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how is this an actual story this is like the kind of poo poo racist expats make up about the countries they live in
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lol https://twitter.com/barbarastarrcnn/status/1236993375351570433?s=20
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thank you MBS for being such a stupid pissbaby that you caused the second great depression
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https://twitter.com/jacksanders1965/status/1237021578698919937
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Darkman Fanpage posted:hezbollah seems to be staying out of it. War Nerd episode 218 has a fantastic overview of the origins of Lebanon's banking crisis, and yeah, Hezbollah has made it clear they don't have anything to do with it.
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So whose ship was it? Not entirely clear from the tweet.
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Sinking a Russian-flagged ship would really be the icing on the cake right now
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Mar 9, 2020 17:43
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What's the point of running a protection racket across the entire Arabian peninsula if one of your client kingdoms just crashes your fuckin economy in a trade war anyway? Trump's not even good at imperialism
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sum posted:What's the point of running a protection racket across the entire Arabian peninsula if one of your client kingdoms just crashes your fuckin economy in a trade war anyway? Trump's not even good at imperialism shocking
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Galaxy brain move here would be to provoke Iran into blowing up Saudi's refineries again
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Mar 9, 2020 18:34
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sum posted:What's the point of running a protection racket across the entire Arabian peninsula if one of your client kingdoms just crashes your fuckin economy in a trade war anyway? Trump's not even good at imperialism
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Mar 9, 2020 21:51
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just in time to self quarantine and not go anywhere for 2 weeks, lol
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Mar 9, 2020 21:53
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Saudi Arabia needs $80 oil to break even and Boy Wonder Bonesaw just tanked the market lol There's been widespread belief in CSPAM that the Saudi state's days are numbered, and I have to think those days just got much shorter
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Hold up now, wasn't it Russia who blew up this truce and triggered this price crash? Not to defend the KSA's foreign policy in general, but the mad bullshit seems to have been coming from the other side of the table this time.
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Darth Walrus posted:Hold up now, wasn't it Russia who blew up this truce and triggered this price crash? lol where do you get that from this article? the whole thing reads as MBS asking them to do something they didn't want to do and then destroying the global oil market in a pout
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Raskolnikov38 posted:lol where do you get that from this article? the whole thing reads as MBS asking them to do something they didn't want to do and then destroying the global oil market in a pout The downward pressure on oil came from COVID-19. Basically, all this industrial shutdown means that there's less demand for the same supply, and oil prices were projected to go from their current slow decline into freefall. Since a significant amount of the world economy is tied to the price of oil, OPEC wanted to limit production in order to keep oil at about the same price and not cause any global ripples. When they checked with Russia, though, Putin said 'lolnope' and pulled out of their long-standing price-fixing alliance. The KSA cutting its export prices was a defensive measure, since Russia had made it clear they'd be keeping up production during the price-drop in order to hoover up market share.
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i feel like there's a middle ground MBS could have opted for between "accept the russian position" and "kickstart the second great depression"
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i feel like there's a middle ground MBS could have opted for between "accept the russian position" and "kickstart the second great depression" Depends what the KSA's COVID-19 oil price projections looked like, I guess. We really don't know how bad a 'natural' crash might have been in comparison - a less sharp drop, yes, but how much less sharp?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:i feel like there's a middle ground MBS could have opted for between "accept the russian position" and "kickstart the second great depression" like asking gina or mark to send over some more targeted persuasion
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Darth Walrus posted:Hold up now, wasn't it Russia who blew up this truce and triggered this price crash? Here's a good description of what happened: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/09/opec-russia-shale-oil-price-collapse/ Yes, Russia didn't agree to OPEC's proposed cuts, but then KSA initiated a production war by ramping up production
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:Here's a good description of what happened: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/03/09/opec-russia-shale-oil-price-collapse/ Yeah, but that was still the first shot fired in a war Russia had declared by walking away from a long-standing pact in the middle of an international crisis. I would assume that Russia also wished to ramp up production - otherwise, what was the point of no longer working with its competitors?
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Darth Walrus posted:Yeah, but that was still the first shot fired in a war Russia had declared by walking away from a long-standing pact in the middle of an international crisis. I would assume that Russia also wished to ramp up production - otherwise, what was the point of no longer working with its competitors? Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I remember OPEC has failed to cut production since basically forever. That problem didn't spring fully formed from Vladimir Putin's forehead.
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Didn't Saudi Arabia do basically this same thing to kill the North American shale and oil sand industries that were competing with OPEC? That didn't do too well either iirc.
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genericnick posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I remember OPEC has failed to cut production since basically forever. That problem didn't spring fully formed from Vladimir Putin's forehead. Eh, the pact with Russia has been around for a while, and did result in a mild throttle on production. They just wanted to step it up to mitigate a crisis and one of the members of the pact refused. Like, yes, Russia was acting in accordance with general petrostate culture, but it was still the one that kicked it all off this time.
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sum posted:Galaxy brain move here would be to provoke Iran into blowing up Saudi's refineries again
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Afghan government to release 1,500 Taliban prisoners as a move to launch direct talks, a decree shows This starts tomorrow. 100 prisoners a day for the next 15 days.
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Now this, meanwhile, is some authentic, purestrain Saudi bullshit. https://twitter.com/middleeasteye/status/1237402859471282176?s=21
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Darth Walrus posted:Now this, meanwhile, is some authentic, purestrain Saudi bullshit. It's going to be a real laugh riot if he fucks this up
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:It's going to be a real laugh riot if he fucks this up poo poo its already a laugh riot. What a fuckin rube. Just a big beautiful dummy
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hoo boy https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1237835953978441728
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when yer empire is definitely NOT collapsing
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lmao wtf is happening? Going with "Saudi Arabia false flagging the US in to a war with Iran to lower global oil production to fix the mess they are in" until someone has something that is actually reasonable to explain it
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TeenageArchipelago posted:lmao wtf is happening? Going with "Saudi Arabia false flagging the US in to a war with Iran to lower global oil production to fix the mess they are in" until someone has something that is actually reasonable to explain it The Mahdi Army, Muqtada al-Sadr's resistance movement, officially reactivated after Soleimani's death and sided with Iran (significant because Sadr's an Iraqi nationalist who's always been slightly chilly with Iran). It was only a matter of time before poo poo would kick off.
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i love how Iran waited till a crescendo of max chaos with MBS ascension, oil prices wars, flu, and travel bans to just stir the ol pot some more. huge troll move. this will clearly end well. e: wait...it was sadr? guidoanselmi has issued a correction as of 08:27 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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