Fuad Shukr, Signing Off
Defiant rhetoric and obstreperous threats aside, Iran can't go on like this.
On Tuesday night in the suburbs of Beirut, the IDF killed Fuad Shukr, stage name al-Hajj Mohsin.
A member of Hezbollah's Jihad Council, Shukr was best known for planning an infamous attack on US military personnel in Lebanon four decades ago. 220 Marines were killed on October 23, 1983, when a suicide bomber struck a barracks in Beirut. It was among the deadliest days for the US Marine Corps since World War II.
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If our choice is global escalation of war while we continue to push green energy and minimize US drilling (keeping cost of oil higher- which funds Russia, Iran and Venezuela) or drilling more oil in the US to drop the price of oil and therefore decrease money flowing to Iran, Russia and Venezuala- the choice seems obvious (to me).
The US needs to fine tune the green energy policy regardless- acknowledging that green energy is a must, but that nuclear has to be part of that solution and that there is going to be a period of time during which we won’t have adequate capacity of green/nuclear energy to satisfy demand. During this phase, we need to drill oil, as environmentally safely as possible, until green/nuclear energy can meet our demand.
In addition to reducing money flowing to Russia, Iran, Maduro, the US population can benefit from cheaper oil prices throughout the economy.
We are already producing record amounts of oil. Right now. If you really want to quickly benefit US consumers, you’d have to severely limit exports. Think LNG to Europe and Asia. Otherwise you’re just helping China!