2piradiansWhite House Tries to Build Coalition on Iran to Address Energy Crisis
🍿 Not that the circumstances aren’t horrific, but watching Trump bully the entire world was humiliating and now watching his assholery come back to bite him is very satisfying. We should not have attacked Iran without support and without a plan to put it back in the hands of its people. But now that we’re here, this is just going to keep getting worse for Trump.
What’s amazing to me is that he has a consistent habit of this behavior.
The tariffs would have been almost a good idea if there was a commiserate option for the items being taxed locally. But, since the corporations offloaded all major manufacturing to these places now affected by said tariffs, there is no locally sourced alternative. You can’t punish an external org by artificially pricing their products higher than local options when there aren’t any local options. We import both finished products and raw materials for the few things we make locally so there’s no way we wouldn’t have been caught at a net loss on product pricing.
Starting a war against a major energy provider while also reducing all possible alternatives to that energy source that would alleviate the reliance on said energy source was obviously going to backfire.
Starting trade wars and pissing off every possible ally who traditionally would have helped without question at every step has started to show exactly the expected outcomes. If you don’t keep your end of a deal, you can’t reasonably expect the other members to just go along with it.
Unless, of course, you are a narcissistic asswipe who genuinely believes you are the most important person and everyone will just do what you want.
He is going to have some angry rants about “supposed allies” who “only supported us while we were footing the bill,” if no one comes to our rescue. I never imagined democracy would fail this hard. There was an example of this in the thirties, but my education spent only the briefest time on the lead up to WW2. “It was inevitable after the humiliating end of WW1.” Except I’m thinking it might have been really fucking evitable had reactionaries not chosen a tyrant to lead them.