Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insists “regime change has occurred” in Iran and said that the US is focused on pursuing a deal to end the war.
Trump be running this country like he ran his casinos. He’s raping the nation like he raped children.
And he can’t just give up, file for bankruptcy and scam his way out of this mess.
Or maybe he can get MAGA to donate their money and children to fight the war.
Can we surpass June 2022 gas prices? I believe that trump can outperform Biden in this regard
Everyone tried to blame Biden for the spike. Wasn’t his fault that we had the worldwide whiplash in demand for fuel once Covid started to clear.
We all said rightly that the president doesn’t control gas prices, at least those of us who had half a clue how economics worked did.
I guess we were only partly right.
Because when you bomb a country that controls a passageway for 20%+ of the world’s oil and LNG placing oil shipments in a chokehold, you sure as hell affect gas prices.
We all said rightly that the president doesn’t control gas prices, at least those of us who had half a clue how economics worked did.
The logic is mostly sound because president’s don’t have a magic dial to control oil prices. But the logic also has sane decision making baked into it - president’s consider the effects that their actions will have on the price of oil and don’t do shit like this that will definitely increase it. Since that sanity no longer holds , the logic no longer holds .
I see what happened here… Gas was getting very cheap, and that’s no good for the people employing the yacht builders.
So count Trump in amongst those who don’t understand how global oil markets work.
And yes, I understand how absurd it is to expect Trump to understand… anything.
I can’t tell what part of this story achieves the highest level of bullshit.
Wonder who we can steal it from…
Well… depends on if he wants to betray bonesaw or Putin.
I’m in the EU. Why not bomb the US and take their oil like the paedo is doing.
I don’t think you have enough bombs. The US is kinda huge…
it’s a little worrisome that it appears that dumbass may have caused the country to “show it’s hand” in regards to it’s ability to project power, defend itself, and wage an offensive war. 20-something years ago when they pulled the same shit on Iraq they were effectively in Baghdad by dinnertime because they still had so much stuff still working from previous wars like F-14s and Iowa class battleships, not to mention lots of very current ordnance and the help of lots of other countries.
On their own (Israel doesn’t count, it’s basically a US military outpost), against a much more technologically capable and well-armed adversary, there’s lots of cracks that are starting to show some daylight through them.
Doesn’t mean that they’re not a formidable force, but definitely not what they were in the gulf war/desert storm era.
Despite spending an absolutely gobsmacking amount of money every year.
You never know, unless you try.
