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could that be serious? How in the world could that be serious? What am I missing? Is there a whole part of the story that they just don't mention here on Wikipedia? Because this doesn't even look a little bit like it's going to happen. Why would you even worry about this? Is it because a lot of people go to Davos, so therefore it looks like it might actually happen? I don't see any scenario in wh…
← Previous segment →bbott of Texas. That feels like something, because I feel like they would have just ignored it before. But fairly prominently they debunked two claims against Cruz and Abbott. And so it doesn't matter what they are. I think they're just — well, it matters. One alleges to show that Ted Cruz always says the same thing after every mass shooting, but that's fake. So simply just fake some tweets. And the other one showing Abbott did something bad that didn't really happen.
Now here's some more good news. It turns out that if the Russians have to compete with the Iranians to sell illegal oil because there are sanctions on Iran and Russia, this is really bad news for Iran. So Iran at least had an ability to sell to sketchy markets. You know, they could sell to China, but they could sell to sketchier countries. But as soon as Russia can only also sell to those same sketchy countries, including China, it makes the price of Iranian oil go way down. Because apparently the Iranian oil is just crap compared to the Russian oil. If you had a choice, you want the Russian oil. It's easier to refine.
So apparently the Iranian revenue from oil is down like 25 percent already since the sanctions on Russia. And Iran was not doing that well. So there's actually a thought that, weirdly, the war in Ukraine might lead to a tightening of the economic woes in Iran, which would lead them to be flexible to negotiate something with a
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nuclear deal that made sense. So maybe the war in Ukraine is going to cause Iran to make a peace deal in the Middle East. Maybe. Could happen. So that is the good news for the day. Yeah, and of course China wins because they're getting cheap oil. All right, did I leave anything out? Somebody just got here, so I'd like to repeat: blah, that's all you missed. Not much. Oh, your gas is up to $5.49…
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