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Any nation that didn't use fossil fuels anymore wouldn't have to care anymore.
Meanwhile the UK is hosting USA bombers. Grow a pair - kick them out and close airspace until they show some gratitude.
European nation
Not if some of them can help it.
As with most developed "democracies", the UK's political class are too busy cashing the cheques of their corporate overlords to display any actual morals or virtue. They are bottom-feeders who only know how to bottom-feed.
e.g. opposing genocide is terrorism!
Grow a pair. Confiscate their bombers since they're being used for genocide and land theft.
I'm beginning to think the hardest job in the entire world is Secret Service Agent. I mean, c'mon, millions of lives are at risk, you're armed, and he's right there. Instant hero. /s
Edit: forgot /s. Obviously.
True story.
My buddy used to work for NYC EMS. One day when Clinton was President his ambulance was assigned to an event. He and his partner were chatting with the police when some Secret Service agents walk by. The partner starts ranting about how much he hates the Secret Service.
One of the police asks him what the Secret Service did that was so bad?
"This bastards say they'll jump on a grenade for the President, but not one of them jumped on Monica! God damn it, I'm willing to take a blowjob for my country!"
Because it went great for the Roman Empire when the Praetorian Guard were the ones choosing the Emperor. You don't really want to open that door.
There's a difference between a military coup and a rogue secret service agent killing the fuck and turning himself in.
He'd sacrifice his life and be arrested and tried, he'd have Luigi level fanfare (though Luigi didn't do it, obviously) and a clear conscious to help him sleep better at night in prison.
Being not a military coup, it might actually trigger the violent stage of the arguably ongoing civil war, Vance declares martial law and his children and top supporters start calling for the execution of everyone who ever condemned him as retribution.
The current collapse of the US empire is fast, but it sure as fuck can accelerate. People who think Trump dying solves all problems are heavily over indexing on him as the singular bad guy, he's just a loud symptom of a nasty disease.
There's a lot of rot, but they've been depending on a cluster of personality. Those often collapse when the personality dies without a sucessor with popular support, which requires the cult leader to groom the public to their sucessor.
The thing with Trump is he has too much ego for that, and Vance doesn't have the loyalty of the MAGA militant.
Right, which is why they would kick it up a 100 noches. Once he's gone, they'll use everything in their power to remain in power, they won't just go away silently.
Vance doesn't have the loyalty, which is why Trump's kids will rile them up on the idea of revenge, they won't be fighting for cancer, they'll be fighting for Trump "alongside" Vance.
Democrats will condemn the violence of the assassin, they'll call for unity and give long eulogies for Trump, they'll say it's time to unite and denounce violence. Slowly, Vance will become the new figure head, or be replaced through a coup if unable, but the power won't change. The coup won't come from opposition, it'll come from within.
History gives us plenty of cases where killing the strongman did not end the system. Caesar’s murder helped trigger civil war and an “avenge the leader” politics. https://www.history.com/articles/julius-caesar-assassination-fall-roman-republic
Park Chung-hee’s assassination opened a succession crisis that Chun Doo-hwan used for an internal coup under martial law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_South_Korean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Trujillo’s killing did not kill the machine, his family and loyalists tried to preserve it amid chaos. Indira Gandhi’s assassination becme a pretext for mass revenge on a broader population. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v05mSupp/dr_d21
So yes, cult regimes are vulnerable when the central personality dies, but that vulnerability often shows up first as repression, martyrdom, and a fight inside the ruling group, not a clean collapse.
The problem is that the SS is staffed with people who think Trump is the good guy. Lots and lots of "patriotic" Mormons.
This rant is extra ignorant with a cherry on top.
The UK already gets most of its oil from the US and Norway (sauce)
The Orange Child Rapist apparently did not know oil is a global commodity and therefore all/most oil cost the same around the world. I guess he figured if the USA did not get oil from Iran, US Oil was not going up in price?
What an embarrassment of a country to have this pustule of a person as president (elected twice!)
oil is a global commodity and therefore all/most oil cost the same around the world.
The art of the deal guy didn't understand opportunism in pricing? If they're charging more, we can charge more.
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.
Funny to think that the UK thought one of the advantages of Brexit was that the USA and the UK could now finally get as close as they wanted without the interference of the EU.
There's plenty of leopards for everyone!
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.
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
build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT
Do it yourself idiot! 🤮 🤡
But USA can't, and if they try they will just be further humiliated.
Maybe Trump thinks the military is refusing his orders, so he wants UK to do it for him instead.
The man is insane and has dementia on top of that. Congratulations to the Americans that elected him, you are the laughing stock of the world, especially those that want to harm USA.
If it’s so easy you just TAKE IT.
Is it not easy?
It's not like Iran is a terrified 13 year old girl, they can fight back.
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.
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.
Uhm...turns out...the green transition was a core security policy. That is why maga, russia, gulf countries were against it...
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.
*'Go get your own oil!' Trump tells UK the US won't 'help you anymore' in latest furious rant
What a boorish sack of shit, Jesus Christ, dealing with that man on a daily basis must be fucking exhausting.
Trump: "Go to the strait and just take it" Spain: "OK." Trump: "WAIT NO NOT LIKE THAT"
The Brits supplying the British airfield from which US heavy bombers take off:
That's on them for continuing to do it!
This being is the embodyment of pure evil. The accumulated evil and greed of the whole of America.
TACO
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.
So the US has more naval power than the whole of Europe together, and they need help fixing the mess they started?
I’m so tired
And yet during this entire thing, like a battered spouse, Starmer has still been allowing US planes to use their bases. And will continue to do so.
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.
And just like with Venezuela the Oil Motive for war becomes obvious. Greedy old dumbass dinosaurs still think oil is worth killing for instead of working on the many alternatives that we have already available.
At some point, some world leader should do a dressing down of this fuckface right there in the world stage.
Edit: Trudeau was too polite: https://youtube.com/shorts/G0va-McELJE
We will! And it'll have blackjack ... and hookers!
I broke it, you fix it.
Trump started this shit and he should finish it (but sadly, he cannot).
