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America is now the biggest oil producer. And a good thing for the whole world. A whole cadre of "intelligence" operatives (read spies), diplomats, Arabists, and other unproductive types multiplied like mushrooms after a rainstorm during the Post-WW II era, peaking in 1973-81. That era was marked by two "energy crises", both emanating from the Middle East. These people had little skill at predicting either shortage or ameliorating their results. Mostly, they talked a lot and earned a lot of money. They also succeeded in undermining U.S. support for Israel and other democracies, to appease the Arabs and allied Iranians. We kept silent while they threw gay people from cliffs, for example. The U.S. prevented Israel from pre-empting the 1973 war, in the manner of 1967.
Fast forward 40 years from the 1973 war. Oil prices were elevated considerably. Fracking and shale oil production was the result. And voila, the U.S. dominates. Saudi Arabia and Russia are basically supplicants. It's a great world, where when the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moves the embassy, there are a few ritual speeches, and basically that's it.
Some people would abdicate our role in favor of the U.N. and the "Climate Adjustment Fund", not to mention the International Criminal Court. Bowing down to sheiks and ayatollahs was humiliating. And their stranglehold on the world's economy was why. Far better to have good countries ruling the world.
Fast forward 40 years from the 1973 war. Oil prices were elevated considerably. Fracking and shale oil production was the result. And voila, the U.S. dominates. Saudi Arabia and Russia are basically supplicants. It's a great world, where when the U.S. recognizes Jerusalem as Israel's capital and moves the embassy, there are a few ritual speeches, and basically that's it.
Some people would abdicate our role in favor of the U.N. and the "Climate Adjustment Fund", not to mention the International Criminal Court. Bowing down to sheiks and ayatollahs was humiliating. And their stranglehold on the world's economy was why. Far better to have good countries ruling the world.