Trump is a reactionary, has no cohesive plans and lets the chips fall where they may. Then when it becomes an election issue, like the farming crisis, he throws our tax dollars at it. I can't wait to see what Pence's trip cost and now what the shipping is going to cost. Amazing.
I don't want to hear about socialism. Trump is spending American tax dollars in support of those adversely effected by HIS POLICIES. Is that not socialism? There are enough ships to make up the deficit in this new sanction, right? I mean there are, right?
Just because Trump believes capitalism will solve all problems, he does keep track of the number of ships needed BEFORE he leveled these sanctions, right? Considering this is an article form Haaretz, this isn't just Netanyahu campaign fodder, is it?
September 4, 2019
The United States (click here) on Wednesday sanctioned a sprawling network of firms, ships and individuals allegedly directed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that supplied Syria with oil worth tens of millions of dollars in a breach of U.S. sanctions.
The individuals included a former Iranian oil minister and his son, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement. Also hit were subsidiaries of an Indian firm with an interest in the Adrian Darya, the Iranian tanker that has been cruising the Mediterranean since its release from detention by authorities in Gibraltar in July, it said.
The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control action froze any assets in the United States of the designated entities and generally prohibited any U.S. citizens or companies from doing business with them....
