Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war.
It starts with a grim warning to Tehran that he’s on the cusp of ordering U.S. forces to “obliterate” its power plants or seize key parts of its oil industry if its leaders don’t quickly agree to U.S. terms to end the war. It ends with him edging away with a last-minute declaration, sometimes at the behest of Gulf allies, that he’s going to give diplomacy more time.
The hardball strategy — one that Trump honed during his years competing in New York’s real estate scene and has employed in politics — aims to create movement in negotiation through pressure and chaos. But the tactic is facing a challenge with an Iranian theocracy that believes it holds a higher threshold for strategic pain than Washington.
Iran is playing Trump like a fiddle because they understand the real power running the US. So they turn their guns on Saudi Arabia, and choke the flow of oil because Trump is openly desperate to get gasoline prices down before the fall. No one in the USA cares about Iranian schoolgirls, pedophilia or even corruption, but $5 a gallon of gas is personal.
I might be biased because I switched to electric but…
…I hope it stays up so he gets hanged by the pump.
Edit: we can dump trump at the pump. Like Mussolini! Huh… interesting name for an electric charging station…(Scribble scribble)
Trump and Putin could end up in 100 years as the greatest environmentalists in history. The entire world is working to wean off oil.