Saturday, March 5, 2022

Mysterious Crimes and mysterious Criminals

Imagine you’re a supersleuth “whodunit” kind of detective, and you’re called to investigate a tough case that has befuddled many investigators before you. It confused them so badly, they dropped the case to go earn a living doing something else, at times in a different profession.

 

You go to the place where the crime is said to have been committed. You meet the dwellers who are having a good time playing all sorts of games. Most of them look like innocent people who wouldn’t commit a small crime, let alone a serious one like the caller said has happened. You ask what exactly the crime was, and nobody even knows that a crime was committed.

 

You ask that the person who called you be identified, and someone escorts you to an office where you see small men and women sitting around a table counting money. You approach one of them and ask: Are you the one that called me? Why would I call you when I don’t even know who you are, says the small person? You go to three more people, one after the other, ask the same question to each, only to get the same answer from each.

 

Tired of this insane situation, you walk in the direction of the exit door, when someone intercepts you: Where do you think you’re going? he asks. Home you say, adding, I’m tired of this place. You can’t do that, says the man, you must solve the crime. What crime? you scream, nobody even knows that a crime was committed. Amused, the man smiles and says: Well, that’s for you to find out. Upon this, he takes your hand and drags you to a room where a number of people are sitting around a table punching on the keyboards of their computers.

 

Your escort tells you that at one time or another, one of these characters was the criminal whose crime is yet to be identified. But for now, your task is to find out who the next criminal will be, and what the crime will consist of. He introduces some of them to you by name like so: This is Mr. Petrodollar Russia. This is Mr. Crude Oil Arabia. This is Mr. Natural Gas Iran. This is Mr. Shale Oil Venezuela. As to the others, they have no name as yet, says the man, but they could be Mexico, Nigeria, Canada, China, Indonesia or someone else. It’s for you to find out.

 

As to you, my dear reader, if you wonder what this is about, wonder no more. You’ll find out what it is when you read the article that came under the title: “Sanctioning Russia and bribing Iran,” and the subtitle: “Don’t trade war crimes for other war crimes.” It was written by Shoshana Bryen, and published on March 3, 2022 in The Washington Times. To be sure, this is only one of many articles written by people of her ilk, all saying the same thing, each in his or her style.

 

What you need to know before anything is that since the discovery of petroleum in and around the nations of the Persian Gulf early in the twentieth century, that commodity played a big role in politics and military maneuvers throughout the century. At first, neither the Arabs nor the Persians participated in those games. Instead, coalitions were formed; the troop movements and wars were played out by the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Western alliance that was led by America. It was not until almost three decades after the end of World War II that the Arab and Persian owners of the commodity began to assert control over what’s theirs.

 

OPEC became a power to reckon with in the decade of the 1970s, and that’s what gave the Jews the opportunity to get into the act. They convinced the Americans that they alone can read the mind of Arabs, therefore are in a position to explain what the Arabs think, and how they plan to harm America. An example of that, was the accusation that the Arabs do not need the money but they are raising the price of oil because it is like holding a gun to America’s head. They are forcing the oil companies to act as tax collectors who fleece the American people for the enjoyment of the Arab Sheikhs. Thus, the Arabs (Mr. Crude Oil Arabia) became the first that the Jews accused of criminal conduct using oil as a weapon.

 

With this success under their belt, the Jews did what they always do: push their luck too far. They got greedy, overplayed their hand and shot themselves in the foot … and the Arabs were relieved. But the Jews who did not want to exit the game, started to invent excuses to go after the other oil producing countries, among them Russia, Iran, Venezuela, and to a lesser extent, Mexico, Nigeria, Canada, China, Indonesia and others.

 

What Shoshana Bryen did in her article, is accuse Russia and Iran of committing crimes which are known to the world as being—not Russian or Iranian crimes—but vintage Israeli crimes. Not only that, she also accused America of participating in a scheme to deceive itself. Here, in condensed form, is a collage of the snippets that show how Shoshana Bryen explained that odd situation:

 

“Russian oil exports continue at inflated prices that serve Russia’s interests. The situation is testimony to the gross stupidity of both the EU and the United States in energy policy. More frightening, the US appears ready to replace Russian oil with oil from the Islamic Republic of Iran. What makes Iran a better partner than Russia? Iran’s leverage at the Vienna talks has increased as oil prices rise and governments want to increase the supply on the world market”.

 

And you, my friend, are still the supersleuth whodunit detective that’s supposed to investigate and crack open the mystery surrounding the crime that needs to be identified, and the criminal(s) that need to be named. Where do you go from here?

 

It’s easy, you say. The people at the computers are members of OPEC. Their only crime is that they were blessed with a resource that’s making them rich. As to the small people counting their money, they are of the Shoshana Bryen ilk. They belong to organizations that live the highlife at the expense of America’s taxpayers, giving advice that promote Israel, and push America further down the Jewish sewer.

 

That’s the only crime in this saga. And those advisors are the real criminals.