Eric Laurain

@Khalid43422040 @eugyppius1 Indeed. When you crater your industrial production demand for types of energy do in fact decline. That doesn't mean you are more efficient, it just means you're locked in an economic death spiral based on retarded energy policy.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 Huuuu its fantasy huuuu Meanwhile in the past few years And algeria is working on doubling its output to Europe, going from 15% of the current total gas needs of the EU to 30% to 30%.

There has not been a serious effort to secure assistance from any of these countries, not any concrete requests as to who should do what where. The German government apparently has received no direct communications from the Trump administration about any of this. There are only statements on social media and in the press about faithless NATO allies. Thus the goal is not actually to secure assistance in opening the Strait, at least not at this stage. Rather, it is to assign responsibility *in the eyes of American voters* for the continued closure to other countries. It's a publicity and a messaging campaign driven by Trump's desire to declare victory and extricate himself.

@Khalid43422040 @eugyppius1 You'll pay the danegeld until Iran demands $2 a barrel, then 3, then more, then they'll want you to look the other way while they endorse terror. And you'll do all of those things because you aren't really allies with the US anymore. You're allies with Iran.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 Huuu fantasies huu. No your fantasy bullshit is nothing but wishfull thinking. We will pay the 'danegeld' for a few years, buy your overpriced LNG for some years, while we continue to do what we are doing untill we wont need you nor the gulf countries. Not a fantasy, reality

@tavaresleo68410 @eugyppius1 From Iran. Started what, bombing Iran because they were working on a nuke and threatening allies? Pansy. The humiliation comes from them not being able to do it, and having been caught out at it.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 Defend it from what!? What the fuck do you mean defend it, you started it! Take responsability! Why are they supposed to HUMILIATE themselves by volunteering to help you in something you started? If you want help you ask!

@tavaresleo68410 @eugyppius1 The Strait is in international waters. If it is of significant value to them, the EU should defend it. They have chosen not to. Now, is that because they chose not to or because they cannot do it, and must hide that weakness behind a charade?

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 Do what!? What is anyone supposed to do!?

@AdKav2 @eugyppius1 Allowing Iran to control your energy supply is obviously stupid. That the EU submits to this begs the question: why? The obvious answer is that they have no other choice, and so must pretend their only choice is the one they wanted anyway.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 Impotency? You guys are all over the place. Nothing you say means anything and will change by tomorrow. You would believe non of this if any other president did it. By your analogy the US jizzed on your neighbors carpet then asked you to clean it up then got mad when you wouldn't

@DavidTWalker2 @eugyppius1 And this is the actual point. Eugy is pretending EU reluctance arises from principal, when in truth it flows from impotence. The EU cannot martial the naval materiel to accomplish an opening of the Strait, therefore they must pretend it is not a goal they desire.

@eugyppius1 @eric_laurain The fact you are holding sham meetings to try to look like you are complying when you actually have no military power to do so suggests otherwis.

@Khalid43422040 @eugyppius1 Except all of that is fantasy, as demonstrated by the immediate energy disasters in EU nations, and in the best cases require the utter destruction of your industrial capabilities to achieve.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 But if the situation stabilises, to pay that extra dollar and keep buying from the Gulf countries until at max 2035, and buying less American as soon as possible, would be by far the Greatest scenario.

@thedispatch @JessicaBRiedl Dude, seriously. Setting foreign policy by inflation charts is like not knowing whether you're a guy or a girl... it's just nuts.

"It seems politically inconceivable for a president elected on a platform of ending his predecessor’s inflation to immediately pursue his own inflationary agenda. And yet that is precisely what happened." | @JessicaBRiedl thedispatch.com/article/trump-…

@LegalistsOfGor @CodecMendoza @eugyppius1 Their pressure point on whom? The US is a net energy exporter, and we can retool pretty quickly to insulate our market from any impact. The EU? The idiots who have spent the last 20 years shuttering Nuclear and Coal plants to go Net Zero and then buy Russian oil? Ha.

@eric_laurain @CodecMendoza @eugyppius1 I mean it's kind of a dealbreaker. That was their pressure point and they went for it.

@AdKav2 @eugyppius1 It sounds like the EU just can't actually do anything, and is posturing as though they're saying no out of principle instead of out of impotency.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 "give us Greenland" no. "Bend over on trade negotiations" no. Sounds like the EU is just fine at not been told what to do, the US just doesn't like been told no.

@Khalid43422040 @eugyppius1 'Paying the danegeld' is a bit of history you're going to want to familiarize yourself with, quisling.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 Do what ourselfs. Your face when you realise we ar already doing that and what exactly that is.💀 Do nothing now. Refuse US the use of air space. Whait untill Trump is bored and moves on. Pay Iran 1 dollar a barrel in Chinese Yuan. Oil prices go down 20-40 dollar.

@big_jarhead @eugyppius1 Ding ding ding. What Eugy is pretending to not understand is that a closed Strait is an EU problem, not a US one, and that if the US no longer fixes the EU's problems... gulp.

@eugyppius1 @eric_laurain That isn't a correction. It's a point you seem to think is important, but only notes that if the Europeans want the Strait opened we'll help set the conditions, but it falls on you to act.

@MaleHumanPerso1 @eugyppius1 You're flatly wrong here. Rubio and Trump and Hegseth have been very clear from the jump what the aims were: dismantling nuclear, mterror sponsoring, and missile/drone production capabilities Calling the results 'shambolic' is just you taking your TDS for a walk.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 The point is the US doesn't have any particular war aims as you were dragged into this conflict by The Greatest Ally. There is no plan or strategy and we don't want any part of the war but the situation is so shambolic it doesn't even rise to the level of coherent US requests.

@Trickster1899 @eugyppius1 Trump says he had intel of an imminent threat. Should he allow the threat to be enacted before attacking?

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 It's Trump's war, he started it with Israel. How are the EU meant to be involved when the US refuses to communicate, coordination needs communication? Hell he couldn't even coordinate properly with Israel with communication, they hit targets he didn't want hit.

@CodecMendoza @eugyppius1 Because the closure was an aftereffect of the USs actions, you goof, and was never listed among the reasons the US entered into their engagement in the first place. After we bombed them, they closed the Strait. While we'd like it if they opened it, not a dealbreaker.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 “at no point” maybe try Hegseth from 2 days ago x.com/atrupar/status…

@eugyppius1 Stop being deliberately obtuse. The offer to work with the US is off the table. Now, Trump is telling you guys to get off your asses and do it yourself, and if you're super nice mayyyyybe he'll pitch in. A little. And you whine because he isn't giving you marching orders.

@eric_laurain stop being an idiot. if the Americans want to put together a joint security operation under their aegis they have to make specific requests of specific allies, not vaguepost on truth social.

@MaleHumanPerso1 @eugyppius1 "not any concrete requests as to who should do what where." That's literally verbatim from the post I responded to. You should be more judicious in your use of insane, at least until you learn how to read.

@eric_laurain @eugyppius1 That's absolutely not what was said here. Genuinely insane that was your highly confused takeaway.

@eugyppius1 It should be noted for about the 50th time that at no point was the Strait a stated goal of the US. Not ever. Every reference to this comes from euros trying to beg the US into covering their asses. We're finally letting the EU deal with their own problems, and they hate it.

It is radio silence behind the scenes while Trump threatens repeatedly before American media to pull out of NATO.

@CptWho75 @FistedFoucault Under your doctrine, the US has no interests in the behavior of foreign enemies until they attack US soil. This seems... retarded, but I will allow you to clarify if you understand the value in preventing an enemy from striking, rather than waiting for them to do so.

@eric_laurain @FistedFoucault All war that isn't directly defending the US Homeland is pointless. Our understanding of foreign nations is piss poor, so any interference usually ends up hurting us. At least that's been the case for the last hundred-odd years. What are we even fighting for? Buttsex in Botswana?

Just leave and permit Iran to turn the Strait of Hormuz into a very lucrative toll booth would be one hell of a "victory"