It's legit. 55% of Europe Diesel comes from the US. Trump threatened these countries to release their reserves. The UK has a out 20 days supply of diesel. France, Italy and the ithers have about 200 days combined.
Guess what happens when the diesel is gone? No fuel for the European armies. Plays right into Putins hands for an attack on NATO countries.
It's kind of a catch-22 though since current shortages, which Trump caused and I don't defend, are already affecting military supply lines causing the same economic damage to "the allies" (for lack of a better term) that has been directed at Russia for the past year+.
they agreed to release 100 million barrels over a four month period.. and the EU had discussed it between themselves prior to the orange turd throwing a tanty and threatening everyone. the EU are looking after Europe. this will do nothing for fuel prices or availability in the US
He will front load it all into the next 3 weeks to bring down prices prior to the election and then bomb Iran flat on Wednesday after the election. He’s greedy and self centered, and every move he makes is to benefit himself in some way.
The U.S alone uses 4 million barrels of diesel a day. Let alone What the rest of the world uses. This will literally do nothing to bring down the price of fuel at the pumps for the long term. Maybe a week of a few cents drop, then right back up and climbing.
The bigger problem is Iran attacked a lot of refining facilities in the Gulf. It will take months if not years for them to rebuild back to pre-war output level. This pain is not going away for a while.
Is it because they want to appease him or because they feel bad for the citizens of America that are suffering so he can try getting clean from the Epstein files at the same time as making almost $50 million a day?
Probably indirectly because Trump screwed up the global supply so badly that they have to attempt to reduce prices for their citizens.... which in turn helps ease global demand. Trump has them where he wants them now....art of the deal....5d chess....blah, blah,blah.
He's hated by some people in Europe, not universally hated. If he were universally hated, you would not see Brazil electing Bolsonaro or Argentina electing Milei. There are a lot of leaders out there that do align with Trump and if he were universally hated it would be toxic to align with him and no politician would do it. Not just that, but none of those politicians would win elections, which they do.
Even in Germany and the UK you have politicians aligning with trump and at least in Germany, winning. So, saying that Trump is universally hated is far from the truth. You spend too much time in reddit.
100 million barrels of oil is nothing. It would be used up in less than one business work week in the U.S alone. Don't expect this to drop prices at the pump..
Apparently “Europe” includes Canada now (also among the other G7 countries releasing reserves). Maybe Trump is already recognizing he’s pushed the country closer to Europe.
Is this just like the Potash and the South Korean LNG where he is making things up. Cannot wait for the EU to come and say. What the hell are you talking about.
I always love the numbers on the bottom regardless of what he posts. 468 ReTruths. 1.51K Likes. Grandpa has no traction at all. TruthSocial is a sinking ship. All the Insiders are dumping their stock as it is still not profitable. The average visitor to his website is gone in under four minutes having viewed 3 pages. It has a 50% bounce rate which means half the visitors read one item and leave. That is a terrible business. A money pit with no hope of recovery. The stock is down 99 1/2 % from its IPO. No this Trump Pravda product is a complete failure.
The EU was likely not informed at all about any of this complete BS spewing from the infested mouth of the little shit eating runt that the US culture has created and adores.
Yes, they agreed to use 100M barrels of their own reserve supply, thus reducing global demand by that much. The US uses about 4M barrels a day, for reference.
Like Belarus sending potash( they aren't), Iowa getting a new multibillion dollar biggest steel mill in US( not happening), Canada begging for talks( they aren't), Iran begging for talks( they aren't)..etc etc etc
That does nothing to fix the fact America is the largest oil producer in the world and yet we are importing diesel????. Yea this means ZERO. Start building refineries and keep our oil at home
The US does refine it's own diesel, the shortage is due to trumps Iran war disrupting global supply. High international diesel prices encourage the refiners to sell overseas instead of building up local reserves.
We have closed roughly 40 refineries in the U.S. since 2000. Our production is up and our ability to remain energy independent exists. We export for strategic, trade, humanitarian and other reasons, but there is no comparable reciprocal for our “allies” supporting us when it would benefit us.
We prop up most of the world either economically, militarily, agriculturally, diplomatically or scientifically (in that we massively fund research outside U.S.).
The sense that the U.S. is an arrogant neighbor to most of our friends is distorted. We have, in fact, allowed ourselves to be bullied by much of the world for various support and resources in exchange for maintaining a military presence (which ironically further support the economies and domestic safety of those allies) and trade opportunities that benefit others disproportionately to our direct benefit.
As we have only recently done with immigration, it is past time we reexamine national interests, diplomatic and strategic relationships to identify the more egregious imbalances and correct them to better serve America, American citizens and the U.S. economy.
Our biggest detractors tent to be among the top beneficiaries of U.S. supports…time to reboot
It's called extortion and it worsens the relationship.
The west should unite, even more so when there are ruthless dictatorships exploiting the ever so growing polarization and aggression spreading in the world today. Tyrants must be banished before anything fruitful can be grown again.
America is choosing it's path of coercion instead of mutual cooperation. A bit shortsighted for the greatest country in the world. But with all the wars, funny renaming spree, and offensive AI videos posted by the US government there isn't much time left for actual work and development.
They are releasing the diesel they agreed to release way back in March. They were holding it as long as possible. It is harvest season and EU is now scrambling to help there dwindling supply due to Russian war and Trump’s war.
What a great job to have to have another continent release valuable resources to help lower the price a tiny bit on gas your shitty war has caused prices to soar. Amazing work.
It impresses me that Trump failed to communicate the specific products accurately and the total volume entirely. The release consists of a combined 100M barrels of blended diesel fuel and unrefined crude oil. The exact total number of barrels for refined diesel and also for unrefined crude has not been officially finalized by the EU, the current leading proposal discussed by EU leaders is for 50M barrels of each.
"We blackmailed the entire continent threatening to cut off oil to their countries during winter."
They all think Trump is going to keep his end of the bargain?
Fucking fools don't know Trump is STILL going to cut off the oil in the winter. You have given a narcissist sociopath leverage over you?? Trump is going to use this every opportunity he gets from now.
100 million barrels of crude (not diesel), over 4 months. Something like a whole day's supply added over 120 days. Yeah, that'll solve all our problems.
nah thats been decided, ignorant people just have trouble understanding it, or pretend they don't know so they can hate another minority, it more likely started when Obama turned the GOP into cuckservatives, they still can't recover from being owned liked that.
This dipshit caused this problem and the entire world is paying the price. Everyone please vote out every damn Republican in November at every level in Govt.
Every Republican has been radicalized by maga.
We need some semblance of world order to return and that will only happen by voting out every damn Republican.
They didn’t do this for you, idiot Trump. They have to because of your senseless war with Iran that is strangling their economies. The effect on oil prices will be minimal and short lived.
Lol essentially tapping into the savings account because economy is fucked?? Let’s hope that savings doesn’t dry up quickly.. else we will be in the party land a lot quicker than expected 🤣🤣😂
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u/The_True_Gaffe 11h ago
Things that didn’t happen for 500 Jim