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The Group of Seven Nations agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil from its stockpiles—following a desperate plea from the White House.

The G7 held an emergency meeting Friday morning to discuss global energy costs. The discussion came in the wake of a pressing call between Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, during which the U.S. leader asked for assistance amid the current oil crisis and floated the idea of banning U.S. diesel exports, according to CBS Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Margaret Brennan.

Donald Trump announced after the meeting that “Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately.”

The European barrels are expected to hit the market over the next four months.

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[–] tigermountain@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

They all should have said no.

Thing is... they folded. I wonder if it has to do with the number of US military bases on EU soil.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

Then stop the Iran war, Dementia Don!

Too bad they all didn't say "Fuck you"

[–] islandcoda42@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

😂😂😂😂😂The man is a fool 🤡

[–] Thor_Whale@lemmus.org 2 points 9 hours ago

What a weasel, what a rat.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

begs

He has ordered colonies to withdraw from their diesel reserves under threat of cutting off their diesel imports. The colonial slaves are being forced to not maintain reserves as the US is telegraphing making a global financial crisis worse and permanent. The US brags about their economic success during this collapse by saying they have destroyed the rest of the world far worse than they are destroying the US.

Colonial slaves are not critical of illegal Iran war for Israel, and are not demanding the removal of the US from NATO, or end to war.

[–] brave_lemmywinks@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Not that we are in favour of the war in Iran, but we also don't like Iran.

Also, as an European it's always lose lose, we get terrorist attacks either way.

[–] wirebeads@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Donald Trump is a rapist. All this is happening because Donald Trump forced himself on little children.

[–] Thor_Whale@lemmus.org 3 points 9 hours ago

Yup and bibi's got the video

[–] ProwlsInSoup@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

I really hope spinless cowards who runs my home country won't help him... they will probably help him...

[–] weps@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no, he didn't beg

he threatened to stop selling US energy to EU

[–] boonhet@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago (7 children)

He'd be a moron to do that tbh. Right now the US is massively profiting off the high energy prices. Not its people but its oil companies at least.

[–] crypt0cler1c@infosec.pub 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The art of the deal bro. You clearly just aren't business savvy. 😜

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 day ago

Blow up everything and sell people the concept of a plan.

[–] adhdsergio@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He's bankrupted casinos before so why not his own oil industry

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because the oil industry has enough money and influence to fuck him right back. Unlike his investors in previous projects.

[–] fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 day ago

They won't though

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

WSJ/US press repeating them, are pretending that 90% of prewar transit has occurred this one time at band camp. If it were true, China would be buying it and getting massive refining profits from exports. Iran has hit over 7 ships in last 2 weeks attempting to transit without its permission. Even if they were getting out some oil, region needs ships to go back into SoH.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The European barrels are expected to hit the market over the next four months.

We just need a month for paperwork and stuff, we'll start around middle of November. Hope this helps!

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 112 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (27 children)

Why do people keep helping him???

Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???

[–] OnyxRex@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

There are a lot of reasons, most of them suck.

Short answer is he's just the front man for a much larger demographic and he's got a lot of financial systems held hostage because of almost 100 years of the US working to make the dollar the global currency. He's everyone's problem.

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[–] Molvorin@feddit.dk 85 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you guys noticed that all of the craziest things he does always hit on a Friday? Just in time to harvest the changes if the atickmarjet but always late enough for the international markets to have closed?

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 48 points 2 days ago

The Friday News Dump has been around a lot longer than Trump. Market Manipulation Day is every day for Trump. He doesn't wait until the end of the week for that shit.

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[–] Tango@piefed.ca 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So it's the Group of Seven again when he wants a favor, huh? Why didn't he just ask his G8 buddy Putin?

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago

I know it's rethorical, but Putin already banned exports of diesel well into 2027. Kinetic sanctions...

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