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A lot of the refineries in the U.S.

are built to refine that type of heavy crude oil.

The shale oil that we produce kind of in recent history is like a lighter crude oil that gets refined elsewhere in the world.

Yeah.

a supply chain to refine that type of stuff is in other countries, notably in China, in Japan, in other parts of Asia.

So you don't have full control over the supply chain of how the oil is refined and created.

And it's also, to a degree, some of the places that refine it are within other spheres of influence, right?

So either within China's sphere of influence or directly in China.

physically closer to it, I mean, or literally closer to Russia in places like Estonia, for example.

So the US gets control of, it's not just like access to the oil itself, but it's like you're removing the pieces of leverage that the other players have at the table to influence you.

where it breaks down.

You're getting weird because it's never backfired.

I don't understand.

He keeps bringing that up and it's like, I can't think of one time that we intervened and it didn't work.

This is the really long New York Times one, right?

I guess so.

It literally is.

I think that's the big question.

This is all packed in at the top of the world.

There are military reasons for doing this.