President Donald Trump insisted he loves inflation caused by his war in Iran and claimed he tanked the stock market on purpose.The 79-year-old president spoke to reporters Wednesday in the Oval Office, where he was asked about year-over-year inflation hitting a three-year high of 4.2 percent last mo...
  • ZMoney@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 days ago

    I’m 5 months behind on my podcasts so I’m now listening to all the coverage and analysis of the Maduro kidnapping. Everybody was saying that with how cheap oil is, it doesn’t make sense to try to take Venezuelan oil which is heavy and requires a lot of refinement. In that context shutting down the Strait of Hormuz makes perfect sense.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      7·
      10 days ago

      I also listen to a lot of politics and it amazes me to this day the consensus is not he’s a fucking idiot but in the context of he is Putin’s puppet and the goal is to destroy America and the Western Alliance he’s doing what he’s meant to do.

      The problem is very smart people like Dr. Janice Stein are quick to say there’s sure as shit smoke but we don’t factually know what the deal is with Trump and Putin but we all know something is there

      • Dasus@lemmy.world
        61·
        10 days ago

        Those two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

        One can be a fucking idiot and Putler’s lapdog.

        Saying “we don’t know for a fact he’s working for the Russians” is just willful ignorance.

        The aforementioned claims by Shvets, which were also a significant basis for Craig Unger’s best-selling book, American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, were also backed by Alnur Mussayev, former head of Kazakhstan’s intelligence service, and Sergei Zhyrnov, an ex-KGB officer living in France.[26] Mussayev also asserted that Trump is compromised:

        I have no doubt that Russia has kompromat on the US President, that over the course of many years the Kremlin has been promoting Trump to the post of President of the main world power

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials