So to recap:
•Trump illegally bombed Iran.
•Iran responded by closing the Straight of Hormuz, thus spiking oil prices.
•Trump is now responding by lifting sanctions on Iranian oil, thus funding the regime he's bombing—all as the Straight of Hormuz remains closed.

So in short, Trump bombed Iran, raised oil prices for Americans, and gave Iran more money. Masterful gambit by the author of the Art of the Deal.

Are we great yet?

@QasimRashid
maybe not the last part. was this a plan all along. hiking oil prices help oil corporations and russia. roughly everyone knows that trump doesn't care about ordinary citizens. trump is beneficial to big oil.

last part is little weird though, maybe trump doesn't think after all.

@zetabeta 1/2 Having read the two articles, “Chaos is the goal” and “The world in disarray (5)” by Helen Thompson in *De Groene Amsterdammer* of 12 March 2026, a pattern does indeed emerge. I get the impression that there is a premeditated plan behind it. It is pure, old-fashioned power politics from Trump, the sort of thing that plagued Europe in the last century and led to the establishment of the ECSC.

@QasimRashid

@zetabeta 2/2 It is simply going according to plan, just as Trump would like. He doesn’t care that the entire world population is suffering as a result.

@QasimRashid