Guest essay by Eric Worrall
No word yet whether Hunter Biden will join the boards of any Iranian or Venezuelan oil companies.
Biden administration team in Venezuela as U.S. seeks to break country from Russian influence
BY ED O’KEEFE, FIN GÓMEZ
MARCH 6, 2022 / 11:06 AM / CBS NEWS
Washington — Senior American officials are in Venezuela this weekend to meet with the government of Nicolás Maduro, whose authoritarian rule of the oil-producing country has meant no formal diplomatic relations between the two countries since 2019.
The visit is yet another example of a geopolitical shift underway across the globe in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as the U.S. and European countries seek energy sources other than Russia, one of the world’s largest oil exporters.
Multiple U.S. officials confirmed the trip is happening to CBS News. The White House and State Department declined formal comment.
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“Joe Biden using #Russia as an excuse to do the deal they always wanted to do anyway with the #MaduroRegime,” Rubio tweeted Sunday morning. “Rather than produce more American oil he wants to replace the oil we buy from one murderous dictator with oil from another murderous dictator.”
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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuela-russia-ukraine-biden-team-nicolas-maduro/
An Iran deal might also be on the table. Although Iranian oil is not specifically mentioned in the following article, what else does Iran have which the USA needs? I think it is a safe assumption that increasing the global supply of oil will be part of any deal which softens Iranian sanctions, given Biden’s desperation to lower gasoline pump prices in the USA.
While America watches the war in Ukraine, Biden finalizes a dangerous Iran deal
BY ERIC R. MANDEL, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 03/05/22 05:00 PM EST 1,394
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
While the world’s attention is fixated on Russia’s war in Ukraine, President Biden’s Iran envoy in Vienna, Robert Malley, reportedly is readying to finalize a deal that makes a number of worrying concessions to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his regime.
Gabriel Noronha, a former Senate Armed Services Committee aide to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former State Department official, has tweeted specifics of some American concessions to Iran. Noronha says his former State Department, National Security Council, and European Union colleagues were so alarmed about compromises the Biden administration appears to be making with Iran that they allowed him to publish details to alert Congress to how the pending agreement could undermine America’s national security interests.
The agreement details are known to the governments of Russia, China and Iran, but evidently not to Congress, and certainly not to the American people. It’s possible that an agreement could be signed by early next week.
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Read more: https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/596950-while-america-watches-the-war-in-ukraine-biden-finalizes-a
Both of America’s new partners are notorious violators of human rights, and have BOTH been accused of terrorist connections.
The minister of industry and former vice president of Venezuela, Tareck El Aissami, has been accused by US authorities of money laundering, corruption and drug trafficking (e.g. 800kg Cocaine bust), and has also been accused of high level links to Hezbollah, an Iran backed Middle Eastern terror group, for whom he allegedly provided thousands of Venezuelan travel documents.
As for Iran, I hear they need lots of cash to restart their terrorist nuclear bomb programme peaceful Uranium enrichment programme, after Iran’s Uranium enrichment centrifuges were allegedly wrecked by an Israeli computer hack. Windfall profits from selling high priced oil to the Biden Administration should cover the cost of repairs.
President Biden’s excuse for buying oil from these nightmare regimes, rather than allowing more domestic US production, appears to be that he doesn’t want to encourage US dependency on fossil fuel.
In my opinion, Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine demonstrates that no good can come from making deals with the devil. If you give bad people an opportunity to make lots of money, they use that money to do bad things.
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i think it is time to computer model the decline if the USA.
because models are always right. right leftists?
No. It’ll just look like a hockey stick. Again.
From the article:
“Climate Obsessed Biden Administration”
I think that says it all.
Biden is obsessed with CO2. To the point that he will do anything to prevent fossil fuel development in the United States.
There’s no evidence CO2 is anything other than a benign gas, Joe. Leave it alone. Snap out of it!
Joe, Kamala, Kerry act as if they believed that climate disaster in the US is just around the corner but it can be prevented in this country if we halted domestic CO2 emissions and fossil fuel production.
They seem to ignore emissions in countries like China or India and assume that oil from other countries imported at high cost has no impact.
They are willing to accept short term solutions to what they consider a short term problem (gasoline price) instead of a “permanent solution” that would exacerbate the dreaded “Climate Extinction” problem for the US.
A Tesla Powerwall to power a 1500 watt room heater for 24 hours costs $36,000 installed. A 1500 watt gas generator costs $300.
For the $35,700 difference in price you can buy 9000 gallons of gasoline. Enough to power the heater for 3000 days or 8 years. More than the lifetime of the lipo battery in the power wall.
You could buy a lot of Iranian oil in return for some nukes.
There is increasing pressure on the Biden administration to increase domestic production of fossil fuels. A lot of pressure is going to be applied because just about everyone sees the sense in doing so. Putin’s attack on Ukraine has opened a lot of eyes.
Let’s see if Biden gives in to the pressure. This will tell us how obsessed he is with Climate Change.
Tom, Biden isn’t doing anything. Brandon is just a javelin catcher to take the flack for the GEBs**. He reads what he’s told to read and signs what he’s told to sign. In return he gets pudding or ice cream. The Brandon family is raking in the bucks in exchange for Brandon’s performance and their efforts to keep him going.
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Any criticism or argument against the policies and agenda of this administration should read along the lines of “Biden’s GEB puppet masters are causing… XXX…”
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In light of that, your wait-and-see would read more accurately as “Let’s see if Biden’s puppet masters give in to the pressure.”
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In my opinion, the GEBs want fuel prices to become unaffordable to the poor and middle class. It would be a fast train to creating powerless serfs of the broadest sector of Americans. So, increased domestic production isn’t in the cards.
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**GEB: Globalist or Greedy or Government (bureaucrats and appointees) Evil Bastard. The ‘G’ depends on context, but it is sometimes all three at once.
There’s a bright side. Each of the billionaire GEBs believe they should be the one running the show. There will be an epic knife fight among them with many fatalities as each one tries to make sure they are the one who winds up at the top.
Whoever is running the U.S. government is running the country into the ground.
PREDICTION:
The sophists and propagandists of the Green Blob and the Brandon MalAdministration will now proceed to claim that skyrocketing worldwide hydrocarbon prices call for massive government-subsidized investment in more pinwheels and sunshine (i.e., unreliable, intermittent, expensive, subsidized wind and solar electricity generation).
Biden said today that Green Energy (windmills and solar) and Electric cars would get us out of this problem with high gasoline prices.
Prez Dimwit and his handlers sucking up to Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Venezuela for oil—one questionable regime and two odious ones. It was beneath Democrat Marxists to approach Mexico and Canada, and especially to loosen their stranglehold on US energy. Jobs for everywhere EXCEPT America is evidence that Democrats have no desire or intention to run a government representative of or beneficial to the people. Better to finance fellow Marxists and jihadi terrorists—and the “rubes,” the “bitter clingers,” and the “Deplorables” can go screw themselves.
As one of your nice Canadian neighbors to the north, who has worked in oil and gas and benefitted from our fair labor laws and strict environmental laws, It hard not to take this personally when America would rather get its energy from lawless tyrannies than your friends to the north.
I thought that was by agreement with “the kid”.
It’s not America, it’s Joe Biden. There’s a difference.
Too late, Putin has blocked all the policy roads including some recent attacks on Libyan oil fields. Sleepy is a day late and trillion dollars short.
Putin is banking on coordinated chaos in other arenas with NK, Iran, and China stepping up their chaos plays in Asia and the Middle East simultaneously. Sleepy will retreat to Delaware.
Sleepy has already retreated to Deleware. Appeasers retreat at the first opportunity. Joe Biden is an appeaser of dictators.
So … burning US fossil fuels is evil because of the nonexistent-ial threat of CAGW.
But burning foreign fossil fuels is NOT evil because … (Psicki? I need some help here.)
While the country is being regulated down the tubes it is astonishing, in a bad way, 30% still like this guy. Even more that the states having the power to correct the problem, don’t.
Olen: “[..] it is astonishing, in a bad way, 30% still like this guy.“
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a) Polls are used to shape opinion, not reflect opinion. Polls lie to support the desired narrative.
2) In light of ‘a’, there exists a certain percentage of brainwashed useful idiot sheeple who will support the dude or party that promises inclusion and safety.
I’ve heard that #2 is around 25%, so a boost to 30% by the bought-and-paid-for pollsters is a reasonable boost. The poor pollsters can’t stretch that any further.
Good point. Joe’s bad poll numbers are probably worse than reported.
I don’t care if Satan himself starts drilling, I’ll take it. But that would never happen, because more oil means less human suffering and that is not on his agenda.
Biden and his entire administration is beholding to the deep (DARK) state.
We all knew Anti-Frackers were paranoid obsessives, now the Anti-Fracker Biden white house has shown the true peril of their paranoia. Mind you they have no problem with polluting our water supplies with Genetically modified spike proteins manufactured by big Pharma.