US warns Europe, Asia ‘free ride is over’ as Strait of Hormuz tensions heat up

Fun fact: Even his mom thinks he’s an absolute piece of shit.

He'd probably fire her anyways, so she can't get her pension

The problem with this analogy is that if a child goes and makes even more of a mess, you can paddle them and send them to their room. In this case, the child would make a bigger mess and daddy trump will continue protecting him.

Biggest economy w***** of WWII and Cold War corrupted by a criminal that wants more.

Many countries (my origin Finland as well) have recently had big right wing wins followed by absolutely horrible times. But people still keep voting for them all around, it's like the Arrested Development "but it might work for us" meme

Man, even with full majority rule here, Repubs *still* couldn’t unite to get anything done in Trump’s first term. They almost can’t here in his second term either, because Mike Johnson would rather keep the government shut down over answering literally any heinous action that Trump and his team of ogliarchal drunks are doing on a daily basis. I get that the GOP would prefer little or no government entirely, or a government that’s fundamentally broken, but it’s *weird* to me here that there’s so many worse ways it can be right now if it wasn’t for their own sheer incompetence at actually getting anything done while they have the chance.

No, what they chose to do was to loot and destroy everything America has of value. This little f*** up in the middle east was just a bonus from dipshit Donny being a moron.

Yep. I think if the Democrats win big in November they're basically stuck in a position where they can stop some Republican stuff but get stuck with blame for things. Their choice is basically to cave in to Trump on some times or let the government get shut down because Trump is an irrational lunatic who will let the country collapse. If they compromise, Democrat voters get mad. If they don't compromise, people get hurt and Republicans try to spin it as the Democrat's faults. If they don't get the Senate then Trump can keep appointing people and getting them approved. If they do get the Senate he'll just appoint acting people or give random friends illegal powers. By the time courts clear things up damage will have been done. In 2028 a good number of low info people will be angry at the Democrats for a combination of "not doing anything" and compromising with Trump. They'll sit out the election or vote for more extreme challengers in primaries who will have a worse time in the general election. Republican challengers to Congressional seats will have an advantage of not being part of Trump's government so they can shrug that off and say they're different if they need to. The Republican Presidential candidate will point to Democrats controlling Congress for 2 years and claim it is their roadblocks and unwillingness to work with Republicans that caused every problem people are upset about in 2028.

Many around the world. Esp the young adults. Trump and Americans has fucked over s decade of young adults lives starting from 2019.

This is mostly Putin and the script he has been running for a couple of decades. He got Orban, and used him to funnel money and resources to the US (CPAC) which got Trump elected, they played the psychology game and attacked all of our weakest minded people (mostly country-folk, who I feel sorry for as they were targeted and manipulated into voting against their own best interests)

Saddam would've loved that to be true.. and hitler and mussolini and.. not many die of old age.

Vote in the midterms please.

The rats will jump ship. The spineless Gilead - MAGA cunts wont want to lose their seats especially the freeloaders newer ones looking to hit their (5?) years for that sweet congressional pension. They’ll jump ship as needed and begin to soften the maga stuff. His support will dry up But we need a rampage of a midterms. I’m glad the democrats fought fire with fire and gerrymandered where they could. An anti maga inquisition with investigations, impeachments etc will grind what’s left of this shitheads reign to a halt.

Oh I don't think at this point they will let him. Trump, if anything, is gonna get shafted as a sacrificial pawn to claw some stability back.

Yes, but the Americans are the ones who scuppered the global tax deal which was drawn up to inhibit these companies redirecting all their profits through tax havens.  Edit: Plus they're the ones threatening to massively tariff any countries who dare to tax these behemoth companies who operate within their jurisdiction; like the UK presently, with Trump threatening further tariffs over potentially daring to try and get some tax take via a digital services tax, before these fuckers funnel everything through an overseas tax haven.

The reason matters are as they are because the US government has historically pressurised European governments over these matters. It is why suddenly a lot of obvious legislation is happening at the same time in Europe.

Those two aren't mutually exclusive 

Crackheads are real entrepreneurs, going out at the crack of dawn to mutualise copper cables and catalytic converters.

Well it's not like they've done anything else to damage your trust

The collective of headless chickens that is the general stockmarket haven’t yet been hit by the war, but the energy prices and especially oil has gone through the roof. Eventually this will push all other consumer related prices up and feed inflation. Combine this with AI job loss and you have a really evil cocktail on your hands.

Wouldn’t it be nice if one of the side effects of all of this BS was the proliferation of renewable energy sources? I can’t stand Trump or our current administration, and I think that would be a nice kick in the teeth. I live here but I’m ready to take whatever pain comes of this because this darkness has gotta give.

oil is way more than just an energy source unfortunately.

Transitioning to green energy has been the plan for a decade. Takes a while when you need 3 years to get a permit for a wind turbine. We'll need oil regardless because planes and boats aren't running on batteries anytime soon. I just wish Canada would build some pipelines towards the Atlantic so we'd have a reliable energy partner.

that's a bit much, it is still an immensely powerful country, but the end of the petrodollar will definitely speed up its decline 

Some do, some don't. Trump himself has no f****** understanding of that. Man doesn't understand anything besides breathing and trying to make money.

> They also believe that US dollar as a global currency meant the US currency can never devalue on paper. > That inability undercuts the ability of the US industrial production to compete with the rest of the world. So US industries lost opportunities. Worth pointing out that this might not help but this isn't the fundamental reason. In developed Western nations costs of local production increased while cost of importation decreased. This simple dynamic is the fundamental cause of the decline of industrial production across most developed nations. The end of the dollar as the global reserve will not impact the issue much if at all. But there is a certain type of person who has always gravited to monetary policy as the key driver as it can provide the idea of a simple fix to complex problems that have no simple fix.

This. Though the situation is probably worse. Don Jr. is in the corner asking, "Think of all the gold scams we can run with this?"