{"id":46581,"date":"2019-06-10T10:23:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46581"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:23:33","slug":"energy-dominance-or-flatulence-shale-drillers-bleed-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46581","title":{"rendered":"Energy Dominance or Flatulence? Shale Drillers Bleed Cash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomluongo.me\/2019\/06\/10\/energy-dominance-flatulence-shale-drillers-bleed-cash\/\">Energy Dominance or Flatulence? Shale Drillers Bleed Cash<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/tomluongo.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/trump-fire-shrug.jpg?fit=816%2C408&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of President Trump\u2019s foreign policy can be summed up by two themes, making the world safe for Israel and controlling the price of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He calls the latter \u201cEnergy Dominance.\u201d And to those who still believe Trump has a plan, these two things are the only ones consistently in evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His reactions to things contrary to his plan, however, are purely limbic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These two themes converge completely with Iran. Trump wants Iran neutered to force Jared Kushner\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiatimes.com\/2019\/06\/article\/trumps-delayed-deal-of-the-century-already-dead\/\">now-delayed again<\/a>, \u201cDeal of the Century\u201d onto the Palestinians while also taking Iran\u2019s oil off the market to support surging U.S. domestic production in the hopes of taking market share permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everything Trump does is in support of these two themes while throwing some red meat at his base over China, Mexico and the border.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was never his intention to leave Syria back in December, really. Look how easy was it for John Bolton and the Joint Chiefs to convince him to stay because how else would we cut Iran\u2019s exports to zero if we didn\u2019t stop the land route through Iraq?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is why we\u2019re still harboring ISIS cells in the desert crossing around Al-Tanf at the Jordan\/Iraq\/Syria border, to stop Iranian oil from coming into the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This feeds right into hurting all of Syria\u2019s allies to strengthen Israel\u2019s position.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To paraphrase the song from Aladdin, \u201cIt\u2019s stupid, but hey, it\u2019s home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the average Trump voter truly understood the lengths we are going to starve the Syrian army from having enough energy to finish wiping out the Al-Qaeda-linked groups in Idlib and Homs provinces they would burn their MAGA hats and stay home next November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Dominance or Flatulence? Shale Drillers Bleed Cash All of President Trump\u2019s foreign policy can be summed up by two themes, making the world safe for Israel and controlling the price of energy. He calls the latter \u201cEnergy Dominance.\u201d And to those who still believe Trump has a plan, these two things are the only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[7844,21273,441],"class_list":["post-46581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gold-goats-and-guns","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46582,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46581\/revisions\/46582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}