China just announced it will not recognise or enforce US sanctions. Translation: go fuck yourself, Donald.

[Amaryllis]

https://ifloz.substack.com/p/drumpf-just-got-told-to-get-fucked

Much more at link

While the fluorescent-lit gameshow corpse was busy paused-not-paused on Project Freedom, Beijing quietly took a sledgehammer to 70 years of US financial dominance.

On May 2nd, China’s commerce ministry issued an order, the first of its kind, stating that China shall not recognise or enforce sanctions imposed by the United States. Not a leak. Not a rumour. An official fucking ministerial order. China is now legally instructing its companies to ignore Washington’s sanctions regime and keep trading with whoever the fuck they want, including Iran.

If you’ve been waiting for the moment the US empire stopped being able to dictate global trade by waving a pen and a press release, congratulations. You just lived through it.

Here’s France 24 laying it out:

Well, there’s been no reaction from Tehran so far to the US’s abrupt U-turn. The country’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, is in Beijing holding talks with his Chinese counterpart. China is a key customer for Iranian oil, defying sanctions imposed by the United States. The talks come as Washington calls on China to put pressure on Araghchi to loosen Tehran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Beijing is playing the long game. Five Chinese companies have been put on the blacklist recently, faced with transaction bans and asset freezes. And on May 2nd, China’s commerce ministry issued for the first time an order stating that China shall not recognise or enforce sanctions imposed by the US. Donald Trump has changed international norms, and China is now really leaning into this situation and taking a page out of his book by encouraging Chinese companies to defy international sanctions. Beijing has really set a precedent that could change how global trade and international financial systems look like in the future.

[dalton99a]

1. Donald Trump is making everyone but America great again.

[malaise]

2. Has he called off the trip yet?

Asking for a friend

[OGBuzz]

17. Jet fuel is so expensive now courtesy of King Donald. Maybe he'll run...

out of gas somewhere over the Pacific.

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Trump thought he was creating dominance; instead he created a vacuum into which stable countries stepped

If you go around swinging your dick on the global stage, you’re not The Boss, you’re just a moron who increased his chances of getting kicked in the balls,

[Amaryllis]

4. Nope. No Boss. The Boss sang Streets of Minneapolis which went to number 1 in 19 countries two days after release.

TRump can't compete.

[Johonny]

5. Meanwhile China had agreed to Obamas Iran deal

But I'm sure Trump is going to end up with a much better deal because he's so smart and strong...

[Whip-poor-will]

8. boy genius

Would love to see trump and Obama have a spelling bee

[KS Toronado]

14. I'm still waiting for someone who is debating Diaperdon

on live TV to ask him to spell easy words like coffee or President.

[swong19104]

18. Trump would have trouble

spelling “bee” even if you spot him the “b” and the second “e”.

[tanyev]

21. He did make quite an effort to educate us all on the difference between see and sea yesterday.

Probably because he was on the receiving end of that explanation earlier.

[Whip-poor-will]

6. Stable genius

That's what the guy shoveling horseshit in a stable thinks he is, if given the chance.

[badgolfer]

7. Trump

Trump thought he could bully everyone in the world.

But the Mafia Boss routine is running out of would be victims who have decided to stand up.

[swong19104]

19. The Mafia Boss

routine works fine when the boss is the big fish in a small pond. But when it’s just a regular sized fish in a huge ocean, it doesn’t work at all.

[Initech]

9. Another crime to add to the impeachment charges!

Fuck Trump and this whole nightmare regime. May they all rot in hell.

[republianmushroom]

10. Yup, the translation is correct.

[malaise]

11. The trip should be very interesting

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NUeOMRHZ2wk

[republianmushroom]

13. Yup but short.

[Amaryllis]

15. If it happens.

[malaise]

16. Indeed

[Escape]

22. Isn't it interesting that...

Xi Jinping is 5'10" tall and Donald Trump claims to be 6'3".....yet, when standing side by side, they are the same height?

[BurnDoubt]

12. Dumb-Fuck.

That is All.

[Ford_Prefect]

20. Imagine.........

[PatrickforB]

23. And that will lead to two things for us.

First, we will find ourselves under the iron boot of bankers imposing austerity. What this is likely to look like is we will have the heck taxed out of us but all programs that benefit us will be cut because we own $39 trillion to the bankers.

Second, prices will continue to increase, while companies begin layoffs. So we will have higher unemployment and many people will begin to not be able to make ends meet while at the same time social safety nets are being reduced to fund the irresponsible tax cuts for corporations and billionaires.

The Donald really has done a bang-up job helping Putin and Russia finally WIN the cold war, hasn't he?

[GoodRaisin]

24. Krasnov has three options.

1. Take the strait by force, which will cost more American lives, which he doesn’t want to do before the mid term elections.

2. Take down his blockade, sail home, and declare end to the war. The problem with this option is that Iran will still control the strait and will probably not go along with it.

3. Keep lying, and we will all still be here next month, etc., while he does nothing.

I predict that the ignorant buffoon will take option 3.