Afghanistan was VERY expensive!

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BUT... it was the respect we lost that is causing the Ukraine invasion. Putin knows that Joe is "50 Years Gutless"... talk talk talk. Joe won't do anything... His handling of the Afghanistan was the BIGGEST fuck up in US Military History. Under Trump, the U.S.A. did very little importing of oil. We were exporting crude oil to our allies. Under Biden, we have needlessly used our Federal Petroleum Reserves. And we ARE buying Russian Crude. Every month we are paying Putin $2.2 Billion! Sanctions and Boycotts? BULL SHIT The U.S.A. is still buying Russian crude oil. "However, eight per cent of imports still came from Russia – an average of 22 million barrels per month – and that share has been steadily rising. Read on > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Io Dodds Wed, February 23, 2022, 8:09 PM For all the wind farms and solar panels we've built, the world – and especially the United States – still runs on oil and gas. That is why the onset of a Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens not only a human rights catastrophe in Europe but economic turmoil for American consumers, as well as a giant headache for US president Joe Biden. Russia is one of the world's biggest fossil fuel producers, yielding about 12 per cent of the global economy's oil and 17 per cent of its natural gas. Much of the latter is carried to Europe via pipelines that run through Ukraine, potentially freezing the whole continent's supply. Russian president Vladimir Putin's decision to recognise the independence of breakaway territories in Ukraine this week drove the price of crude oil up to nearly $100 (£74) per barrel. Mr Putin has announced a military operation in Ukraine, and gunfire and explosions were heard in Kiev early Thursday, according to local and international media. So how vulnerable is the US to an oil shock, and what would an invasion of Ukraine do to gas prices? How much oil does the US import from Russia? Not much, but not nothing. While America has struggled for decades to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, with some success, Russia's share is at a historic high. The shale oil boom of the 2010s made the US a major oil exporter, surpassing the production levels of both Russia and Saudi Arabia in 201. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), America imported an average of 266 million barrels of crude oil per month in the six months ending last November (the latest month for which data has been published). Just under half of that oil, or 132 million barrels, came from Canada, a US ally and member of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance (along with the UK), which dredges up vast quantities of hydrocarbons from the tar sands under Alberta. About nine per cent of US imports came from Persian Gulf countries (Saudi Arabia alone accounts for almost six per cent of those imports), with Mexico providing another nine per cent and a long list of countries, from Brazil through Iraq to Norway, providing less than two per cent each. However, eight per cent of imports still came from Russia – an average of 22 million barrels per month – and that share has been steadily rising.