Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> Putin needs <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> prices to rise, so look for his puppet <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DonaldTheDeplorable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTheDeplorable</span></a> to start a 2nd <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/WarForOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WarForOil</span></a> , but with <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> instead of George W. Bush’s <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a>. Of course failure to renegotiate the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/IranNuclearDeal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IranNuclearDeal</span></a> will take the place of the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/WMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WMD</span></a> ‘yellow cake’ lie.</p>