Biden begs OPEC for oil for political preservation after kneecapping America’s energy industry

For the third time in fewer than eight months, Saudi Arabia has deliberately humiliated President Joe Biden on the world stage.

Biden, lauded as a preeminent foreign-policy expert after a half-century in the Senate, couldn t get the Saudis to answer his phone calls in March. He made a personal visit to the kingdom in August to ask them to increase oil production, and they declined. And on Thursday, the Saudis provocatively released a statement confirming the Biden administration had asked them to hold off oil-production cuts until after the midterm elections to avoid bad news.

Biden, after shooting America s oil industry in the foot, asks OPEC for first aid.

For a purported statesman, he is decidedly ignorant about the geopolitics of fossil fuels. OPEC is not our friend and not our ally. The cartel was created in 1960 for the explicit purpose of challenging and defeating America s oil industry. President Jimmy Carter was just as naïve thinking OPEC would respond to reason or diplomacy.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake, Napoleon reportedly said two centuries ago. Team Biden begging the Saudis and OPEC, yet again, is not just bad strategy it s shameful.

via nypost.com