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53% want to stay out and 43% want to join Ukraine.

So if you support Russia and your American, your pretty much alone on this.
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Everyone that drives a car or buys food shipped from a Truck supports Russia, whether they admit it or not.

The majority of people that want us to stay out of the conflict are likely under the delusion that American apathy does not benefit Putin in the conflict.

America is doing exactly what Putin wants right now.
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Everyone that drives a car or buys food shipped from a Truck supports Russia, whether they admit it or not.
How?  Not all goods are Russian.

The majority of people that want us to stay out of the conflict are likely under the delusion that American apathy does not benefit Putin in the conflict.

America is doing exactly what Putin wants right now.
That's fine.  Russia and Ukraine are both foreign countries.  Caring about them is like caring about Azerbaijan vs Armenia.

We should sanction the oligarchs, but don't go to war with Russia.  That might go nuclear.
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How?  Not all goods are Russian.
Because we Americans buy 600 million barrels of oil a day from Russia. Trucks need fuel to stock shelves with goods.
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War is good for business, unless you are in the business of making money.
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600 mil/day = 250 mil/year. Same thing, right? lmao. Feelings don't care about facts.
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In 2021, the US imported an average of 209,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 500,000 bpd of other petroleum products from Russia, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) trade association.

I was looking at the yearly tally for both, sorry.

But what's a few million barrels between friends of Putin like you, me and Joe Biden?
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War is good for business, unless you are in the business of making money.

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So then the US should buy their oil from Canada or rely on oil produced here to keep our country going.
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600 mil/day = 250 mil/year. Same thing, right? lmao. Feelings don't care about facts.
250 is on the slightly high side of correct.  3..7% of our total consumption.  Let's get rid of our drug dealers and kick our oil habit for good, shall we?


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That would mean approving Keystone for the working class Americans.

We have to eliminate the American oligarchs first to do that.
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Let's get rid of our drug dealers and kick our oil habit for good, shall we?
And replace it with Chinese rare earth dependency? GTFO.

We can make our own supplies without being global slaves.

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250 is on the slightly high side of correct.
The exact figure from 2021 was between 245mil and 246mil, I rounded generously.
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That would mean approving Keystone for the working class Americans.

We have to eliminate the American oligarchs first to do that.
So be it.  If that's what we need to do to get energy independence, lets do it.
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It’s a big gamble for Biden. Gas prices go up = tax. Remember when Trump said gas would be 6,7,8,9 dollars under Biden. Well here we are.

If we relied on domestic production then we’d be fine, but it turns out the average American doesn’t  have the capacity to shell out 56,000 dollars for an electric car. Hell even Elon Musk said we need to produce more domestically.
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It’s a big gamble for Biden. Gas prices go up = tax. Remember when Trump said gas would be 6,7,8,9 dollars under Biden. Well here we are.
If this doesn't drive people to the voting booth, nothing will. Can't believe Biden fell for the trap card.

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Gas prices are so high right now because Saudi Arabia is making gas really expensive here because the US won't sell them weapons to do a genocide in Yemen.  If your willing to sell weapons to a country you know is going to do genocide with those weapons just to get cheaper gas prices, don't call yourself pro life.
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Gas prices are so high right now because Saudi Arabia is making gas really expensive here because the US won't sell them weapons to do a genocide in Yemen.  If your willing to sell weapons to a country you know is going to do genocide with those weapons just to get cheaper gas prices, don't call yourself pro life.
Gas prices are going up because supply is low and demand is getting higher. I’d rather we produce oil here in the United States rather than the Saudis, Venezuelans, Russians, or Iranians. Tell that to Joe
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 I’d rather we produce oil here in the United States rather than the Saudis, Venezuelans, Russians, or Iranians. Tell that to Joe
I prefer that too.  Or America could use nuclear energy, which is cheaper and cleaner.  Once America ends fossil fuel production, we don't trade with countries unless they also shift to clean energy.