will agree

I just left a hugely toxic work place in government, sits right up there by the PMO etc...

key to people like that - go potato I call it
https://psychcentral.com/health/grey-rock-method#grey-rock-method

if you fight them or argue with them etc... they will gain more power/control at any costs (financially, legally, physically, emotionally etc...)

if yah don't argue or let them stir the pot they will buzz away eventually. They seek attention and a reaction most of the time.

USA blows through 20 million barrels of oil a day (china 15 million)
https://www.worldometers.info/oil https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=709&t=6

good read - https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/economist-jeff-rubin-offers-a-map-of-the-new-normal-1.6890357

BRICs is forming https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/05/24/more-than-30-countries-want-to-join-the-brics/
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/5-Oil-Producing-Nations-Ask-To-Join-BRICS-Alliance.html

interesting times. Oil up inflation up interest rates up housing dies. They can't print/borrow/steal oil nor sell the country off (bonds)
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/69-trillion-of-world-debt-in-one-infographic/

What is even made in america anymore?