Warnings? Seriously, so what? 
The Wall Street Journal reports Iran Lays Mines in Strait of Hormuz, Triggering U.S. Response
Iran placed mines in the Strait of Hormuz over recent days, U.S. officials said, an escalation meant to shut down a vital economic throughway, leading President Trump to threaten a swift reprisal.
Iran laid fewer than 10 mines in the strait and it is unclear whether it intends to add more in the near term, the officials said. One official said it could be a political signal to the U.S. that Tehran can violently stifle the global economy.
After CNN earlier reported that Iran mined the shipping lane, Trump on Tuesday said Iran would be attacked “at a level never seen before” unless the mines were removed. U.S. Central Command shortly afterward said the U.S. had struck and destroyed 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels, releasing a 34-second video showing some of the attacks.
Trump said the U.S. Navy could escort tankers willing to sail through the strait if necessary. Iran has vowed to target the American vessels.
Totally Meaningless Talk
Truth Social: If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! Additionally, we are using the same Technology and Missile capabilities deployed against Drug Traffickers to permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait. They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Just look at that nonsense.
On March 7, I noted Trump Threatens Iran with “Complete Destruction and Certain Death”
After threatening Iran with “Complete Destruction and Certain Death” they are supposed to be cowering over “Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before”?
US Navy tells shipping industry Hormuz escorts not possible for now
What Oil Is Getting Through
Daily Hit Rates
Is Israel’s Goal and Iranian Civil War?
What happened to Trump Says ‘I think the war is very complete, pretty much’
Oh wait. I see it’s very complete “pretty much”.
In case you did not realize this, Trump has successfully replaced a regime willing to negotiate, with new leadership that won’t.
Pete Hegseth “we”ll end the war on our timeline”?
Iranians laughing “oh really?”
Yes, really.
The best investment Russia & Israel ever made: Jeffery Epstein
Probably designed to entrap Bill Clinton and other prominent Americans. Who knew the Donald Trump would crawl out of the slippery pit of 13 year olds to be President one day? And whoever imagined just about every evangelical Christian would vote for him? Oh yeah, we all knew the evangelicals would be on board!
So Day 11 of this weekend war and things couldn’t be going worse. They have no plan to end this anytime soon. This is what happens when you give an orange man-child access to the largest military in the world.
But not anywhere as bad as Russia’s “Special Military Operation” that was supposed to last less than a week! 🤣
Toto pulls back the curtain and reveals a complete and total moron is manically yanking on random levers of power. The risk of boots 6′ feet under the ground is they may not find any enriched uranium: the sequel.
The planting season in the northern hemisphere is imminent. Even if the war ends now, food price increases later in the year are unavoidable due to fertilizer shortages.
But a small price to pay for a disembodied Iran!
3 Commercial ships hit by projectiles in the Strait of Hormuz.
On the topic of the US Navy escorting civilian vessels. Back in 2022, per an article on The War Zone,
“The Navy has been candid enough with Military Sealift Command and me that they will probably not have enough ships to escort us. It’s: ‘You’re on your own; go fast, stay quiet.’
https://www.twz.com/24155/vital-logistics-ships-will-be-without-critical-u-s-navy-escorts-in-a-major-conflict
speaking of Rand Paul: Midterms will be ‘disastrous’ for Republicans\
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5776845-rand-paul-warns-midterm-disaster/
I hope Massie survives.
“Midterms will be ‘Disastrous’ for Republicans”
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Senator John Thune Is Now Calling For The Full
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Don’t count your chickens before they have hatched!
This is a total embarrassment for the US and worse than that it is damaging the world economy. This is what you get when a bunch of amateurs are promoted to senior positions based purely on their politics rather than on experience in the job.
This has been happening from day 1 and key people have warned us that these poor decisions would eventually result in a major disaster somewhere. It has been bad decision after bad decision. As I’ve said before if you wrote a playbook on how to bring the US to its knees, Trumps actions to date would not be far off the recommendations in such a playbook. It almost seems to be purposeful it is so bad and the GOP is following their leader right into hell.
The enemy within appears to be Trump. He is either stupid, crazy, or evil. It doesn’t matter which one it is he just needs to go. Enough is Enough!
And ya the American people need to take responsibility for this as well. How could anyone be so stupid as to vote for this guy after January 6th? It defies belief, a hundred years from now historians will shake their head and say how could that happen, just like we shake are heads today and say how could the Germans have put Hitler in a position of power? Well now we know!
Trump isn’t “deciding” anything
Remember what Ann Coulter said back in 2019, Trump is like a couch that bears the imprint of the last person who sat on it. It’s very easy to manipulate Trump by appealing to his titanic ego and everyone knows this.
https://youtu.be/VXOFHr6tGMQ?t=1921
> He is either stupid, crazy, or evil
He’s the perfect front man and just doing his job.
Americans should pledge to never vote Republican again for 50 years.
Time to create a new conservative/libertarian wing of the Democratic Party and take it over.
Not embarrassed at all!
“All the insurers at Lloyd’s are still quoting business, and will still provide cover to basically anyone who asks,” Davison said.
War-risk insurance premiums for any commercial ship transiting the world’s most important energy chokepoint surged well before the conflict and then skyrocketed, with rates now up twelvefold.
Therefore, the real constraint is not so much the insurance as the extreme danger facing tankers, bulk carriers, and container ships, as Tehran threatens vessels with drones, missiles, and water-based mines.
Assuming that tanker full of oil doesn’t get blown up, the price to consumers will be sky high regardless of insurance. All those associated costs are passed on to you and me.
The real constraint is persuading the insurers that the danger has passed.
Let’s say that Hormuz Strait stays closed for 3 months. Doesn’t matter if it is mined or not. What matters is if there is anybody willing to insure ships and cargo and if that party is credible (White House doesn’t seem to be a credible counterparty in this business, they’ll bomb you if you bring a claim).
What happens?
Saudis are able to ship 5 to 7 million barrels through Yanbu terminal in Red Sea if Houthis allow it and if Trump doesn’t decide to bomb them.
Some countries will run out of oil, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, marine fuel, LNG. Electricity blackouts.
We are talking about poor countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh but also about Australia (imports 90% all types of fuels), Thailand, India, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam.
Companies from these countries will be affected and there is a big risk that they stop supplying. Garments, mobile phones and electronics as such, furniture, consumer goods, food.
Will China be able to replace them partially? Probably yes. China is probably able to run for 270 days when it comes to oil, can mine more coal and import more LNG from Russia.
Bombing Iran for 3-months to exchange Khamenei for Khamenei, make China stronger and remunerate Russians (by lifting oil sanctions) for providing attack co-ordinates to Iran.
Xi: Comrade Trump, do you need more consumer goods before mid-terms?
Trump: Eeeehhhhmmm
Xi: No problem. And 0% import tariffs on all items including industrial goods and raw materials. OK?
Trump to press: We are winning more and more because all consumer goods are now cheaper!
Three month closure is a very long time.
The “world” won’t wait that long.
excellent commentary. One minor detail: Viet Nam has the oil of its own, one should not worry about them.
An Ironic Twist on David and Goliath.
The Maginot line for global equity composites is the extended underlying tangent line containing the lowest valuations of ACWI on the 1st and 5th day of the 25 Feb to 3 Mar 2026 of its 5 day 1st crash decay fractal.
By peak valuation fractal reckoning, 25 Feb 2026 was already the 1982 13/33 year :: x/2.5x peak valuation for the ACWI global composite index.
With the concurrent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, an instantaneous global Covid equivalent impact has been thrust upon the preexisting and deterministic 25 Feb 2026 initial crash.
Without the Iran ‘excursion, special military, operation, brief skirmish’ US interest rates and oil futures would have sharply dropped during the preexisting deterministic crash. Now gasoline accelerant has been added to the crash and the initial 5/13/13/7-8 day 4-phase crash decay series will have a decidedly more negative slope than the slope of the initial 5 day 1st fractal tangent line.
Oil futures (and US debt futures) have their own individual growth and decay fractal pathways. Oil futures is following a 16 December 2026 15/35/10 of 35 day :: x/2-2.5x/2.5x valuation growth pathway with the 35 day 3rd fractal composed of a 10 of 11/25 day :: x/2-2.5x series. Expect oil futures significantly above 200 dollars/barrel at the end of this run, coincidental to the 7th-8th day 4th fractal crash nadir of the 25 Feb 2026 5/13/13/7-8 day :: x/2.5x/2.5x/1.5-1.6x global equity crash fractal series.
Watch the 13th day of the 13 day 2nd fractal and see if it breaks the 5 day 1st fractal underlying low value tangent Maginot line.
If the US had no solid reason for starting the war, other than the interests of greater Israel, Iran is finding reason for continuing the war in the service of ending the “colonizing/westernization” of that part of the world
The biggest tool in Iran’s toolbox? The Strait. It only operates with the cooperation of all–shippers, ship owners, insurers,countries bordering the Gulf.
The countries along the Gulf will have to decide where their interests are and where they depart from the US/Israel bloc. Sure the west can spend billions patrolling the Strait every month, but it works cheapest and safest when there are agreements among all.
This is where the government of the US has to start behaving like a rational player, or begin a land war to end Iran. If a land war is started, the US must then commit to a long term occupation to keep control of that choke-point.
(Hmm, that sort of control and extortion opportunity would appeal to some in DC)
“This is where the government of the US has to start behaving like a rational player, or begin a land war to end Iran.”
The US cannot start becoming rational again until Trump is dead. And the US will lose a land war in Iran. We would have no allies in the effort and no longer have the manufacturing capacity to produce and ship the materials to the region. The US would have to ship everything to Israel and march 1000 miles across the desert to get to Iran. The face 91 million well-armed, pissed-off Iranians. The only out here is to declare victory and quit. And the longer that takes, the less it will look like victory.
As expected, within two weeks, the world will have to do something to open the strait otherwise the global economy will suffer.
Recent news: French President Macron is sending 12 warships to help escort ships through the strait because the US seems unable to accomplish this.
In addition, there will be a release from global strategic reserves to help the global economy a little bit.
Still lots of unknowns. If the world manages to keep the strait open, will Iran then attack more oil infrastructure in Persian Gulf countries instead?
And if Iran feels that their situation is hopeless, will they destroy their own Kharg island facilities which have a capacity to ship up to 7 mbpd.
From what I understand there’s already an 8 to 10 mbpd deficit. Brent at $90.66 as I type this comment.
Yes. Every day that this continues, the shortage results in economic disruption, and a reduction in current oil and gas storage levels. Even when this ends, it will take time to restore production and shipping. How long it takes to return to “normal” depends on how long the disruptions continue.
A complete ballpark estimate is for every week of disruption expect 2-3 months to recover.
There is still a chance that oil and LNG prices spike again, possibly several times. Longer term, I expect this puts a $70 floor on WTI over the next year or 2, which is good for US and Canada oil and gas companies.
Kharg Island has no tankers at its docks and only a handful of Tug Boats and a few Pilot Boats hanging offshore.
Many ships have left the Persian Gulf and a huge flotilla of ships is heading to the south outside the Strait of Hormuz to the southern side of the Gulf of Oman and dispersing to the east toward India and China.
Watching ship-tracker.org is fascinating as ships turn off their tracking devices when leaving the Persian Gulf. They just suddenly turn up again outside the Persian Gulf.
Even trusting your own eyes these days when watching TV or the internet is questionable at this point in our lives.
It is good to be planting crops and starting the growing season here in the midwest! I am growing a wide range of high margin, healthy, nutritious goodies!
Life goes on!
😉
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Exactly. It’s the US/NATO terrorist playbook again.
Try a little thought experiment
How many months could Iran delay the resumption of normal shipping through the Strait simply by putting out contradictory statements or performing feints of deception or just refusing to meet with representative from the marine insurers?
Usually, there is a „fog of war.“ But this may be the first war where there is total „chaos of war.“ It‘s impossible to make any sense of Trump‘s random Truth Social comments plus Hegseth‘s SNL impersonations plus Rubio‘s claims it’s all about Iran’s ballistic missiles.
Japan getting very thirsty for fuel..
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260311_B4/
The rising cost of crude oil is beginning to take a toll on Japanese society. Prices of gasoline at the pump have risen for the fourth straight week.
The Oil Information Center, which monitors price trends, says as of Monday, a liter of regular gasoline averaged 161.8 yen, or about a dollar and 2 cents. That was up roughly 2 cents from the week before and the first time in three months it topped 160 yen.
Japan stops buying US debt, things will get exciting. Japan bond market yields rise to the moon, things will get exciting. This is the real story no one is talking about.
For all the chaos of the Vietnam era, it at least produced an astonishing wave of music—Jimi Hendrix, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan.
Look at the present moment. Endless political drama, yet almost nothing culturally comparable emerging from it.
It raises an uncomfortable question: is cultural stagnation another symptom of a country past its peak?
“is cultural stagnation another symptom of a country past its peak?”
Look up Demographic Death Spiral. Ask your favorite chatbot about it, ask it what happens during DDS.
An interesting perspective. Is “Bad Bunny” the zenith of popular music? Where are the “Eagles” when you need them?
The music business has been decimated by the Internet. There are still musicians trying to survive all across the country, but the entire revenue stream of recorded music has disappeared, and people don’t go out as much to the places that used to have live music (they stay home and watch the Internet.)
There’s great music still happening all around the country but the challenge is finding it. It’s a cottage industry now. And yes, I do think it’s a sign of a decaying civilization, although the structural cause is something completely new.
Great point.
It used to be the music companies found great bands, got their music recorded, sold what they could to the radio companies, where djs curated and played the tunes. Folks listened to the radio and found great new songs. Bought the albums which paid back the radio companies, and advertisers paid the radio companies. Now an artist records their own stuff and sticks it on Spotify and Apple Music where maybe, just maybe someone will come by it by accident. But probably not.
Trump said that Iran has Tomahawks. He didn’t specify how Iran got them but one should assume that Ukrainians sold the Tomahawks to Iran. Last week Hungary seized a Ukrainian van full of cash and gold, looks like from that transaction.
look, the brown-nosed speculator bird !
Magnificent brown plumage!
I think you are definitely onto something there.
So I guess the chain was – Ukraine sells Tomahawks to Iran, Iran pays in cash and gold, the money runs through the Clinton Foundation, Hunter Biden converts it to gold, Burisma signs off, Hillary stores the paperwork on her email server, and the whole thing gets driven across Hungary in a van.
Seems pretty airtight. Don’t listen to the naysayers.
I just can’t believe Trump was lying (again)! In case I am wrong any idea how Iran got Tomahawks?
Everything, and I mean every single fucking word Trump says, is a lie. He has always been that way. Always. And always will be. He has severe mental health issues. Which is why the dumbest part of the population voted for him and still supports him.
Funny stuff!
Every day we get a daily dose of MAGA stupid.
Thanks.
or he’s lying and Iran doesn’t have Tomahawks. seems much more likely. Why would you assume Ukraine sold them tomahawks?? it’s a complete non sequitor
Definitely true, and the receipts are on Hunter Biden‘s laptop, which can be found in the basement of a well-known pizza parlor on Connecticut Avenue in Washington DC.
Yes, it is obvious that Ukraine would sell a Tomahawk to Russia’s number 1 supplier of drones, Iran. And then Iran would take this highly sophisticated, expensive and hard to acquire weapon and used it to blow up an elementary school full of girls.
You are really onto something here.
Not me, that was Trump who said Iran blew up the school. With Tomahawks.
It is a pitty that Trump’s big and mighty battle ship exists only as a picture. It could be used to sail through Hormuz Strait tomorrow. That’s something I’d love to watch online.
The only air ace of this war so far is a Kuwait F-18 pilot who shot down three F-15s of USAF.
Looking for analogy – this war looks a bit like 1812 Napoleon’s expedition to Russia.
1/ Wrong target – Tsar was in St.Petersburg and Russian foreign trade was passing through St.Pete as well. Why going to Moscow?
2/ The enemy knew well that it couldn’t engage Napoleon in head-to-head fight so it was fighting assymetric war of attrition (hit and run attacks, disrupting logistics, burning villages) while retreating.
3/ The more French army was winning (taking more teritorry) the worse its position was becoming when talking about logistics and possibility of evacuation.
4/ Taking Moscow was a useless victory, no chance to replenish beaten French troops and get supplies during winter.
5/ Withdrawal, freezing weather, hunger and diseases killed more French troops than fighting.
How does Trump stands?
1/ Regime change is utopia, stopping missile program as well, stealing Iranian oil too.
2/ Surprise, surprise, assymetric attiritional war by Iranians while destroying US bases, radars, depleting US missile interceptors and seperating allies from the US and closing Hormuz Strait. No plans for epic battle on open see a la Midway or repeat of air battle of Britain.
3/ We are winning so much that we can’t win more! When counting bombs, yes. But how many combat able JASSMs remain in stocks? How many sorties can a fleet of F-35s fly before they have to go for hangar maintenance? How long can allies and US citizens endure upcoming economic pain?
4/ Trump is still in search of his Pyrrhic victory target. Opening Hormuz Strait while destroying US Navy would be approriate move.
5/ Withdrawal may have devastating effects on dollar, US foreign trade and international standing and may lead to domestic political and economic crisis.
“Ghost of Kuwait”…lolz
war of words
from Reuters
IRAN’S KHATAM AL-ANBIYA SPOKESPERSON TELLS U.S. IT WON’T BE ABLE TO CONTROL OIL PRICE WITH ‘ARTIFICIAL MEASURES’, ‘GET READY FOR $200 OIL BARREL’
Global strategic petroleum reserve is a joke. Only covers a few days
No. 400 million barrels would be 10-12 days of Hormuz throughput
Normal people in Tehran. Do they deserve to be bombed?
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1rqoip0/randomly_asking_people_out_in_tehran_a_look_at/
The war plan was, apparently, pummel Iran every year or so in the service of a greater Israel and the financial safety of TrumpInc. in the Gulf.
Now why did anyone expect Iran to play a subservient role in this and give up and wait for another attack?
The Strait has always played a large part in Iran’s strategy, why did the dummys in DC not know this and plan for this?
If this is the Trump plan, attacks every year or so, it surely forces Iran onto a nuclear weapons path for the survival of Iran because no country would stand for this abuse.
The guys in DC couldn’t plan their way out of a paper bag. Pulled minesweepers from the gulf 2 months ago. Send the fleet far over the horizon. Have no ship escort availability. Running through their missile defense system in days. No defense setup for the critical radar installations. No idea of the possible consolidation of the various Islamic groups in a resistance to the US, Israel, and the westernized elite at the top of these ME countries.
What a bunch of bumbling fools who have no idea what they are doing or how the world works. The sheer lack of any intelligence or wisdom from the Trump administration is breathtaking.
Additionally to my comment below…if the Iranians had mined they would have announce it. That is their track record. Instead they have denied it
This is not true. The Iranians have no need to mine at this juncture. If they mined they would prevent there own vessels and Chinese ships from going through- which are passing. They have plenty of drones and missels to strike ships. And have repeatedly. Btw I thought the Iranian navy has been completely deystroyed? Yet they found 16 mine laying ships. In the video released some of the boats looked like little motor boats
Yep…Iranian “small boat” brigade.
Mostly harmless…I mean after-all, how much damage could a “small boat’ do?…just ask the guys aboard the USS Cole.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing
Yep a boat sitting in a harbor
– One official said it could be a political signal to the U.S. that Tehran can violently stifle the global economy.
> Which was exactly why Trumps decision to act, was so crucial to America and the world for that matter, in terms of energy.
>> To me, this was a clear signal, that Iran doesn’t understand the consequences, which is quite possible, as they are never dealt like this, and certainly not by there neighbors. As a result, yet another crushing blow to their abilities to do such things, is required, and we have told them this. I sense the penalty for this will be quite devastating, and set the tone where it needs to be set. Now we will have to show them again. They will listen or be gone, but it is there choice.
Candace Owens said something like: “It is not dishonorable to refuse to serve dishonorable people.”
With the Truth Social post above, Iran has an epic opportunity to troll the Orange Menace.
Day 1 reply to Trump: “OK. Standby ”
Day 2 or 3: “Before we start, you’re *NOT* going to attack us if we try to remove the mines, right?”
Day 3 or 4: “Sorry, we have been having this debate amongst ourselves and are unsure what you mean. Please to define ‘forthwith’? Is that like 1 day, 2 days? What were you thinking?”
Then when you send boats out there, you do the same thing this guy in my neighborhood used to do on Halloween. He set up a flashing strobe light on his screened-in porch, and you couldn’t tell if he was putting candy in or taking it out of your bag.
Remove a mine, then throw one back in. Net change: zero.
Aquinas – “no duty to obey unjust laws or tyrannical authority”
The us does not control anything in the Iran conflict the US is fighting a losing war and that is a fact, and if you are not sure just look up the gas pump prices . To win the war Iran just has to survive and survive it will, Iran war is a 2500 year old civilization vs a bunch thugs…..
Um, let’s see… The US controls the Air & Sea. As a result no ground troops are required, The recent mines were a tiny blip on the radar, and means nothing. It will be swept out, and won’t happen again I would imagine.
Iran is in so much control, that its big move to reclaim dominance, was to lay a few mines out and about. Wow! Did we remove all of our Military as a result of this futile act of nonsense, to gather up a small headline? Which ironically ONLY American News Outlets will print about it. They like to show us Americans who side they are truly on, and a hint, it’s not the U.S,
So after yet another big blow to Iran and its leadership occurs, we will ask the same questions:
Q1 Do you give up unconditionally.
A1 Yes
Then we can sit down and talk about where to go from here, Peacefully.
Q1 Do you give up unconditionally.
A1 No
Then we will continue on, and get back to you in a couple of days, and ask you once again.
We can do this until you’re completely Annihilated, or you can save some face and bodies, and stop with the nonsense. All we want is Peace in this region, and if you can’t do so, then you can answer to the new leadership. They will be very happy to oblige, and I suspect your conversation will be painfully long, and not end very well for you…
You have no idea about war or anything else you are repeating propaganda Iran had no air force nor navy and they have the US in retreat the middle east is on fire set by a few rockets of Iran arsenal
the good all thugs are running out of ammunition….
Iran is playing rope a dope. They can absorb the bombing, you can only blow up a building once, only kill each leader once. They are waiting, the U.S. will have to insert ground troops to take control and that will not happen. America’s only hope is for trump to taco and for the US to come home with it’s tail between it’s legs.
We need to withdraw militarily from the world, close ALL our overseas bases and tend to our own infrastructure which is falling apart.
Trump really put himself into a major pickle into this war and I only see 2 options for him moving forward:
Option 1 – End the war now with some sort of cease fire or victory declaration, where he accept the status quo and the regime survives. Obviously this will save lives and relief the economic pressure by hopefully unblocking the straight. But you end up with an Iran dramatically more resentful and paranoid of its neighbors and an IRGC even more influential on Iranian politics than before. And now that Khamenei is dead, Iran will for sure pursue a nuclear weapon at all costs. But even worse, it completely fucks the Gulf countries, who bet their economies on tourism, serving as residence for the global ultra wealthy elite and hosting massive AI data centers. If the regime survives and there is the risk of this conflict ever erupting again, who will buy property, go on vacation or build data centers in the golf countries? If Trump simply declares victory and leaves them hanging, the decades of carefully build partnerships the US developed with these countries will go up in smoke and so will the highly profitable relationships that he and his son in law build with the local monarchs.
Option 2 – Try to achieve regime change/regime submission so you end up with a tamed and controlled Iran. Who knows how long that will take and how many lives it might cost (boots on the ground required), assuming that is even possible at all. If the flow of oil is disrupted for long due to a dragged out conflict, expected political crisis and instability worldwide as prices skyrocket and economies shrink.
There are no good choices here and Trump is his own worse enemy.
You’ve completely missed the plot…look up “Greater Israel”…this has less to do with Iran and more to do with domination of the middle east by Israel… they want the place cleared out, or at a minimum, completely balkanized.
Israel only wishes for 2 things.
1. Peace
2. No Nukes and Other Projectiles flying in the sky towards them, by people screaming at the tops of their collective lungs: “Destroy Israel” and also screaming “Destroy America” but Israel has enough to deal with.
Ever word a lie^
Maybe Trump should go full Jew. Instead of pretending he is a protestant he can put on his yamaka and start banging his head on the great wall. Why pretend otherwise? I’m sure his buddy, the antichrist would be pleased.
greater israel is nonsense. no one in Israel wants that except 5% of right wingers. Israel doesn’t have the ability to hold more land anyway. even Gaza, which is small, was stretching the IDF. yes they can project offensive air power, but they don’t have the numbers to hold more land.
Option 1 would be a ridiculous choice, and definitely won’t happen.
Option 2 is actually happening right now. We are not involved in what the People of Iran choose for their future, as long as it’s Peaceful. They also want this, so it’s a non issue. The only issue, is the dictators trying to stop it from occurring. This will end soon enough…
That’s good. I’d add the (smaller but frightening) possibility of other countries getting into the fight beyond providing logistical support to Iran, and/or Israel going full ‘second coming’ and deciding this is their best chance to use nukes to intimidate everyone around them into submission.
Glad to see Brandon Weichert linked in the above article…probably some of the most objective analysis out there. Just balls and strikes.
There is some ship traffic going through the Strait of Hormuz according to Ship-Tracker.org. This includes tankers and bulk carriers. Perhaps 5% of normal.
If Trump and BiBi’s Epstein coverup war was soooooooo successful, why has shipping been for all purposes halted?
And if the Iranian people wanted “liberation” this sooooo badly, why doesn’t Trump declare himself “President” like in Venezuela and appear in downtown Tehran to hold one of his rallies to collect adulation and a few virgin schoolgirls?
Where’s the “Victory lap of the Persian Gulf” in one of his yachts?
“Winning bigly” at driving up our debt is the only thing Trump seems capable of…
Besides bankruptcy, pedophilia, lying and more bankruptcy, is there anything Trump does well?
According to the UKMTO, three cargo ships off Iran’s coast have been hit by projectiles.
Besides bankruptcy, pedophilia, lying and more bankruptcy, is there anything Trump does well?
He has mastered the use of hairspray.
I noticed that also!
well to be fair he did: back out of the global CO2 scam, more or less close down the US industry to cut off or otherwise mutilate genitals of confused adolescent kids, put RFK Jr in place to at least do some window dressing of the US health mafia system and a couple of other things. That was before became deranged enough to wave through the epic f-up operation following orders from his “friends” and masters.
Yes, 9 I believe have passed through, a collection of Tankers, Cargo and Containers. They have been turning off their signals so they are not detected, and going right on through without disruption so far. It’s only been occurring over the last 2 days, but looks like it’s working out ok so far…
Yep. Are those the Iranian tankers carrying oil to China?
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/03/11/iran-ships-oil-china-strait-hormuz-closure-.html
Boy, they are smart! The Iranians and the Chinese saw the siege coming, and prepared for it.
Ponder this tremendously excellent article, wimps.
BiBi finally found a President stupid and arrogant enough to spend trillions of US taxpayers dollars on a religious war ~ on Israels behalf.
“Netanyahu has long been a friend of the Kushners, and particularly Jared’s dad, Charles Kushner, a major donor to pro-Israel and Jewish causes. One time, Kantor reports – she doesn’t specify when – Jared gave up his bed and moved to the basement so Netanyahu could spend the night at their home in Livingston, New Jersey.”
I’ll bet Jared never washed the bed sheets ever again.
America is certainly the most dangerous adversary on the planet—controlled by MAGA Republicans, a religious cult with the will, resources and technological skill to again use nuclear weapons. This is no ordinary troublemaker.
Oh, Trump “stopped the threat”. So this will not dissolve like Afghanistan or Irak? I guess because ‘this time it’s different’, even though the planning seems to be considerably worse and done by incompetents like Hegseth?
As for “wimp”, I admit I’m not fighting in the frontline here. I assume a brave warrior like yourself will be the first boots on the ground there, though?
After a successful Iran campaign, perhaps we will go back and clean up Afghanistan? Maybe with the help of their enemy Pakistan.
In for a dollar, in for a pound!
Yes, we must stop Iraq… sorry, Iran… from getting WMD… sorry… nukes. Yawn. Are those nukes in the room with us now?
“Trump has stopped that threat—perhaps temporarily, perhaps permanently—but in any event for a significant period. The benefits that this will provide to America, Israel and the rest of the world will be seen in a more peaceful future.”
What utter nonsense. Is this true for Afghanistan? In Iraq, I read stories the US embassy was under attack. Syria? Libya? All that Trump’s done is take a baseball bat to a hornets nest in the middle east, they may be small but if they attack together they can cripple the whole world by cutting off oil.
And if things are so awesome why is oil at $91 right now?
No, the utter nonsense is your post.
Is Afghanistan bothering its neighbors or the USA now? Iraq and Syria are staying quiet, not rising to support Iran. Libya is a Mad Max situation. No one is in control there.
Allowing terrorism to fester and spread in the Middle East, mainly fostered by Iran and its proxies, to avoid economic consequences is sadly deficient logic. Sometimes you have to be willing “to eat bitterness”, as the Chinese say.
Any trouble getting to work today in Tel Aviv? I hear there a chance of a missile shower. Take care Jojo/Shlomo. Thoughts and prayers!
Cult?
You should change the title to “Iran
Lays[Tries to Lay] Mines in the Strait of Hormuz!Three cargo ships struck off Iran’s coast, UK says, including one in Strait of Hormuz
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/cargo-ship-struck-strait-of-hormuz-uk-iran-war.html
And the point you want to make is?
“Why it matters: A senior U.S. official told Axios the strike on the inactive ships was a preemptive measure that was a result of intelligence about Iran’s operational plans.”
Why it may not matter: Ghost fleet, ships in unusable condition without extensive restoration.
Gasp! How dare those Iranians fight back? Don’t they know they need to roll over to our every demand?
With a name like “Barak Ravid” the information is 100% accurate.
Lindsay Graham might’ve revealed the plan:
– Destroy all ME output.
– Control the remainder, like in VZ.
– Extort the RoW, under threat of starvation, for exports from or controlled by Lindsay’s friends.
Will enough serfs recognize the bad guys?
What will they do about it?
After spending 20+ years, and many Trillion$, the USA successfully replaced The Taliban with….The Taliban. Victory!
So Operation Epstein Failure is just more same. When you are on a winning streak, keep going! Or as Trump would say, “Moar Winning Bigly!” – are you tired of all the Winning yet?
Someone remarked this too:
“It took the U.S. 20 years to replace the Taliban with the Taliban, but only 9 days to replace Khamenei with Khamenei”
That wasn’t Trump in charge.
The United States spent years fighting against Abu Mohammad al-Julani only to select him to be leader of Syria.
LOL!
Mines can be planted with MLRS systems from shores or by submersible vehicles launched from undergound shore navy bases. Bombing fishing vessels looks good on Fox TV but it is otherwise useless.
Trump didn’t believe that Iranians are in long war of attrition. Now he got the proof.
Removing mines is not easy and minesweapers have to be protected by planes and destroyers. That equals to sailing through Hormuz Strait where anti-ship missiles, submersible drones, Shaheeds and GPS spoofing create very dangerous environment.
Turning 3-day Special Combat Operation into 3-month war of attrition which destroys Israel, US economy and economies of US vassals is probably the result he didn’t dream of.
It is said that before the war Iranians parked 160 million barrels of oil on sea probably mainly outside the Gulf (30 mio barrels sitting in front of Chinese ports, confirmed). Good ROI with current oil price, something like 100%.
Russians did the same with 60 to 100 million barrels.
As long as it destroys Israel, I’m fine with it.
You Russian/Iranian bots keep trying to make Iran sound like they are force still to be concerned about. News flash! THEY ARE NOT!
Hilarious a bot calling a bot, a bot….wait what?
It’s the bot version of the Kessler Syndrome.
Like pre-emption of a pre-emptive pre-emption.
lol… you’re fucking pathetic.
No, sea mines cannot be launched from rockets. Each is several times bigger than a rocket.
The mines can’t be detected?