🇺🇲🍔Burger Megathread

[RepublicOfEngland]

Until we pick up users we may as well have megathreads rather than separate ones

Today some brave youngsters denounced the rat AOC. Funded of Israel's shield and pro nazi in Ukraine and Bolivia
(AOC supported the 2019 coup in Bolivia which resulted in natives being massacred by the Christian fundamentalists USA wanted in power)

AOC is a sheepdog for the Demonrat Party. Collecting up well meaning (but lazy and can't be bothered to read or study socialism and its history) socialists who oppose war.
Her role therefore is one of a social-democrat. To provide a face likeable enough to vote for liberal totalitarianism

[Tankanator]

Raging burgers

[Gemini]

Biden confusingly stated his son gave his life in Iraq

Bidens son died in 2015 of cancer
A fitting epiphet for decline

[JoeySteel]

As a result of shipping far right psychos to Ukraine there is now an influx of psychos who have gotten training in Ukraine and come back to USA ready to commit terror attacks.

Provides numerous reasons to benefit US deep state: provides a radicalised contingent of far right psychos steeped in fascist ideology at a time US may go through a civil war, provides pretext for the deep state to crack down on any dissident movements.

[Damocles]

United States is like an episode of the office.

Wtf

[Tankanator]

Blinked on why the world needs to continue to be run by one of the most evil regimes ever to reign

Anglo-Saxon exceptionalism is one hell of a drug

[Charlotte]

Cindy McCain (wife of John McCain) admitting that "everyone knew what Epstein was doing"



John McCain was dispatched under Obama to meet with the Nazis in Ukraine during the Obama era to turn Ukraine into a spear tip pointed at Russia's.
Here we see the degenerate liberals and nazi's forming a tight pact.

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[Tankanator]

Biden regime getting completely cucked

[LinusBorvalds]

Funniest headline of today

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[Tankanator]

WASHINGTON — As President Biden was planning a politically risky trip to Saudi Arabia this summer, his top aides thought they had struck a secret deal to boost oil production through the end of the year — an arrangement that could have helped justify breaking a campaign pledge to shun the kingdom and its crown prince.

It didn’t work out that way.

Mr. Biden went through with the trip. But earlier this month, Saudi Arabia and Russia steered a group of oil-producing countries in voting to slash oil production by two million barrels per day, the opposite of the outcome the administration thought it had secured as the Democratic Party struggles to deal with inflation and high gas prices heading into the November elections.

The move led angry Biden administration officials to reassess America’s relationship with the kingdom and produced a flurry of accusatory statements between the two governments — including a charge by the White House that Saudi Arabia was helping Russia in its war in Ukraine.

Lawmakers who had been told about the trip’s benefits in classified briefings and other conversations that included details of the oil deal — which has not been previously disclosed and was supposed to lead to a surge in production between September and December — have been left fuming that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman duped the administration.

This account is based on interviews with American officials and officials from Gulf Arab nations, as well as Middle East experts with knowledge of discussions between the two nations.

What happened over the last half-year is a story of handshake agreements, wishful thinking, missed signals and finger-pointing over broken promises. Far from rebuilding a relationship with a leader Mr. Biden had once pledged to treat as a “pariah” after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the outcome has been another low point in America’s tumultuous ties with Saudi Arabia.

The episode is also a revealing example of how Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of its ambitious and often ruthless crown prince, appears eager to shed some of its longtime reliance on the United States, with Prince Mohammed trying to position Saudi Arabia as a powerhouse of its own.

American officials said that, even days before the OPEC Plus decision, they had received assurances from the crown prince there would be no production cuts — and when they learned of the Saudi reversal they made a futile last-ditch push to change minds in the royal court.

The Saudi Energy Ministry said in a statement that “the kingdom rejects these allegations and stresses that such mischaracterizations made by anonymous sources are entirely false.”

The ministry added, “The decisions of OPEC Plus are reached by the consensus of all members and determined solely by market fundamentals, not politics.”

White House officials admit they were angered and surprised by what they said was a Saudi about-face, but insist their overall strategy to lower energy costs is working.
The State of the War

Fears of Escalation: President Biden renewed his warning to Russia that it would be a “serious mistake” to use a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine. His comments came as Western officials said Moscow was seeking to create a pretext for escalating the war by making false claims that Kyiv was preparing to detonate a so-called dirty bomb.
Anti-Drone Warfare: Since Russia began terrorizing Ukrainian cities in recent weeks with Iranian-made drones, Ukraine has turned its focus to an intense counter-drone strategy. The hastily assembled effort has been surprisingly successful.
A Devastated Land: Ukrainians who are returning to liberated towns are encountering destruction on a staggering scale, vital services cut and the prospect of a lethal winter ahead.
A New Front?: Russia is massing thousands of troops in its western neighbor Belarus, raising fears that Moscow might plan to open another front in the war. But officials in Kyiv and Washington are casting doubt on whether the buildup represents a serious threat.

“We have a disagreement with Saudi Arabia over the most recent production cut, but our energy policy has always focused on prices, not number of barrels — and that policy is succeeding with crude oil prices down over 30 percent this year alone,” Adrienne Watson, a National Security Council spokeswoman, said in a statement on Tuesday night.

At the same time, U.S. officials are bracing for another potential price surge in December, if a European embargo on Russian oil goes into effect and the Saudis refuse to increase oil production to make up for the anticipated reduction in supply. The officials say that would be a sure sign that the Saudis were helping the Russians by undermining the American and European-led plan.

“While we clearly disagreed with the OPEC Plus decision in early October, we recognize the importance of continuing to work and communicate with Saudi Arabia and other producers to ensure a stable and fair global energy market,” said Amos Hochstein, Mr. Biden’s energy envoy.

Some analysts say that senior American and Saudi officials have misread each other on both the dynamics of the oil market and the geopolitics around Russia, and that the Biden administration will have a hard time figuring out how things went awry.

“Deconstructing Saudi decision-making right now is like Kremlinology on steroids,” said Hussein Ibish, a scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. “It’s become a matter of a relative handful of people around the king and the crown prince.”

“Even the most well-informed people in the United States often don’t know,” he added.

The White House has indicated it might seek retribution for the Saudi decision, and some Democrats in Congress are making a push to scale back some military and economic ties to the kingdom. Even some of the president’s staunchest supporters have called the episode an example of the administration sacrificing principles for political expediency — and having little to show for it.

“There’s now a level of embarrassment as the Saudis merrily go on their way,” said Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia and a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/us/p ... -deal.html

[Gemini]

The so-called ‘secret deal’ which Biden thought he had secured in May was actually worthless due to the Saudis wanting to carry out an act of revenge against Biden and his stupid, empty threats.

It would appear that Saudi Arabia is enjoying its pound of flesh of revenge over Joe Biden as it has been revealed just recently that a token offer from the Crown Prince to Biden to increase production – made in July – to help the U.S. president during the mid terms, was, in fact, a bare faced lie.

The so-called ‘secret deal’ which Biden thought he had secured in May was actually worthless due to the Saudis wanting to carry out an act of revenge against Biden and his stupid, empty threats.

Biden was quoted, while campaigning for president in 2019, as saying that he would treat Saudi Arabia as a “pariah” and would make them “pay the price” for the assassination of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi. More recently though he has come under fire from his own supporters who have criticised Biden for reaching out to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince. They argued that Biden’s decision to meet with MbS was the latest example of “sacrificing principles for political expediency – and having little to show for it.”.

And yet, in reality, Biden got hit from both sides – from his own people for the embarrassing U-turn which resulted in the trip to Saudi Arabia in July as well as the flack from his own people.

Even during the visit, the Saudis let Biden believe they were going to increase production just to help Biden, which was supposed to kick off in September. Any delusional ideas that Biden might have held that there was a delay to this decision were shattered just recently when OPEC Plus announced plans to cut production by two million barrels a day, resulting in exactly the opposite of what Biden was planning. In reality, the OPEC move, perhaps influenced by Russia, would keep pump prices high and threaten to remove the power the Democrats have in Congress – which would effectively remove a great deal of the power that Biden has as president.

The Saudis must have sensed that such a move to destabilise Biden would also have some support from other regional powers who not only benefit from oil being at around 90 USD a barrel but also paving the way for Donald Trump to return to the Oval Office.

And yet, it is not only Russia and the GCC oil-rich countries which have an agenda towards Biden.

The spiteful act by the Saudis to cheat Biden has hurt him on many levels and sends a signal to the world in general that America is no longer the superpower that it once was and is losing on a daily basis its edge.

For the countries of the MENA region, the move by OPEC has a double edge. Many of them depend on oil from the GCC region and are suffering from high prices and so don’t necessarily welcome the ruse. However, it has focused the minds of some that there is little if any value in supporting the Biden administration’s demands for sanctions against Russia to be supported unequivocally and that given the economic dire straits, going it alone is the only recourse.

Can it be a coincidence that only a matter of days after OPEC Plus made the announcement to cut oil production, keeping pump prices high, that Morocco announces that it is signing deals with Russia for the latter to build nuclear power plants and water desalination plants? Morocco has always been a great friend and stoic supporter of America and yet something in the heads of the elite in Rabat snapped. Morocco reached a breaking point where the increasing poverty of its own people became an overarching priority over respecting the foibles and insecurities of the Biden administration who actually believed that they could force secondary sanctions on at least the Global South if they couldn’t reign in the oil rich countries of the middle east with such folly.

In reality, it is African countries who will surely follow the example of Morocco and turn the page on their relations with Washington, as they are doing at a rapid rate with the EU. African countries, in particular those which are French-speaking, will see the move by Morocco as an example and will surely follow and trade more with Russia seeing no sense whatsoever in risking political instability via remaining the proteges of Uncle Sam. The old, tired idea that ‘aid-n-trade’ from the U.S. is worth too much for African countries just isn’t enough when China emerges as the biggest investor in Africa and most leaders in the continent know that no U.S. administration will support them if they face a coup d’état. In many ways Biden is in a quandary in Africa in that if regimes fall, or come close to it, they will turn to Russia anyway to help them retain power, which there is already the example of Mali. And so, Biden cannot push these regimes. He simply doesn’t have neither the carrot to dangle nor the stick to wield against them. Only words. And yet, when those words are so self-indulgent, clumsy and misplaced – in the case of the Saudis, for example – we can see that Biden is not even able to be trusted with this ‘soft power’ mantra which was actually created for him by Obama anyway. When you pour water into cheap whisky, all that happens is it becomes even poorer. Biden has been reported to be talking about retaliation to the Saudis which will no doubt come in the form of blocking arms sales. Again, he is out of touch by about 30 years as the two key components of the West’s relations with Riyadh – energy security coupled with defence procurement – has been recalibrated to the West’s dependency on oil only.

https://strategic-culture.org/news/2022 ... g-morocco/

[RepublicOfEngland]

Burgers are like Reddit, the Nation

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[RepublicOfEngland]

THE STATE OF THINGS - 10 SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT

Empire national debt: $31 trillion.

Empire total debt: $92 trillion.

Empire "unfunded liabilities": $172 trillion.

And counting. All three.

Plan A: even more debt. And even more helicopter money.

There's no Plan B.

Actually, there is.

Without the US$ as reserve currency, the Empire is bankrupt.

Thus the real "threat" posed by BRICS+, SCO, BRI, Opec+.

So Plan B is war.

Suicidal war.

On two fronts. Against Russia AND China. With 404 and Taiwan as triggers.

No wonder they are on maximum freak out mode.

It's either Plan B or total collapse via Plan A.