German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior (DOI).
RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.
So it’s not just that he’s stupid, it’s the russian asset thing?
Maybe. Or maybe sufficiently advanced corruption is indistinguishable from high treason.
lol, I think this is the most important takeaway here. We feel a natural pull to understand as critical thinking humans, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if it’s maliciousness or incompetence
They don’t call him “Agent Krasnov” for nothing.
Actually he’s a pants-shitting, trundling confluence of all of the worst possible qualities a person could have in this context: He hates American citizens and believes he is above them, and he is personally embittered by the rejection he experienced by the elites and craves spite and retribution, and is committed to the interests of rival powers by choice or by pressure, and is a brainbroke stroke victim with advanced dementia who was never actually intelligent to begin with, and also is just in all of this out of self-interest, whether that’s profit, indulgence, or just plain evading prison and consequences for his many many crimes.
The issue here is that it can be, and is, many terrible things at once, but we humans tend to reduce everything to a single and primary cause… That’s not wrong to do, but it does blind us to the depth of the threat he poses and the future damage he will cause.
There’s always corruption waiting in the wings. Did the German company pay him? Maybe. Did the oil/coal/gas companies pay him? Maybe.
This is much like the tariff refunds, right? Trump makes money by insider trading, probably gets bribed too, and the US taxpayers foot a gigantic bill which pays the people who bribed him.
What is shocking, if you haven’t seen it before, is the difference in the amount he makes versus the amount it costs us. For example, if you give Trump a million dollars, he’ll happily waste a hundred million of our dollars… You might think 100x is excessive, like can’t he steal a little more efficiently, amirite, but basically criminals don’t give a shit about collateral damage, so the thought never crossed his mind.