An astounding new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today adding a new and fearful chapter to The New Great Game reality of our world, makes it no wonder why top American energy security expert Samantha Gross has just stated with alarm “I’m a little shocked frankly because the Russians are really playing with fire”—a response Gross made to a series of pivotal moves occurring in this “New Great Game” yesterday that began with the United States blocking the United Nations from supporting a Russian-Turkish ceasefire in Syria—that Russia quickly countered by igniting a global “Oil Price Armageddon”—a term describing how Russia made a dramatic turn away from the Saudi-led OPEC+ and refused to cut production to hold up the price of oil—which cratered the price of oil to its present price of $41.57 a barrel—a catastrophic price for US oil producers who need a barrel of oil to cost as much as $65 to break even—and are the same US oil producers who were warned late last year that “2020 Will Be The Year Of Oil Bankruptcies”—a warning that swiftly became true yesterday as evidenced by what happened with the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), otherwise known as the “Fear Gauge” or “Fear Index”—a creation of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) that is a real-time market index that represents the market’s expectation of 30-day forward-looking volatility—and that yesterday caught a large American financial entity disastrously betting everything they had on global oil prices being stabilized—the reaction to which saw shocked US market traders saying such things as “Someone Big Was Utterly Blown The Fuck Out”—“Someone Big Literally Doesn’t Exist Anymore”—and “The Fed Must Now Step In Or A Catastrophic Crash Is Inevitable”—but to prevent such a catastrophic crash from happening, saw Saudi Arabia having paid $500 million to the US to move thousands of American military troops into their oil rich nation—American troops who yesterday, and joined by thousands of US troops stationed in neighboring countries, rapidly moved into combat readiness to protect vital Saudi government facilities and oil production centers—immediately after which, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman placed in detention his main rivals for power Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, royal cousin Prince Nawaf bin Nayef and former interior minister Mohammed bin Nayef—who were then accused in court of attempting a coup and are now under threat of lifetime imprisonment or execution—but whose real crime was their opposing the lost revenues caused by Saudi oil production cuts—production cuts whose main beneficiary are American oil producers needing a higher price per barrel—and due to Russia now having blown up the OPEC+ cartel, are Saudi oil production cuts sure to accelerate before an “inevitable crash” occurs.  […]