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Global upheaval is likely to result from the oil price crash, upending the current fragile balance of power because key oil-producing countries, including Iraq and Nigeria, can’t buy their way out of this crisis with near-zero-interest loans like the Saudis and Americans can.
Even with Brent at $25 (indeed, even when it fell below $20), the Saudis were throwing around cash at all kinds of investments, including COVID-sinking cruise lines. The American shale patch can bail itself out if it wishes to, even amid desperate talk of looming bankruptcies. But in Nigeria, where oil comprises about 9% of GDP and 90% of exports, and with a break-even price of around $57 a barrel (with a fiscal breakeven of around $100), the economy is in serious trouble. If the economy is in trouble, the government is in even bigger trouble. Roughly 20 million people are unemployed, and that is now expected to climb another 25%. It’s enough to bring down a government, with the only lifeline now a $3.4-billion IMF emergency loan just approved. But making matters worse is the fact that no one even wants to touch Nigerian oil right now because there isn’t enough demand for it--even at $10 a barrel. And it’s competing with overproduced U.S. crude (light and low in sulfur).
In Iraq, the fragility will translate into a boon for the Islamic State first and foremost, while Iran and the United States grapple for control in this proxy war setting. Massive political and social…
Global upheaval is likely to result from the oil price crash, upending the current fragile balance of power because key oil-producing countries, including Iraq and Nigeria, can’t buy their way out of this crisis with near-zero-interest loans like the Saudis and Americans can.
Even with Brent at $25 (indeed, even when it fell below $20), the Saudis were throwing around cash at all kinds of investments, including COVID-sinking cruise lines. The American shale patch can bail itself out if it wishes to, even amid desperate talk of looming bankruptcies. But in Nigeria, where oil comprises about 9% of GDP and 90% of exports, and with a break-even price of around $57 a barrel (with a fiscal breakeven of around $100), the economy is in serious trouble. If the economy is in trouble, the government is in even bigger trouble. Roughly 20 million people are unemployed, and that is now expected to climb another 25%. It’s enough to bring down a government, with the only lifeline now a $3.4-billion IMF emergency loan just approved. But making matters worse is the fact that no one even wants to touch Nigerian oil right now because there isn’t enough demand for it--even at $10 a barrel. And it’s competing with overproduced U.S. crude (light and low in sulfur).
In Iraq, the fragility will translate into a boon for the Islamic State first and foremost, while Iran and the United States grapple for control in this proxy war setting. Massive political and social unrest will build to the point that it can no longer be contained. Here, some 8% of the population is on the government’s payroll, and when it can no longer pay them, the government will crack under the pressure. And that percentage doesn’t even include the vast numbers of “contractors” and those receiving payoffs for fake positions to keep the peace.
The only way to even attempt to save the economy is to make some unpopular decisions--decisions that mean the longevity of any Iraqi leader (including newly nominated compromise prime minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi) short, indeed. More likely, al-Kadhimi won’t even get started. He’s now just the prime minister-designate because he has yet to form a government amid the jockeying for position with pro-Iranian factions. (He is the third nomination in only three months). Oil prices will determine his fate, the fate of the country. and the fate--and geographical extent--of the world’s next bloody battleground.
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Time has come to say goodbye for the oil-industry, which has jeopardized the very survival of human race. More importantly, Saudi Arabia, which has radicalized people all over the world with supplying petrodollars, will no longer be able to do so. And most importantly, the likelihood of survival of civilizatios has grown manifold.
