US demands trillions in 'war ransom' from GCC allies: Report (thecradle.co)
from avidamoeba@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 05:49
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avidamoeba@lemmy.ca on 23 Mar 05:49 next collapse

5T to continue, 2.5T to stop.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 06:19 collapse

So what does 0T get you?

dtrain@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 06:51 collapse

An angry tweet.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 10:49 collapse

But does that mean the war is over or the war continues?

Trex202@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 11:59 collapse

Yes

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 12:53 collapse

$0 - Wild Draw 4

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Mar 05:53 next collapse

Remember when Dr Evil demanded a cool 100 billion in Austin Powers?

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 06:27 collapse

Dr. Evil:

$0 to continue with nuking the planet core.

$100 Billion dollars to NOT nuke the planet core.

Trump:

$0 to keep going I guess?

$2.5 Trillion to STOP the war.

$5 Trillion to also keep going?

At least Dr. Evil could make a logical plan.

GreenShimada@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 06:24 next collapse

A ransom? They’re getting attacked anyway over a war they didn’t start. At this rate, I wouldn’t be surprised if they invited Dipshit here to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and smoothed things over locally themselves.

ms_lane@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 06:31 collapse

Saudi Consulate in Istanbul … smoothed things over locally themselves.

With a roller-compactor right?

Pappabosley@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 09:28 next collapse

I think they prefer barrels

GreenShimada@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 10:24 collapse

Clearly no one is responsible enough to hold the “Holy Land” by themselves, and the God of Abraham lets each religion come and take it over and lose it all the time, so no one is actually the favorite. “Ohh, you’re my favorite- NOW SUFFER!!!” WTF kind of abusive relationship is this?

I suggest we take the King Solomon route and wall off Jerusalem and say no one can go there until everyone sorts out their differences and play nice with each other. Maybe if we’re lucky, in 20,000 generations people will forget what was there, since that will happen before religious nuts cooperate on anything.

jrs100000@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 07:19 next collapse

Surely this leopard will not eat my face. When will people learn, hell always, always, betray you eventually, unless you have the tapes.

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Mar 07:20 next collapse

>start war
>ask everyone else to pay for your war
>threaten more war if they don’t pay for the first war

THE ART OF THE DEALLLLLLLLLLLLLL

CosmoNova@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 07:56 next collapse

His presidency perfectly summarized. He‘s a mean bully that destroys things but if you give him your lunchbox and make some flattering remarks he‘ll be a little less shitty to you, personally. Rinse and repeat until the country he runs is no more.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip on 23 Mar 19:43 collapse

The only people he’s been less shitty to are the ones who stood up to him, not the ones who surrendered their lunchboxes.

daychilde@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 16:04 next collapse

And it’s even better than that - he thinks they should pay if the war continues, AND if the war stops. Haha, got you there! So sneaky!

…it’s so fucking dumb.

Cellari@lemmy.world on 23 Mar 17:39 collapse

I want this formally written in Trumps obituary

RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip on 23 Mar 07:29 next collapse

They could bring it up in trumps board of peace.

Lets_Disco@retrolemmy.com on 23 Mar 07:29 next collapse

What’s insane about this is that the US are actively or accidentally targeting their Gulf allies and then blaming Iran as well…

reuters.com/…/patriot-missile-involved-bahrain-bl…

Didntdoit71@feddit.online on 23 Mar 11:13 next collapse

Maybe we’ll see someone beheading a half-human orangutan in the middle east soon…the US citizenry won’t do it…someone else will.

Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works on 23 Mar 11:29 next collapse

Today we are talking about certain leaks in which the American president is demanding that the GCC states pay approximately $5 trillion if they want this war to continue, and if they want it to stop, they must pay $2.5 trillion to the United States for what has been accomplished over the past period,” Jahouri stressed.

OMG he might be the first president to unite all of the Arab countries. Peace prize wen?

Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip on 23 Mar 13:23 next collapse

Israel is the only one that should be paying for this shit

green_red_black@slrpnk.net on 23 Mar 16:09 next collapse

Saudi Crown Prince: “Donald, you seem to forget who is sitting on the real throne here.”

Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip on 23 Mar 17:51 next collapse

lol This guy is so fucking dumb.

I thought Putin would hold the record for a loooong time for most epically failed military gambit in modern history, but Trump’s catching up quick.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 23 Mar 19:48 collapse

So you cause billions of dollars in damages, crash economies, cause thousands of deaths and… Nobody asked for this, nobody wanted this and…

Now you want money for it to continue, or even more money for it to stop?