03-08-2022, 08:15 PM
(03-08-2022, 02:12 PM)masonbengals fan Wrote: I know that I read too.
Do you support his decision to turn to these bad actors instead of at least trying to ramp up our own production?
(03-08-2022, 02:20 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Improving relations with Venezuela could be huge. Could really be a win-win for both.
That is actually a very valid point. Opening up oil trade with Venezuela isn't just about getting oil. It's an opportunity to undermine Russian (and Chinese) influence in the western hemisphere. It's a good opportunity to get into. Saudi Arabia is never a country I am fond of doing business with, but when it comes to places from which to get oil it isn't too bad. And then we have the possibility of Iran, which is another situation like Venezuela where we have burned some diplomatic bridges there and using this as a tool to improve those relations can be good.
I'm going to be frank with you, the US is a pretty bad actor in a lot of ways. I want our country to have peaceful relations with other nations, and diplomacy done through trade deals like this is one way that happens.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
