Indeed he and his coterie are making a fortune in the oil market every week. Build up the crescendo of a resolution oil price falls. Then bet against an increase before the weekend watch the deal fall apart price rises on a Monday. Go past GO and collect.
The U.S. oil companies were already pumping as much or nearly as much as they could before the war against Iran, that's partly why the price of oil before the war was as low as it was, despite the many sanctions against Russian oil, natural gas and petroleum and damage caused by Ukrainian attacks on oil infrastructure in Russia / Russian temporarily controlled areas.
The workarounds are only partially effective. As said above, oil refineries are engineered for a particular blend of crude oil. Poor countries are suffering, some are rationing fuel. Some better off countries are supplying oil from oil reserves. And various countries have introduced other measures designed to reduce oil / gas / petrol / diesel / aviation fuel use.
Chinese actually outsmarted the the rest of the world again by building up huge stocks over the last couple of years. This has allowed them to accept much reduced imports over last few mths yes stocks only last so long but its reckoned they have 1.2B barrels. US has about 450m. Chinese also electrifying road and commercial transport at a very fast rate so demand destruction going on. When it comes to gas they've accepted the reduction and just ramped up coal plants but again there solar and wind build out is progressing at a scale that outruns the RoW put together.
He had a choice in starting it in the first place and had he had sensible security advisor like John Bolton it would have been a different outcome
What a strange world we live in when John Bolton is seen as the voice of reason...
Compared to Rubio he is that's how bad things have become
It has been established that Trump Always Chickens Out- or at least, usually. While I am sure Vance would be much less likely to indulge in some of Trump’s properly bonkers ideas- like his ballroom or invading Canada- would he be more likely to “chicken out” on issues of substance? Or would he be a more effective Trump? I think for instance Vance would probably quit Nato. I’m not sure which is less in the interests of this country.
Historically most US presidents have had the wisdom to understand that if the rest of the world is doing well they will buy American products and finance expansion by borrowing American money, and that this will enrich the American upper class most of all.
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This also implies Trump wants a third term, given Trump would have no direct electoral showdown with Newsom otherwise.
Given the other people that the DoJ has gone after, for such spurious reasons - for example Jerome Powell because the renovations of the Federal Reserve building went over budget* - I have no doubt believing that Newsom is telling the truth.
I can't find anything on it either, so I assume it is a hoax/someone leaked the script for Spitting Image.
The problem with Trump is that he must be nigh on impossible to satirise.
We don't need to post stuff that's so obviously fake to undermine Trump.
In fact, doing so probably undermines some of the real (but almost equally unbelievable) stuff.
He looks even more tired, unwell, and out of it than Biden did. The best thing that could happen for the Dems would be if he did run, but there's no way that the GOP would let him. I'll be quite surprised if he sees out his whole term.
I know that the comments are specifically about the Iran war, but listening to DJT trying to spin the abject defeat of US power in Iran into a win shows two things clearly: he treats the US people with absolute contempt as he tries to gaslight them, and he really isn't all there mentally or physically:
Though it's entertaining watching him and Vance playing keep away and trying to avoid being tarred by Trumps unpopularity as they eye up their own runs in 2028.
