{"id":27094,"date":"2026-03-23T17:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=27094"},"modified":"2026-03-23T17:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:39:18","slug":"27094","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=27094","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gold and Geopolitics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The logic, insofar as there is any, goes like this: the war has crashed the global oil market so hard that the administration needs the enemy\u2019s oil to keep gasoline prices from eating the midterms. They are unsanctioning the people they\u2019re bombing because the bombing is working too well at the thing they didn\u2019t want it to do. The sanctions were necessary to stop Iran funding the war, but the war made the sanctions too effective, so the sanctions had to be lifted to fund the war effort against the country that no longer needs sanctions because the oil revenues that sanctions were preventing are now required to prevent the economic damage caused by preventing those revenues, which is itself a consequence of the military campaign designed to make the sanctions unnecessary by making Iran the kind of country that doesn\u2019t need sanctioning, which it would be, if the sanctions hadn\u2019t been lifted to pay for making it that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gold and Geopolitics: The logic, insofar as there is any, goes like this: the war has crashed the global oil market so hard that the administration needs the enemy\u2019s oil to keep gasoline prices from eating the midterms. They are … Weiterlesen →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}