There is no chance that Trump will negotiate a nuclear deal that is better than the JCPOA that he pulled the U.S. out of in 2018. There’s probably no chance Trump can get any deal at all. From David Stockman at antiwar.com:
We have observed on multiple occasions that Donald J. Trump is an unhinged, egomaniacal Caesarist who knows no limits to power. Indeed, it would appear that he believes himself to be the CEO of the world, bombing Iran last weekend for the good of mankind despite the fact that it poses no military threat whatsoever to the USA, as we amplified in Part 1; and now instructing world oil producers in Clint Eastwood fashion to “not even think about” failing to pump whatever it takes to compensate for any shortfall of supply that may result from his reckless and utterly unjustified blunderbuss attack on the second largest Persian Gulf producer.
For want of being misunderstood, the Donald even issued his warning in ALL CAPS. The Trump-O-Nomics economic con job just plain can’t stand oil above $70 per barrel!
“EVERYONE, KEEP OIL PRICES DOWN. I’M WATCHING! YOU’RE PLAYING RIGHT INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY. DON’T DO IT!”
Well, Holy Moly, who made Donald Trump or any other president of the USA the petroleum czar of the planet? And besides, when you look at the slate of global oil producers virtually all the spare production capacity is chock-a-bloc inside the two-mile wide shipping lanes of the Strait of Hormuz – which his foolish bombing run put exactly in harms’ way.
Indeed, it might well be wondered who this ALL CAPS bellicosity is directed at. At the present time, 25 million barrels per day of petroleum (crude plus natural gas liquids) is produced at locations inside the narrow neck of the Strait of Hormuz, or one-quarter of the global supply. If Iranian production of 4.8 million barrels per day is withheld, or if tanker traffic through Hormuz slows sharply due to soaring insurance rates or cautionary behavior of tanker operators – six of whom have already performed abrupt U-turns at the Hormuz entrance in the last day or so – then who might the Donald be planning to threaten if they don’t open the taps on any idle capacity?
Moshe Trumpstein still lives in America 1.0 which ended with esteemed CPUSA (D) party member Jimmeh Carta.
Be thankful you got to live in it, I am thankful for being a lil’ shaver as it ended, you don’t vote your way out of Fundamental Transformation.
Bunker busters? They only penetrate 90 meters at $2 million plus per bomb, another MIC grift.
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