Trump has permanently damaged the world - how the Iran war will be felt for years

My barely informed oppinion is that a lot of people are going to go to china for their solar tech and such and further increase their soft power while trump kills the US soft power. If my the absolute grace of God get a real f****** adult in charge with a majority to reverse most of his shit, I still don't know if we can fix our image without having a down right divinely skilled politician and clear vision to fix america.

It would, but he's not the only hindrance to reducing fossil fuel usage and the growth of renewables. He IS, however, destroying the growth of renewables in the USA which means that even when Trump is gone, the USA will continue to play catch-up on the technology related to renewables.

Your lips to god's ears, but there is a real danger and dark side to the market incentives away from oil and gas: [https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/iran-tensions/japan-to-temporarily-lift-coal-power-plant-curbs-over-hormuz-crisis](https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/iran-tensions/japan-to-temporarily-lift-coal-power-plant-curbs-over-hormuz-crisis) [https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/g-s1-114940/asia-boosts-coal-use-as-iran-war-squeezes-global-lng-supplies](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/24/g-s1-114940/asia-boosts-coal-use-as-iran-war-squeezes-global-lng-supplies) [https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-coal-chemicals-sector-cashes-iran-war-crushes-petrochemical-competitors-2026-03-25/](https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-coal-chemicals-sector-cashes-iran-war-crushes-petrochemical-competitors-2026-03-25/) Countries aren't just turning to renewables and nuclear (though they will do that), they're also turning back to coal - a source that is brutally terrible for GHG emissions, health consequences, safety problems, and, of course, ridiculously high long term cost. But the world's capacity for green-tech is expanding at an impressive pace that is still not enough to come even close to replacing what Trump's idiocy has cut off from the world. Coal is making a comeback. The best we can hope for is that it is a very short comeback. EDIT: As a rule, you should always remember that however bad you think a really stupid Trump policy is hurting America and the world, it is always actually much worse.

I think that might just be what's happening.

The rest of the world, yes, but at the rate the US is going it'll be the last "oil" country And yes, we'll all still need oil for various things, but I mean the last country that will be majorly dependent on it for energy/transportation needs

Honestly, I’ve also thought it’d be wild if something like this pushed everyone into renewables faster the irony of it all would be nuts. But in reality, so far policy has mostly favored fossil fuels, not flipped to clean energy yet

Dont you know?? tRump is actually a Clinton covert-operative sent to undermine the Republican Party from the inside. Everyone is talking about it.

That's exactly what he is doing.

would be if dumbass wasn’t defunding renewables and research and deporting our scientists

I mean yes if it leads to a renewable boom but that’s probably not what’s gonna happen.

Don't worry, trump will just outlaw renewable energy.

That might be easier to believe if wasn't also paying companies billions to scrap renewable projects.

It's the proof that the U.S. has been holding back progress of this planet. Once we are out of the picture it seems that things might get better once the world has shifted.

Likely. Absolutely likely he does. There’s simply no other place for a raging socio-political death drive to go. The final frontier for changing the world order. 

I am frankly surprised he hasn’t already.

Yep. Not for any reason. It’s just what men like him do. R*** children, mass murder on a global scale. They can’t help but do these things. They are essentially corrupted completely by their rings of power. Turns out Tolkien was almost as prophetic as the movie Idiocracy.

He wants to be in the history book so bad. He doesn't care what kind of publicity it is. He's deranged

This is what wakes me up at night. Literally.

According to Vance, the nuke button just gets him diet coke.

According to Vance, the nuke button just gets him diet coke.

I think the end of US dominance is the point. They want us to be secular and isolated

They don't have the numbers to remove him from office in the Senate. Even if they won the Senate. It would take like 19 Republican senators to grow a spine, and 1 Democratics senator to recover from his brain damage to convict. 

He might just nuke a country on his way out. That's how evil and vile this guy is.

Oh I already thought it was like two years. F***.

And remember, dont vote in paedophiles as president

>Trump has permanently damaged the world - ~~how the Iran war~~ it will be felt for ~~years~~ generations. Fixed it

I think causing a global energy crisis worse than the 70s cannot really be topped His slimy orange fingerprints are felt everywhere around the globe now

Shits only 2026. American fix your f****** shit. You're beinging us down with y'all.

Spot on. High time we all decoupled so we aren’t at the tantrums and whims of people from Alabama and the rest. It will take a long time but I don’t believe we can ever go back to where we were, the US has proven they won’t learn.

Raised the price of plastics, fellow Canadian. Plastics are everywhere, including medical devices so your medical costs go up. Your safety and security, increasing pollution and decreasing technology of renewables. Manipulated markets, meaning if you lose your job, it could be his fault. Made technology more expensive. The list goes on and on and on.

Don’t forget the social consequences. We now have an ever growing and much bolder contingent of white nationalists (covered recently by several journalists). The spread of anti vaccine/science rhetoric affecting our healthcare and threatening our children. and the very real (if low) chance of separatism and general discord sown between *our* people, provinces, and nation.

Don't forget this f***** let the pandemic spread misinformation and made it worse where it eventually shut down the whole world. Now, again in his second term, he made harder to travel again with his BS war with rising fuel prices. He affects everyone. He brings suffering and misery to EVERYONE

Operation Forgetting Jeffrey

World War America 

Oh please

I wouldn’t do that to Iran

Trust me, we know. We have front row seats.

Hopefully helps quantumscape get their batteries going next year

Depends on the Republicans sense of self perservation i guess. The ultra capitalists probably don't want to see the missiles fly (as long as they're still within our nations borders anyway) but the evangelicals that think Armageddon is Nigh will be Full Steam Ahead.

He cut them off and locked them up in his desk. They are overjoyed!