EU countries warned to prepare for ‘prolonged’ energy upheaval; Iranian official denies Trump claim of negotiations

I agree whole heartedly. Although from an outsider I really wonder what the average American (non-listnookor type) thinks about all this

Seems pretty believable these days. A believable humiliation for the US is a common theme.

His supporters have no idea of how the world works, or the concept of shame so no humiliation for them.

Please, it's just Tuesday for the US. Trump doing something humiliating is nothing new

My personal take on this issue is that a large portion of people seem to view him through the scope of thinking his goal is to rational and to be a good president. His goals are self serving, he's doing an excellent job for him and his backers. He isn't out of his depth at all, he's well and truly in his element of spreading slime for personal benefit. Insider trading, family member benefits, jobs for the boys. Immune to reprecussions that he is pretty obviously heavily implicated in some way to the Epstein files. He's even doing in right under the nose of the entire world. I bet if he didn't need v***** he'd be packing a permanent boner along with his constant wondering how in the f*** he is getting away with this before remembering in his narcissistic brain" oh yeh, I am the Donald. That's how". Unfortunately the average voter/person doesn't research or dig deeper than what they see on surface level on tv and that's how you end up in this type of shit show.

5 years and the beginning of the 6th year of American being the absolute laughing stock of the world. There was a four year period in between where it wasn't. But Trump seems to want the world to turn to absolute shit and wants the world to start ww3...

Republicans nuke it again then blame Democrats for their mistakes for 4 or 8 years

He just nukes it for the rest of us, he’s doing exactly what he needs to to ensure he’s well paid.

Would you expect anything less? His entire business career has been pump and dump. Now he’s doing the same thing as president. It’s all one big pump and dump market manipulation scheme.

And the American people need to grow some balls and get rid of the Pedophile already. US is a bigger issue than Russia now...

And now the entire world is affected and is now hating US more than f****** Russia. It's insane, US used to be an ally but now the world see them as an actual enemy.

They voted for a dickhead billionaire paedophile. He’s a spoiled brat who could never begin to understand a common man’s life. He’s not a natural leader at all, just a pathetic weak old man.

In a sane country no one associated with this administration would have any credit left. 

He's got bigger feet than brains.

I’m sure if the war goes on for much longer he’ll be golfing anyway. That POS doesn’t give a f***.

From whom? The toadie cabinet or the toadie congress? The entire Party is fne and dandy with the orange King. Elections in autumn this year will show if the Americans noticed something. The party has no incentive to turn on their smelly messiah before then.

they're all being blackmailed probably, not by trump or trump's people, he's just a demented figure head- probably whoever is benefiting from all this

There a couple of factors: - the war impacts oil production and export from other countries of Persian Gulf as well (that’s what Hormuz strait issue is all about), - less oil from Iran and other Persian Gulf countries means the oil should be bough somewhere else (i.e. higher prices globally, including for oil delivered to EU)  - the type of oil should also matter (I’m no expert, but as far as I understand not every type of oil may be casually refined in Europe due to production technology issues) 

20% of oil passes trough the straits, now asian countries have to look somewhere else to buy, lets say america is selling oil to europe now asia needs it urgently is and willing to pay more, now europe also has to pay more

Because it causes a global supply issue. And last time I looked we were all global.

tell GPT he's an idiot and let him check himself. often helps

EU does NOT get 10% of their oil from Iran. Iranian oil has long been sanctioned by both EU and the US. That 10% applies to oil imports from the GCC countries. And yes, oil is a global commodity so price hikes have an impact everywhere.

It impacts the global supply of oil & gas and the war also impacted the Strait of Hormuz (not just Iran). And 10% of oil is still massive. Your two hands are maybe 10% of your body, if you can't use them your life isn't just 10% affected.

Because the CEOs of and rich as f*** investors see it as opportunity to bleed the population dry. They know that people must buy it and have no alternative (thanks to bought politicians by the oil and gas lobby) so they can dictate the price. I doubt that the prices will get lowered to the pre-war prices when the war stops. Trump and his rich buddies around the world are cashing in right now like crazy.

They may buy 10% but 30% of the world's oil supply is hit. Thus drives market prices up globally so we all feel the pain. Imagine 30% more people trying to cut into the 90% the EU buys. The math isn't spot on here but its for example purposes.

Just because people elsewhere like slave labor that doesn’t mean we can‘t sip our coffee and take our long vacations. It just works fine. You probably consumed too much corporate propaganda.

Sorry, not sorry for your American way of life. This is the path you chose with your consumerism and corporate greed and now you have to live with it.

It's a bloc with 400m+ people, many different economies, and a lot of developed countries. It's resilient to absorb shocks even though they do impact quality of life here, as much as the EU Commission and Parliament are painted as ineffective and slow, they are also composed of quite level-headed, pragmatic, and smart people. It's far from perfect, the Parliament and Commission have flaws to be fixed, but overall is a resilient system built, and evolved by many smart people over decades. Also, I believe many here don't take it for granted, it's a project that needs constant work, and most are aware and working for it. There's definitely the odd anti-EU movement living inside the system itself but overall most people in the EU experience the benefits of it every single day in our lives, from food availability, frictionless commerce and travel across borders, EU-funded infrastructure projects, so on and so forth.

Why should we care? Or I'll ask differently: what would I get from worrying about things thousands of kilometers from me that I have zero control about?

It's hard to fathom that the current US administration isn't treating the EU as allies - even though he made his feelings about the EU known many times. And he still doesn't understand it either. But it's clear that pretty much anything Trump does is to strengthen Russia and divide Europe. He sees this as a way of ensuring American superiority. You can add global warming to this. Destroying the world's climate is good for American superiority. It explains why he's spending money on reversing green energy.