Israel attacked a major Iranian facility and Iran countered. Trump warned both sides.
New Phase of the Iran War
The Wall Street Journal reports Escalating Attacks on Gulf Energy Assets Plunge Iran War Into New Phase
Escalating attacks on Persian Gulf oil-and-gas infrastructure are sending the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran into a dangerous new phase that threatens to worsen the crisis over global energy supplies.
Israel struck at the crown jewel of Iran’s energy industry on Wednesday—the giant South Pars gas field that Iran shares with Qatar and is by far the largest in the world. Iran retaliated with two attacks on a major gas hub in Qatar just across the Gulf and a missile barrage fired at the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with debris landing near a refinery.
Israel and Iran had already hit energy facilities throughout the nearly three-week-old war, but Wednesday’s attacks struck some of the world’s most important hubs and raised the prospect of tit-for-tat volleys against oil-and-gas facilities. Already, the conflict has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint between the Persian Gulf and the wider world that carries about 20% of the global oil and liquefied-natural gas supply during normal times.
The U.S., which had previously pledged to rein in attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, was informed of the plan ahead of time and had no issues with it, American and Israeli officials said Wednesday.
President Trump approved of the strike, U.S. officials said, to pressure Iran to unblock the Strait of Hormuz. The officials said Trump believed Tehran received the message and wants to refrain from further strikes on Iranian energy infrastructure.
On Wednesday night, Trump denied that the U.S. knew in advance about Israel’s attack on South Pars. “The United States knew nothing about this particular attack” on South Pars, Trump said.
“Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility,” he said on social media, referring to Iran’s retaliatory strikes on Qatar’s liquefied-natural gas hub that was hit once on Wednesday and again on Thursday morning local time. “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL,” Trump added.
The president went on to say that if Iran strikes Qatar’s gas hub again, the U.S. “will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.”
Iran’s missile attack later Wednesday on Ras Laffan, where Qatar has facilities for gas pumped from its side of the giant field, left extensive damage and set fires after four missiles were intercepted and one got through.
Benchmark Brent oil futures shot up to close to $110 a barrel, and European gas prices surged 6% in the hours following the news. Traders were pricing in the risk that Iran could keep attacking Gulf energy infrastructure and worsen a supply crisis that has already removed millions of barrels of oil from global supply.
“It opens the door to more infrastructure attacks in the region,” said Neil Crosby of the Geneva-based market-intelligence company Sparta Commodities.
There is no reason to believe the world’s biggest liar on who knew what when. But Trump’s threat to escalate the war further is believable.
Trump on the Escalation
Truth Social: Israel, out of anger for what has taken place in the Middle East, has violently lashed out at a major facility known as South Pars Gas Field in Iran. A relatively small section of the whole has been hit. The United States knew nothing about this particular attack, and the country of Qatar was in no way, shape, or form, involved with it, nor did it have any idea that it was going to happen. Unfortunately, Iran did not know this, or any of the pertinent facts pertaining to the South Pars attack, and unjustifiably and unfairly attacked a portion of Qatar’s LNG Gas facility. NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar – In which instance the United States of America, with or without the help or consent of Israel, will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before. I do not want to authorize this level of violence and destruction because of the long term implications that it will have on the future of Iran, but if Qatar’s LNG is again attacked, I will not hesitate to do so. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Financial Times
Iran hit the site of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas facility in Qatar with a ballistic missile, inflicting “extensive damage” in retaliation for an attack on the Islamic republic’s South Pars gasfield. The attack on Wednesday marks a significant escalation in the Middle East war and threatens major repercussions for global energy markets. Qatar is the second-largest exporter of LNG in the world, and the biggest supplier to Asia. Qatar’s defence ministry said on X that Iran had fired five ballistic missiles, with four intercepted and one hitting Ras Laffan, a huge industrial complex that is home to state-owned QatarEnergy’s LNG plants and a fuel refinery. It is also the location of Shell’s $18bn Pearl GTL plant, which turns gas into chemical feedstocks and fuel.
Analysts said the attack had the potential to cause a “lasting global gas shortage” depending on the scale of the damage, as Ras Laffan is normally responsible for about a fifth of global LNG supplies.
“Even when the war ends, the impact on supply could last months or even years as repairs are undertaken,” said Saul Kavonic, energy analyst at MST Financial.
Ras Laffan in Qatar on Fire
A Word About Fertilizer
UAE Gas Production is Zero
Promises Made, Promises Obliterated
Summation
The war that is over has a major escalation. This damage will not be fixed for a long time.
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Trump is owned by AIPAC, Adelsons and Zionist billionaires. As are the Democrats. There is no voting your way out of this mess. The goyim need to rise up.
Oooh or else, he’ll do nothing at all, as usual.
Qatar is getting a really bad ROI on the bribe plane they gave rumpy. They should have done their homework.
It’s my understanding that it was a bit of a white elephant they were trying to figure out what to do with, when alongs comes history’s Greatest Dumbass, and you know the rest.
I forgot about the plane $400 million, and it will cost 20 billion plus to repair the damage from the war. A bad ROI indeed.
The whole displacement of blame on Israel is standard playbook plausible deniability. That’s the whole point of having proxy wars!
Don’t believe a word of it ! Just PR.
They have told us there is a unified target deck.
How can Israeli & US planes operate in the same area without deconfliction and communication?
Technically, Israel can do nothing without active hands-on US agency:
Maybe blocking the “Straight” of Hormuz is the whole point.
Goading Iran (and Israel) into doing so lends all the more plausible deniability.
The effect? The effect have been to cut China off of oil imports.
What have the jarheads been talking about for decades?
About using maritime chokepoints to throttle and control China.
Yes yes. In the media they call it Freedom of Navigation exercises.
The President is just the salesman for deeper currents of deep state policy.
He is like a monkey on the deck of a super tanker, distracting onlookers with all kinds of amusing antics.
Warns Israel? Means Israel gave them permission to warn them.
Warn us again! Tee hee! We’ve been a bad, bad country!
Want to stop wars. I propose congress passes a law. If you are worth say a billion or more and have children. They are the first to get drafted into infantry or somewhere they will be in harms warm way.
Trump asked for other nations to help. Smartly they refused. Bibi bombs facilities provoking retaliation. Strike. Other nations will be forced to choose a side due to escalation. If i was iran for every ship that goes through the straight i would attack the infrastructure it came from. Bet trump is not prepared for that.
Leads to bigger connections.
Trump guts renewables. Why i used to think it was because no jobs for voters/ no profits for investors. Which is true. Its actually they have you by the economic balls. Think russia and the eu. If it wasnt for oil we would not care about the mid east. Israel would not have a war.
Next take over Venezuela. Find a puppet that will play ball. Dole oil out to us to control voters/ or to other counties for support.
Three start limited war which will end up not so limited trying for the downfall of iran.
Oh yeah profit along the way.
All because there are a bunch of pedos who want a distraction from the files.
More on US prior knowledge (and assistance with) of the Israeli attack on the gas field. The Israelis not wanting to be thrown under the bus by Trump on this. If one goes under the bus we all go under the bus. WWG1WGA!!!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/19/iran-war-live-updates-oil-prices-gas-field-strikes-pentagon-more-funds-trump-news
45,800 Maginot line on the Dow awaits
The Dow is a hoax.
Looks like this war is still at the “spiraling out of control” stage.
They’re warming up the PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator
You have to wonder what kind of “space rays” the Iranians have in those mtns.
I haven’t heard a peep about biological weapons. Easier to make, and harder to find than nukes. Only problem is, you can’t deploy it on a small scale as a warning… it’s strictly a “if I’m going down, everyone else is too’ strategy.
Might explain why they were willing to give up that enriched uranium.
Can magats even pronounce biological?
Keep in mind….Bibi hasn’t been spotted in days.
This video was release yesterday, but it’s not really any more convincing than prior ones:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbkU5X6yxy8
Why do these people have to lie about everything? So he’s dead. Somebody took over. We move on.
I don’t think it’s them either, lol.
They look too spruce & healthy.
They’ve been living underground for 3 wks.
Could we envision a kind of military coup in the United States, judging that civilian power is becoming a mortal danger to the country and the planet?
Would be very easy… The Trumpstien crew is all sleeping on military bases.
Would be nice to see some new National Heroes minted.
Huge problem there Christian Nationalism.
Trump is the arsonist that’s complaining about the smoke from the fire he started.
Diplomacy is the only way to end this. With Dementia Donnie and Nuttyyahoo running things we’re screwed.
Heads up everyone: I had a minor account hacked last night, probably using a password from a data leak. I know two others at work that had credit taken out in their names yesterday.
They used the leaked password to set a new password, and changed the response emails so I can’t reset it.
They drowned the notification emails in 7000 or so spam emails that got right through google’s filter (somebody is shitting nickels at google this morning), and contain such a variety of terms that it’s impossible to use search to weed them out.
Apple’s passwords app has a security section that will tell you which addresses are suspect. It will also generate passwords that language models can’t guess.
I’m going to change all of my passwords, starting with iCloud, then all mail accounts, then all financial accounts, and try and work through the rest.
Data leaks have been a major password vulnerability that we’ve all avoided fixing because it isn’t fun to change passwords.
Somebody’s mad at us now, and it’s graduated from a vulnerability to an immediate problem.
Change your passwords!
Thanks, that is always a good reminder. So much easier to do things on the front end.
The cherry on top is some Iranian got my air miles. Is he gonna fly to Alaska? No. He’s going to hold them hostage… parade through the streets with them, ululating and shooting his AK in the air! What a world, what a world.
Meanwhile I have 1:45 to wait on hold…
TY for the heads up, and the reminder to do so! On it!
The Israeli strategy here is basically to eliminate Iran’s leverage over gas prices by destroying the gas field themselves. Killing the hostages.
Israel has lots of experience killing hostages.
Exactly right. Israel enjoys provoking Iran to attack other Islamic countries, and would love to see all of their oil infrastructure destroyed. I think Saudi Arabia and Turkey are getting a glimpse of what the future holds for them if Israel is able to have its way.
I get the feeling that Israel would like all that oil and gas for themselves.
Why? Israel need only stretch out its hand and the Americans will fill it.
They want the hand for themselves.
Not as far as I can tell. Leaving Uncle Sam nominally separate creates plausible deniability.
Trump Warns IsraelSince when does Trump warn his boss Bibi?
Same crap as with Russia. WTF thinks any part of NATO is a mediator rather than a party to the conflict? Only MSM and its victims.
The play might be to take over the entire Persian Gulf access and Qatar at the same time to consolidate Ras Laffan?
Unfortunately, Iran has nothing left to loose so massive infrastructure losses are likely in what is becoming a regional (uncivil) war.
Qatar’s 747 gift to Trump did not protect them from his mayhem.
Your point that Iran has nothing left to lose is key. Israel wants to turn Iran into another Syria, with multiple factions battling each other. The US politicians just want to pay back the Israeli financial contributions they receive.
I absolutely believe that if the US tries to take Kharg Island, the Iranians will blow it up (along with other oil and gas infrastructure in the ME) rather than let America or Israel control it. Iran saw what Israel has done to Palestinians and sees that Israel is in the process of trying to turn Beirut into Gaza. That is the future for Iran if they surrender, they know that, and so they will continue to fight because they have nothing to lose.
Iranians probably feel like Ukrainians do about the attack on their country, and I expect the war in Iran to last at least as long as the Ukraine war has. If Iran/Ukraine were to agree to a ceasefire, they understand that it is just a matter of time before they are attacked by Israel/Russia again (Putin previously took Crimea and US/Israel bombed Iran just last year). They know that the cycle will continue, which is why they want their attackers disincentivized from coming back and doing it again. Nations and people generally act in their own self-interest (except for America who seem more focused on Israel’s interests than solving healthcare or economic problems).
Russia is the big winner in the Iran war, and they will continue to help Iran fight just like the West has tried to help Ukraine fight. Meanwhile, China is smiling and will wait until the US has largely expended its military resources before calmly taking Taiwan.
no worry. stable genius is on this problem, simple solution is AHEAD
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Trump Eyes Boots On The Ground Along Hormuz Shoreline
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It will be a six week mission that turns into 60 years and trillions of dollars.
Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale,
A tale of a fateful trip
That started from this tropic port
Aboard this tiny ship.
The mate was a mighty sailing man,
The skipper brave and sure.
Five passengers set sail that day
For a three hour tour, a three hour tour.
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The thing I can’t seem to wrap my head around, is why was the field so vulnerable in the first place. They claim it’s the “World’s Largest” LNG Facility. That makes no sense that the Countries (Middle East) utilizing this Facility, would have teamed up with some sort of protection plan they could all pay together to implement. Sure beats the heck out of the chaos now, and so much less expensive back then Vs. Now.
I also was under the impression that there middle attacks were severely limited, if not nearly gone completely. I have to ask why The Trump Administration didn’t do the same, and get involved with these leaders to do so, and offer to assist in any ways possible. Any “Primary Target” for life for any Country should be heavily protected and they all should chip in so they are all protected.
This may have caused lasting damage, well beyond any hopeful peace agreement, and perhaps just made it more difficult from a trust perspective. This didn’t have to happen, and has been overlooked as: That won’t happen! Well I guess it just did…
Trump moved all the anti-missile batteries to Israel. Ironically, Israel is still getting pummeled.
Which brings me to another thought.
The premise of all the religious stuff in Israel is that God will come down from heaven protect/save Israel and kill everyone but the Jews. Other religions believe God will come down from heaven and everyone except members of that particular religion will be killed.
I guess the bombs will need to keep falling until one or the other is proved the right one but I suspect all that will happen is a pile of rubble will emerge.
Trump moving all the anti-missile batteries to Israel wasn’t too bright, and especially given the fact that he thought their capabilities were damaged, but not non-existent.
Maybe Trump suspected it, or perhaps was ok with it? Much of it seems to invite the current situation, and by no means deter it.
The religious stuff I don’t follow much. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my own religion, and meeting my own personal expectations of what goodness is. Not enough time to delve into another one.
Sadly I suspect you will be correct, and in the end, all that will happen is a pile of rubble will emerge. Again it leads back to my earlier point, that some things were overlooked, missed, or purposefully not done. Maybe all 3! Something is amiss…
God seems to be in a smitey mood toward Israel. Probably has to do with all the little ways they trick him on Sabbath so they can go about their mechanized lives.
ALL religions are atheist when it comes to another god other than their own invisible man in the sky.
The United States was the protection racket. The Gulfies found out that the United States is loyal to Israel, not to them.
add South Korea and others to that list.
“What do you mean these weapons systems we bought aren’t ours?”
Quite true. The U.S. is providing active, direct air defense for Israel as part of a joint military campaign. In contrast, in the Gulf states the US role is primarily defensive and focused just on protecting U.S. bases. When it comes to defending targets beyond these, the US has basically told the Gulfies “It’s up to you.” Apparently the GCC didn’t expect this.
“some sort of protection plan”. Like what – Patriot missiles that rarely work? Interceptor missiles have long been known to be in short supply. For goodness’ sake, that’s why Israel begged for a ceasefire last June.
muh “Golden Shower Dome” (tm)
What I think is going on in this War? Israel just wants to cripple Iran forever. Iran is fighting back which is an obvious response. It seems Donald only finds out what Israel has done in the War– later on X? What will Israel decide to do next?
First the orange man got trapped, now he’s getting reamed
What an ignorant man.
I fear he will not be able to back down due to his ego and ignorance no matter how bad this gets, which the only thing that will extract the US from this CF
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
The 25th
He’s not getting reamed. He’s living like a billionaire does, surrounded by people that tell him how wonderful he is. His life is free of consequences.
WE are getting reamed.
Good point!
“Iranian strikes are hammering U.S. bases hard — here’s why:
Former U.S. Army officer Stanislav Krapivnik says their defenses were never intended to last beyond 3–4 days.
Drones are now roaming Gulf states with zero resistance.
And this is just the beginning.
Watch the breakdown on The Sanchez Effect.”
https://x.com/RickSanchezTV/status/2034503346141241815
But Trump said Iran’s capabilities have been knocked out, the war was over on Day 1.
I’ve been wondering who’s been attacking Qatar, Saudi and UAE oil fields if Iran has been disarmed and disabled. Is it possible Israel is doing the attacks on oil fields and not Iran?
Or is it possible that Trump lied?
The 25th
Replacing Trump with Vance is like changing your shirt after shitting in your pants. The stench and malicious behavior will not go away.
Maybe, maybe not, but it sure seems like it is worth a try. Are you saying we should just stick with Trump until 2029?
Imagine if all the billions wasted on this crap was invested in the development of thorium nuclear reactors. … safe on a completely different level and zero CO2 producing …
quoted: The US is wasting time and resources in overseas conflicts, National security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar, wind, advanced battery storage, nuclear power to make this happen.
We have the wrong people in place to make this happen.
+100
Bravo!
Imagine if we didn’t let the Israeli tail wag the American dog.
Imagine if we used the money to pay down the debt or fix healthcare. Ro Khanna just said we could pay for all college students to graduate from public universities with the money we have spent on the war so far. But we spend the money on weapons and ruining lives.
If we pay for college, how are the investors going to get that guaranteed interest off of student loans?
Rich people are hurting!
Imagine if it was used on US infrastructure. Repair or replacement of our interstate system, hospitals especially in rural communities, renewable energy, high speed trains, better schools and free university ed, universal healthcare for all citizens, affordable housing for everyone, etc.
But nope not in America here we have almost unlimited funds allocated to killing, especially not lily white people.
So I now see on television Trump is boing to remove sanctions on 140 million barrels of Iranian oil. So, he proclaims the war will end soon but to make sure that happens he’s going to give the enemy financing to prolong it. Go figure. What a mess!
going to remove, sorry
I think the X link to the fertilizer situation is very important. It will affect north American farmers and certainly means lower crop yield. Then consider about 10% of the gasoline volume we buy is methanol which is made from corn and has less btu density thereby lower gas mileage. Maybe it is time we quit using food for fuel.
wrong alcohol, methanol
Looking at those giant burning gas fields, this must be the most stupid war ever started on this planet.
The Trump Administration didn’t seem well prepared for many outcomes that are now occurring. Maybe they moved too quickly, or someone responsible said no worries and was very wrong. Someone should answer for these missed outcomes, being unprepared for such, I do believe.
The person to answer is Trump, he made the decision
Yes, ultimately he did, but based upon the information he was given by his staff that does this piece of the equation.
Either the choices didn’t include some of these now happenings, and they need to answer why, or perhaps they did, and then Trump needs to answer why he left it out of the mix of defense locations.
It just didn’t happen because someone said forget about it, as there is a very large staff to look over all of these things. If it was Trump, then let’s hear from him I say! If not him, then let’s hear from whom it is, or they are? The places hit have a right to know!!
You have a point, but he has surrounded himself with mealy mouth boot lickers, he probably is not hearing anything contrary to what he wants to do.
Yeah, that’s a problem. If that’s what occurred here, then it’s potentially a big problem, as the implications grow with every slurp of his boot…
Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
That’s the problem.
He has not gotten this far in life by being weak and stupid. He does have a huge ego, which are always open to manipulation, so let’s go with that. By Whom? Remember that they are stuck with this mess, if it doesn’t get resolved.
Had Trump simply taken the money he borrowed from his father and parked that in an S&P index fund and reinvested the proceeds, he’d be richer than he is today.
He’s the God of weak, stupid, and easily manipulated people.
2 unstable leaders locked horns.
game theory suggests multi national economic armageddon …with the last one standing being the winner take all. that’s some muslim brotherhood you got there
Did someone say profit?
Got VIX options?
Dow might be down over 1,000 points per day for a week on this…
Even if Trump and BIBi’s war actually ended. No one would believe them.
I’ve already been having massive profitgasms, but I’m happy to gush more and more profits. I love it when my trades have a happy ending. 😉
=====from zh
OF COURSE HE LIED..
This reminds me of something that happened during a previous March awhile back??…oh yeah…
The dot-com bubble was a stock market bubble that developed during the late 1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.
History repeating? indeed…
This will be 100x worse. The whole global economy will crash not just the dot com industry. Asian countries are already on the brink. It’ll be 50x worse than 2008.
Difficult to assess the magnitude of the chaos and how many companies will go belly-up on a global scale. If one thing is certain tourist industry in the Gulf region (except Oman perhaps) is dead. Ten thousands of jobs vanished into thin air. The misery this creates alone.
Let’s see if anything remains their 3rd temple can be built on. I wouldn’t bet on it.
USA gov deficit is certainly $3 trln in 2026! at least
Lots of interesting comments but none that talk about the profits that can come out of this. Guys, oil is at $113 this morning and likely to go higher every time there is a kaboom.
I don’t like this war, nothing I can do about it while Captain Ahab is running the ship (or is it Captain Bligh?) except bank a little profit and help those closest to me.
Pace yourself, I’m selling oil stocks at $120, $130, and $150ish on top of what I already sold. At $150, the whole global economy crashes, you’ll likely lose your job and will need the cash to pay the bills.
You may be unemployed for a long time as the world becomes energy starved. Inflation across the board will go parabolic.
But you MAGA clowns can think about how you owned the libs through it all.
Trump/GOP will get the blame for this for decades, worse president and GOP clowns ever.
If only MAGA had listened: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRndMiVIB-w
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
why not sell calls, a lot ?
if stocks are up, you would just cash out at top!
if not and stocks are down , you have premium= hedge to think what to do next.
keep stocks, or sell..
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or sell calls = premiums, and buy puts for hedging your long positions
100% bullet proof.
Yes, I have been selling calls too but you need to understand I was carrying $600k worth of oil stocks and now is a great time to cash out.
Don’t worry, oil will eventually crash and so will oil stocks and guess who’ll be there to pick up those shattered pieces….
Cash is going to be king in 2026, there will be so much stuff to buy for pennies on the dollar: commercial / residential real estate, tech stocks, discretionary stocks, etc. when the crash comes.
“Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful”
-Warren.
$120 is on track to become a new floor once it gets violated a few more times…then off to $180….final stop $200, at which point Chump ™ cries uncle…
…and Mish finally gets the recession he’s been forecasting
Crude over $100 thru July and above $90 thru September now. Can you say MAGA-MEGA INFLATION?
https://www.barchart.com/futures/quotes/QA*0/futures-prices
Do worry, Trump will find a way to make things even worse.™
Yes. Prices in the futures markets keep rising.
In the physical market, prices in Asia are already in a range of $120-$170 per barrel. Shortages are becoming widespread. Demand destruction is beginning. They are trying to substitute more coal and anything else they can find. It takes time to substitute. Civil unrest is already happening.
As I have been saying since this started: After two weeks, everything begins to fall apart. It is hard to underestimate the importance of energy to our ability to survive.
Still selling small portions of my oil stock holdings daily as they keep reaching new highs. This could go on for a few more weeks before collapse.
Just wait till he food shortages from the fertilizer shock kick in. That’s when the real civil unrest begins.
Americans won’t need their ozempic anymore, and people in parts of Africa will starve to death.
Sounds bullish for ammo….what’s the ticker for 9mm?
Getting sale emails every day. Maybe everybody has what they think they’ll need.
If the shooty shooty bang bang scenario comes to pass here in the homeland, the probability one surviving enough firefights to use more than a few hundred rounds is pretty low.
That money is better spent on groceries.
And drones
Any thoughts on investing with this company that turns coal into oil?
https://www.frontieras.com/technology
Could be worse, could be raining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC4VflOayBw
=== CHERRY ON TOP ! =
gold fell! today . i laugh so hard
oil is 120*150.
war is on!
no gas for Europe.
and USA deficit is certainly 3 trln in 2026! at least
Did you say cherry?
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00622303.pdf
Read in its entirety…
Funny that they had an age check gate on that.
Filed in 2016….what happened?
=-South Pars
so let me UNDERSTAND TRUMP;S VERBAL IDiOCY!
=1 he said no more !
=2 he said USA did not know – obv. lie!
=3 then he said to Israel – no more bombing- obv lie!
=4 then he said if IRAN bombs again, USA WOULD blow off EVERYTHING!!!
WHOLE NINE YARD!!!!!!
JESUS! HE IS STABLE (NOT) GENIUS
alx
This is incredible.
South Pars, the largest gas field in the world, “shared” by Iran and Qatar, supplies Ras Laffan, the largest LNG facility in the world, owned by Qatar.
Israel attacks South Pars.
In retaliation, Iran attacks Ras Laffan.
Infuriated, Trump says he will destroy South Pars if Iran doesn’t stop.
Qatar says WTF? We own that too and we need the gas for Ras Laffan.
When the “planning” for this war began, Trump was told that Iran would never close the strait of Hormuz because it was economic suicide for the entire world and therefore unthinkable!
He was also told that it was global economic suicide to attack the oil infrastructure in the Persian Gulf.
Yet, here we are.
Originally, I also said the war would only last two weeks because any longer was economic suicide and indeed unthinkable.
Well folks, the unthinkable has happened.
Roughly a hundred years ago, after WW1, the world suffered through a pandemic and then a depression.
Funny how history repeats itself.
=Infuriated, Trump says he will destroy South Pars if Iran doesn’t stop.
exactly. my thought HE DOES NOT KNOW IT IS SAME SH11IT
Trump’s ignorance will be the death of him. And I didn’t think Israel could go even further off the rails
Trump’s ignorance may be the death of the Great Satan….fitting
There are some things more important than money. There are even things more important than life. Iran was quite explicit in the lead-up to this war that they would attack all US bases in the region, attack Israel and close the Strait of Hormuz. The Empire of Lies can’t conceive of any country telling the truth because they (we) never do. Confession by projection.
The biggest surprise is that anyone could be surprised by Iran’s response.
Very well said
Joe Kent, the recently resigned US Director of the National Counter-terrorism, in interviews last night demonstrated the he did not know the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Basically, he did not know what side we we were on in the Middle East.
This is the caliber of leadership, appointed by the most ignorant leader of all, leading us to disaster in the Middle East.
i look at him. he is good looking boy, women’s side wise!!
i guess it is only sh11it that matters for trump.
and women w. big ju11gs. of course
Does any person paying attention really believe that anyone in the Trump administration knows anything about Islam? The notion that Trump himself knows the difference between Sunni and Shiite Muslims would be absolutely preposterous, if anyone were to actually suggest it were true.
Iran really had a great pian knowing everything is so interconnected in the world now. The failure of outsourcing critical industry.& the failures of just in time.
= knowing everything is so interconnected in the world now.
well . they have been there for last 5000 years … they learnt!
And in the last 50 we’ve trained them up as Fedaykin. They’ve had to be smart and tough to survive all this, while the US grew more flabby and stupid every year.
The lie is clear
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard admitted to lawmakers during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington that there had been “no efforts” by Iran to rebuild its nuclear enrichment capability following joint US-Israeli strikes in June 2025.
“As a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts to try to rebuild their enrichment capability,” Gabbard’s statement reads.
The document said entrances to underground enrichment facilities destroyed in the strikes had been “buried and shuttered with cement.”
However, the intelligence chief did not read that portion aloud during her opening remarks. When questioned by Democratic Senator Mark Warner, she said the omission occurred because “the time was running long,” adding that she skipped parts of her prepared statement.
Lovely, lied into another war that will cripple the economy for years
she is done!! major disappointment
not that i cared actually. or believed in her
Doc here:
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/os-gabbard-031826.pdf
All the Trumpstien crew are living on military bases now, because they know they’ve utterly screwed the entire country and have no intention of stopping.
So where are we?….day 19 of our 4-Day-War?
Reminds me of Covid, “2 weeks to flatten the curve”…
…now, “2 weeks to flatten Iran”
HOW IS Bibi?
ANY NEW VIDEOS W/ 7 FINGERS NOW??
I liked 6 fingers video a lot! or video w/ coffee that never spilled!
There was the one with “Huckabee” yesterday. Not an obvious fraud, but not convincing, either.
There is no reason to believe the world’s biggest liar on who knew what when
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yes!!! my thoughts exactly!
‘America has lost control of its own foreign policy,’ says Omani foreign minister
https://aje.news/fs4nzb?update=4416000
South Korea considers importing Russian oil, naphtha, Industry Ministry says
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/south-korea-considers-importing-russian-oil-naphtha-industry-ministry-says-2026-03-19/
So much winning.
Trump’s boxed in here – he needs two wins to claim victory:
Problem is, they pull in opposite directions.
You can reopen Hormuz with force — but then you’re stuck policing it while Iran harasses cheaply. That’s not a win, it’s a slow bleed.
On nukes, there’s no real military fix. You can hit sites, but you won’t eliminate it without boots on the ground — and that’s not happening.
So this ends the only way it really can: a bit of “over-whelming” force, then a deal dressed up as victory. This also means Trump does not need to side with either the Hegseth or Vance camps who have opposing views from each other.
Maybe something like an “international” Hormuz security solution post settlement. Looks like strength, avoids the quagmire.
Whether anything is actually solved is another question.
Amusing that it seems to be helium rather than oil that is becoming the forcing function in all this. Needed for manufacturing semiconductors (and clown shows!).
Good summary, unfortunately you missed the objective and left out the key player, Israel.
They want Iran to be turned into Iraq/Libya/Syria, a failed state. If you don’t understand that Israel runs the US government, then you have work to do. However, once that becomes clear, then the entire thing makes perfect sense.
1. Fluck the Zionist state of Israel.
2. Time to impeach or 25th-amendment this daughter-flucking son of a prick president.
Fair point – Israel seems content with forever conflicts and creating failed states. However, even Trump can’t go along with it for much longer.
*cough* Epstein *cough*
some kind of kamala’s words/thoughts salad!
USA / Israel can’t defend against Iranians using drones against tankers and=or energy production sites around ME.
international, or not international, by force or not. it is all bullshit!
if they could, they would already try to open Hormuz.
alx
No it is being discussed….not as a way to force the Strait open but as a way of reaasurance after the war.
buddy. stop reding wsj, watch cnn-abc
it is all propaganda. to calm markets.
Trump is indeed boxed in, at the moment. He certainly needs an open Strait, but he isn’t getting blamed entirely yet, as it’s Iran holding things up, but it didn’t help him, when yelling it will be open right away, with no guarantee that was the case. Many Countries need oil and Iran and the Strait is holding that up, so they are getting blamed for that and rightfully so. Letting China pass, and hold most all others hostage, only makes Trumps point that much clearer. It also makes sense that he did what he did, before it may have been way, way worse as time went on. A mess to be sure!
Time is not on the side of Iran, as oil is needed now, and they are the ONLY party holding that up. Also firing misses across the Middle East at anyone and everyone was a very bad look. That showed others why it was so critical to get this done now.
The good news, is that Iran is much more boxed in now than Trump is. They have made even more enemies, they have decreased resources to accomplish much in the way of disruption. They are down to mines and irrational fire when they have a chance, and that’s rarely.
I agree that “You can reopen Hormuz with force — but then you’re stuck policing it while Iran harasses cheaply. That’s not a win, it’s a slow bleed” There is the rub! How to open it, but not with a bullseye on your back. I think the idea is to get it in a position where we can see them before they can see us and hurt us. Eyes in the sky helps, but it’s dependent on where they are hiding. Men on the ground may be needed, or what are our swarming drone capabilities?
Not sure myself, but if we can flood the Strait with drones used for surveillance, and have them send coordinates to the fire power out of reach of Iran being able to do anything about it, and then fire at will, at every identified enemy anything. That would open it up stat!!!
Your premise “So this ends the only way it really can: a bit of “over-whelming” force, then a deal dressed up as a victory” seems pretty accurate to me. Can it be accomplished quick enough to open the Strait and shut everyone up, and start putting things in place to never allow this to happen again.
“Whether anything is actually solved is another question.” That’s the crux of it all isn’t it. I agree we can fix things along the way, but does that keep things fixed, and did we “solve” the issue at hand? That will determine if a Victory is in hand.
Victory for Iran is trump declaring victory stopping the bombing and leaving Iran in charge of the Strait to charge shipping a toll to rebuild their infrastructure in peace. Post war I can see them sending a team to eliminate the president, his family and as many of his “men” as possible in retaliation for his war crimes, same for Bibi and his family.
The point on Iran’s nukes being stopped may not be that hard. All Trump has to do is come out and state “We have eliminated Iran’s nuclear capabilities.” We actually already did that once after the June bombing. Iran is not going to turn around and deny it, “No Trump is wrong, we actually do still have an enriched uranium stockpile and nuclear plans.” So Trump can just magically wave this victory point into pretend existence any time he wants. The opening of the Strait of Hormuz is harder–that can’t be pretended into existence.
Interesting…
Trump Announces Israel “Violently Lashed Out” and Hit Gas Fields in Iran, Claims US “KNEW NOTHING” of Attack and “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL”
…because on Steve Bannon’s show he specifically said that the Israel hit the gas field with the full knowledge of the White House.
Oh well…toothpaste out of the tube either way.
However….
The funniest thing of all is that it seems as though Chump ™ still doesn’t realize he’s being played by Israel. Doesn’t it ever dawn on him that Nuttyahoo, Kushner, Witkoff, et. al. are all of the Tribe? Or is “noticing” antisemitic?
the dying dog still licks the master’s hand
Please don’t denigrate dogs
Listened the other day to reporter Eli Lake (Israel supporter) explain how the rest of the world deeply appreciates what Israel is doing to rid the world of the Iranian regime. Interesting how not a single other country is joining this fight. A war based on nothing but lies. So Israel can take over the region?
Never trust anyone named Eli.
Don’t worry…if you think things are bad now, wait until next week. The credit markets are about to lock-up…think LTCM and Fed to the rescue (maybe)…actually, I think Powell may be able to get his revenge by dragging his feet. Rough weekend ahead for the “credit boyz”…have fun fellas, it was great while it lasted….might want to think about getting a return on that 849-testarossa-spider deposit.
Wait until the emerging countries who’s economies are heavily dependent on the inputs coming out of the Gulf start defaulting on their dollar denominated debts.
Well isn’t this special? Lucky that Zelensky has the spare soldiers to send to the Middle East! 😁
Garbage…put on your boots and go die for Israel
Exactly! Sibling of a quadriplegic Iraq vet here. My brother was sniped in Iraq almost 20 years ago for land most Americans cannot find on a map that changed hands multiple times over the years. My family has tasted war and…no thanks. Call us when the homeland is being invaded by a standing army or navy. Fool.us once, shame on you. Fool us twice…well, we’re red-pilled, so there won’t be a 2nd time.
“Jo Jo” should come out from under his/her/they’s Tel Avi bridge and march on Tehran or else fluck off and troll somewhere else.
I am not a troll simply because you refuse to acknowledge that I am correct and you are not.
Israel has for decades understood what the American public is just beginning to appreciate: Iran has been at war with our democracy for nearly half a century.
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yeah and we all saw Bibi videos for last 30 years how Iran is just 2 weeks from making N bomb!
gfy buddy. !!
alx
ps
BTW HOW IS Bibi?
ANY NEW VIDEOS W/ 7 FINGERS NOW?? I liked 6 fingers video a lot!
or video w/ coffey that never spilled!
Iran has been fighting w/ west for last 2500 years. at least
this mor1on =Lawrence Kadish= would know if ever opened hist book
alx
From an Iranian POV, the “West” has only existed since around 1492, when Columbus sailing from Spain “discovered” the Western Hemisphere. That would be about 635 years. Before this time, they marked the world past about the Canary Islands as “Here be Dragons”.
Perhaps you meant to write “West” Europe? 🤣
They picked a fight….soon after we installed a dictator to become a western vassal. How dare Iran fight back? Don’t they know we’re the UNITED STATES, dammit?
Seems like we Americans, as well as supporters of Israel, hate when others hit us/them back. Only we are allowed to strike.
“Iran has been at war with our democracy for nearly half a century.”
Start with the base lie and drive it to its logical conclusion: getting your hands on American taxpayers money, killing American soldiers, and killing thousands of innocent women and children. Praise Jesus! MAGA!
Jesus smiles when you blow up a school full of little girls.
Iran did not pick a fight with anyone, any more than a murder victim picked a fight with a murderer.
Qatar gave Trump a $300 million airplane. If they say JUMP!, Trump is expected to say “How high?”.