Generally speaking people and countries are less likely to help you, when you have recently threatened, insulted and belittled them.
Everything is completely transactional for Trump. What is in it for him? There is no longer a UK-US relationship in any meaningful sense. The sooner British politicians understand that, the better.
Except how much is the US/Trump actually helping Ukraine nowadays? How much are they providing? And how dependent on the US does Ukraine actually want to be given Trump's fandom of Putin?
- Europe gets a lot of it's oil through the Straits of Hormuz.
- Xi might see this as his opportunity to attack Taiwan.
It is just a huge mess in which everyone loses. Except perhaps Netanyahu and Trump, personally.
20 mb/d, around 25% world seaborne oil trade, transits the Strait – 80% destined for Asia. 4%, of the region’s crude flows are routed into Europe
LNG - In 2025, almost 90% of the total volumes exported via the Strait of Hormuz was destined to the Asian market, while the share of Europe was just over 10%.
Volume of oil (or LNG) isnt really the problem for the western hemisphere, its the doubling of price.
i'm not in favor of this attack but trying pretened a deal was close is clearly wrong as those paying attention well knew
Those that were paying attention knew there was a deal in place that the US withdrew from then tried to negotiate a worse deal for themselves.
