‘It’s shocking how poorly prepared the administration is’: DOGE gutted major energy personnel who warn the US has lost key insights amid Iran war. Six months before his attack on Iran Trump gutted an 80-person team within the State Department tasked with leading international energy diplomacy.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/shocking-poorly-prepared-administration-doge-082100372.html
Posted by mafco
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This is the kind of decision that doesn’t look like a big deal until something like this happens. Cutting energy diplomacy teams means losing real expertise on oil markets, supply chains, and relationships in places like the Middle East, which are critical during conflicts like this.
Now with the Iran war disrupting supply and pushing prices up, that missing insight really shows. It just highlights how fragile and reactive the current energy system still is when geopolitics hit.
That’s also why looking at long-term energy trends matters more than ever. Tools like this help visualize how these shocks can affect costs over time and what more stable options might look like: [https://thesolarprime.com/newforecast-2026-dw](https://thesolarprime.com/newforecast-2026-dw?utm_source=chatgpt.com)
Almost as if Trump is a foreign agent tasked with destroying the United States while strengthening the position of Russia.
I really wonder what fucked up nonsense he got himself into while visiting Moscow in 1987.
The mistake is in thinking it’s by accident. This is a malicious deconstruction of the American way of life, threatening and destroying anyone in the way.
Oh no not the useless crossdressing bureaucrats!
Basically he ran all the adults out of government.
Oh no! The consequences of the very policies they ran on! Who could’ve anticipated such a disaster!
Shocking for whom? There are a lot of us who very much understood how unprepared this administration is. We’ve warned you all for YEARS Trump is a madman. But noooo. He was your guy (rhetorical ) because he’s … Jesus? This is either a really good example of revelations being real. You (MAGA Christians) just don’t understand the four horseman. Pestilence (RFK JR.), War (Secretary of War Crimes, Pete Kegsbreath) Famine (Elon Musk), Death- Trump
Or, more likele it’s all bs and this is a stupid attempt to steal money from everyone!
Oh look abject failure in leadership, who would have thought?
The plan was to cause as much disruption to the system of government as possible and then take as much as possible on their way out the door…with pardons and immunity in tow. This was a grift, and the US fell for it.
Yeah they told us they weee gonna do that.
That was the preparation…
There is literally nothing shocking about this, except for a bit of mild surprise at just how quickly the Republicans rolled over and gave up on everything they had always claimed to believe in.
how we got that great covid response
Dump is really proving to be America’s undoing, and as an American, I can’t say it isn’t undeserved. . .
It’s all part of the plan.