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Re:Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise by nl on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:03AM (#23057181)
As a huge critic of Bush and the disaster that war caused, I'm no fan of Bremer.

But O'Sullivan came to Iraq via the State Department, and Rumsfeld didn't want her there, which seems to indicate that perhaps she wasn't as insane as the Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz/Cheany neo-con people.

In anycase, I think this article makes a good basic point: lots of countries are going to be in deep trouble with this oil price.

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Re:Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise by Iv on Sunday May 03, 2020 @12:23PM (#23059973)
> lots of countries are going to be in deep trouble with this oil price.

Yeah, I really needed a State Department analyst to tell me that.

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Re:Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise by nl on Monday May 04, 2020 @02:42AM (#23065200)
Not sure what this means?

The point of analysis pieces often isn't to share new information, but instead is to share that fact that information is now very important.

Also I for one didn't realise that most of Saudi support in Congress had eroded enough in favor of the US industry to the point where is was now (to quote) "a sharp increase in hostility from members of the U.S. Congress who in the past appeared to appreciate the multifaceted relationship between Riyadh and Washington"

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Re:Oil's Collapse Is a Geopolitical Reset in Disguise by Iv on Monday May 04, 2020 @09:09PM (#23075284)
That's for analysis such as "Saudi support amongst crongressmen is eroding" that you need to remember that the author is nowhere near competent enough to be trustworthy on that.
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