are pure fantasy. The time has long ago come to leave them behind. Yes, you will continue to be an important player in this “world order” as it continues to evolve, but neither you nor anyone else is ever going to “own it, at the expense of everybody else.” Please give up on the notion that you actually need to. There will always be more than one ‘pole!’ (In fact, “the more, the merrier! And, safer!”)
As Tonto famously said to The Lone Ranger in that old saw: “Whaddaya mean ‘we,’ paleface?” 🤡
“World(!) Order” is actually much bigger than “you” are. Get over it. Now.
The precipice is supposed to result in a communist takeover of the global first world powers and then from there, using the resources combined will then take over the planet. That’s how their aspirations go. They crave war to create the fear and instability which will help the people welcome all of the change.
“….Behind every blade of grass……”
We still have the strongest military in the world, even thought it is on the decline. If we aren’t in charge that leaves China to continue their long slow march around the world. Our inept leadership is still preferable to being a Chinese vassal, which is why we fight.
Actually, Deb, “I am no longer sure about that.” The strongest military in the world doesn’t run out of ammunition after only eight months. Many decades of ceding over your industrial strength to “cheaper” Chinese labor, leaving a hopelessly-deserted “Rust Belt,” does not bode well for you. Eighty years ago, you might have been the Big Man On Campus. But, “eighty years is a very long time.” And, no one has seriously fought a real war since that time.
That is why the second amendment……..
We may be about to run out of diesel as well. (The military runs on diesel) We are certainly the most wasteful military in the world.
And now they are wearing high heels instead of combat boots!
We still have the largest militia in the world, with combat trained vets as officers and nco’s standing by to assume positions. Our enemies are not primarily foreign, “our”DC Feral Coup “leadership” is Chinese Coomunist.
The Marine Corps still has a “strong” rating.
The rest don’t.
https://www.defensenews.com/global/the-americas/2022/10/18/us-military-in-decline-threats-from-china-formidable-report-says/
Mike Robinson, You mistake the American People for its government. We the People have been lied to for my entire political life (60 years). When Kennedy was assassinated, my 13 year old heart felt the heart of this nation go with him. Everything you criticize were and are the activities of puppet regimes, thugs and criminals controlled by the same people who control your government. The same people using pedo Joe and the minions surrounding him right now.
2022 is not just another election. It is the fruits of President Trump’s labor to return the Republic to The People. MAGA wins in these elections because we know it is critical to the life of our nation. Without that, there is no life for America or the rest of the world that is one of servitude and death. No other nation of people have the protected inalienable rights (once) enjoyed in America; rights protected by the only Constitution on the planet that provides for it.
The future is not just another election, another foreign policy, another shift in global power. The future is the liberation of all people from the global enslavement that has occupied our world for eons. The self described global elites are not just a group of evil followers. They are people who have signed on to treachery at all costs, including their own lives. That will be the outcome for all who refuse to humble themselves to the truth.
We are one nation, under God, indivisible with justice and liberty for all. We will see the “Return of the King”. We the People will prevail because that is the true Spirit of what it means to be an American. And we love our warrior hearts and the opportunity to stand in the integrity of a great nation that provided us with the opportunity to know true liberty, true freedom. That is the future. And so much more.
“Without that, there is no life for America or the rest of the world that is one of servitude and death.”
“that is NOT one of servitude and death”…. lol
Magnificently stated DKD! “We are one nation, under God, …”
In 2019, a fully employed American Middle class were 45% of consumer spending for entire world.
That is a lot of power in the world.
The jackboot leaders of this illegal regime are taking advantage of that power the middle class gives them
The problem has always been the middle class doesn’t do business that way. We have no interest in bribing and cheating or way to power.
The biggest power we have is we spend our money through a filter of moral virtue and the priority of human life.
That would be the polar opposite of almost our entire federal leader ship.
I don’t want to buy Chinese labor because of slavery.
I don’t want to bring illegal aliens into this country to save rich elites money because of slavery.
Be careful where you have your money placed.
Some of these lazy leftist elitist slavers are about to lose their riches.
Because we’re going to choose somebody else
“The problem has always been the middle class doesn’t do business that way. We have no interest in bribing and cheating or way to power.
The biggest power we have is we spend our money through a filter of moral virtue and the priority of human life.”
A noble ideal we have not lived up to for a long long time. Yes, there are millions of noble souls in the middle class. but there is much corruption and moral decay as well.
BRICS came about because of the NWO, WEF, and especially the Biden administration’s stealing the 2020 election. The NWO and WEF was pleased (to say the least) that Biden managed to get installed. However, the BRICS countries realized this was a criminal coup, and were not pleased. They knew that Trump was the victim of a coup. The BRICS countries respected Trump; he treated them reasonably, fairly. They have no respect for the American cabal.
The Sword Dance
So, the Saudis performed the sword dance with Prince Charles (who donned a “headdress” for the occasion) and also with POTUS Trump who did not wear the “headdress.” Funnily (ha ha so funny I forgot to laugh) Obiden was not a recipient of the invitation to a sword dance. The Saudis know what they are doing. Good on them.
Regarding Obama and Biden, pole-smokers are forbidden from participating in the sword dance ritual.
The Saudis made an exception for Prince Charlie Tampon.
Quid Pro Joe….????
another act of pedojoe46 criminality.
Where are the Articles of Impeachment?
Ultra rino scumbag Kevin McCarthy said there would be no pursuit of impeachment. We desperately need new leadership in both the House and Senate. Both Mitch and Kevin need to be sent home forever. Some people may realize the terrible state of the republican party in February 2023 when no action is taken to replace Mitch or Kevin. There are times I would love to be wrong and this is one of them. If history is any sort of indicator I will sadly be correct. Perhaps then more folks will begin to put the needed pressure on the political parasite class to actually do the will of the people. Yes, I see nearly every politician as a self interested parasite. At this point they are rapidly killing the host, which is the middle class taxpayer.
… but, but !!! There’s nothing we can do: we don’t have the White House!
If all the new MAGA candidates win their races, ole Kevin and McTurtle are history.
Pitchforks
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What would that accomplish? Please think it through. Kamala and… a 2024 boost for… Newsom? Obama? Another VP? Biden isn’t running anything, and that would not change.
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Sorry, forgot to include the “sarc” tag.
Did the thought ever occur to the negotiators (hehe) that national interests were in play?
Clearly they know nothing about Realpolitik.
No wonder the White House is hopping mad. A
constant stream of double cross is THEIR prerogative….and not anyone else! 😂
Between this in the Xiden Regime Clown Show, and the safe-spacers at Twitter, I fear I will consume way too much schadenfreudeliciousness this evening
I may even burp up a magical unicorn or something…
Better than the alternative I guess…
No doubt.
Passing a unicorn sounds painful.
Saudis revenge for being accused of killing the journalist Jamal Khashoggi?
They didn’t kill him?
Biden and his band of criminals have been outmatched in the practice of deceit by an Arab kingdom dependent on a single resource and surrounded by oceans of sand. So what does that say about the American electorate?
Nothing as he was selected.
Agree.
Please stop blaming We the People for that which we most resoundingly did not do!
As is now, DeSantis.
Cajoled, conscripted, collaborated, or conned into the next election scheme. Could come up with more.
He should know better who he’s dealing with in the Uniparty-R. His actions speak louder than words.
It says that the Saudis and the BRICS countries will not respect the Biden cabal for having committed a Coup, in the Country that was never supposed to be able to commit such an act, like a 3rd world country.
Why, oh why, can’t every day people who are voting for Democrats see the utter contempt and disdain that the Democratic politicians have for them? They tell them one thing, use them to get reelected, then throw them aside like garbage.
BTW, this is NOT striking up support for GOP politicians.
So the plan was to get the Saudis to increase production to get a lowering of gas/diesel/home heating oil prices to secure the midterm elections. Then once Democrats have kept the House and Senate the Saudis would lower production and gas/diesel/home heating oil prices would skyrocket and nothing could be done bout it for another two years!!! How diabolical is that? Two more years of time to implement their “build back better” and “Green New Deal” plans which will destroy the economy! Two more years of Democrat control and there would be little to no food and energy! “You will own nothing and enjoy it!”
MbS is not an idiot.
I suspect he read correctly that the US was using him for political purposes and was not prepared to be a lackey or useful idiot of this illegitimate administration.
The biggest clue that this was so was the pitiful non reception of the most corrupt person to defile the WH. Met at the door and hurried unceremoniously into the building. A similar type of reception given to the repugnant Marxist Obama who had to exit out the back of the plane elsewhere…talk about symbolism!
It’s worth remembering the incredible spectacular which greeted President Trump, who made Saudi Arabia his first early foreign trip…a high honour for the Saudis who put much on diplomatic symbolism.
This administration understands nothing of diplomacy. If “Biden” tells someone to “Jump!” (see dismissal of Ukraine prosecutor, publicly ordered by the Big Guy to get lost, in humiliating fashion), the coarse, corrupt State Department expects to hear from those they are dictating to, “How high??”
Well, it didn’t happen, and having been publicly rebuffed and humiliated, Biden et al are doing the only thing they know how to do. Slandering a (now former) ally whose oil they need because they are busy impoverishing and destroying the US. This is how thugs operate.
This time, they’ve been put in their uncouth place by a man who won’t play his assigned part. It is glorious to see.
Good!
Team Zero tried to play the Saudis against the American People, who actually had done them good by giving the world PDJT who promoted peace in the Middle East and treated them with dignity, using the most disgusting slandering racist illegitimate and arrogant doofus.
A tremendous insult.
So they played along then pulled out the magic carpet at the last moment.
Glorious indeed!
And the only ones who seemed surprised by the Saudi reaction are the ill bred , buffoonish, mannerless dimwits who have nothing but contempt for other countries and their cultures…and the subtleties of diplomacy. They shame this country, Maquis.
Indeed, Bet. I pray we reverse that fallen state for the sake of our progeny.
Call me deluded, Maquis. But for the first time, I am seeing the feet of these creatures starting to slip. And not just their feet.
I am hearing things said by the enemy, as I refer to the murderers of everything sacred, that make me ask of those saying them, “What on earth are they thinking by saying what I just heard?” Mistakes from the other side are being made, and not just small ones. As if Someone is causing them to expose their agendas more fully so even their cheerleaders have to admit what they’ve ignored or dismissed.
I’m sure none of the aforementioned makes sense because somehow I can’t find the exact words
to say I feel I am seeing a brighter day slowly…very very slowly…dawning, and by the Hand of Almighty God. And I do feel it on a level I can’t explain.
All blessings and mercies come from God…those we see, those we don’t, and those we have no idea are to come. Maybe I’m looking too hard. But I don’t think so.🙏
Understood and agreed.
Even with BS filters set at maximum, things smell quite . . . strange.
On peut être pardonné de ressentir un frisson d’espoir.
God Bless You
Betsy Jones and Maquis 😊
Et a vous, chere soeur.
Merci de bien vouloir , Maquis 😊
We must All Believe that Brighter Days are in Our Future !
Here’s to Looking Forward to Trust and Transparency 😊 Peace and Love .. Again
And you, dear Ryder…
And it is a thrill, Maquis. May we never lose it…jamais!🙏
Hey Betsy an even better and clearer example. The Democrat and their supporters dumped millions of dollars into MAGA primaries with the idea that they would be easier to beat in the general election. HA HA the red wave will not just be deep and broad it will be the strongest of the strong not moderates or RINOs!
Yes sir…I get that feeling as well. Plus, ever recognizing how manipulative polls mostly are, I sense people are keeping quiet about their voting intentions. Won’t count my chickens, but suspect the results will show exactly that.🙏
The village idiot thought in his delusional mind that he had a deal. The Saudis were just trolling him. This is what happens when you are a dummy and nobody respects you.
I expect JoeBama to be an idiot.
What makes me extra happy is when the handlers pulling his strings are clearly revealed as idiots too.
Is this where Biden and the MSM (including the NYT) remind us that Biden is respected around the world?
Extended forecast for Riyadh:
Stormy, with a chance of color revolution. Chance of regime change 80%. Some of the regime change could result in suicide bombings. The suicide bombings could be heavy at times. New shrapnel accumulation between 2 and 3 inches expected, with higher amounts possible around markets and mosques.
Not at all. Arabs respect power. MBS showed power. They’ve seen what happens to journalists who want to sow discord there.
I do not expect it to be successful, but I expect it to be attempted.
The same brain trust which believed- still believes- shuttering McDonald’s, Netflix’s, and Nordstrom’s Russian operations would lead to a revolution in Moscow will not be able to restrain themselves from underestimating the Saudis and overestimating their local proxies.
Yes, the Arabs respect power. They respected POTUS Trump for the power he showed and they also appreciated that Trump treated them with dignity.
May I say it one more time….. “FJB”…[I think I will put that on my gravestone 🙂
Aren’t the Saudis guilty of Election Interference? Isn’t that A Threat To Democracy?
If the Saudis had played ball, it would have been election interference but the “free world” controllers would not have cared.
Perversely, the same people view the Saudis’ refusal election interference.
Can’t win.
a SECRET DEAL? Of course, that way bumbling Biden could lie and say his skill unilaterally reduced gas prices and to take a glaring fumble (skyrocketing energy costs) off of the voter’s minds.
These people a beyond the pale. Burn Saudi gas while perpetuating the unproven claim that (a) the planet is dying quickly) and (b) to pressure citizens to buy $40K electric vehicles that clearly cannot be charged enmass for the foreseeable future.
But, of course, if Biden officials are heavily invested in Solar/Wind energy stock, they can get richer if the poor guy can’t get gas and has to walk.
Fuel prices will body slam motorists after the midterms.
We already have a shortage of Diesel fuel. We still have a 25 day supply.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/A-Diesel-Shortage-Is-Spreading-Across-The-US.html
I call b.s.
I think heard….
اللعنة جو بايدن
Yep.
في الواقع
Should have known when sword dance was not offered in Saudi and he had to deplane from the rear on tarmac… my bad Obama did that whole deplane thing in China. Obama and Biden, useful idiots.
Obiden and Obama, disrespected around the world.
Not useful, useless
Limp-Wrist Bump Energy.
“No oil for dupe!”
Quid-pro-quo Joe…
“Nobody F*cks with a Biden”
BWHAHAHAHAHA
The putative manipulators were duped into becoming manipulated. Since the Biden regime on its first day demonstrated its concerns for American energy came last rather than first, it had very little leverage with which to negotiate. Biden obviously played checkers to SA and Russia playing chess. Hey, but at least “the adults” are in charge, right?
Double crossed…wow…Joe the Victim….
No wonder they are laughing in Saudi.
Have a friend who lived there in the 90’s.
She said there were public buses that were air-conditioned in the front for the men – with a BIG divider – and the back was NOT air-conditioned for the women. She said it had to be 120+ on the bus in the back.
This Saudi Leader is (I think) attempting to change that (yet still retain his Leadership).
That’s a difficult task to balance the responsibilities of leading Saudi Arabia in modernizing and diversifying it’s conomy while keeping the Wahhabists from stirring up things to much.
Is any of this grounds for impeachment?
With the affirmative action Biden team that lives, eats and drinks in the DC bubble of egos and inferior abilities, it wouldn’t be surprising to find that there was no ‘agreement’, just confusing rhetoric with nothing nailed down before Biden left on his great Save America trip. He should look to the little kids running the show for answers.
But, but, but… I thought “Nobody effs with a Biden!”
After all, he’s such a tough hombre… Ole CornPop never knew what hit him…
Just ask Lunch-Bucket Joe how tough he is… he’ll challenge you to a push-up contest “drop an gimme 20, dude, no kidding”
And if that isn’t enough, he’ll challenge you to a little-girl-hair-sniffing contest. That’ll show ya. NO JOKE!!
Good grief, how did it get so crazy?
He always makes me think of the ridiculous old guys in the Seinfeld episode. “It’s go time!”
Manbaum!
Manbaum!
Manbaum!
The Bidens are a dangerous joke.
Gas and most importantly for me and my business, diesel prices have completely F’d business for me. $5.19/gal diesel today. I remember paying $1.67 about 4 years ago under the best President ever. I was just about 3 years into a contracting business, making money, and was full of hope for the future. Democrats destroy everything, just look at your nearest big city.
Soliciting help from outside the US to interfere in an election was an impeachable offense two years ago.
Lower gas, but just for elections……..typical democrat bullshit.
I’m not an especially big fan of the Saudis, but seeing them double-cross Biden and give him the middle digit makes me feel very elated. He does that to us every single day so its nice to see the favor returned.
Why did it have to be secret? I smell narrative engineering.
President Plugs da Putz!
Why should we believe the Times? They could just as easily have made this up to make it look to Biden apologists that he was not at fault, that is was jus the big, bad Saudis.
Either way things happened, Joe is an idiot.
Either way, I never believe the Times.
EXACTLY!
As Benedict Arnold found out the hard way, nobody likes a trait0r J03…
Maybe someone else got to MBS and got them to back out, lol.
NEVER EVER…MSB …already asked JB if he want JIHAD…..on american soil…
Why do we believe the story leaked to the NYT (are they the State Dept or the CIA’s mouthpiece – I can’t keep it straight)? This seems more like a story to justify vilifying the Saudi’s to take the blame away from the ineptness of the administration, with no grounding in truth. If it were true, why wasn’t it trumpeted at the time of his visit instead of their taking criticism for seemingly going hat-in-hand at the time and groveling? I believe the simplest answer is most likely the correct one – they begged for “help” just now and when they didn’t get it concocted a story to make them look like they were double-crossed instead of just stupid and venal.
Saudi’s along with other Global Leaders know Trump is 1 Still President, or 2 Rightful President in exile or 3 Returning President 2024.
Like the lying msm, World Leaders mostly are NWO liars, but Some Leaders are hedging their bets on a Trump Triumph.
Here’s the FRESH SPIN:
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has offered some “positive” signs since its bombshell oil production cut but he made clear that Washington remained unhappy.
The OPEC+ cartel infuriated President Joe Biden by deciding to cut production by two million barrels a day starting in November, putting pressure on consumer prices days before US elections and potentially raising revenue for Russia while its war in Ukraine rages on.
The Biden administration publicly accused Riyadh of siding with Russia. But Blinken acknowledged that Saudi Arabia has since voted with the United States to condemn Moscow’s annexations of Ukrainian territory and has announced $400 million in humanitarian aid for Ukraine.
“So these are positive developments. They don’t compensate for the decision that was made by OPEC+ on production. But we take note of that,” Blinken said at a Bloomberg News event.
https://news.yahoo.com/blinken-sees-positive-signs-saudis-163055182.html
This is a bad week for the professional democrats and they deserve all the misery that comes with natural consequences.
Reality BITES.
I don’t know why the White House and their handlers should feel double crossed on any level. They have been out there for years now saying the world needs to dump fossil fuels. Why wouldn’t Saudi and OPEC try to exact every last dime they could before the world tries to ditch them? I don’t blame them one bit. American Citizens are the ones who should feel betrayed and double crossed by their own government. I sure do.
Outside of Trump, I can’t think of another president, Republican or Democrat,who WOULDN’T try & manipulate
the oil market, if they could, for votes.
who wouldda guessed?
They are laughing at Biden for being the lowest IQ leader of major country. He is such a dumb ass for thinking the Saudis would go along with lowering the cost of their ace in the hole.