"The Trump administration’s unlawful campaign of boat strikes appears to have picked up again since the Iran ceasefire. The second attack in two days (and third since Saturday) killed four people in the Eastern Pacific, bringing the campaign’s death toll to at least 174."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Hegseth #war #Iran #death #violence #BoatStrikes
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https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/a-historically-bad-day-for-the-rule
Greg Sargent says, "Donald Trump is raging in all directions."
He quotes Harry Enten:
"Trump’s net approving with noncollege whites. Look at this. In February of 2025, it was plus 32 points and now it is minus two points. That is a 34-point shift."
#Trump #war #Iran #ApprovalRating
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https://newrepublic.com/article/209070/trump-spirals-fury-bad-iran-news-polls-hit-shocking-new-low
As Sargent says,
"On the war, support for it is five points underwater with those voters and support for his handling of Iran is 13 points underwater with them."
Alex Shephard responds:
"They are having to actually see that this guy, Donald Trump, who claims to be breaking the system on our behalf, is actually engaging in another stupid Middle East war. He’s not explaining why he’s doing it."
"Every action that he’s taken since that war began has only made it worse. It’s only made costs go up. In general, people are looking at this with understandable wariness. ...
What we’re seeing now—in some ways it resembles the aftermath of January 6—is that there’s a sense that he’s done. He’s a loser. He’s cooked."
Hence Trump's rage. Hence "Let's blow up some boats full of poor people in the Pacific. We'll make ourselves winners again."
"The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran, according to exclusive analysis for the Guardian. Saudi Aramco, Gazprom and ExxonMobil are among the biggest beneficiaries of the bonanza, meaning key opponents of climate action continue to prosper."
~ Damian Carrington
#Trump #war #Iran #economy #BigOil #oil #gas #economy
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/big-oil-huge-war-windfall-consumers
"Trump just announced he’s sending 6,000 more troops to the region as Iran is threatening retaliation for America’s naval blockade of its ports."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #war #Iran #economy #oil #gas #blockade #StraitofHormuz #economy
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/breaking-us-to-send-thousands-of
Trump's unwinnable & illegal war in Iran is going so great that he's sending 6,000 more troops to the Middle East as Iran threatens retaliation for the US Navy blocking its ports. What could go wrong?
Paul Krugman tells Heather Cox Richardson that Trump thought he'd waltz into Iran and find a pliant new regime ready to hand over oil as in Venezuela. But he miscalculated:
"The current management of the United States is continually surprised to learn that other countries are real, have real ideology and nationalism of their own."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-america-is-losing-the-world-lunch
A recording from Paul Krugman and Heather Cox Richardson's live video
"It’s not that Trump and Hegseth and executives of the major oil companies sat down and plotted this thing together to seize the oil. But it’s been clear all along that current U.S. government is much more comfortable with petro-state oligarchs, whether it be Vladimir Putin or Mohammed bin Salman, that those are more their kind of people than, you know, basically American workers…."
Russian and KSA leaders are openly epstein class. Its quite natural for them to get along, admire others like themselves, and buy women from each other, while sharpening their backstabbing knives.
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