there are people who believe
that oil and gas prices have nothing
to do with politics; that Presidents
in powerful countries
do not influence oil prices
some people think it is
all due to greedy oil companies
quick review the Israeli Leviathan
Gas Field off the coast of Israel
the changing political influences
Israeli Leviathan Gas Field
quoting the start of the article
'While serving as vice
president under Barack Obama,
Joe Biden emerged as a vocal
supporter of the Eastern Mediterranean
gas pipeline that would connect Israel's
offshore gas reserves to Europe.
The long-planned project that would
run from Israeli waters through Cyprus
and Greece, then onwards into Europe,
had bipartisan support in the US.''
roll in 2020 with the backing
of former president Donald Trump's
administration; three countries
signed an agreement aiming
to complete the roughly $6 billion
pipeline by 2025; but President
shifty Joe Biden had a change of heart?
US officials informed Israel
and Greece that the US would
no longer support the project;
citing environmental concerns
over impacts at odds with Joe's
admin move dumping fossil fuels...
the Council on Foreign Relations
said it was "a bizarre thing"
for Biden's administration to tell
its allies that it no longer supported
the pipeline given the timing and optics...
a strange oil barrel policy reversal
Europe left energy dependent on Putin Russian gas
leaves Putin with his gas pipeline war trump card
leaves green light on for future Ukraine invasion?
Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
Copyright © Terence George Craddock
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
We have no impartial press, But at least some with more guts and least tell the truth thru very well written poems that impress!
I would be happier if I could just write fun poems like 'What Can Be Achieved In A State Of Tired? ' and 'Mountains Of Track Yet To Pass', but the truth has so few voices, lies often media giant backing.
P3 to write her wondrous achievements, has since resigned and skipped the country, sadly the truth globally is being slaughtered and labeled hate speech, protesters arrested
P2 while supermarket giants made massive profits, the fallout now 20% food inflation and more suffer poor; that leader had over 500 spin doctors
P1 in NZ the result of a few disaster dictated covid lockdown decisions left most fruit and veg rotting on trees and in fields, producers went bankrupt, wholesalers selling cheap were closed
sadly we do have censorship though, the truth is deactivated when it might offend; it is a serious responsibility to write the elusive truth, it is tone used and opposing political sides which offends, the truth pleases few