10/ All of this was totally foreseeable. Frankly, it’s why previous presidents weren’t so stupid to start a war like this.
Trump has lost control of the war. His best course now is to cut his losses and end it. That’s the only way to prevent an even bigger disaster.
9/ CRISIS FOUR: Trump has no endgame. Iran and its proxies can create chaos indefinitely.
So what’s next? A ground invasion?This would be Armageddon. Thousands of dead Americans.
Declare false victory? Then the new Iranian hardliners in charge just rebuild what we destroyed.
8/ Other potential flash points lurk. So far, the Houthis in Yemen have been relatively quiet. Probably not for long. They can project power into the Red Sea.
For Syria, this is the worst time for Trump to strike Iran. Syria could explode again.
7/ CRISIS THREE: A broader, regional war is breaking out as Iranian proxies in Lebanon hit Israel and those in Iraq target the U.S.. Israel is now threatening a massive ground invasion of Lebanon, which could become its own new crisis.
6/ If Trump paid any attention to the Ukraine War he would have noticed how warfare has changed. But he didn’t. And he blundered.
Worse, the Gulf states are running out of interceptors to stop Iranian missiles and drones - meaning that soon more oil sites will be vulnerable.
5/ CRISIS TWO: We can destroy Iran’s missiles but not all their drones, and war today is drone war.
Iran can hit oil sites in the region indefinitely because they posses so many cheap, weaponized drones.
And they are. They blew up a critical Oman oil depot two days ago.
4/ What about naval escorts for tankers? This is a possibility, but it’s harder than you think.
First, it would require our entire navy. 100 tankers need escorting each day.
Second, if we can’t destroy the mines and drones, our ships are at risk too.
3/ Right now, Trump has no plan to reopen the Strait. And a plan may not exist.
The assets Iran uses to harass and attack tankers - thousands of small drones, speed boats and mines - cannot be eliminated. They are too numerous, too spread out and hidden.
2/ CRISIS ONE: Trump believed Iran would not close the Strait of Hormuz. He was wrong. And now oil prices are spiking.
If the Strait stays closed, a global recession will result. It actually may already be too late. Gas prices are the first to spike, but food prices are next.
His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.
Watching these guys learn basic geopolitics in real time is incredible. Ah so that's why you need allies. I see
In a small city that touts itself as “The Peanut Capital of the World,” a new proposal focuses on planting rows of something else: high-security computer servers.
NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.
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The SAVE plan, which allowed student loan borrowers to pay back their loans based on their income, is dead after the Trump administration refused to defend it in court.
Now, monthly payments will spike by as much as 400%.
Trump is making the affordability crisis worse by the day.
Barry Blitt’s sketchbook.
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Amazing strategy: start a war with Iran, watch oil prices explode, then announce new offshore drilling that won’t produce a drop for months. Brilliant. Nothing says “we’re in control” like announcing oil that doesn’t exist yet.
#MissionAccomplished 😏
Then again, what did we expect from the Project 2025 folks?
There it is…
Brendan Carr y @BrendanCarrFCC X.com Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation's airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of
From the Czar for Propaganda:
this reminds me: Canadians, don't forget to sign up for CDCP if you're eligible:
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President Trump told his White House team before the war that he thought Iran would likely capitulate before it would close the Strait of Hormuz, and even if Iran tried, the US military could handle it.-WSJ
Crude prices aren't what will ultimately drive the necessary demand destruction should the Strait of Hormuz remain closed.
That job will fall to refined product prices, the things we as consumers actually consume.
Singapore spot jet fuel prices are there already, over $200/bbl
🛢️ OIL & IRAN WAR CONTEXT WEEKLY 🛢️
Iran War marches into its third week, the price of physical crude is ripping past relatively sanguine paper barrels, refined product markets are tightening even quicker, and there’s no end in sight.
Summary below, link to full report in reply
While Jared Kushner is negotiating on behalf of the United States with governments in the Middle East, he is also soliciting investments in his private business ventures from the same governments
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my takeaway from spending time thinking/writing about this is that we describe the information environment as broken but i think that’s wrong. i think it’s working as intended! making ppl feel a specific way and then offering a supposed salve in the form of the very thing that made us feel insane
I wrote about everything happening too much in 2026 and the rise of ‘monitoring the situation. How total bombardment is partly a surrender to the internet and its logic and algorithms—a kind of attentional death
New from 404 Media: the removed DOGE deposition videos have already been backed up across the internet. A judge ordered their removal from YouTube on Friday. By Saturday, the videos were available on the Internet Archive and as a torrent file www.404media.co/the-removed-...
An infographic titled "president Trump is reshaping the media", reposted from his truth social account.
Donald Trump is now just openly bragging about interfering in the media. He's the president. He's running a truck over the first amendment here.
