Ben Shapiro

A future that is largely reliant on American technology and Israeli technology and American oil and Western economic development.

It is not reliant on solidarity with a country in Iran that wishes to destroy them, a government in Iran that wishes to destroy them.

Again, this is why what has happened with oil is the single greatest untold story in modern American politics.

Back in the 1970s, in 1973 to be precise, there was the Yom Kippur War.

This is when Israel fought yet another war of near extermination, which Arab armies attacked Israel unprovoked, trying to destroy the state of Israel and wipe the Jews off the map.

They failed.

However, their failure

led to the Saudi royal kingdom deciding to impose an oil embargo against the United States for the U.S.

's support for Israel in the late stages of the 73 Yom Kippur War.

And that had significant economic impact on the United States for a full decade.

Well, things have radically changed.

And the reason they have radically changed is because America is now the leading producer of oil and liquefied natural gas on planet Earth.

On planet Earth, we control the means of production.

We control the means of distribution.

We are in control of what is going out of the Strait of Hormuz via Iran.

We are in control of what exits Venezuela.

This is a radical shift.

It's a radical shift.

The story of how America's drilling freed up our geopolitics is an amazing, amazing story.

The Wall Street Journal has an incredible piece today about how the United States became the world's greatest energy exporter.