Anon03/10/26, 07:07No.1496122
There were other reminders of how US foreign policy has now fully passed through the looking-glass. Trump on Monday said that he would relax sanctions on certain countries sales of oil to help calm markets, reversing his own policy of increasing economic pressure on Russian oil sales to help end the conflict in Ukraine. He then added that the US may not ultimately return those sanctions once global markets return to normal. “Who knows … maybe we won’t have to put them on, there will be so much peace.”But in the most striking moment, Trump suggested that Iran had covertly obtained a Tomahawk missile and then used it to strike a girl’s school in the city of Minab, killing more than 168 people – most of them children.Asked whether the US would accept any responsibility for the strike, which occurred not long before the US hit a naval base nearby, Trump suggested: “Tomahawks are used by many countries,” and that “Iran has some Tomahawks.”That was more than many reporters in the room could stomach.“You just suggested that Iran somehow got its hands on a tomahawk and bombed its own elementary school on the first day of the war,” said one reporter, before asking why “you’re the only person in your government saying this”.“Because I just don’t know enough about it”, Trump responded. “I think it’s something that I was told is under investigation”.