“He sees fossil fuel dominance as key to our national power and he doesn’t care about international norms or what climate science says,” Hill said.
“That’s very unfortunate given the clear need for rapid decarbonization. This is a short-term gamble that will cost everyone a great deal. For current and future generations who will have to deal with climate change, he’s making a catastrophic mistake.”
the us producing more oil domestically than it ever has before-- so much so that we hardly know what to do with all of it.
this isn’t because the us needs it, it’s because trump is an imperialistic cunt doing the bidding of his oil billionaire donors/bribers
Important detail here, you are exactly right but this is why Trump is attacking Venezuela to push Venezuela OUT of the oil market and keep oil prices HIGH.
Oil wars are a game of musical chairs right now since this is the beginning of the very long drawn out end of oil.
Venezuela is in opec. Silence from KSA, Qatar, etc is loud.
Based on how willing those powers have been to sit by and watch the Palestinian Genocide, I think they have been sufficiently brought to heel or vice versa have brought the US to heel to the point that a shocking silence has already prevailed.
The ducks already had to be brought in line for the Palestinian Genocide, this hardly feels like a speedbump in comparison for a lot of countries in the middle east I suspect.
It also might honestly be that as angry as the rest of the world is, the Ukrainian war has re-emphasized how far ahead US military power and doctrine is especially in dynamic environments and OPEC just doesn’t have the basic military capability to counterbalance. Seeing Russia claim to send SAMs and associated crews to Venezuela as if Russia even has enough air defenses to defend Moscow… It doesn’t help that a lot of the best equipment Saudi Arabia and such have were bought from the US and neither China nor Russia can really claim to be on the level US and European militaries are at in sophistication and actual war experience (though obviously this is variously true and changing at a very rapid rate along many dimensions see the EDGE group and such, I doubt this is the full answer).
Or maybe, and this is MOST likely, OPEC is just used to dealing with washed up dictators that are quickly outliving their usefulness to their supporting power structures around them and knows one way or another Trump has an expiration date so escalating conflict makes less sense than posturing to cut the US out of favorable positions and biding their time until the US has a change in rulers to someone more rationally bribable again. That is what I would do, these strikes and actions against Venezuela are politically unsustainable in the US because they are so blatantly wrong and outside domestic interests.
He’s even doing everything he can to actively kill clean energy initiatives to increase the dependence on it. He seriously cannot die soon enough.