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World Peace Declared (not really). Oil plunges. Stocks,gold,silver, bitcoin all soar. I tell you why​

A truce in the war between Iran and the USA has been declared for two weeks in order to allow time for negotiations. Both sides are calling this a victory. It’s only a temporary ceasefire, but the world is hopeful that some middle ground will be found resulting in peace.

Apparently ships will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz albeit on Iran’s terms (we do not know what those terms will be).

The oil price fell sharply on the news, stocks, rallied, precious metals, valid, and bitcoin rallied on the news

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Its pretty simple We Lost and there is no way for us to Win this skirmish. Therefore, Iran gets a lot of negotiating power.

Figuring out who the real "We" is however, the hard part.
 
The Democratic are BORG

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Criticized for Strategy He Hasn’t Even Used​

Debate over Trump’s rhetoric on Iran has sparked fresh accusations of “war crimes” from critics. But a look at history—from World War II through Iraq and Libya—shows U.S. presidents in both parties have long targeted dual-use infrastructure in wartime.

The real question isn’t just language, but how modern narratives square with longstanding military precedent. It’s a reminder that context matters when judging strategy and intent.
 
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"Two of the UK's biggest banks, Santander UK and Lloyds, provided accounts to British companies with links to Iran's intelligence services.

Iran evaded Western sanctions by using accounts at two UK banks to move money around the world in an extensive sanctions evasion scheme, according to the Financial Times.

Lloyds Banking Group and Santander UK provided accounts to front companies that were secretly owned by a sanctioned and state-controlled Iranian petrochemicals company, the news outlet said, citing documents.

The Petrochemical Commercial Company's (PCC) British subsidiary (PCC UK) is still operating near Buckingham Palace.

Both companies have been under US sanctions since 2018, meaning that Western banks are blocked from doing business with them."

Despite not being able to find proof, I simply don't believe that this escaped all of British intelligence and all of British government. I believe this to have been an unholy alliance to sidestep the United States. AGAIN.
 

With Iran Setting Limits, Strait of Hormuz Remains Thorny Politically​

Even after a cease-fire, Iran is keeping a chokehold on traffic, forcing countries to cut deals that could put them at odds with the U.S.

For the last several weeks, sailing a ship through the Strait of Hormuz was perilous, given the risk of Iranian attacks, whether by missiles or mines. Now that the United States and Iran have put the war on pause, the voyage may be less dangerous. But it is no less challenging politically or diplomatically.

Two days into the fragile cease-fire, the strait has become Iran’s biggest chip in a high-stakes geopolitical contest with President Trump.

Rather than throwing open the waterway to oil tankers and container ships, as the Trump administration had promised, shipping analysts said Iran was keeping a chokehold on it. And Iran is giving priority to a trickle of vessels from countries that either trade directly with it or are not viewed as hostile to the Iranian government.

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It was clearly all AI made but the message came through clear as day with some humor thrown in.... though not for the Maga crowd.

Gerald has a few thoughts along the same line of thought, though a very different presentation.

 
Voodoo said:
It was clearly all AI made but the message came through clear as day with some humor thrown in.... though not for the Maga crowd.

Gerald has a few thoughts along the same line of thought, though a very different presentation.

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i.e., propaganda
 
Very interesting interview... lots of hidden history, the real war is not with Iran it's with Davos and The City of London.

Britain's SECRET Iranian Drug EMPIRE Finally EXPOSED​

 
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Dont forget they killed 45,000 of their own people so we have to drop a nuke on them to teach them a lesson.
 
I'm seeing bits and pieces of this presentation on X lately:


Here's the full video:

 
Great, now we are stuck there forever, cause they moment we leave, they re-mine...
 
pmbug said:
I'm seeing bits and pieces of this presentation on X lately:
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Mearshiemer is pontificating. Putting words in Trump's mouth and in people's ears.

Trump hasn't surrendered.

They all think they understand Trump, but they're also viewing it from THEIR perspective of the world. "Shocking!!" "What President would say such a thing!!?" "He's Hitler!" (Of course if anyone would actually listen to Hitler's speeches they'd come away with a different understanding from the propaganda that's been laid thick on society for decades.)

Typical. They sound like they're wealthy, haughtily looking down their noses while sitting in their comfortable sun porches drinking tea with little pinky out eating crumpets... while looking out their window at the great unwashed common man picking up trash in the street.

That's the problem. They're working from a different perspective than the man in the street. They've never had to work in the ditches.

Trump is the man in the street getting things done. It's his MO. He's pushed a broom. Shoveled dirt.

He's not 'playing the game' according to their societal niceties. Kind of like how the colonies fought the British?


It reminds me of a roommate's dad. The story goes like this... after school soccer teams needed coaches so 'dad' volunteers to 'coach' the kids only he doesn't coach them to play by the rules of the game while the other team's coaches 'played by the accepted rules'. They were grade school urchins. He taught them to win!

Come game time his kids would run after the one with the ball and not play positions. No rules were broken, but the kids won all their games using this tactic. The other coaches and parents were aghast at his disregard for protocol and told him so on many occasions!

At the end of the year awards celebration 'dad' went up to receive his award whereupon he gave a little acceptance speech that ripped them all a new asshole!

Short story is he told them where to go and where to stick the award. That these were kids and the goal was winning.

Now you understand Trump!
 
Media TDS blows everything Trump does out of proportion... it's their MO, unless it's a democrat.


TRUMP'S THREATS AGAINST IRAN AREN'T NEW. CLINTON RAN THE SAME PLAYBOOK WITH SERBIA.

When Trump made statements threatening the destruction of Iran that many called genocidal, the coverage treated it as something unprecedented. It isn't.

The rhetoric has a template... and it came out of the Clinton White House.

During the Yugoslav wars, Thomas Friedman published a column in the New York Times that read like a direct threat to the Serbian people.

Not the government, the people.

The message was blunt: ‘We’re at war with the Serbian people, not the Serbian gov. You want 1950, we can do 1950. You want 1389, we can do 1389. If you don’t capitulate’

That's threatening to erase centuries of civilization.

A professor and former policy analyst tells us Clinton almost certainly used Friedman as the messenger. A way to put maximum psychological pressure on Belgrade through a trusted media voice while maintaining plausible deniability at the White House level.

It worked. Serbia capitulated.

The pattern is the same. Inflammatory rhetoric aimed at a civilian population, laundered through credible public figures, designed to break will rather than just destroy military capacity.

The difference is Clinton used a columnist. Trump just said it himself.

One was considered statecraft. The other is called dangerous.

The strategy though was identical.
 
Iran probably knows C130's loaded to the gills are heading over there....

 

IT'S OVER: Trump's 'World's Most Powerful Reset' Just ENDED Schwab's Great Reset​

Barbara Boyd argues Donald Trump’s Truth Social post—“World’s Most Powerful Reset”—signals a deliberate effort to dismantle the World Economic Forum’s COVID-era “Great Reset” and replace it with an opposite agenda: expanded U.S. energy production, lower global prices, and renewed American industrial growth. She contrasts net-zero finance and global governance—citing Klaus Schwab, King Charles, Mark Carney, and the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero—with Trump’s “drill, build, export” approach and the goal of keeping the Strait of Hormuz open. Boyd cites strategist James Thorne’s view that moves involving Venezuela and Iran aim to “re-anchor” energy and money in the dollar system, while she frames Trump’s strategy as the American System of Hamilton, Lincoln, and McKinley, not a British imperial “Great Game.” She connects Iran talks involving regional players to a “Board of Peace,” and ends by linking Artemis II’s splashdown and a moon-to-Mars vision to this broader reset, urging viewers to follow Promethean Action and support midterm efforts.

00:00 The Saturday Wrap-Up - IT'S OVER: Trump's 'World's Most Powerful Reset' Just ENDED Schwab's Great Reset - April 11, 2026
01:44 Schwab's Reset: Own Nothing, Lose Everything
06:20 Hamilton's Revenge: The American System Returns
11:01 The World's Most Powerful Reset
 
What ceasefire, once again israel never stopped shooting...
 
Bury the fuck there, you know he will never carry a rifle....Seriously, dieing for israel seems so stupid.
 

US Destroyers Enter Persian Gulf - Strait Still Open? | Plus, Empty Supertankers Heading to the US​


Apr 11, 2026 What's Going on With Shipping - Maritime Industry Today
On April 11, 2026, US Central Command announced that two US destroyers - USS Frank E Peterson (DDG-121) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) - transited the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf. This is part of a broader mission to ensure that the Strait is fully clear of sea mines and reopen the Internationally recognized channel between Oman and Iran, vice the one that is controlled by Iran and the IRGC. This coincided with the opening of talks between the US and Iran in Pakistan. We also discuss the rerouting of empty Very Large Crude Carriers to loading ports outside of the Persian Gulf.

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- Marine Traffic www.marinetraffic.com
-CAVASSHIPS Podcast [Apr 10, ’26] Ep: 238 Sal Mercogliano on the Effects of a Choked Choke Point https://defaeroreport.com/2026/04/10/...
- CENTCOM Release on X https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/20430050...
 
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