Just wondering how many others besides me are paying attention to the expanding attacks on the global economy by all sides. Not just the Iran war but everywhere. While Trump tells us that the price of oil is under control, that the USA is oil-independent, the truth is that we export much of it and then have to import it to have enough, and the price at the pump is still increasing, for us the same as everyone else.
A massive fire at the US’s second largest refinery, the Valero refinery at Port Arthur, Texas has finally been put out and people are going back to work, but not a word about the cause of this mysterious explosion that has shut down most of the refinery and helped raise fuel prices globally.
Ukraine said it hit a key Russian oil terminal at Primorsk and a refinery in Ufa on Monday. Oil production in Iran is at a halt and almost no oil is coming through the Hormuz Strait now. The world runs on oil and the refineries of it are being shut down along with the movement of it into the global economy.
The last time we had a massive global economy attack was the blocking of the Suez Canal, disrupting almost all the shipping between the West and East, causing worldwide goods shortages and when the block was cleared, there were many hundreds of cargo ships filled with goods, with cargo ships massing outside of all the major ports, unable to get in and unload because the ports were all overloaded. Then, of course, there was also the sudden truck shortage.
All deliberately planned as experiments in how people will respond when the actual, total shutdown starts, and now it looks like another major economic global shortage of goods is being set up. My obvious question is, is this the Big One?
If this war goes on for months, the shortages and economic damage will be a lot worse than when the Ever Given cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal. That was one goods transit shortcut that was cut off, now it’s the world’s fuel supply. Big difference.
A severe global fuel shortage that does not abate will result in mass starvation on a global level. Trump started in Iran telling us that it would be a matter of days, now it’s a month at least but “maybe not”, it’s “deja vu all over again” hearing him repeat the same story he gave us about Hamas surrendering and being disarmed “In two days”, then “In a week”, then “In ten days”, then “we’re negotiating”, and then we heard no more, while Hamas continues to hold Gaza.
If all this isn’t a conspiracy to teach us that the global economy is very fragile and we could all suddenly be plunged into chaotic food shortages, as we already have been, then good, it was all just amazing coincidence after amazing coincidence. Not deliberate, not planned. Yes, it’s true, I do have chickens for sale that shit gold, by the way.
So keep your eyes open and your larder filled, Be Prepared. This may be just a long-term pattern of jerking us off over oil and the economy for their benefit, or it may be the move to reduce the human population they told us was coming.