The OPEC+ alliance announced a 2 million barrels a day cut in oil production a week ago, which could drive oil and gas prices up and the Democrats’ electoral fortunes down in the crucial days before the election.
“The Government of the Kingdom clarified through its continuous consultation with the US Administration that all economic analyses indicate that postponing the OPEC+ decision for a month, according to what has been suggested, would have had negative economic consequences,” the statement said. The ministry went on to note that the Saudi government prefers to negotiate in a “non-politicized” environment.
“The Kingdom stresses that while it strives to preserve the strength of its relations with all friendly countries, it affirms its rejection of any dictates, actions, or efforts to distort its noble objectives to protect the global economy from oil market volatility. Resolving economic challenges requires the establishment of a non-politicized constructive dialogue, and to wisely and rationally consider what serves the interests of all countries.”
The statement comes a day after Biden threatened Saudi Arabia on CNN, telling anchor Jake Tapper that the Kingdom will face “consequences” if it moves to cut oil production.
“There’s going to be some consequences for what they’ve done, with Russia,” Biden said. “I’m not going to get into what I’d consider and what I have in mind. But there will be — there will be consequences.”
The bad blood between Biden and the kingdom go back to the 2020 presidential election, when the then-Democrat candidate vowed to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” state because of its alleged involvement in Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination in Istanbul, Turkey in 2018.
During a presidential debate in 2019, Biden declared there was “very little social redeeming value in the present government in Saudi Arabia.” Since taking office, he has publicly scolded Saudi Arabia over the war in Yemen and cut off the flow of weapons Riyadh could have used to target Houthis,” the Wall Street Journal reported in March.
Biden further alienated the Saudis by reversing the Trump administration’s decision to put the Houthis on America’s official list of global terrorist groups, which Saudi leaders say “emboldened the Yemeni force and thwarted efforts to...
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Assholes cut our drilling & production for idiotic and pretend climate policy. Than ask other countries to make up some slack. Get real.
The most galling thing is that this administration is illegitimate. Our Founders would have rectified this the day after the election was called for these PsOS.
Can we start using the word Impeachment yet. I mean, after all, this is EXACTLY what they accused Trump of doing. That's the thing about libtards. They are repeatedly guilty themselves of what they're accusing the right of doing.
Looks like the Saudis, Russians, Ukes, Iranians, Afghans, and the rest of the world fuck the Bidens publically.
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