This same party spent the last 10 years passing laws in several states to make it legal for (conservative) people to ram (liberal) protesters with their cars.
I think Trump thinks the oil was a reason to do it, and I doubt any O&G execs told him they wouldn't be interested, but it's not very economical for them (absent tons of taxpayer subsidies). His primary motivation was he thinks it makes him look like a badass.
"I hate everything he does except for the extremely illegal things (which he does flawlessly might I add and only beta pussies would complain about!!!!!!). No I won't tell you any of the things he does that I DO hate!"
I assume there's some sort of administrative process within the military for this that he could theoretically pursue. However, they've almost certainly rigged that process, given the delay between their initial outbursts right after his statement and then the delay before they announced this.
Insane take. That it would blow up NATO makes it more likely to happen, not less likely, as everyone in this White House hates NATO and wants to destroy it.
A side effect of this is that bringing the issue to the forefront of the national conversation also inevitably results in a ton of death threats against their political target and that target's family. I suspect that's the real reason behind this.
Nearly everyone else in the thread has interpreted your posts as saying essentially that. Even after numerous follow ups to attempt to get you to clarify your stance. Here's just one of many examples: As for you acting all hurt and harking back to our shared history on this board, it's not very convincing after your prior behavior in this very thread.
This entire thread is basically this conversation: Us: "We should say something like, 'yes you got screwed, but it wasn't because of minorities, it was by billionaire Republicans." You: "No, you can't tell them that they weren't screwed over because of minorities! You have to flatter their false beliefs that they were screwed over because of minorities, but then tell them 'but maybe also it was billionaire Republicans.'"