Three checkered oil regimes that President Joe Biden and past U.S. leaders have spectacularly snubbed — Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Iran — are now targets of U.S. outreach as global fuel prices reach jarring levels during the Ukraine crisis.
But it’s not clear any U.S. diplomacy could get more crude oil on the market fast enough to help the current supply crunch or tear once-shunned oil states away from what — for Saudi Arabia in particular — are profitable alliances with Russia.
