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mathematic

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4. ? Europe wants to buy more fossil fuels from us.

Reply to Ray Bruns (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 20, 2024, 12:46 PM

Dec 20

Trump is telling them to do a thing they already want to do. Europe wants to get off Russian fossil fuels. We should want to help them.

Trump has a habit of framing good things that are in everybody's interests as an adversarial demand and people just eat it up and get negatively polarized to it. Then when that good thing happens Trump takes credit for that good thing and the people that opposed it eat shit. It happened with NATO 2% defense funding (something NATO agreed to in 2014) and it'll happen with LNG and possibly other fossil fuels depending on how tariffs on canadian oil happen.

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