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   From: NOT-SURE@idiocracy.gov   
      
   On 10/12/22 11:37 AM, Lee wrote:   
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   > “ELECTION INTERFERENCE”: OIL PRICE   
   > HIKE IS SAUDI ARABIA’S OCTOBER   
   > SURPRISE AGAINST BIDEN   
   > October 11 2022   
   >   
   > WHEN, JUST ONE month before   
   > midterm elections, Saudi Arabia   
   > announced it would be slashing   
   > oil production by 2 million   
   > barrels a day, White House   
   > officials called it a “hostile   
   > act” and said the administration   
   > was “re-evaluating” the Saudi   
   > relationship. It was the kind of   
   > bellicose language officialdom   
   > virtually never uses to describe   
   > the oil-rich monarchy, whose   
   > vast wealth has bought it   
   > enormous influence in Washington.   
   >   
   > Congressional Democrats facing   
   > reelection amid soaring gas   
   > prices were similarly incensed.   
   > Usually, Capitol Hill will trot   
   > out bloodless language of “deep   
   > concern” in response to the   
   > kingdom’s myriad human rights   
   > abuses, but this time   
   > congressional Democrats struck   
   > back, vowing to block weapons   
   > sales and even taking the   
   > unprecedented step of   
   > introducing legislation to   
   > withdraw U.S. troops from Saudi   
   > Arabia and the United Arab   
   > Emirates. The bill’s sponsors   
   > linked their efforts to the   
   > war in Ukraine, pointing out   
   > how keeping oil prices high   
   > results in a windfall of profit   
   > to bankroll Russian President   
   > Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion.   
   >   
   > Yet experts pointed to the price   
   > hikes as more than a geopolitical   
   > move. They said it was also a   
   > foray by Saudi’s de facto ruler,   
   > Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman,   
   > or MBS, into U.S. electoral   
   > politics: a move by the Saudi-   
   > dominated oil cartel OPEC   
   > against President Joe Biden and   
   > in favor of Donald Trump.   
   >   
   > https://theintercept.com/2022/10/11/mbs-saudi-oil-biden-october-surprise   
   > -election-interference/   
      
      
   Without TRUMP they turned to the next most sane and that wasn't Joe Biden.   
      
   All it seems to take is a single meeting with Joe Biden and people no   
   longer follow U.S. Policy... why is that?   
      
      
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   Hiding from reality to find happiness is almost the "text book"   
   definition of mental illness.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)