Ok, so EU releases. What did they get in return?
They get called suckers and losers.
This sounds like “leverage” to me.
This lends credence to the narrative that they aren’t planning to stop the war. Cause the market would correct at the slightest whiff of peace. Perhaps the 2000-pound bombs being shipped to Israel are for Iran.
The market has been corrwcting for theblast 8 months. Eventually reserves will be depleted and the markets will have to match reality
This would have been the perfect time to say: No.
Have you even said thank you once?
They start a US-Israel war in Iran. Close the strait
and now the Americans threatens Europe with an oil export ban
Americans used to be OK
They just treat us like anyone else now.
That’s not even the half of it.
More than a dozen different countries and orgs are fighting in Syria right now, hundreds of thousands dead, it could be much more, we have no way of knowing
Including Russia, Iran, Turkey, Islamic State, et al
Why is the US press reporting heavily on Israel/Palestine, so much more than Syria? (This is my opinion, tell me if I’m wrong I can’t read all of the news)
I think it’s to deflect away from Syria, a much larger conflict that seems like a World War to me. It includes USA, Middle East including Israel, Russia, Turkey, how many nations to qualify for WW?
Americans (ruling class) used to be OK
Not really. We just didn’t notice cause we weren’t as affected / targeted.
Fuck off you big nasty rapist
If his aim is to enforce a fully protectionist policy for the US, and therefore make sure to degrade all partnerships, he is near success.
His claims all seems to go for isolationism and to bring back the situation as before the first world war… a country neutral and not involved in international business, where the richests are empowered as lords.
Here, he knows Europe won’t give away its strategic stock. If he blocates trade with Europe, it would be on the two ways. And he may claim that it is Europe’s fault, while making a big step toward isolationism.
Lol why? Winter is just around the corner. They need those reserves. This sounds like a Russian directive. Ukraine is going to need that extra fuel to keep the heat on this winter.
Yes, but also this wouldn’t be as much of a problem if Europe had invested more into renewables - switched more extensively from gas/oil heating to electric, been less NIMBY about renewables and wind turbines in particular, built more electrified rail.
This is Europe’s third oil/gas crisis in a decade. It should be seen as the new normal by now.
Agreed. The obsession with oil is a very western culture problem.
Europe should really stop listening to trump.
oh so now it’s a war? if only somebody had the power to stop said war…
NOW this racist authoritarian thieving administration needs Europe? Get fucked.
Don’t do it Europe! I am a US citizen that drives a diesel vehicle and I urge you to tell the orange pedophile to fuck right off… we need to suffer so enough people get fed up and destroy these moron republicans at the midterms so we can win our country back.
It’s going to take a lot more than just choosing the red or blue pill.
You’re speaking as if those two aren’t the same pill up here either, moreso since our political spheres are owned by American billionaires. Carney just sold a bunch of our public infrastructure to American vultures ffs
You feeling represented yet?
Word.
You rock.
trump fucks the whole world for his own profit and makes enemies of everyone. Then he gets his minions to whine for help from the same countries/people he pissed on.
Hahahahaha
Why would Europe do anything to help this regime that has mocked them, made aggressive threats against their sovereignty and is funding far right movements in local elections. FAFO as the Americans like to say.
Presumably the same reason most of them capitulated on his tariff war.
My money is on Europe conceding.
EU member states are scheduled to hold crisis talks on Friday
I guess we’ll find out later today.
They’re so fucking useless. The world needs a revolution at this point. Or a meteor strike, whichever
G7 to release up to 100 million barrels of oil and diesel from reserves onto market
called it
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European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen also said on social media that she was “pleased by the G7 countries’ decision not to impose export bans on allies and by the continued solidarity between partners”. On Friday, the Commission had warned that such a ban “would undermine confidence in the US as a reliable partner”.
/sigh
They won’t. Prices are even higher in Europe. Diesel is like 11 dollars a gallon in my town.
Welcome to the clown show
What European town prices diesel in dollars per gallon?
They went to the trouble of making it easier to understand/relate to and you still got confused
Easier to understand/relate to, for whom?
pretty sure none, but they were just putting the price in freedom units so we could understand better instead of having to do “math”
They would be dumb to do anything Dump tells them to do.
