Donald Trump erupted at the United Kingdom Tuesday morning over its refusal to join the United States in its war against Iran, issuing the European nation a notice that the United States would no longer be offering it “help.”
“All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social.
Any nation that didn’t use fossil fuels anymore wouldn’t have to care anymore.
He’s so incredibly stupid; honestly the biggest moron I’ve ever seen in any government.
He started this war, he didn’t think it through - it was well known attacking Iran would lead to them closing the strait of hormuz, and it would be extremely difficult to open it without a ground invasion. Israel has wanted to go after Iran for decades but every US president had common sense and said no. Trump has done what no President has ever done. The US allies are not stupid enough to be drawn into the this pointless war as it’s unwinnable.
Now this so-called “business man” doesn’t even know how global markets work. You remove 20% of the oil supply, then prices go up because demand goes up - you still have 100% of demand. The US isn’t protected from that as a net shale oil/gas exporter.
First: everyone in the world is bidding for oil and gas supplies so it goes to the highest bidder; thats how a market works - everyone ends up paying more including americans. Second: the US is a net exporter but it also imports a lot of gas and oil. It’s exports are driven by Liquid Natural Gas. But it imports Crude Oil, because it can’t produce enough of that for domestic demand. Third: As energy prices go up, you get “demand destruction”. In other words, some activities are no longer economical as the price of oil and gas is too high and obliterates profits. That means the global economy goes into decline - a recession. And the US is in no way insulated from that - it is totally integrated into the global economy.
Trump has fucked over the US, allies like the UK, Canada and EU and the rest of the world. This isn’t his allies’ war, and they’re not getting involved - it’s politically toxic and it’d just escalate this mess. Trump can get frustrated at the mess he’s made and lash out as much as he wants, but he can’t get away from this mess. He has two choices and both are shit: Invade Iran with troops or admit defeat and cave into the Iran’s demands. I suspect he will cave in and try and spin this as a “victory”.
Small correction: US consumers and businesses will be hit. The US oil & methane gas industry and their billionaires will pump out as much as they possibly can and sell to the highest bidder at ridiculous prices.
And there as many, many times before, we have one of the biggest reasons for this war.
Is it stupid? Yes it’s still stupid. But the better question is: is it evil? Even more so than you already thought.
Sounds exactly like what his admin did with PPE during COVID.
Except now the whole planet is stuck essentially Ebaying for essentials or paying Iran’s tolls.
Yup. Same thing happened when Russia invaded Ukraine. The US got a negligible amount of oil from Russia and prices still spiked. Gas and oil are global commodities.
I’m not saying the system was good (far, far from it) but this asshole walked into office and started dismantling 100 years of economic diplomacy and peace through trade. There’s no way you can tell me he isn’t a useful idiot for Russia.
And all it took was letting someone capture him doing the most vilest and evilist shit to children.
All it took was for virtually no one to do anything to stop him from doing whatever he wants
He’s a useful fool every supermaster above him, especially those we don’t know.
In a pub, in 2004, an ex-colleague of Trump’s told us about what a joke of a narcissist he is, being played by his psychopathic handlers, priming him for a puppet presidency.
Are we still doing the Cold War? An ever increasing number of drumps policies mostly benefit China
…You are aware of BRICS right?
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And his entire campaign was based on convincing willful idiots that his presidency would do the exact opposite.
Now the US is dead last in education, science, GDP and trade. Lmao
Good luck blaming all that on Biden and Obama as if it’s possible to pretend that any facet of society wasn’t objectively better. There is no war in Ba Sing Se!
Every day I get more and more depressed that he got a second term. We knew so much about him as a person before the election, and it has only gotten worse as time passes. The raping of children, his business practices, his racism, how he was raised, how he treats his family, his ties to the Russian mob… The fact that he’s president is some kind of cosmic-level joke. The fact that the entire system let him become (and continue to be) president makes me lose faith in humanity. The Saul Goodman of slumloards was the best that the rich could pull off…and it WORKED? Like, are we always doomed to come back here? The powerful will always choose themselves over any common good. Even when the system resets, the accumulation of power is inevitable. Like… they chose him to dance and clown and do exactly what they want. I don’t know whose hand is up his ass, but the fact that this is the guy, THE guy, and we watch him in real time dismantle 100 years of stabilizing economic policy, line his pockets, and more or less hand global hegemony to Russia and China.
All because he was an open secret of a rapist and Obama made fun of him once. I’m just dumbfounded. I truly thought better of humanity.
All friendships burned, all choices burning themselves, digging their own grave deeper and deeper. Total collapse is inevitable.
Remember all those Hollywood productions about post apocalypse worlds, only showing the US? I always wondered how the rest of the world would be. I guess just normal, it’s just the US being a post apocalypse hell hole.
And Trump did all of that just to try to distract everyone from him being a pedo sex offender buddy of Epstein.
Well that, and the footage they got of him decades ago in Moscow when he tried to get his businesses up over there. Golden showers and whatnot they say. By now it should be obvious to everyone what his assignment is: Final blow in the divide and conquer scheme that has been running in US since the soviet days. Social media and of course China joining the cause behind the curtains really gave this campaign a big boost.
Sounds like AfD has their marching orders from Putin as well. Trump has created a zeitgeist that would benefit the German far right and make in roads to dismantling NATO in short order.
He is doing that because there is profit to be made.
Just doing his job.
He’s their boy.
They stage things.
Yeah of course! The timing with the Epstein files is just a coincidence. Just like all the other things he did when the issue of the Epstein files rose up.
What is a king if his crown is worthless? Not a man of the people, but surrounded by cultists. Praised by the loudest, loved by the thoughtless. Crowned not by honor, but by lies that were endless.
His walls crumble as whispers grow louder, Causing once-shaking hands to grip blades ever prouder. The throne he once clutched, now colder than stone, His fate sealed by the seeds of ruin he’d sown.
He feasts while his kingdom is left to rot, Drunk on his power yet blind to the plot. A puppet on strings, now tangled and caught. If he ends up dead, then that is his lot.
The crown on his head, a mockery now, A hollow gold band on a sweat-ridden brow. No glory remains, no trumpets resound, Only silence and ash on the burning ground.
Betrayed not by foes but those he called his closest friends,
Their daggers ensuring his rule meets its end. No prayers are whispered, no mourners will weep, For kings who sow torment shall fall just as deep.
When he ends up dead, the people have spoken, A crown polished with falsehood is a crown that is broken. And a kingdom built on cruelty is one which ends with dread,
The crown on his corpse was always a crown of the dead.
Source?
I read it on lemmy, just above your comment.
The Muslim Outsider on YouTube, I think.
Hopefully he didn’t use ChatGPT to write it lol but it doesn’t really strike me as AI-written.
Sounds like Tolkien to me.
Thanks!
ChatGPT
the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore
They weren’t helping anyone else before.
At best, they were helping themselves (mostly) without actively interfering with others ability to do the same.
No dispute on all the many many harms done or anything in that vein, I’ll never defend the US for countless things.
BUT there was some arguably good, compassionate work done that was effectively dismantled recently, and we shouldn’t lose that detail.
We should remember that the federal govt for a country this huge can never be a monolith (and I do also mean that encouragingly, moving forward…).
We should remember also, that many quiet, gentle people who fundamentally deeply dislike the lived experience of the rat-race of capitalism - paradoxically find themselves seeking the stability and straightforward “work toward an anodyne but useful purpose” offered by many federal government sub-branch-agency-bureau whatevers. Too many to list in my already long comment, that function(ed) both as jobs programs, but also ways that decent Americans end up - by dint of sheer math - placing a very different set of moral values and actions into the broader US govt conduct.
Not a thing to give up quietly, but of course the bigger disasters (again, no dispute, there are many, and probably engineered to be such) will necessarily consume all oxygen in the room, so to speak.
that’s the plus side to the system? some very quiet people were gently making very small gestures?
Lol cool drive-by from an intentionally uncharitable read of what I said. “The plus side”?
Here’s what I think - I think you don’t have the first clue what I was talking about in specific, like the jobs and programs canceled, what they were, what they did. I think you squinted and saw the barest seed of pro-US sentiment (not really there) and took the opportunity to lob some very boring and poorly-constructed snark.
If you have an actual point to make, feel free of course. That option was already there for you though and you chose not to take it, so I don’t have high hopes.
100%
(How I HATE this face tho)
Maybe we can build even more big beautiful windmills.
oh nooo… they kill millions of birds and [insert random idiot argument]…
bald eagle screaming intensifies
plus they’re eating the dogs!
and are giving our kids autism!
Ohhh…my headaches…
Once again the “most powerful military on earth” has to beg for help to defeat a single rogue state, and throws a tantrum when they don’t get it.
america: BIGGEST ARMY IN THE WORLD. FUCK YEAH! AMERICA! WOO
Also america: pls halp.
The biggest army in the world has always been also a grift for lobbying contractors
Yes please, stop helping. And thank you! See? I didn’t forget to say it.
But really, you have done more than enough. A LOT more. Some would say you have done way too much. Get on your couch, turn on the tv, order a Big Mac and please, please, stop helping.
This being is the embodyment of pure evil. The accumulated evil and greed of the whole of America.
i cant wait until america takes that big shit. You know the one I mean. Everyone will feel so much better.
they just had million of people on the street and paraded around with their arts and crafts. they are all too apathetic at the moment as it has not really hurt them properly.
The Brits supplying the British airfield from which US heavy bombers take off:
That’s on them for continuing to do it!
At least the ruling class isn’t hiding behind diplomacy anymore while they rape and pillage the world. They are showing their true colors in their political and economic wars and in their personal behaviors (Epstein).
They don’t need to anymore
Now hopefully the UK will finally stop letting the US use them as an aircraft carrier… right?
We (the UK) don’t need oil from the Strait of Hormuz. Most of that goes to Asian countries.
They’re far more likely just to pay Iran a nominal amount to keep it flowing.
The UK actually imports more from the US than anywhere else. We should stop propping up tinpot regimes, and buy from local friendly countries, or better still, just use a lot less of it.
or better still, just use a lot less of it.
Ultimately that would be the winning strategy.
and/or better still, just release the suppressed emancipatory technology, free energy as a fundamental right and utility.
