Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
And this is why he will get the us involved in Iran. He needs something to boost his ego after this amazing by failure.
Half of it is still about oil. Saudi Arabia has mass amounts of oil and fewer people. Iran has more people and a decent (but less) amount of oil. For years Iran has been trying to sell off their oil at cheaper prices in mass to force money into their economy. Some may argue it’s to raise the quality of living for the people, others may argue it’s because they believe the oil will do them no good 100 years from now so selling it all off and raking in what money they can now will only help them. Saudi Arabia has money, just doesn’t distribute it evenly, and their profit margins would be hurt by prices being driven down. Other countries like the U.S. also would struggle to complete in selling oil at lower prices as our lifting costs are higher. So oil companies selling out of the US and around the world benefit greatly from Iran not selling off their oil at lower costs. (It’s less than 1/2 to 1/3 the cost for Iran the lift the oil). So the U.S. stays friends with Saudi Arabia and tries to stop other countries from lowering their prices.
What is this a graph of? What do the different colours mean? What is the UK top in the world of? My maths teacher drilled into us that a bar chart has to have a title and a key and units. This graph has none of them!
https://www.statista.com/statistics/597669/cost-breakdown-of-producing-one-barrel-of-oil-in-the-worlds-leading-oil-producing-countries/
The lifting costs by country (US dollar/barrel). The UK has the highest lifting costs, therefore must sell oil at the lowest profit margins if they sell at a global price match. The lower the lifting costs, the higher margin for profit.
Thanks.
Nah made sense to ask, I cropped it like shit so it didn’t have other phone screen on it, should have done better.
Basic premise though was crude oil sells at $75 per barrell, the US averaged 4.5 million Barrells a day in 2024 (exports). If the cost per barrel dropped to $65 a barrell that’s a $16.5 billion dollars lost per year. That’s 66x the amount of money Elon spent to assist Trump in winning the election.
So it makes sense to pay millions or a few hundred million from oil executives to ensure oil prices stay where they are.
The Republican tradition of killing brown kids to keep rich old men wealthy