Mark Sumner notes:
Since Trump announced that he was backing away from the Iran nuclear agreement, oil prices have crept steadily upward, reaching $77 today. That's $520 million a day, direct from Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin — taken from the pocket of consumers.
— Mark Sumner (@Devilstower) May 9, 2018
Having a president who at best is a useful idiot is bad.
mikethemadbiologist
Yeah, “nothing” — there’s an understatement.
The ONLY states that are cheering the deep strategic idiocy of Trump’s reneging on the Iran deal are our wonderful friends Saudi Arabia and Israel. (Funny how that doesn’t get mentioned much, here.) To the genius brains of “The Resistance”, all roads must lead to Moscow.
You clowns are going to grease the skids for a *second* Trump term. I wouldn’t imagine such a thing possible, but half the reason that Trump is where he is is due to the extraordinary ineptitude of his “opposition”, and that “opposition” has demonstrated pretty conclusively that they will not learn a damn thing.
@ sglover
+1
Russia is making more money but so is Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E, and all those poverty-stricken oil men in Texas and the other US states.
Mohammed bin Salman and Mohammed bin Zayed are probably celebrating right now.