This is a good article but it presupposes that the White House is under a sincere delusion that these strikes would have a negative impact on energy markets. That is not the case. Such level of almost childish ignorance does not exist in Washington. The effort to protect Russian oil refineries from Ukrainian strikes is not economic or energy-related.
We have a much, much deeper problem than “Biden doesn’t understand energy markets.”
He’s been doing the same thing to Ukraine for two years. Why are we surprised now? The whole policy of the Biden administration is to keep wars simmering without a definitive resolution.
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“policy of the Biden administration is to keep wars simmering without a definitive resolution.”
IIRC a couple of years ago you said that Phillip Bobbit had described that as the US trying to prevent a large global conflagration of the kind that usually accompanies changes in state form ( WWI being a prime example in moving away from empire ).
The idea was that keep a few conflicts simmering with no definite conclusion it was hoped that destructive energies around alternations in state form (like the passing of the nation state) could be let off in a diffused way over time.
Is that what Biden’s doing or is it some new form of hell?
That’s the plan. Or was the plan. Bobbitt revealed a lot of what was being discussed behind the scenes in Washington in his book.
But the situation has progressed in directions that the planners didn’t anticipate. And there’s no new plan. There are simply efforts to cling on to an outdated set of ideas created a long time ago.
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“efforts to cling on to an outdated set of ideas”
In other words: “The plan isn’t working…. Let’s keep following it!”
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SB, you previously mentioned your position re American politics has changed and you moved closer to Republicans like Clarissa.
Has your opinion changed in some way regarding my country & Palestinians, or is it exactly the same as before?
If no change then no change.
If changed, how?
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Earlier I used to get very emotional about the subject and was pro-Palestine. I’m now dispassionate about this issue and examine it primarily through the lens of “whether this is good for my country, america, (I acquired american citizenship a while ago) or not”. I do not like the current wave of muslim migration to the west, and the values they bring with them. Absolutely despise that. I also think that Israel is a liability for america and I want my country to check out of this conflict and stop patronizing Israel. Introducing a bill to punish speech critical of Israel? FUCK THAT.
Israel’s problem is not our problem, frankly.
It’s absolutely shocking that Biden is going against the legislation passed by the Congress in a unilateral way. He’s usurping legislative powers, and it should be a mega scandal. This isn’t even about Israel. It’s about the separation of powers. It’s a page out of the Obama playbook.
It’s outrageous that Trump was criticized for usurping legislative powers, which he never did while Biden is doing it openly and nobody cares.
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A popular Hebrew Israeli telegram channel with around 385 000 subscribers had a poll yesterday:
If you could turn to American voters and influence them, for whom would you ask them to vote in the nearest elections?
Biden 8%
Trump 80%
Don’t know 12%
More than 90% of Israeli voters who have an opinion prefer Trump over Biden.
He says his previous poll on Israeli elections predicted the final results well, so thinks this preference reflects Israeli public opinion.
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