Trump’s word is worth less than a gallon of Iranian fuel
According to Trump’s tariffs, he doesn’t really want anyone doing business with the US.
The art of the deal: Remove your own leverage and then try to use it to negotiate.
What a stable, genius idea!
How is it trump doesn’t understand that the USA has so much power because we treat our allies and trade partners well and that they benefit out of doing business with us. All the crap he’s pulling is making it not worth trying to do business with the USA.
Trump says any country that buys oil from Iran will not be allowed to do any business with U.S.
The rest of the world is getting much closer to saying: “Your terms are acceptable. We won’t do business with the USA”
he knows–or rather has been told this, i’m sure–repeatedly. but he’s just “following orders”
I don’t know if I would go as far as saying you treated allies and friends well, but it certainly used to be mutually beneficial on the whole at least
But mostly it was also because of the omnipresence of the dollar on the international stage which gave them huge leverage.
The US never treated anybody well, they were absolutely ruthless and would screw anybody whenever possible. This was known and pretty much expected. But at least they would mostly stick to their word, like most other civilised countries did. Now, nobody knows what to expect, whatever their government says, which creates a fair bit of tension.
yeah he doen’t get what mutual benefit is. he can’t actually do deals, all he can do is be a loudmouthed clown.
Honestly, he could just bomb Iranian oil infrastructure, has explicitly stated within the past month that he will bomb Iran if Iran doesn’t comply, and my guess is that that’d be a Plan B. Like, the Trump administration doesn’t lack for leverage here if it wants to terminate Iran’s ability to deal in oil.
Trump threatens bombing if Iran does not make nuclear deal
WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday with bombing and secondary tariffs if Tehran did not come to an agreement with Washington over its nuclear program.
America has a lot of guns but it’s just not smart to fight every battle you can.
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China does.
Why does he like to
embarceembarrass himself?Edit: Corrected spelling mistake. Thanks /u/rc__buggy
Russia probably does too
Not a massive leap on the how-fucked-are-we-ometer but the upward trend continues.
Respectfully, Trump says a lot of things…
This is actually an incentive to buy oil from Iran. Congratulations, Donny, you played yourself.
Good luck with meddling in OPEC, Trump. Lol.
Lot of American big businesses about to lose their articles of incorporation then.
How are you going to prove this? Oh right.
America worst.
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A lot comes from domestic sources, to be fair.
This move is mostly stupid because other countries do get oil from Iran, and they’re likely to tell him to fuck off
Also from Canada, the place he needs/wants nothing from.
Isolationism it is then.
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