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Posted on 11/06/2025 12:53:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Nations were poised to approve the first fee on pollution from ships. That’s when the Trump administration began the threats.
More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end.
An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports. Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be blacklisted from entering the United States. And Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.
These and other threats, including tariffs, sanctions and the revocation of diplomats’ U.S. visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the nine American, European and developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration. The White House, the State Department and the Energy Department strongly denied that American officials made personal threats or intimidated diplomats. In statements and interviews, they acknowledged derailing the deal and repeated their opposition to international efforts to address climate change. They said the shipping fee would have hurt the American economy.
A State Department senior official also noted that the U.S. worked with Saudi Arabia to defeat the shipping fee and that allowed other nations that had reservations about the agreement to vote against it.
But foreign diplomats said they were stunned by what they described as “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department...
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Isn’t that called ‘statesmanship’?
Good! More of this, please.
Measures? Like temp, humidity, rain/snow totals.
>> Isn’t that called ‘statesmanship’?
Unless the statesman is Donald J Trump, in which case it’s bullying! And I voted for it!!! Bully some more, Mr. Prez!!!
Bullying??
C’mon, Man!
You WILL purchase an EV.
You WILL emit less carbon dioxide.
You MUST all live in a compacted cities and use a bicycle (except for experts/elite who will live in gated communities with heavily armed guards).
You WILL drink the Kool-Aid of the Globull Warming, Globull Cooling, Climate Change, Climate Crisis Hoax.
Well, it worked, didn’t it? So far as I am concerned, this was a tax and regulatory framework for other nations to dominate western societies in general, and the United States in particular. I am very glad that Trump used any and all means necessary to kill it.
Besides, what kind of penalties would have been imposed if this scheme had passed? What heavy-handed measures would’ve been used to ensure compliance or obedience? The New York Slimes conveniently left that part out.
Bullies need love too! ❤️
Obama tells Republicans: “You gotta get in the back seat.”
Back when the NYT had folks fooled into believing whatever they said, they had no problem with bullying. Now, they’re jealous because then have beclowned...no, make that beBidened themselves and no one gives an Obama what the h*ll they print.
It worked… for a year. This is a global carbon tax. It will be back in a year.
Poor little commie bass turds are throwing tantrums and bullying everything the elected Americans voted for with their homo and lesbo Dipstick Court Liberal jugheads. All are murderers, Homos or Lesbos. The real scum of the world and Hans Gruber Dummani is their King. Azhos.
Wasn’t there a little spat about 250 years ago about taxation without representation?
“An ambassador from Asia” - WHO?
Was it Cypress? Was it Lebanon?
NO name means NO credibility to the story.
If anyone collects fees from international shipping, it'll be America First and Only!
Also, a reminder to the Slimes and the UN "diplomats" with itchy palms, it's the US Navy's job to Hang Pirates, and we will get it done.
WE are going to get this month during Glo-Bull Warming and Climate Change, the same type of weather we got in 1976 during THE COMING ICE AGE scare. Brutal cold and wind. I remember it well in 1976.
It was used as proof we were entering THE COMING ICE AGE! and better get ready for it!
The Trump administration was absolutely right in protecting the American people by trying to end this wealth transfer scam.
Peculiar they don’t mention “The International Maritime Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations regulating maritime transport.”
IT GOT REPLAYED IN THE EARLY 90’S WHEN CALIF GOT SLAMMED FOR TAXING RETIREES WITH PERS PENSIONS WHO MOVED OUT OF STATE:
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
I would rather be feared then loved and ignored.........
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