The best part is that if they hand over $5 trillion, it won't stop anyway. What a country!
this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2026
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Once you pay the Danegeld, you’ll never be rid of the Dane.
You can say goodbye to your gold though.
they paid the US $200Billions+ to defend them from Saddam invasion on Kuwait in the 1980s.. guess what happened afterward? The US built more military bases in their countries to start more wars for israel (invading Iraq), then asked for more $billions to protect them & repeat all over again
Im not even asking these fuckers to read history.. this whole shit is less than 40 yrs old, and keeps on repeating. The US used their money to attack Iran then billed them again last week an additional $100Billions+ for defense on top of the trillions they paid before it, and now asking them to pay more for compensation to repeat it all over.. Any sovereign country would've told the US and all their bases to fuck off, but that's the reason why the US keeps and needs these GCC monarch puppet states to exist as dictatorships
At same time wouldn't mind gulf states losing money
Always with the extortion
How about the US just fucks off instead?
Usa has proven to be evil and untrustworthy. It's a culture of evil with a bunch of naive people existing simply to fund them. We live under their ideology of what existence is and we are not living to our potential as a community because of it. We are cattle and slaves and all the narrations saying otherwise are manufactured like psychological marketing campaign.
I think so far I've only seen these claims made in Turkish media, but I hope it's true.
There are no happy endings here, but if the pedophiles and slave traders who run the GCC are made to truly suffer for their support of Donald Trump, I won't be displeased.
It is going to take generations before anybody trusts US or Israel again. If ever.
Hopefully they won’t be around much longer.
Well just wind up as Russia 2.
for this amount of money they could stop the war themselves, no? This is such a gigantic, non imaginable number...
Israel needs to go.