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Trump pulled mine-sweepers from Middle East before Iran War — they’re in Philadelphia
(www.independent.co.uk)
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This guy is always stepping on rakes. Every decision he makes is stupid, choosing the wrong course consistently. It's remarkable
And whatever he does always somehow ends up helping Russia.
They were struggling with gas prices being low and sanctions.
Now he removed sanctions and blocked any other source of oil.
The problem is that he is so incompetent that Occam's Razor dictates that's most likely the reason. Watching legacy news is like gaslighting yourself because they hold so much water for him and paint him as an idiot savant. He spits out a bunch of random BS and they imbue it with meaning.
Funny how him "being an idiot" and it "just being his incompetence" is also about the only way he can get off scot free after having done what he has done. Every other possibility can be prosecuted, except the ones where people argue he didn't have intent.
That last line made me think of this scene from Silicon Valley
https://youtu.be/i92Ws7qPTRg
I mean yes it raises gas prices which will help Russia on the one hand but for their war in Ukraine that may not be as big a help as having Iran still standing and putting political pressure on NATO assets as well as being a weapons manufacturing hub that Ukraine couldn't easily infiltrate and bomb.
Russia is already producing Shahed drones themselves.
The goal is to put the US in disarray so that he can declare it's too dangerous to have elections this November.
You think it's a mistake? This was done on purpose. Trump may be stupid, but the people pulling the strings aren't.
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Trump wants this blockade and war to end. If that were the case, why would he have started it? The fact that we are stuck here is entirely the point. Do you REALLY think its an accident that the fourth largest producer of oil in the world accidentally started a war that simultaneously raised the price of oil AND blockaded the top three oil producers on earth?
Immediately after directing a military incursion toppling the leadership in Venezuela; which sits on massive oil reserves which coincidentally, are of the variety American oil companies are equipped to refine.
Apropos, Bob's a Republican, too!
I can hear this.
SMACK eugheugheugheugh
That's what happens when you assume you're always smarter than those so-called "experts". You just take whatever they say is a good idea, and do the opposite. Works every time.