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  • rainpizza
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    8 days ago

    TRUMP EXTORTS THE GULF FOR MORE MONEY!!!

    “If you want the war to continue — $5 trillion. If you want it to stop — $2.5 trillion.”

    Omani journalist and international affairs researcher Salem Al-Jahoori on BBC Arabic confirms reports of U.S. pressure on Gulf Cooperation Council states to pay up, either way.

    According to leaks Al-Jahoori cites, Trump is demanding GCC states pay $5 trillion to sustain the war, or $2.5 trillion as a fee for stopping it, framed as payment for “what has been accomplished.”

    Protection racket without any protection.

    Video in https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/178556

      • KrasnaiaZvezda
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        8 days ago

        I don’t think they asked Iran yet. They probably just have to give it all to them, plus whatever else they demand anyway…

    • jmo
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      8 days ago

      Has anyone seen any independent corroboration for this? I’ve been looking and having seen anything.

      • rainpizza
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        You could probably find something in the Arabic media.

        As context, this claim is done not by Iran but by an Omani journalist to a Western media which is the BBC. You could crosscheck by searching for that specific video segment elsewhere.

    • Commiejones
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      Pretty sure the gcc have figured out that usa isn’t the one with the on/off switch.