S8 Ep1134: Thaddeus McCotter connects global energy prices to military strategy, noting how Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries impact domestic affordability. He warns that the Republican party must clarify objectives in Iran and Ukraine to address MAGA ba
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 16 July 2026
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Thaddeus McCotter connects global energy prices to military strategy, noting how Ukrainian drone strikes on Russianrefineries impact domestic affordability. He warns that the Republican party must clarify objectives in Iran and Ukraineto address MAGA base concerns regarding "forever wars" before the upcoming midterm elections. (14)
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| 1:00.3 | observing one metric in the war that is pressed on us by the financial papers, |
| 1:03.3 | that is the price of a barrel of oil. |
| 1:10.8 | At the same time, the war in Ukraine and Russia continues about energy prices as well. |
| 1:19.9 | We've given information that Ukraine is now effectively launching a drone war against Russia's ability to produce refined petroleum, that is diesel, aviation fuel, kerosene, what modern cultures need to function at efficiency. |
| 1:34.5 | There's a shortage of everything in Russia. There's a shortage of everything in the world because |
| 1:38.8 | Russia was a chief source of it. I mentioned that because it's not an indifference to what we're |
| 1:43.9 | told now is the rising |
| 1:45.9 | price of oil because of the restart of the war in the Middle East. We have two wars and both of |
| 1:52.1 | them can be turned and measured on the basis of the price of a barrel of oil. And that leads me |
| 1:59.6 | to connect these decisions to the midterm. |
| 2:03.6 | And the midterm election is X number of days away. |
| 2:07.6 | And Thaddeus, we've talked about this before, but I bring it up again. |
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