Im saying this is not, KIND OF political theater, im saying it IS political theory full stop, not in like an aggresive or "im super right and your wrong" way, I just dont understand what the president thinks he can gain from this, we sanctioned the shit out of russia oil in 2022,
once again ill refer to this graph showing total russian oil export in 2020
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Notice how diverse it is with lots of EU nations
Ok now the 2023 one (mot up to date graph I could find at glance but shows the point)
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India, Singapore and China as well as turkey to a large extent are not nations we can "bully" or intimidate to do what we want, they are either to powerful or to stupid to play ball and so beyond SEEMING like its going nowhere this "act" or whatever you want to call it on trumps part is actually 100% ineffective as all the people that MIGHT comply with it already have.
meanwhile China is putting Trumps balls in a vise with the Rare Earth Minerals
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Ive seen bad diplomacy, ive even seen stupid diplomacy but ive never quite seen what we are seeing here and I say that as a guy who voted for the fucker. We are bluffing holding an off suit 2 and 8 with only an UNO card up our sleeve. (I mean Economically, dont get it twisted)