Oil

[masonbengals fan]

(03-08-2022, 08:15 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 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.

rather than our own production then ? That was the question.