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.
It’s not TACO or anything like that. It’s just plain and brazen market manipulation.
It’s just plain and brazen market manipulation.
All of his decisions are. He’s not even hiding it anymore
Donald Trump has played this hand before during the 5-month-old Iran war.
He plays it EVERY SINGLE WEEK.
“Read em and weep!”
ah, a royal sampler
And it’s not even TACO Tuesday! Tsk tsk!
Everything is a Epstein distraction and market manipulation.
It’s boring, quite frankly.
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.
This is why they stopped negotiating
It’s fascinating watching him go up against someone who has both the skill and the nerve to handle him.
Xi Jinping was an absolute masterclass at this.
“Buy!”. “Sell!”. “Buy!”. “Sell!”. And the beat goes on…
İmperialist U.S.
Of course conservatives/regressives pick a coward to represent them.
It’s Tuesday, right?
8D Uno. This guy is a genius.
it’s monday.
oh wait, his tuesday’s gonna be full of making fun of the newly-announced months-dead mcconnell, he had to fit his chickening out in early
According to that picture, he’s starting to nod off on plane stairs now.
