Not so much so for the 33 Republicans Senators and 435 House of Representatives facing the midterms…& trying to distance themselves from the insanity for the most part. I’d say it’s very relevant to the timing of this pronouncement regarding Iran refusing to capitulate, or Russia running oil tankers to Cuba…& so on with Trump playing it off like it’s no big thing…until it’s 3am on Truth Social when he’s punching out his McDonald’s diet.
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Tonight Trump glossed over some unresolved issues that remain during his 19-minute speech, such as the status of Iran's enriched uranium and access through the Strait of Hormuz, a conduit for global oil supplies which Iran has effectively closed since the U.S. and Israel launched the war on February 28. In that U.S. President Donald Trump told the nation in a televised speech tonight that the U.S. military had nearly accomplished its goals in
Iran?
Facing a war-wary American public, sliding approval ratings (which are mentioned specifically here) and
pressure from some allies to outline his war aims in more precise and consistent terms, Trump said the U.S. had destroyed Iran's navy and air force, and crippled its ballistic missile and nuclear programs.
And yet he notably suggested the war could escalate if Iranian leaders did not capitulate to U.S. terms during negotiations, with strikes on Iran's civilian energy and oil infrastructure possible.
He asked Americans to keep perspective about a war now in its fifth week, pointing out that the conflict was much shorter so far to date than the country's involvement in several previous wars.
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I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objectives (whatever they are today) shortly, very shortly. We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong," Trump said?
"In the meantime, discussions are ongoing...(?)…the new group is less radical (?) and much more reasonable? Yet if during this period of time, no “deal” is made, we have our eyes on key targets…”…
like civilian desalination plants?
Who needs a deal immediately and who doesn’t though? Trump and his advisers have offered shifting explanations and timelines for the conflict. Reflecting widespread sentiment that Trump's comments did not portend a short-term off-ramp, stocks fell, the dollar firmed and oil rose shortly after Trump's comments.
U.S. President Donald Trump told the nation in a televised speech on Wednesday night that the U.S. military had nearly accomplished its goals in Iran, but he declined to offer a concrete timeline for winding down the conflict.
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The United States is the top consumer of jet fuel globally, and most of the jet fuel the country produces is consumed domestically, EIA data shows.
Last week, refiners and fuel blenders produced 1.97 million bpd of jet fuel, which was just slightly above demand of 1.79 million bpd,
EIA reported.
About half a million barrels a day of jet fuel is exported out of the Strait of Hormuz, mainly to Europe and some to Asia and Africa, data from vessel-tracking service Kpler shows. Trump told countries struggling to get jet fuel due to
Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz due to the war started Feb 28th by the U.S. to just it buy from the U.S., but analysts say there is a major problem with his advice: the U.S. can't cover the global shortfall.
Moreover, most U.S. jet fuel production is concentrated in the U.S. Gulf Coast, and major demand centers along the country's East Coast and West Coast have historically relied on imports to cover their needs.
The West Coast in particular is going to need more supply of the fuel from the U.S. Gulf Coast as many of its typical suppliers in Asia are among those hit hardest by the Strait of Hormuz closure. Asian refiners have had to
cut production and ban exports, leaving California in search of alternate suppliers….so Trumps claim is just more fiction.
President Donald Trump this week told countries struggling to get jet fuel due to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to buy from the U.S., but analysts say there is a major problem with his advice: the U.S. can't cover the global shortfall.
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Yeah, ok, that too if it makes a difference.
U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday evening at the White House, where he said that regime change was not his original goal while starting the war in Iran, but "regime change" had occurred there because of the original leader's death and the deaths of so many senior...
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If you were to copy and paste his posts on Truth Social over the last week or so, you would not be far off this address to the nation, but there was little here tonight for those hoping for clear answers on where this war is heading or potential exit ramps for the US. There were glaring omissions which leave a plethora of questions unanswered.
There were some glaring omissions in the president's primetime address, writes the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue.
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The President has repeatedly shifted his publicly stated goals and reason for going to war.
U.S. President threatened to destroy country if Tehran makes no deal, but also suggested he might walk away from the war
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