Analysis: Trump might end his war — but the rest of the world may pay the price

Count on the op being correct because Trump never makes a move unless he personally gains from it.

It's almost as if he is working for Russia.

Trump has dropped a giant turd on the world then demanded others clean it up. What would any ally ever trust this f*** stick and his clown cabinet ever again?

I don’t know I know a lot of people think he’s going to announce today that we are pulling out. But I think we are going to get a boots on the ground announcement. With the Australia PM and UK PM also doing announcements today and some other things I’ve heard makes me think instead of taking the first exit ramp he’s going to try tripling down.

*is paying the price

Obviously Trump wants to walk away and have everybody stop talking about this because it's become too hard and he has no out. But he can't end this war. Iran is not going to declare defeat and surrender, they will not forgive the US, this is a conflict which will continue one way or another.

Headline is wrong, world is "already" paying the price.

"More broadly, the fallout of the Iran war now threatens another consequence: an even deeper fracture in the transatlantic alliance. This would only underscore the need for European allies — and those Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney calls “middle powers” — to invest more in their own militaries with the understanding that America’s post-World War II security umbrella has become unreliable." More than that. Other countries, even (former?) allies of the US, might join the efforts of China, India etc to phase out the Petrodollar. Trading oil in dollar gives the US a number of benefits like raising the value of the dollar and increased investments from petrostates that are holding a sizeable amount of US currency at all times, while other countries have to pay more for oil because of added fees from exchanging their own currencies for dollars. This trade-off was accepted because the US and the dollar guaranteed a certain stability of the market. If the US turn from a stabilizing force into a disruptive one, like they did with their Iran "adventure", then the benefits of the Petrodollar for other nations are greatly diminshed, and we might see more attempts to get away from it. Unlike European military investments, which depending on your perspective aren't half bad for the US, the loss of the Petrodollar would not be devastating but certainly painful.

I don't think we control how the war ends But it makes me happy to know if we indeed pull out the Israel regime would be effectively fighting a war on two fronts

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Whenever USA does something some other countries always pay the price.

US and Russia having monopoly on oil, US out of NATO, higher prices for Europe, which will spike far right votes. I think this pretty much is mission accomplished for the US/Russia axis of evil...

Walk away and all oil going through the Strait will be priced in Yuan. Wonder how that works out for the Petrodollar long term?