From OPEC to Ottawa, the World Learns to Hedge America

Trump’s oil betrayals, tariff wars, and the quiet collapse of U.S. economic credibility

Donald Trump’s first real betrayal of OPEC didn’t come with bombs, seizures, or chest-thumping speeches about hemispheres. It arrived quietly, almost stupidly, in 2018, wrapped in a series of tweets and half-formed demands that revealed something oil producers understood immediately and Trump never did: the man does not keep faith, even when it costs ot…