Oil companies always pass on the extra cost to their clients. Usually they keep the same profit margin, so in the end they make more when it gets more expensive. Until the international prices drop, or when demand slows down (pandemic, serious economic crisis). It’s why energy companies like fossil fuels more, because they can pass on the cost. Renewable energy is mostly a fixed upfront cost.

USA can’t really stop them. Nobody listens anymore, is impressed much by threats or how quickly they fold with some economic pressure.

That’s some Grasshopper and the Ant reenactment happening.

Two of her children and the heirs of her late father’s business partners argued they were entitled to a significant share of royalties and mining rights.

sharing with other rich pricks, not with the proletariat

Knowing that the best place to scratch Trump is always his ego

That doesn’t work a second time. Now he’ll have to give Trump a cut of the profits and haggle over the percentage.

🎵On a dark desert highway

Cool wind in my hair

Warm smell of colitas

Rising up through the air

A bully is nothing without his flunkies, and everybody saw how Trump abuses his flunkies.

The polls for Orban went down after Vance’s endorsement visit. That’s how populair he is.

he gets himself into a trap he can’t get out of, but he is unable to think that far ahead

That describes this whole war so far.

The same US intended that keeps finding weapons that don’t exist whenever an excuse is needed.

One of those books you hope never comes true, yet here we are.

Who’s going to enforce it? Not the USA.

Spain has defamed our heroes, the soldiers of the IDF, the soldiers of the most moral army in the world

Kicked out for not denying what comes down to the Gaza holocaust.

Those Europeans you speak of call themselves socialist too, but they still with the capitalistic system and control the redistribution mechanisms bolted on.

The test was to see if EU countries made good lackeys and if they were good and well under Trump’s boot. That’s not the test you want to pass.

NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM

That’s such bull. If Poland suddenly decided to attack Russia, say somewhere last year, USA would only send thoughts and prayers, and nothing else. But in his logic, with the roles reversed, USA should go out there and bomb Moscow. But that only applies when Trump needs something.

In the same way it’s a mutual agreement until Trump would’ve dumped the Strait of Hormuz problem on whoever came to help and then retreat quickly while giving a rambling speech that boiled down to “so long suckers!”

And if Poland would’ve unilaterally attacked Russia somewhere last year, Trump would’ve immediately sent out the fleet and start the bombing on Moscow because that’s what NATO does? Yeah, didn’t think so.

So Greenland just has to threaten to bomb the Panama canal with drones and Trump will chicken out.