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Foreign Affairs

gab13by13

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1. Fantastic thread,

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Dec 20, 2025, 08:00 AM

Saturday

Ukraine has been blowing up Russian oil depots, refineries, pipelines, and now they have underwater drones that are blowing up oil tankers, Krasnov has a blockade on Venezuela, and fuck the law of supply and demand the fossil fuel industry is keeping the price of gasoline low in the US to help Krasnov or inflation would be much higher.

I'm done believing the fairy tales about how the prices of oil and gasoline are determined, it's all bullshit. How do we know that OPEC increased or decreased the output of oil?

The fossil fuel industry is paying back Krasnov for letting them drill off the coasts of Florida and Alaska, for letting them drill on our government land, for gutting fuel regulations, for gutting fossil fuel regulations, air and water regulations.

It's all one big criminal enterprise. The invisible hand of the market all right.

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Fantastic thread, gab13by13 Saturday #1

Russia still has it's nukes, but DonCoquixote Saturday #2

I think the situation with Putin is similar to that of Krasnov's. gab13by13 Saturday #3