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US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban

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  1. fhmmkgnmbc · · focus · HN ↗
    Fuck the US. Trash country run by trash people.
    1. Ylpertnodi · · focus · HN ↗
      Many of my 'anti'-usa .gov posts have been measured and pointy, but now I'm just seeing people say/ write it out loud: fuck the US. Atm, it's a country that is being compared to he French students protesting. Nobody cares why the students (and the agitators, from both sides) are protesting, they do care that the US is not. Things can't be all that bad.
      1. mschuster91 · · focus · HN ↗
        > but now I'm just seeing people say/ write it out loud: fuck the US

        European here. It's not surprising. We knew we were in for a ride when y'all reelected the buffoon in 2024. But the sheer ignorance and outright malice the US has shown in the last two years alone... tariff wars against what are nominal allies? Threats to forcibly annex an ally's territory? Dragging us into an economic crisis with the completely botched Iran war? Setting up an economic crisis that will put the disaster of 2007ff to shame by allowing the wash trading and Habsburgian investment web in the AI economy?

        Trump has permanently burnt bridges here. Even if people were protesting, it wouldn't matter, this damage will take decades to repair.

        1. hvb2 · · focus · HN ↗
          In Dutch there's a saying which translates to

          Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback....

          You can only spend goodwill once... And boy, the US is burning goodwill at an insane rate right now.

          Not in the least because to non US people this seems like exactly what one could/should expect when re-electing this guy.

          1. mschuster91 · · focus · HN ↗
            > Not in the least because to non US people this seems like exactly what one could/should expect when re-electing this guy.

            It's not like we are better in that regards... you Dutch elected Wilders, and us Germans are falling for the AfD.

            1. Timon3 · · focus · HN ↗
              Let's not forget that Trump is propping up the AfD and co. They are openly working together to split the EU apart. It's all financed by the same billionaires.
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