Another Loss for the US: Japan Breaks with Western Allies, Buys Russian Oil at Prices Above Cap

Be careful what you say. The alternative "reset" will be one vile cesspool of criminal debauchery and murder.

 

Maybe there's some good news coming? But the fact that Biden's administration is making hard to get drilling permits is interesting. I wonder how this plays out.

I agree with you. Biden taking any credit for oil production is just rich. I wonder if private land in North Dakota and other oil drilling states need federal approval to drill for oil. They do on federal lands.

Judge orders U.S. to resume oil lease sales in North Dakota

Well Permitting




I also had no idea that these were the TOP oil drilling states in the U.S.A..

Top 6 Oil-Producing States

 

Now the French suggest that Europe should reduce it's dependency on the U.S. Dollar. WTH is the Biden administration doing to all of our foreign allies? Why re they saying they want to dump the U.S. Dollar?


Xi and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have backed Macron’s “strategic autonomy” concept, as CCP officials often refer to it when meeting with other European officials.

“The paradox would be that, overcome with panic, we believe we are just America’s followers,” Macron said in the interview, published on April 9. “Is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worse thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take our cue from the U.S. agenda and a Chinese overreaction.”

China began military drills around Taiwan on April 8 after the island nation’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on April 5. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Taiwan’s government strongly objects to China’s claims.


Macron Says Europe Should Reduce Dependence on US Dollar After Meeting With China's Xi

 

Here is a great Oped on the "de-dollarization."


There are so many moving parts it's extremely convoluted. But it all makes sense. It's a good read if you have 25 minutes to invest. Here is an excerpt below about the IMF/banking side of the Ukraine.... and it's how we are doing "business" with other countries of the world. This is no way to do legitimate business.



Obviously there’s no way that Ukraine can pay. The US government has said, — Well we’re holding the $300 billion that we’d illegally grabbed from Russia. Not illegally — we make the laws! The rest of the world may call it illegal. International law may call it illegal. But when America does it it’s not illegal.

That’s why President Nixon said, — When the president does it, it’s not a crime.

Well, when America does something against international law, it’s not illegal because we are the only democracy in the world’s essential country.

I think Russia will say, ultimately, Ukraine’s going to be divided. Eastern and southern Ukraine just to the west of Odessa is all going to be a part of Russia. So I think Russia will probably smile and say, — Well actually we are willing to spend the $300 billion dollars to rebuild Ukraine. We’re going to build the part of Ukraine that, since 2008, has been systematically bombed and under attack, and now is under attack by Ukrainians focusing on hospitals, on civilian centers.


Considering the Collapse of Antiquity and the Bank Panic

 

I suppose this will not hurt the dollar either? You Leftists know that the American government is about to go full retard, and they are going to invent an excuse to start a war.

Nope... nothing to see here. I wonder if their made that some, not naming anyone cut Europe's pipeline to their Russian natural gas? Maybe there's more to it that is in this article. So if WWIII breaks out, can the survivors please take out all the instigators of this war... in all governments around the world.



Poland's prime minister: France favors 'severing the ties' with US


French President Emmanuel Macron favors “shifting the center of European gravity towards China,” according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

“I do not quite understand the concept of strategic autonomy if it means de facto shooting into our own knee,” Morawiecki said Thursday. “European autonomy sounds fancy, doesn't it? But it means shifting the center of European gravity towards China and severing the ties with [the] U.S.”

Morawiecki did not identify Macron by name, but the reference to the French leader’s signature “strategic autonomy” concept made the rebuke unmistakable. And it punctuated a wider denunciation of traditional powers of Western Europe, which he characterized as feckless in the face of threats from Russia and China.

“They want a quick ceasefire — armistice in Ukraine — almost at any price. Maybe not all of them, but there are politicians in Western Europe who think so ... ’Ceasefire at any at any price. The sooner the better, as quickly as possible, Ukraine. Why are you fighting so bravely?’” Morawiecki said at the Atlantic Council. “They want also [to ensure] that the selling of high-margin products to China continues. The wake-up call with regard to China is very, very soft — very weak in Europe across the European Union.”


Poland's prime minister: France favors 'severing the ties' with US