Shawn KingMar 15
Ian Betteridge
I just *love* that Trump now wants other countries to clean up his mess, by keeping the Straights of Hormuz open. No, you orange shitweasal, you can clean up your own mess.
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Show threadRandom_Seed  💾 🇿🇦Mar 14
@ianbetteridge Chop’en’haggen.
Show threadPete's Mom 🍉 🇺🇦 ☮️Mar 14
@ianbetteridge
He wants other countries soldiers to die because he knows it "looks bad" if US soldiers die (he doesn't care who dies, just where the pressure points are on him).
Show threadSteve WilliamsMar 14
@ianbetteridge
I felt for the Iranians marching on the streets last week with their ‘Trump We Trust You’ placards. Never going to end well.
Show threadLinux and praxis: part of the resistance 🇵🇸 ☮️Mar 14

@ianbetteridge

It's o.k.; he wears a diaper.

Show threadDave RobinsonMar 14
@ianbetteridge
We should refuse to help until he delivers Netanyahu and Gallant to the ICC.
Show threadFazal MajidMar 14

@ianbetteridge most amazingly, he expects China of all places to clean up his mess for him.

And all suddenly he is nice to Starmer again. Not that it matters, it's not as if the Royal Navy has any patrol ships to send, those two literal showboat aircraft carriers sucked out all the oxygen out of the Navy budget.

Show threadIan BetteridgeMar 15

@fazalmajid That would be the China that's basically decided to wean itself off oil by increasing renewables and nuclear (up to 40% of total electricity generation) while also heavily investing in electric vehicles (up from 6% of sales in 2020 to 48% in 2024). EVs displaced 1m barrels a day of oil (and China imports most of that).

From China's perspective, the ask from Trump is almost insulting. Deploy Chinese naval assets into a conflict zone created by Washington, to protect oil supplies disrupted by Washington, to bail out a US president who simultaneously runs a trade war against Beijing?

Yeah, that's going to fly.

Show threadFazal MajidMar 15

@ianbetteridge Indeed.

It's relatively easy to wean yourself off oil for ground transportation and industry, but gas is also used for fertilizer production and half the world population depends on this:

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/nitrogen-ammonia-and-strait-hormuz