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Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy❤
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https://www.ft.com/content/98f15b60-bc4d-4d3c-9e57...Also at
https://archive.ph/l7GD1The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
The repeated warnings from Washington were delivered to senior officials at Ukraine’s state security service, the SBU, and its military intelligence directorate, known as the GUR, the people told the Financial Times.
Both intelligence units have steadily expanded their own drone programmes to strike Russian targets on land, sea and in the air since the start of the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
One person said that the White House had grown increasingly frustrated by brazen Ukrainian drone attacks that have struck oil refineries, terminals, depots and storage facilities across western Russia, hurting its oil production capacity.
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If anything, as I’ve seen it pointed out..we should be cheering on the Ukrainians. The less the Russkies can refine, the more oil they have to export for currency. That’s a good thing.
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I see both sides. It could affect the price of oil, and gas prices would then rise (again). Americans won't like that. On the other hand, I think Ukraine has bigger problems than the price of petrol. They don't want to alienate the people helping them, but this is one way to hurt Russia. So they're taking it.
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The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, warning that the drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation, according to three people familiar with the discussions.
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In other words, try not to hurt you enemy too much as you go about trying to kill him.... Why not, it worked so well with the Houthis and Iran.
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In other words, try not to hurt you enemy too much as you go about trying to kill him.... Why not, it worked so well with the Houthis and Iran.
Yup. It might make the Russians so angry they kidnap Ukrainian civilians and bomb first responders. Oh, right...
Another theory is that Biden wants Russian help to get Iran to agree to a nuclear deal. That would be insane, of course, by about the right level of dumb thing to do for this White House.
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The Party of Fossil Fuels - Democrats.
Now Dems are protecting Putin no different than they protected communist Soviet Union
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It's an election year, ya know.
