I really hope spinless cowards who runs my home country won't help him... they will probably help him...
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2026
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Donald Trump is a rapist. All this is happening because Donald Trump forced himself on little children.
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.
The art of the deal bro. You clearly just aren't business savvy. 😜
Blow up everything and sell people the concept of a plan.
He's bankrupted casinos before so why not his own oil industry
Because the oil industry has enough money and influence to fuck him right back. Unlike his investors in previous projects.
They won't though
if the goal is to further disrupt the EU then it would be a smart next step
oil prices for Americans are of no consequence anymore too
oil prices for Americans are of no consequence anymore too
Wat
I believe they’re saying that “no one in the USA gov’t cares about the consequences of raising the cost of gas to US consumers”
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!
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...
Why do people keep helping him???
Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???
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.
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.
Agree. ‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.’
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
What about trains, can't those be electrified?
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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.
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after the midterms...course he better say thank you, the orange bish
Proof Europe wants it to happen. Simple as.
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