Just imagine what he will do as soon as he thinks that this lever will work!
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Wait a minute...
Driving the news: A reporter asked Trump in the Oval Office earlier Tuesday how he planned to bring oil prices down
"All I have to do is leave Iran, and we'll be doing that very soon," Trump said, predicting prices would come "tumbling down."
Why would trump care about a coalition to reopen the strait, if oil prices are going to come "tumbling down" regardless? What an idiot.
Imagine if Iran just kept the strait closed lmao
That's what they're doing. It's not actually closed the iraniana just demand a bribe to be let through. Their peace offer is for everyone to accept a toll to go through. China russia and india dont care they just buy the cheap iranian oil with a bribe and it's still cheaper than what us and Europe are paying for gas from SA
It's a two-tier system. Friendly countries - China, Russia, Malaysia and Bangladesh - don't even need to pay the toll. 'Neutral' countries like India, Indonesia, etc. can transport oil after paying the toll. US and its allies don't get oil, toll or no toll.
Seems fair to me.
Also there's the alternative way which Iran offered: kick out the American and Israeli embassadors.
Iran is playing 5D chess whilst Trump's America is playing Tic-tac-toe.
US and its allies don’t get oil, toll or no toll.
the allies also don't need to pay a toll if they kick out the us bases from their countries.
Yes, but then the US army will pay you a visit instead of Iran, and unless you've been spending the last decade building tunnels and drones it probably won't work out as well for you.
definately true for the global south, but i wonder if it's the same for the uk or france or germany
No because they're laready there
Hopefully us military will be decimated after Iran is done with them.
a bribe
Hahahahahahahahaahaahahahahahahh its a toll, and guess why the price jumped lmao
look at how much you have to "bribe" the europeans to pass through their country
Well it's not through iran, it's through international waters, hence why they didn't charge a toll before and now it can be called a bribe
huh??? Are you saying Iran doesn't have control over it's half of the strait of hormuz?? Are you perhaps confused with territorial waters??
It's shared territorial waters, which is not the same as international waters. Learn what a word means before lecturing others on it.
Okay sorry reading a comment is like a lecture for you
So let me see if I understand this whole situation:
- Trump and Israel attack a Iran because.... reasons....
- Iran fires back and closes the Strait
- Trump realizes that he is too weak and goes crying to Nato in hopes of hiding behind them
- Nato refuses to help the cowardly Trump
- Trump in a sulk cried about how Nato wouldn't clean up his mess
- Now Trump in a spoilt temper tantrum is declaring he won't keep other promises unless Nato fights his battles for him because he's too much of a wimp to do it himself.
Do I have this right?
No it's
- Trump and Netanyahu attack Iran because they are rabid fascists, worse than Hitler
- Iran defends itself and closes the Strait
- Trump doesn't realize that he is too weak, but he notices that things aren't going his way
- His European vassals do realize that their master going mad after his illegal invasion to annex and genocide of Iran, consisting of ~20 times the population of the holocaust killed is a bit of a bad look, not because of the amount of people they try to kill, but because they see the US failing and Iran was their main supplier of oil and gas together with all the Middle Eastern nations that are blocked from exporting their oil and gas, while being at war with the previous other main supplier Russia, and tell themselves that it's not "not their war", so they refuse to help
- Trump is mad at their vassals refuse to fully starve themselves to death for him or jump into molten hot lava to in order to cool a volcano
- He now threatens his vassals that he's going to "close the club" hoping his vassals will further squirm for him in panic and beg him to sacrifice their lives at the altar of the Usonian blood cult
Ohhh so the US IS capable of conditioning aid.
Whoa, let's not jump to conclusions here. Like everything trump says, don't believe it until theres actual evidence to prove its true, and it was peer reviewed by 10 non-republicans that have never bent the knee.
Coalition of the threatened.
Trump reeks of flop sweat at present. The desperation is notable even from my vantage point in Australia.
Watch, their response is gonna be "Don't let the front door hit you where the Good Lord split you."
i'd expect some "ok daddy" as always, but i can hope eu leaders are not dumb enough to take part in the iran clusterfuck trump made for himself.
As an American, I hope they stonewall him. Let him and Bibi humiliate themselves.
But I thought European countries were too weak to be useful in a fight?
And also if European countries weren't willing to deploy troops to the Ukrainian theater why would they to this one
You do realize that Ukraine has more cutting edge tech at the new way of war that the US. The EU is getting more weapons from Ukraine and they are building factories in the EU
It's not just that.
Everyone and their mother knows that Iran had close networks with Russia and China. The fact that NO ONE in the West seemed to have learned anything or at least took inspiration from the Ukraine-Russian Conflict is testament to the stagnancy in the West.
Name some examples
Have you seen what they've been doing with drones my guy?
That's not an example of them having superior cutting edge tech, which is what I asked you to provide if it was so obvious
Drone warfare is example in of cutting edge technology. It doesn't have to be hard electric technology, but the technology of how war is being waged. Using 100 of cheap small drones to stop air attacks from large drones instead of patriot missiles. Creating zones where the enemy can't go it because of drone coverage. Wiping out a 3rd of a countries nuclear capabilities in one attack. Even while oil is at an all time high Russia can't take advantage of it because Ukraine is destroying ports making it almost impossible to ship oil out.
True info about Ukraine is limited on Lemmy.ml. Pretty sure that he/she missed something.
What do you mean by true info and limited how so?