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In reply to the discussion: Putin looking pretty puny at 9 dollars a barrel. Obama gets last laugh. [View all]KentuckyWoman
(6,937 posts)He and the Saudis decided it's time to put Putin in his place. That I applaud.
Every war creates carnage of some sort or another. To break Putin the low price of oil also hurts some small American companies that built on alternative fuel. Some won't survive the storm and the people who's livelihood depend on those companies will take awhile to recover, if at all. And in Russia, the hardships in mid winter can't be fun.
But if I were Obama and had to choose between smacking an evil like Putin upside the head versus pumping some taxpayer money into keeping some out of work Americans afloat and a bunch of Russians using Pravda for TP before they burn it for heat ..... Well that's not a hard choice. Laughing would not be part of the deal though.
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