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Black Oil - The Serpent King

Oil the serpent's engine rooms,

Black‑gold evolution looms

From Caracas coups to Kremlin lies,

It buys the guns; it blinds the eyes.

 

Pipelines like a tyrant’s chain,

Steel veins pumping profit's pain.

Tankers lurk in ghost‑ship night,

Smuggling blood through slick black pipe.

 

Every deal with a iron‑fist state

Denotes a bribe to abdicate.

Flags still wave, but truths be told,

Who owns your fuel, owns your soul.

 

Europe slept in a gas‑lit dream,

Warm hands wrapped in Russian scheme.

With taps turned off and winter bite,

They learned the truth of Russian might.

 

So here’s the sting, no sugared spin:

As long as we use fossil sin,

Warlords grin and nations crawl ....

For oil is King that owns us all.

 

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16 January 2026

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marshal-gebbie
81 / M / Australian
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Jan 17
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Despite the ecologist's dream for a post-oil free world,

global politics remain deeply shaped by the struggle for control over fossil fuels.

The Trump violent intervention in Venezuela recently, sole purpose to seize the huge oil deposits of that nation.

Russia, historically holding Europe to ransom with its Siberian oil pipelines now, prohibited from that market, manipulating cheap oil sales, as a Ukrainian war fund, to the hungry markets of China and India.

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