TOI Correspondent from Washington: In a pair of incendiary social media posts on Tuesday, MAGA supremo Donald Trump told US allies and partners to “go get your own oil” from an inflamed Gulf region or buy American energy, even as gas prices in the US breached $ 4 a gallon (Rs 100/liter). Trump taunted allies, implicitly accusing them of cowardice, because they have declined to support what even domestic critics see as Washington’s reckless war that is torching the Gulf region and the global economy.
Laying bare an extraordinary rupture in the transatlantic alliance, with European powers increasingly distancing themselves from the US, Trump lashed out at allies, asking them to “build up some delayed courage” and “ start learning how to fight for yourself,” because “the USA won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us.”
