Why do people keep helping him???
Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???
There are a lot of reasons, most of them suck.
Short answer is he's just the front man for a much larger demographic and he's got a lot of financial systems held hostage because of almost 100 years of the US working to make the dollar the global currency. He's everyone's problem.
He's everyone's problem.
No, no, no, haven’t you seen the posts all over? He’s America’s problem and it’s their mess to clean up.
There’s absolutely no global impact on the rise of far right ideology and it’s certainly not trending up in pockets around the world.
The puppet regime that is the Trump administration isn’t an indicator of a larger global oligarchy problem at all.
He's the responsibility of the US. He's a global problem though.
Forget that, the USA are a global problem. He's just the band's leader.
He’s the American symptom of a global problem that is humanity’s responsibility.
The rest of the world ain't gonna throw him out. The USA have to handle this. The only country regularly invading others to change their governments is... well, you get it.
If you think Trump is the problem your not paying attention. He’s just a puppet of his oligarch masters and they are feeding far right movements all over the globe.
He's A problem. Relax a little my friend, we share basically the same opinion.
At least it's a little harder everywhere else because most people haven't devolved into a political system of only A and B. That shouldn't make people elsewhere feel safer. It just means you have more time.
I used to think the EU was pretty solid but I've been seeing the ratcheting effect over there in recent years. With one or two bad actors completely stalling out protections. They better watch out.
You smile, while you massively uspcale and speed up all the processes of untangling dependencies, building sovereign capabilities in areas that previously relied on the US etc. France is one of the best examples for that.
I just hope this is true. I really think America needs a good 20 years in the wilderness to contemplate what they did by voting in that corrupt, morally bankrupt, buffoon. I hope he rots in jail for all he has done.
What he's done is what they've always done, just more grotesquely and evidently.
They are not helping out of their own volition. It's extortion. Europe imports 50% of its Diesel from the US. If we say no, not only the consumers will suffer, but the economy as a whole. Massively.
Also it's just on paper, like the agreement in summer last year where the EU agreed to buy more gas from the US than they actuallly produce, or invest a certain amount without any way of enforcing it.
It's just for the headline, nobody has any intention of following up, trump is just too dumb to realize that.
In this case? Because if Trump issues an export ban, gas prices in the EU are going through the roof.
It's extortion. Plain and simple.
Nukes, most likely. He's been itching to use one.
Have you guys noticed that all of the craziest things he does always hit on a Friday? Just in time to harvest the changes if the atickmarjet but always late enough for the international markets to have closed?
The Friday News Dump has been around a lot longer than Trump. Market Manipulation Day is every day for Trump. He doesn't wait until the end of the week for that shit.
no, he didn't beg
he threatened to stop selling US energy to EU
He'd be a moron to do that tbh. Right now the US is massively profiting off the high energy prices. Not its people but its oil companies at least.
He's bankrupted casinos before so why not his own oil industry
The art of the deal bro. You clearly just aren't business savvy. 😜
Blow up everything and sell people the concept of a plan.
But they did. G7 releases emergency reserves - The Guardian
Of course my representatives are cowards like usual. No wonder the far right gains more traction here every day. I'm not fooled by them, but when the actual leadership is this retarded it's not hard to fool most of the idiots.
What they actually said:
Donald Trump is a rapist. All this is happening because Donald Trump forced himself on little children.
So it's the Group of Seven again when he wants a favor, huh? Why didn't he just ask his G8 buddy Putin?
I know it's rethorical, but Putin already banned exports of diesel well into 2027. Kinetic sanctions...
Prices would plummet tomorrow if he got the fuck out of Iran.
I don’t know about “plummet” as they always seem to fall like a feather if that’s the trend, but you are otherwise right.
Which is fair, because there's a good chance we'd be back at it in three days.
Also, prices will never be the same, because the risk calculus for the Strait of Hormuz has changed forever. Insurance premiums for shipping through there will never go back down.
I'm genuinely asking, would getting the fuck out be enough?
He would need to capitulate. He would need to acknowledge his fuckup, to the satisfaction of Iran. I don't think he's capable of that. Not simply that he doesn't want to, although that's also true. I mean he's not equipped to negotiate an end to this hostility.
Serious question: if Europe were to fully commit to installing renewables, how much dependence on diesel would it maintain in, say, one year? I mean really putting it all in, like a war economy but with this
The whole transportation business run on diesel. There are currently no good truck EVs and if there are they will require special charging stations, so it would be very difficult to change to renewables and EV overnight.
We will still be dependent on petrol though, but much less, but petrol is needed in the chemical industry for the production of plastic, for plane fuel, etc.
Don't forget freight ships. A quarter or so of worldwide commerce is international shipping by sea. I'm not aware that there's any commercially viable solution for powering these ships with renewables. The closest I know of are US Navy Carriers, which don't require diesel, but they're powered by nuclear reactors, which are neither renewable nor commercially viable (not that the USN would care about profitability) and require a huge amount of expertise to maintain.
Ships use bunker fuel, which varies in refinement between 1 notch above crude oil to slightly thinner.
Depends on how much society is willing to sacrifice. One year isn't long, but you could conceivably get just about every car and van off diesel, get just about everyone off heating oil (which is just diesel), go crazy on electric trains, dramatically decrease construction and electrify what you can there, and switch backup generators to gas (which doesn't really help the climate of course but helps with no diesel). The biggest near term issue is likely heavy transit. You could displace some with trains and petrol/electric vans, but there's going to be serious rationing going on and supply chains will be hanging on by a thread. Farming equipment also a big issue. Hydrogen might be able to start replacing diesel for these uses but within a year is crazy ambitious. This would be hard to do in a decade.
Regardless, we need to approach this from a "war economy" standpoint, so I like the question.
The European barrels are expected to hit the market over the next four months.
We just need a month for paperwork and stuff, we'll start around middle of November. Hope this helps!
after the midterms...course he better say thank you, the orange bish
I really hope spinless cowards who runs my home country won't help him... they will probably help him...
And Fotzenfritz bent right over and greased his butthole.
Draining Europe for Putin
They all should have said no.
Thing is... they folded. I wonder if it has to do with the number of US military bases on EU soil.
Too bad they all didn't say "Fuck you"
Proof Europe wants it to happen. Simple as.
Well, that will work for 3 days.
Then stop the Iran war, Dementia Don!
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