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SilverStacker said:
I feel bad for Iran's people but this war isn't about them ; Its about a bunch of fanatics Developing a 100% in house WMD program. One that starts at "A" and goes on to "Z". They have huge uranium deposits, have several ways to enrich, have the technical expertise to deliver as well as the eventual ability to miniaturize and probably MIRV 2 stage war head Bus's giving them the means to threaten most of the world with "H-bombs".

And they would use them, I believe. This should have been dealt with 60 years ago.

Worse is if we pulled out now, not even willing to pay more for gas, how could anyone believes American promises of a nuclear umbrella? Most of all given our proficiency for electing brain dead morons like Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris. Imagine Joe being woken up at 0300 and in his jam-jams being told Israel has been wiped off the map and NYC has incoming ? Joe would curl up in a fetal, start sucking his thumb, and demand his favorite Teddy Bear and an ice cream.

I mean if your a Democrat more power to you, its a free country. But dont you think they could have picked a better time to paralyze our border defense and airport security then now ? YaThink ?
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Yes, we should have stopped israel 60 years ago, but today is just as good, tell israel to surrender that shit now or we walk away...
 
Our biggest fuck up was not putting a leash on Israel, now they have dragged, blackmailed, and bribed the slut whores we call politicians into this madness...you are welcome.
 
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Strait of Hormuz Update 30 March | Is Australia Running Out of Petrol? | Where are Trump's Tankers?​

Mar 30, 2026 What's Going on With Shipping - Maritime Industry Today
The March 30, 2026, update on the Strait of Hormuz. A breakdown of the latest Joint Maritime Information Center report; a replay of the past two days of traffic through the Strait on Marine Traffic; has the tankers that President Trump identified actually sailed out of the Persian Gulf; and finally, the issue regarding Australia and its dwindling supply of petrol.


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- Marine Traffic www.marinetraffic.com
- UKMTO JMIC Advisories https://www.ukmto.org/partner-product...
- BCA's Iran Conflict Daily Dashboard https://www.bcaresearch.com/collectio...
- WindwardAI Iran War https://insights.windward.ai/
- Washington Institute Maritime Attacks https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/m...
- Australian Ports Closed Due To Cyclone Mitchell https://gcaptain.com/australian-ports...
- Global LNG Supply Cut Further After Cyclone Hits Australian Plants https://gcaptain.com/global-lng-suppl...
- Seven charts that reveal how unprepared Australia was for the fuel crisis https://www.theguardian.com/business/...
 

Trump urges countries to go to Strait of Hormuz and 'just take it'​

WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged countries that did not help in the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran to buy American oil and go to the Strait of Hormuz and "just TAKE it."

Trump singled out Britain and France as unhelpful in the month-long war that has roiled global markets, driven up energy prices and seen Iran effectively close oil tanker traffic through the Strait.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...and-just-take-it/ar-AA1ZOtzL?ocid=socialshare
 

Captain details trip through the Strait of Hormuz​

(NewsNation) — The captain of a ship flying under the Malta flag is speaking out about what it was like going through the Strait of Hormuz since the Iran conflict started.

Srdan Jankovic is the captain of the MV SEA, whose ship made a delivery to Bandar Imam Khomeini, a port in the Persian Gulf in Iran. Jankovic told NewsNation he and his crew entered the Gulf on January 24 to make the delivery.

The Iranian regime had previously sent a message to Iranian citizens informing them that the strait would be closed until their “destroyed forces are rebuilt.”

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...strait-of-hormuz/ar-AA1ZKTk3?ocid=socialshare
 
Because Russia never was the enemy...



If you think Trump is falling ass backwards into brilliant disentanglement and post-fallout resurgence after resurgence, you’re simply not going to understand what’s being set up until you consider what’s actually being destroyed.

Cling to the postwar script that casts Russia, China and the emerging multipolar players as the existential threats, and the world looks like pure entropy: Trump losing control in the Global South and Middle East, Putin grinding forward in the borderlands amid supposed global isolation, with Xi lurking as the patient wildcard.

When you flip the lens, however, and invert the framing, as I have attempted to do for years, the picture resolves into renewal, rebirth and a sovereign renaissance already underway.

In other words, Trump isn’t stumbling into wider conflict or perpetuating the dissolution of Sovereign Power; he’s running the globalists ragged in their former strongholds, forging mandates for American extraction and abundance through the very optics of managed chaos, while granting Putin and Xi both short-term windfalls and narrative shielding to do what they need to do to accelerate the globalist disentanglements in their own macro regions of responsibility.

Each disentanglement provokes the next, each Sovereign player benefits directly from the other’s provocations, accelerating the collapse of the unipolar trap into a multipolar order defined not by centralized control, but by cooperative competition among resurgent sovereign powers.

This is the War of Stories at its most refined: interconnected theaters revealing the fragility of the globalist web, where what at first looks like a land littered with scattered and randomized fires is actually the controlled burn clearing space for something far greater.

All of this is going to be framed, predictably, as the unintended consequence of Trump’s folly, but those paying attention will see not the loss of control, but the precise, layered execution of a plan decades in the making.

Just one that isn’t all about us.

The rules-based order isn’t being challenged. It’s being destroyed.

The board isn’t falling apart. It’s being reset.

And the ones who designed the game in the first place are running out of moves.

The intra-MAGA sifting process in the interim isn't anything new.

We saw the exact same thing play out in 2022, when I implored my readers to commit the faces of the faux MAGA class to memory.

Something too few took to heart.

Alas, while it appears we've been thrust into the Kobayashi Maru of our age, Donald Trump has already re-programmed the victory conditions of the test.

The rest is a matter of timing, narrative translation and awakening.

And it's becoming increasingly clear that the choice to know is yours, and that not everyone is going to make that choice.

So be it.

My latest in the Burning Bright Iran Series delves into the Real War I believe is being waged (and won) by the Sovereign Alliance beneath the headlines.

burningbright.substack.com

Donald Trump's Energy War

From Axis to Ashes, the Hegemon is Dead
burningbright.substack.com burningbright.substack.com
 


@thejointstaff
Chairman Gen. Dan Caine says the U.S. continues to strike key Iranian manufacturing nodes, component storage sites, and research facilities: "Over the past 30 days, we've struck more than 11,000 targets."

"We've taken out more than 150 ships, including all Jamaran class frigates inside their navy... We continue to prosecute our campaign against their defense industrial base at scale. This includes factories, warehouses, nuclear weapons R&D labs, and the associated infrastructure required for Iran to reconstitute its combat capability."
 

Europe hardens stance against Trump’s Iran war in threat to NATO​

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s NATO allies are increasing resistance to getting involved in his Iran war, risking a deeper rupture in the already strained military bloc.

Spain closed its airspace to US jets Monday, and Italy denied US military aircraft bound for the Middle East permission to land at a base in Sicily, according to a person familiar with the matter. Poland said it has no plans to relocate its Patriot batteries, following a report that the US has suggested Warsaw consider sending one of its systems to shore up air defenses in the Middle East.

On Tuesday, the US president posted on social media his unhappiness with France’s refusal to allow planes with military supplies use its airspace. “The U.S.A. will REMEMBER,” Trump wrote.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...n-threat-to-nato/ar-AA1ZPrMR?ocid=socialshare
 
Something the "death to America", "death to Israel" crowd ought to listen to. Jamie Dimon speaking about the American economy.

 


For people who say it couldn't be predicted that the Iran war would be this consequential for the global economy, watch this 2012 video of former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski 👇

He predicts what did in fact happen: "[Iran] can hurt us a lot... Can you imagine what the consequences would be for us if [...] Iraq was massively destabilized, if Bahrain was set on fire, if the North-Eastern oil fields in Saudi Arabia were attacked... The consequences, the costs would be cumulative... The global economy would be affected so we're playing with fire here."

All of this happened.

Which goes to show that the US government has been acutely aware for decades of how globally destructive a war on Iran would be for all of us (including on America itself and on its Gulf allies): when Trump says that “nobody” expected Iran to retaliate by targeting US allies in the region (https://reuters.com/world/middle-ea...taliation-gulf-allies-sources-say-2026-03-17/), it's a bold-faced lie.

So the real question is rather: if you know something will set the world on fire, and you do it anyway, and the consequences unfold exactly as predicted - at what point does the rest of the world stop looking at Washington as a fireman and start reckoning with the fact that they're dealing with an arsonist?

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Kokinda explains how The City Of London conquered Iran in the 1950's via Mosaddegh.

Forgotten America | Susan Kokinda Pt. 2 | Ep. 08​

After Iran—Who Really Won? The Empire Still Pulling Strings

The war may be over—but the real questions are just beginning.

Steve Gruber and Ivey Gruber continue with Susan Kokinda from Promethean Action to break down what comes next—and who really benefits. From economic power to global influence, they explore whether modern conflicts still follow the same playbook used for generations.

Did anything really change… or is the system still in control?

If you watched Part 1, this is where it all comes together.
 
  • The White House said that Trump will deliver an address “to the nation to provide an important update on Iran” at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday.
  • “We’ll be leaving very soon,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
  • “Iran doesn’t have to make a deal,” Trump said. “It’s a new regime. They are much more accessible.”
www.cnbc.com

Trump to address nation on Iran war Wednesday night, White House says

President Donald Trump said he expected that U.S. military forces will leave Iran in "two or three weeks."
www.cnbc.com www.cnbc.com
 
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Going to go out on a limb here. I think T is trying to figure out how to walk away while saying he's won and telling the rest of the world to go deal with the Strait of Hormuz on their own.

I also think he may try to get us out of NATO.

Tonight will be very telling.
 
Goldhedge said:


For people who say it couldn't be predicted that the Iran war would be this consequential for the global economy, watch this 2012 video of former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski 👇

He predicts what did in fact happen: "[Iran] can hurt us a lot... Can you imagine what the consequences would be for us if [...] Iraq was massively destabilized, if Bahrain was set on fire, if the North-Eastern oil fields in Saudi Arabia were attacked... The consequences, the costs would be cumulative... The global economy would be affected so we're playing with fire here."

All of this happened.

Which goes to show that the US government has been acutely aware for decades of how globally destructive a war on Iran would be for all of us (including on America itself and on its Gulf allies): when Trump says that “nobody” expected Iran to retaliate by targeting US allies in the region (https://reuters.com/world/middle-ea...taliation-gulf-allies-sources-say-2026-03-17/), it's a bold-faced lie.

So the real question is rather: if you know something will set the world on fire, and you do it anyway, and the consequences unfold exactly as predicted - at what point does the rest of the world stop looking at Washington as a fireman and start reckoning with the fact that they're dealing with an arsonist?

Source video:
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Zbigniew Brzezinski is one of the most vile and retchid people that has ever existed. He alongside Haig, Kissinger and their contemporaries are part of the cabal that sit as intermediaries between the clown show and the power players.

searcher said:
I also think he may try to get us out of NATO.
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If that happens, all bets are off. Would be the only positive from the shitshow thus far.
 
You cannot walk away from Iran without getting rid of the IRGC and expect no retaliation down the road. You can leave it in a mess, but sooner or later it will go rogue.
 
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