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Politico published a story yesterday about the Trump Administration finally figuring out that starting a war in the Persian Gulf was gonna fuck oil prices, and now they’re casting about for things to do. They can’t tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because Trump hasn’t filled it back up after Biden used it. So the guy who looks like the product of Scrooge McDuck fucking the Monopoly man has an idea:
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Friday said the United States could remove sanctions from more Russian oil, a day after Washington issued a 30-day waiver allowing the sale of Russian crude currently stranded at sea to continue to India.
"We may unsanction other Russian oil," Bessent told Fox Business' "Kudlow" program.
"There are hundreds of millions of sanctioned barrels of sanctioned crude on the water and in essence, by unsanctioning them, Treasury can create supply, and we are looking at that," he added.
Wanting to help Russia is even more insane given the help we’re expecting from Ukraine:
A week into the U.S.'s war in Iran, American drone expert Brett Velicovich joined Fox News anchor Jesse Watters to tout the role of advanced American drone defense technology used in the operation. In the split-screen beside him, footage of air defenses downing Iranian Shahed drones appeared to underscore his point.
Except they weren't American air defenses.
"Hi @FoxNews — small clarification," Wild Hornets, a Ukrainian drone company, wrote on X. "The footage shown in this segment features STING — a Ukrainian interceptor drone developed by engineers at Wild Hornets and used by Ukrainian air defense units to destroy Shahed-type drones."
The mixup drew renewed attention to both Ukraine's drone expertise and to America's lack of drone defense preparedness, as Iran's aerial bombardment depletes interceptor stockpiles across the Middle East.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that Ukraine will work with the Pentagon and Gulf allies to share what it has learned during four years of drone warfare. And a spokesman for Wild Hornets, the Ukrainian drone company, confirmed to CBS News that it is "ready to help Ukraine's strategic partners if called upon to do so."
I assume Bari Weiss will fire the reporter who wrote that piece tomorrow. Also, love to see that we’re way behind in combatting drones, which are obviously central to the way that modern war is waged, while at the same time we’re spending billions to re-engine B-52s, bombers designed to fight a kind of war we’ll never wage.
Anyway, I don’t know if we can make enough noise about how terrible the Trump Administration’s lack of preparedness was when they decided to go to war, coupled with their terrible execution, etc., etc. And we certainly can couple that with gas prices, which are going to go up no matter what Trump’s dumb dumbs do about it.
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