Trump Drops Diesel Export Ban Threat Hours After G7 Agrees to Reserve Release
📉 LEVERAGE — Trump got the reserves released, then dropped the threat he used. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The sequence is the signal: threat, compliance, withdrawal. Washington extracted a G7 reserve release without paying the diplomatic cost of an actual ban. Europe burned strategic buffer under coercion, now has no grievance to lodge. Tehran watches allies exhaust reserves on a bluff. The lever worked once — Brussels will have to decide whether to call the next one.
