Norwegian fuel company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced it will cease supplying fuel to U.S. military forces in Norway and American ships docking in Norwegian ports, citing dissatisfaction with recent U.S. policy towards Ukraine.

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    This will continue (the whole of America suffering) until someone wrangles in Trump…

    … or he gets us into a major war we can’t win.

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        Yeah especially if he pisses off say military or oil contractors… ((Looks at the article this comment thread belongs to))

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          Yeah, I hope she stays in power long enough to make progress.

          Canada should be able to pull the UK right into the fight, and maybe France too. We’d need nuclear powers in our side to ever end a fucking war.

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            I mean, I wouldn’t be surprised if in my lifetime we end up with a unified world government that excludes literally just US and Russia. Israel would be excluded too except who the hell knows what’ll happen to the middle east after yet another world war.

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        What if Elon has already bought them all? It doesn’t take much for a jizzilionaire like him

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          His wealth is mostly imaginary. If he actually moved to solidify any significant portion of it, it would all collapse as its tied up in very few companies.

          When he was at a listed value of 200 billion he had to get 20-30 other groups and governments together for the whole twitter takeover. Which should have been easy for him at the time based on his net worth alone.

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            1. It’s always better to spend the money of others.
            2. It doesn’t appear that bribing congresspeople is all that expensive. IIRC, it only took $60k to bribe that one congressperson who got caught.
            3. Just the threat of financing primary challengers appears to be enough to control Republican congresspeople. He’s probably privately doing the same with some Dems too (offering not to finance challengers; he’s already said he will finance challengers to all Democrats).
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            It doesnt really matter if he can get 200 billion in cash right this instant. His theoretical net worth is enough to get him the influence and power that comes with that kind of money.

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              I am absolutely not saying that he can’t get enough money up to fuck everything up.

              But most of his wealth is Tesla stock. Recall that when he sold only $10 billion of it, the price tanked.

              He is only worth $200+ billion if you don’t look at it hard.

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          What if Elon has already bought them all? It doesn’t take much for a jizzilionaire like him

          If we’re going to “what if” why stop there? Why don’t we have Elon kidnapping them and implanting mind control devices in each of their heads. A person with those kind of resources and technology could do such a thing. /s

          If I was to take your point seriously, I would suggest the courts would have something to say about that, from lawsuits filed by civilians.

          The hyperbole really has to stop. You don’t go from a 0% authoritarianism to 100% in one day/step. Its a process, and we are not there yet (though I do definitely agree we’re starting to lean in that direction).

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      I heard that Warren Buffet bought stocks related to a serious war, like satellite-bassd radio… I am scared.

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      I doubt anyone really wants that, other than possibly the USA and Israel. I hope the rest of the world will curb our worst impulses, since we’re clearly refusing to do it, ourselves.