Another thing people just glide past, the entire U.S. oil and gas sector is like what, max 5% indirect share of total employment. And it’s not even state-owned, it’s all private & entrenched.
So all this galaxy-brain “we dominate the global oil, Venezuela, Iran, blah blah” — who exactly is “we”?
Because the average American isn’t seeing a cent of that. They’re just getting 2–3x gas prices, even more inflation slapped on top, and a lecture about how this is actually a brilliant "strategy".
And then somehow torching your own industrial base of the only remaining most productive parts of your Empire, Europe and East Asia, with insane energy costs is supposed to be… 14D chess?
That’s not chess, that’s arson with extra steps. You’re driving your own society toward perpetual instability, edging closer to internal rupture, while also weakening the West’s real, material power versus its competitors.
Meanwhile, China has state-controlled energy and ridiculous reserves, so at least the current shocks won't affect the broader economy and its high-tech growth, which the US could only dream of.
This isn’t a strategy; it’s another upward redistribution with a PR campaign. A few Big Oil executives & shareholders (Chevron, etc) win big; everyone else gets told to clap for "vibes".
