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Donald Trump entered his war of choice against Iran without consulting global allies, but as he weighs an exit from the conflict, he is making it clear that he is expecting the world to help him fix the unintended damage that it has caused.

Trump is taking an increasingly annoyed tone toward Europe’s lack of support for the U.S.-Israeli war effort. He also is giving short shrift to the fact that his decision contributed to disrupting the flow of oil to global markets through the crucial Strait of Hormuz, which Iran has managed to largely choke off even as Trump insists that Iran has been “decimated.”

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[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

"Do what I want or I'll hurt you." I wonder how many little girls he said that to before he raped them. Ya know, cuz he's a fucking pedophile and Americans put him in the White House and are keeping him there with the backing of the entire GOP.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago

Apparently the EU isn't as willing to jump to the aid of a pedophile as America's own technocrats are.

[–] irate944@piefed.social 106 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now why would he need help with a war that he won 11 times already?

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 27 points 22 hours ago

He's senile as shit. He probably both wins and loses the war every day.

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 31 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

The Narcissist’s Prayer:

“That didn’t happen.”

“And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.”

“And if it was, that’s not a big deal.”

“And if it is, that’s not my fault.”

“And if it was, I didn’t mean it.”

“And if I did, you deserved it.”

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

good thing withdrawing from NATO requires an act of congress, not a temper tantrum.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Congress.

Lol.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 72 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Frankly I'm loving the new oil prices. They're a great economical incentive to go renewable instead.

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 26 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

While high oil prices are a great incentive to go with renewables instead, a sudden spike in oil prices like we have seen over the past few weeks does not really give people time to respond. Instead they just have to accept paying for higher prices for everything (give it a few months before the high price of oil and energy will have trickled down to virtually everything you buy)

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 28 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sure, but the same happened in the 70s. Europes' response was to demand much better fuel economy from cars, and insulating homes much more to save on heating. If this is drawn out long enough we'll likely see a similar response with people moving to electric vehicles and dropping gas an oil for heating.

[–] davitz@lemmy.ca 12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

IIRC that same crisis also spurred funding for some of the key initial research that eventually culminated in lithium ion batteries. Considering the various stops and starts in that timeline, battery tech could easily be a decade or two behind where it currently is if not for the oil crisis.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io -1 points 21 hours ago

This is a fair analysis, but remember: Europe today is much, much less competent than in the 70s. Folks like Starmer and Merz don't strike me like the "every crisis is an opportunity" type.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 8 points 20 hours ago

They've already had about six years to respond since the supply chain disruptions during covid, not to mention decades of warnings by climate scientists before that.

Society chose to be short-sighted. It doesn't get to cry "We don't have time to respond to such a sudden and totally unpredictable spike in oil prices!"

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Best way for the world to fix it is to give him an all-expenses trip to Hague.

[–] amorangi@lemmy.nz 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Drop him off in the Atlantic.

[–] Tonava@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Hey now let's not throw more trash in the ocean

[–] GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I could get behind that, but maybe the Antarctic just to make sure?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If he announces Iran has been decimated an eleventh time, then we’ll know he’s lying.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well actually, 1 • 0.9^11 = ~0.314, so at that point about 31% of Iran would still remain.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes, (if I’m following you) if you decimate what’s left each time. But if you decimate one part of the original each time, you only got ten times until there’s nothing left to decimate.

[–] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I’m just joking, but yes.

There’s an old riddle that asks “if there is a door 8 feet away and you step half way towards the door each time, how many steps does it take to reach the door?” Same idea 🙂.

Tap for spoilerYou never reach the door.

Zeno's dichotomy paradox

[–] atropa@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago

You dont say

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 day ago

Trump literally said yesterday though that the Strait of Hormuz isn't necessary to secure, so why would we need Europe to help with it?

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 19 points 22 hours ago

Oil was flowing through the Strait fine without US help. Now look at what they did.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Pedo Don has poopie in his diaper. He’s going to throw a fit if someone doesn’t clean his bum bum.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 4 points 15 hours ago

Shart Of The Deal.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 24 points 1 day ago

Actually it is worse then that. He completly ends the Carter Doctrine of keeping Middle Easts oil flowing if necessary by force. This is a massive hit to the petrodollar as well.

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Dumbass says dumbass thing, what's the news here?

[–] hypna@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

I'm used to AP titles being pretty dry, but they have started putting some bite in them.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I’d hope NATO actually makes a clear distinction between aggressors and defenders in a war. Trump has already twisted ‘national threat’ to justify whatever he wants, and while his own country seems fine with it, I can’t imagine international allies just going along with that kind of logic

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

NATO is a defensive alliance. It was used only once (right after 9/11).

In the past individual nations can choose to help, but that's outside of NATO's purpose.

No nation wants to help because 1) few months ago he threatened to attack NATO 2) the mess he created is massive and also no one trusts US government to be competent right now, so getting involved will only end up with even bigger losses

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

So basically, it has nothing to do with NATO really.. How come he things it has?

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

He is doing what putin asks. Putin loves creating dilemmas.

The ideal (for putin) scenario would be to have Europe to decide between getting oil from Russia (this is why trump lifted sanctions) or get involved in Middle East.

Both of those would lead to decreased support for Ukraine, first one he could threaten to cut oil off they didn't, the second would be very unpopular with public and Russia would exploit isolationist tendencies.

I'm actually glad that it looks like Ukraine is bombing Baltic terminals and Europe realized that greeting involved in the mess trump started will make things even worse.

And yeah there are people saying "how can trump new helping Russia when he attacked Venezuela and Iran who are Russian allies" the answer to it is to look if those actions helped putin or hurt putin.

In Venezuela he removed Maduro but kept the old Russian friendly government.

Iran it massively helped. The oil prices spiked when previously Russia was selling at a loss, by helping Iran Russia still is seen as ally and now US is dragged to the same war Russia sights with Ukraine (ideally he would want rest of NATO be dragged there too).

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

He didn't understand that he couldn't make deals with individual countries in the EU in his first term and badgered Merkel about it repeatedly despite being told. So he doesn't understand it, wilfully or otherwise ... but he's also surrounded himself with people that don't understand it either.

People like Trump don't use this type of talk to gain a better understanding or to communicate truth or ideas. They use it to get what they want, which is why his statements are jarring to people that pay any decent attention.

"The strait is fine" is to try to calm the stock market -- but -- "NATO needs to help the strait" is to get other people to fix his fuck up

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nobody in Europe cares

[–] oh_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I recall Donald saying we would be done in 2 to 3 weeks.