As Biden warned the world today that Putin has apparently decided to invade Ukraine in the next few days, it appears that the Saudis have also made a strategic choice — to side with their Russian allies in OPEC+ to keep oil prices at their highest levels in nearly a decade through continued limited production, even if that aids Putin’s drive to apply maximum economic pressure on NATO and the US.
Now ordinarily I would have no problem with limiting oil production as much as possible to help save the planet from increased global warming, but where the short-term effect serves only to facilitate the paranoid designs of a dangerous dictator like Putin bent on waging a totally unjustified and aggressive war against fellow Slavs who only wish to be left to live their lives in peace, there I would have to draw a line.