Just days before the United States launched a major military operation in Iran, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen agents and staff members from a counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring threats from Iran, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
    14·
    5 days ago
    1. Grab all the Venezuelan oil first to protect the USA from rising oil prices at home, then
    2. fuck up the middle east, putting prices through the roof and disrupting oil supply to China and Europe, and
    3. wait for everyone to come begging for American and Russian oil?

    Take this with a huge pinch of salt. I’m just playing along here. I don’t know whether this is at all plausible.

      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
        3·
        5 days ago

        They change their mind at $100/barrel. But more US production is also likely. EU again choosing the suicide pact.