They cried when Obama let Iran have 1.7B.
They just gave Iran 300B.
Fucking clown show.🤡
That $1.7B was a release of money that already belonged to Iran. The $300B is a straight up payout from US and other taxpayers. And we’re also giving them back $25B we withheld as part of the war effort.
I’m guessing the Russian oil sanctions we lifted because of the closure of the strait are just going to fade away as if it was never that big of a deal to begin with.
I believe it is a shared fund between middle wastern countries and the U.S.
oh and that 300bn is apparently going to be slush fund by the ME countries, and trump will take a cut in that.
Is it in trump crypto? I bet it is.
‘Clown show’ is a bit mid.
Agree, it would imply everyone is having a good time.
That said, when Americans start to complain about the 300B payout, I’m curious what is the next distraction that Trump will pull.
Art of the deal
OK I was like … what’s jaw dropping these days? How much can it be?
Took me a good moment to find my jaw on the floor when I saw the amount.
I wonder how JD vance will…couch…this one.
One section at a time…
buy himself some fancy ottoman, with ornate rugs, and persian couch.
Who the fuck is the ‘Gulf coast coalition’ that is stumping up the 300 bil?
Better not include the UK public purse. Over my dead body is my taxes subsidising the poor decisions of the US electorate.
They probably mean the GCC countries: UAE, Saudi, Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain.
And here I was hoping the “Gulf Coast” they were referring to was Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas.
Oh yeah let them pay for USs mistakes. Cos that’s better.
I’m not sure if they even agreed to it, it would be typical for Trump to try to rub losses he has caused off on someone else.
One thing is sure, USA has lost a lot of credibility among all the GCC countries, it shall be interesting to see how much it hurts the petro dollar, because if that goes, so will an enormous amount of petro dollar investments back into USA.We live in interesting times.
it shall be interesting to see how much it hurts the petro dollar, because if that goes, so will an enormous amount of petro dollar investments back into USA.
That investment was important in the past but no more than any other country. The US isn’t really a market for their oil or gas, and while Russia is embargoed theres plenty of other countries willing to invest to secure access. Look at how well China has been doing of late with all that cheap Russian and Iranian oil.
Also, where would that investment actually go? Fracking? Greenland? Arctic? Maybe they’ll pivot to solar and Tromps dreaded wind turbines (or ‘windmills’ as he calls them, the fucking moron).
The US isn’t really a market for their oil or gas,
That is not at all what the petro dollar is about. It’s about USA ensuring the safety of the GCC countries, and in return the GCC countries are selling oil for USD, this increases international demand for USD to buy oil. GCC countries are then investing most of those dollars back into American companies. If that cycle is broken, demand for USD will decrease dramatically, and a lot of investments would disappear from USA too. Whoever buys the oil is irrelevant, as long as it is paid in USD, the petro dollar is maintained.
They’re definitely America’s mistakes, but they’re also their mistakes, the mistake being allowing US bases on their territory to be used in this war. Doubly so for Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, who actually encouraged Trump to do this.
also their mistakes, the mistake being allowing US bases on their territory to be used
Oh, so diplomacy and hosting an ally’s forces in the name of friendship is a mistake? Not to mention most of those bases were there long before Tromp was president. And, the UK and Germany and plenty of other nations also play host to US bases. Are we mistaken too?
Doubly so for Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, who actually encouraged Trump to do this.
Did they fuck. Think you need to brush up on actual facts on who encouraged what. Not that mein fuhrer needed encouragement.
And in any case, if that clown had never been elected we’d never be discussing this. And Obamas deal - which did a lot of good I might add - would still be in place.
Oh, so diplomacy and hosting an ally’s forces in the name of friendship is a mistake?
When those forces are clearly going to be used to further the ally’s imperialism it’s an immoral act (imperialism doesn’t become better when it’s “in the name of friendship”), but also that’s not what I said. I said letting Trump use the bases for his war against Iran was a mistake, since it brought Iran’s anger on them. They could’ve refused like Spain and Italy did.
Did they fuck. Think you need to brush up on actual facts on who encouraged what. Not that mein fuhrer needed encouragement.
And Obamas deal - which did a lot of good I might add - would still be in place.
Sure? What makes you think I disagree with that?
A Trump never pays his debts.
Trump just went on a rant in that humiliating Meet The Press interview, hollering about Obama sending “billions” to Iran, which was their own unfrozen assets, and now he’s going to send many times more of AMERICAN tax money.
Take it out of his stolen hoard. He caused this whole thing for no reason at all, because he was too fucking cowardly to say No to Israel, he should pay for it.
Lots of fancy words to say you lost the war you started
I distinctly remember being promised the world would end on December 21 2012
Lmao absolutely pathetic
Lol
Probably not a direct transfer. But there’s not so many details on who or when it will be paid.
My guess is that it will come in the form of ‘aid’ from an allied country. Donald’s spent so much time over the last 11 years meming about the pallets of cash that there’s just no way he is going to publicly own it.
Well hey, since this is surely taxpayer money, according to our idiot fucking regime, we’re all now funding “terrorist activities” 🥴
Ballparking the numbers, ~165M taxpayers gives us a mean handout from literally everyone to the tune of a bit under 2k/person.
This is the dumbest fucking timeline, I swear to Cthulhu
So this Gulf Coast Coalition is just Oil companies?
Meaning that I would suspect that the intent on the US side is that Iran gives its oil fields to them in return for that theoretical 300 billion.
But this would be what, the third, maybe the fourth time the US and Iran have danced that dance?
The GCC all the Arab nations on the other side of the Persian gulf that got their shit rocked for hosting US bases. They are not in a position to make any demands.
