Trump administration 2024-2028

[Czech_pivo]

Except of course that this is not even remotely a NATO Op. It is unilateral.

bi-lateral - Israel and its big brother Trump-led US.

 

[daftandbarmy]

So from 100k barrels a day to 150k barrels a day.

Canada produces, what 4m+ barrels a day?

Well, the Venezuelan operations are a mess, so I'm guessing they're working with a hand tied behind their back...

 

[Nvlgzr]

New Jersey introduced a bill: Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act

Anti-ICE Bill Proposed By North Jersey Legislators Has Controversial Name

A bill among a package to protect New Jersey residents from ICE has an F-bomb in the name, and it's not "frigid."

patch.com

 

[Retired AF Guy]

So had British assets not been targeted by Iran, the UK would have likely gotten a similar strong reaction had they not allowed use of their bases for strikes.

Trump vows to ‘cut off all trade with Spain’: ‘Very, very uncooperative’ over base refusal for Iran attacks

“We don’t want anything to do with Spain,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting Tuesday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

nypost.com

Or may be the Spanish are remembering what happened the last time they got involved in an US operation in the Middle East?

2004 Madrid train bombings - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Haggis]

Or may be the Spanish are remembering what happened the last time they got involved in an US operation in the Middle East?

2004 Madrid train bombings - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That was my first thought.

 

[brihard]

Or may be the Spanish are remembering what happened the last time they got involved in an US operation in the Middle East?

2004 Madrid train bombings - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Or the arbitrary and unprovoked tariffs he hit everyone with to strong arm new trade agreements?

Dude decided to shift geopolitics and make everything more transactional. OK, want to use those bases for your ops? Make it worth their while. Make a deal. He purports to be good at those.

 

[Czech_pivo]

And the never ending circus continues.

Bessent says global 15% tariff starts this week, move back to prior rates within 5 months​

Bessent says global 15% tariff starts this week, move back to prior rates within 5 months

The Supreme Court last month ruled that President Donald Trump's sweeping global tariffs are not authorized under the law known as IEEPA.

www.cnbc.com

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s recently announced 15% global tariff will be implemented sometime this week.

Bessent, in an interview on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” also predicted that U.S. tariff rates would soon effectively return to where they stood before the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s most expansive duties.

“It’s my strong belief that the tariff rates will be back to their old rate within five months,” Bessent said.

 

[Good2Golf]

Math can be very, very painful when it goes against you.

The US is already paying roughly 1 Trillion USD per year in just the interest on the Federal debt - let that number sink in......

It will be notably higher that $1T…just do the math on the average Treasury rate on the $30T of debt issued at the moment…round it to 4% give or take (most Treasury volume is 10years IIRC) then debt cost is $1.2T and climbing…it may even hit $1.5T by the time the U.S. mid-terms are over…

 

[brihard]

It will be notably higher that $1T…just do the math on the average Treasury rate on the $30T of debt issued at the moment…round it to 4% give or take (most Treasury volume is 10years IIRC) then debt cost is $1.2T and climbing…it may even hit $1.5T by the time the U.S. mid-terms are over…

Of course he would manage to end up saddling the U.S. with further net liabilities with that particular botch job…