BUSINESSMAN
If you wanna know why two Russian goons are following me around,
its cause I'm an Oil man!
And what they’re smuggling is oil -not some bullshit narcotics!
There is a much bigger game being played out here!
There are three main players in the world of oil production.
There are us, the Americans, the Arabs, and the Russkies. Since
old man Vlad decided to pay tribute to good old Saddam Hussein
by invading his neighbour, we and the Europeans cut him out of
markets" eats one of those steak cuts leaving the other two.
BUSINESSMAN
So prices rise. We sell to Europe at $60 a barrel. India and
China buy Russian oil at $50. Vlad can’t cash in on Europe
anymore. So what happens?
At choke points—Gibraltar, the Red Sea, the Black Sea—Greeks
shut off GPS, meet the Russian shadow fleet, do ship-to-ship
transfers. Then they falsify certificates of origin: Kuwait,
India. In Hamburg, ex-Stasi officers wave it through for
kickbacks.
BUSINESSMAN So maybe your Russians in New York are a distraction. Call the CIA.