Trump Goes For China Over Iran - Then We Got The Numbers
Kernow Damo by Damien Willey
Episode notes
Right, so, the orange menace currently passing himself off as the US President, and in his signature style, has now launched something called Operation Economic Outcast.
Nearly 60 sanctions targets across five sectors. Anyone still doing business with Iran is now facing threats that amount to the financial equivalent of being shoved into school locker after having your head flushed down a loo.
Unfortunately for the thuggish Trump, the Treasury avoided targeting the major Chinese banks it would need to confront if it truly intended to choke off Iran's oil trade.
And when Treasury sycophant Scott Bessent was asked why they had not simply imposed the harshest sanctions immediately, he came out with this. "Well, we are allowing everyone to remedy bad behaviour. Why would I want to blow up the global financial system?" Lovely. Wall S ...