Debt Rattle March 7 2026
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 7 2026]The mosaic of death by a thousand cuts
This is a Structured War of Attrition. And the screenplay has been written in Tehran.Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK.
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Iran’s Decentralized Mosaic Defense – the official denomination – keeps being tweaked 24/7: that’s the IRGC’s long-term strategy of a death by a thousand cuts designed to bleed the Empire of Chaos dry.
Let’s wade through the interconnected canals permeating the unconstitutional, unwinnable, strategically catastrophic Empire of Chaos-built swamp.
Iran’s mosaic resilience and long-term strategy; the temptation for that ghastly death cult in West Asia to go nuclear; the approaching, inexorable Interceptor Hell; China’s relentless drive to ditch the old order (hoarding gold, dumping dollars); the BRICS’s progress in creating a parallel financial system; the collapse of American vassals, in several latitudes: all that is accelerating a radical system reset.
And then, there’s Vladimir Putin, just casually, almost like an afterthought, annoncing there may not be any Russian gas to be sold to the EU after all:
“Maybe it would make more sense for us to stop supplying gas to the EU ourselves and move to those new markets, and establish ourselves there (…) Again, I want to stress: there’s no political motive here. But if they’re going to close the market to us in a month or two anyway, maybe it’s better to leave now and focus on countries that are reliable partners. That said, this isn’t a decision. I’m just thinking out loud. I’ll ask the government to look into it together with our companies.”
The pitiful Bratwurst Chancellor asked permission from neo-Caligula for Germany to buy Russian oil. He got it. But there may be nothing to buy. This is an energy war, and the EU once again does not even qualify as a homeless beggar. No Qatar gas, no Russian oil and gas. Now go back to your NATO-obsessed Forever War.
The bombing of the GCC-petrodollar pipeline
Immediately after the decapitation strike last Saturday on Supreme Leader Ayatollah Kahamenei, Iran switched to decentralised command and control and cells with a 4-level deep succession plan, launching relentless volleys of older, slower missiles and sacrificial drones to consume Patriot batteries and THAAD systems in industrial scale. With that move, Iran changed the rules of the game alread on Day One of the war.
Anyone with and IQ over room temperature knows that to use 3 Patriots – $9.6 million combined cost – to defend against a single Iranian sacrificial ballistic missile is completely unsustainable.
So it’s no wonder that it took only 4 days of the war of the Epstein Syndicate on Iran for the global financial system to go completely bonkers. $3.2 trillion evaporated in a matter of 4 days – and counting.
The Strait of Hormuz for all practical purposes is closed – except for Russian and Chinese vessels. At least 20% of global oil needs are not moving anywhere. Qatar’s entire LNG production is off line – with no resumption in sight. Iraq’s 2nd larget oil field has been shut down.
And still, volatile neo-Caligula vociferates that his war that was supposed to last only a weekend may drag for five weeks, and other industrial-military Pentagon clowns are talking about all the way to September.
By lasering on US interests across the GCC as legitimate targets – and not only military bases – Iran set a time bomb. This is a direct attack on the petrodollar (to the silent delight of Beijing). Tehran certainly gamed that the chain reaction would be instantaneous – all the way to panic as preamble to a new, generalized Great Depression.
No oil, plus no meaningful GCC defense against Iran’s missiles/drones means no more torrents of Wall Street fake money. The AI bubble, after all, is being financed by GCC “investments”. The new Pipeineistan bombing is not of the Nord Stream kind: it’s the bombing of the GCC-petrodollar pipeline.
All that is happening in record time as Iran’s decentralized mosaic is fine-tuned. For instance, an array of deadly anti-ship missiles – which have not been used yet – are coordinated by the IRGC, the navy, the army, and aerospace forces. Same for drones.
Even if ballistic missile attacks are not keeping up with the initial, breakneck pace, they are more than enough to keep steadily hammering US military bases (whose air defenses are already largely depleted); plunge the death cult in West Asia and the GCC in total economic hell; and scare to death every nook and cranny of “global markets”.
And for all the chest-thumping in Washington by the oily, clownish Secretary of Forever Wars, dozens of Iranian underground military fortresses loaded with tens of thousands of missiles and equipment remain invisible – and untouchable.
Bankrupting the Empire of Chaos business model
This is a desperate war to save the petrodollar. An energy powerhouse like Iran trading outside the petrodollar is the ultimate anathema, especially because the process is coupled with the BRICS drive towards setting up independent payment systems.
The immense structural fragility of the GCC – Iran’s neighbors – makes them an ideal prey. After all, their entire business model is built on the petrodollar in exchange for a Mafioso US “protection”, which has vanished in the sand in the first four days of the war.
Cue to Iran’s Asymmetric Warfare Machine bankrupting the Empire of Chaos business model in real time.
The definitive exhibit is the implosion of the Dubai bling bling dream – much more than the devastation imposed on US 5th Fleet-related interests in Bahrain and even a ballistic missile destroying the $1.1 billion AN/FPS-132 phased array radar at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
A coordinated, in progress GCC crack up, already inevitable, eventually means the end of petrodollar recycling, opening the game to the petroyuan or energy trade in a basket of BRICS currencies.
“Checkmate” comes from the Persian “Shah Mat”, meaning “the king is helpless”. Well, Emperor neo-Caligula may not know he’s naked, because he’s incapable of playing chess. But he’s scared enough to start desperately looking for a way out.
The Astrakhan-Tehran air corridor
Now for the role of Russia. The focus should be on the Astrakhan-Tehran air corridor, crammed with secret cargo flights. The Chkalovsk military airfield near Astrakhan is the key logistical hub of the corridor: cargoes such as the Il-76MD, the An-124 and the Tu-0204-300C are shuttling back and forth covered with special material that reduces radar visibility and hides them from civilian tracking sytems.
Their cargo arrives in Mehrabad airport in Tehran (no wonder it was bombed by Israel), Pyam and Shahid Behesthi in Isfahan. Multimodal logistics also apply, as some cargo is delivered via the Caspian.
Everything is coordinated by the 988th Military Logistics Brigade from Astrakhan. Cargo contents include components for air defense systems; radar guidance modules; hydraulic systems for missile launchers; long-range detection radar modules.
On top of it, under a secret protocol, Russia is supplying Iran with state of the art electronic warfare, including an export version of the Krasukha-4IR, capable of jamming the radar systems of US drones.
Add to it that Iran will soon deploy full-fledged S-400 batteries – which will allow it to control as much as 70% of Iranian airspace.
How the economic-political stress will become unbearable
And now for the role of Turkiye.
Only two months ago the MIT – Turkish intel – directly warned the IRGC that Kurdish fighters were trying to cross from Iraq into Iran. Let that sink in: a full NATO member passing time-sensitive operational intelligence to the IRGC just as the Epstein Syndicate was getting ready for war.
There are at least 15 million Kurds living inside Iran. The last thing Ankara wants is empowered Kurds in Iran. For all of Sultan Erdogan’s insatiable hedging, he knows he can’t frontally antagonize Tehran. He needs to balance a cornucopia of interests mixing NATO; the energy corridor with Russia – but also the energy corridor to the West via the BTC pipeleine; and the role of western anchor to the Middle Corridor to China.
That’s why that alleged Iranian ballistic missile allegedly pointing to Turkiye and shot by NATO was not a big deal: Foreign Ministers Fidan (Turkiye) and Aragchi (Iran) discussed it like adults. There’s impenetrable fog of war about it: the missile might have been sent to cripple the BTC oil terminal and subsequent drones launched on Georgia designed to cripple the weakest spot of the BTC.
None of that is confirmed – and will be impossible to confirm. That might as well have been a false flag – even though Tehran may be quite interested to cut off 30% of Israel’s oil supply.
The BTC will continue to be in play, as it weaves across Georgia carrying Azeri crude across the Caucasus to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. Bombing the BTC would fit the Iranian strategy of severing every energy corridor feeding the Epstein Syndicate and its acollites across the Gulf, the Caucasus and all the way to the Mediterranean.
Along the BTC, other logical Iranian moves would be to attack the Saudi East-West pipeline (it bypasses Hormuz); Iraq’s offshore loading platforms in Iranian territorial waters that handle 3.5 million barrels a day; and the Abqaiq processing hub that handles the majority of Saudi crude before it reaches export terminals.
If Iran under extreme stress is forced to hit all of the above, there’s no strategic petroleum reserve on the planet capable of covering the gap.
In this hellish interconnection of energy corridors, shipping lanes, global supply chains, maritime security and the oil price going out of control, only Pentagon clowns can possibly want to prolong the war until September. Asia, Europe, and every energy importer across the chessboard will be applying maximum pressure for any measure of de-escalation.
Iran’s asymmetric strategy though remains immovable: expand the war horizontally, and stretch the timeline to the max to make the economic-political stress unbearable.
Translation: this is not a quick regime change stunt by a bunch of psychos. This is a Structured War of Attrition. And the screenplay has been written in Tehran.
Iranian drones and rockets reportedly hit U.S. military’s Victoria Base (Camp Victory) near Baghdad International Airport, triggering air defenses and causing fires.
Video
First hand accounts from Zionaziland are leaking through and it’s bad, very bad in Israel.
Indian journalist who recently escaped from Israel tells
“They are Lying! The causalities numbers are high!”
What a shock, Zionazis lying.
“People are dying in 100 foot deep bunkers and the people are not being told what is really happening.”
“You are not allowed to take visual of corpses, you can not go to hospitals and when an incidet happens [missile strike] we don’t even know the location.”
“We go to a location, a day after the event, and the Israelis say one casualty, one person dead, but speaking to local Israelis they say four houses were leveled and nobody in them is alive.”
“Their technology [Israeli] is just talk. The alarm [sirens] used to ring but one day at 5:00am the alarm didn’t even ring, just boom boom boom. We realized things were falling without an alarm. So their [Israel] technology has failed.”
Indian journalist speaks on camera
Despite Zionazi censorship the videos are leaking out.
Palestinians are filming missile strikes and getting the footage out around Israel censors
Wait until the Israeli air defense systems run out of interceptors next week.
Tel Aviv in flames after an Iranian attack. Major missile strike at the heart of Tel Aviv…
The Kurds are going to have their heads handed to them in Iran and Turkey will be attacking them from their rear!
The Kurd Killer
Russian gave Iran many of the Mi-28NE “Havoc” heavily armored, all-weather, day/night attack helicopter designed for anti-armor, combat, and ground support missions.
The Empire of Lies has EIGHT active Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries
Only a week in and Iran has destroy THREE of them so far.
Cost:
A single THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) battery costs approximately $2.73 billion to procure
Individual interceptor missiles cost between $12.7 million and $15.5 million each
At least two THADDs have to be fired at EACH incoming Iranian missile.
$25 million a pop to possibly hit one Iranian ballistic missiles are estimated to cost between $1-2 million each to produce.
Attrition, it’s about numbers and industrial base
Chifut Kunstler: “People of the (any) host country (that we’re in) simply don’t get it.”
As for our own country, too many people here are busy wolfing down the black pills with their Adderall and their Starbucks iced lavender cream chai. It’s actually possible that there is a satisfactory outcome to this Iran operation. …….
……………………………….As with Iran, it doesn’t pay to be insane, and something close to half of America is insane.Once you see through their cheep vignettes in writing you can not unsee it.
<p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.<br><br>Tel Aviv got battered after the missile attack yesterday.<br>MISSILES ARE GETTING THROUGH pic.twitter.com/SepidZ11LF</p>— Earth Hippy (@hippyygoat) March 7, 2026
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Iran war: What role will Yemen’s Houthi group play?
“The Houthis will have no role to play in this confrontation because their added value was to cause trouble on behalf of Iran, while giving Iran a margin of deniability,” he explains. “Now that Iran is actually attacking the whole region, basically, there isn’t much added value in Houthi involvement.”https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-what-role-will-yemens-houthi-group-play/a-76216075
The Houthis Might Try Again to Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier
..if this war extends into months rather than weeks, then the Houthis could take matters into their own hands and retaliate.
If so, this could tie up another carrier strike group in the region, as the earlier missile and drone fight from the Yemeni terrorists could be repeated. And, in fact, we see the USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier heading to the region.
We’ll watch closely to see whether the Houthis will engage again. They could open up a new front in the war or bide their time until the Americans least expect them to act.
https://x.com/iwasnevrhere_/status/2030124308341670080
Hebrew media confirms the U.S. just pushed through an emergency arms package for the zionist entity worth about $150 million, bypassing every normal layer of congressional oversight. The deal rushes 12,000 BLU-110A/B 1-ton bomb bodies straight into Tel Aviv’s hands, the same munitions used in the devastation of Gaza and southern Lebanon.Washington calls it an “emergency.” The subtext is obvious. The zionist entity’s stockpiles are burning down faster than they can be replaced, and Iran’s strikes have exposed gaps the U.S. is now scrambling to fill.
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Executive SummaryAll day yesterday, reports of the region’s oil storage facilities filling and overflowing were circulating, prompting Iraq and Kuwait to halt their oil production. Saudi Arabia and the UAE will do the same in a few days if shipping through the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reopened. Qatar, the region’s main LNG producer, can continue producing gas for another five days, after which it will do the same. And in Dubai, food shortages could begin in 10 days.
And if attacks are launched on local desalination plants, life in the region (home to approximately 60 million people) could literally become a matter of survival. And a fight for a bottle of fresh water.
This, in general, has already sparked genuine hysteria and anger among the local elites. This anger was openly and publicly expressed to Trump on behalf of everyone by the Emirati (still) billionaire Khalaf Al-Habtoor. And just yesterday, capital outflows from the Gulf “sheikhs” became noticeable on the US stock exchange. They have begun plugging the holes in their own economies in this way, ignoring the problems of the US (just as the US had earlier ignored the problems of Arab “investors”).Meanwhile, the loading and export of oil from the Persian Gulf region has practically ceased. This has already caused the price of Brant crude to jump to around $100, a level it will likely surpass as early as Monday.
All this has also forced buyers to once again begin chasing Russian oil, which was already trading at almost $100 per barrel in Indian ports (for delivery in March – early April). And immediately, dozens of tankers carrying Russian oil purchased by Indians (which was not needed just yesterday) rushed to unload.
Against this backdrop, Trump declared that he would accept no outcome to the war other than Iran’s capitulation. This has painted himself into a political corner. True, a little later he clarified that he understands the word “capitulation” much more broadly than the rest of the world understands it. And if you delve into his words, it becomes clear that by capitulation he means almost any scenario for its end.
This means that the monarchies of the region are truly so terrified of the war Trump started and want it to end quickly, can buy peace from him. It will be expensive. But certainly cheaper than a protracted military campaign in the region.
But… the main news of yesterday. The main one, I believe, is the statement by Iran’s leadership that if an invasion of the country from Iraqi Kurdistan begins, the country’s entire infrastructure will be destroyed by missiles and drone strikes. This speaks to Tehran’s serious concerns.
It’s still unclear whether the Iraqi Kurds have accepted the Israeli-US offer to become an invading army, but the fact that Azerbaijan, which suffered a “strange blow” the day before yesterday, withdrew its diplomats from Iran yesterday—the second contender for the role of “cannon fodder” for the “Epstein coalition.”
And this is precisely what needs to be paid attention to. The fate of the region will largely depend on the decisions of the Kurds and Azerbaijanis, and above all, the duration of this adventure, which began a week ago and has already brought it to the brink of the abyss.
Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026
Empire of Lies THADD interceptors are Crap, pure crap
It uses 1950-60 technology. It was in the Pentagram Pig Trough for the MIC Maggot budget.
And they are $13 million a pop.
Israel only had 190+ THADDS to begin with. They are almost gone.
Patriots are also approaching depletion.
The Empire of Lies and their Master Zionazis have no major radar systems. They are blind.
This means there is no warning for incoming missiles.
The Chinese are publishing live time satellite photos of the Iranian missile damage to the Emirates and Zionaziland, so the censorship is failing now so the whole wide world can see the damage.
Trumptard’s Operation EPstein Fury is a failure.
@Doc Robinson
“…we see the USS George HW Bush aircraft carrier heading to the region.”
I’m thrilled the Russians and the Chinese are giving the Iranians and the Houthis LIVE satellite feeds that give pin point co-ordinates of Empire of Lies military assets, like carriers ,for targeting by their missiles.
The Retarded War by the Retarded President
Zionaziland Lies about Iranian missile damage.
THIS IS WHAT ISRAEL DOES NOT WANT YOU TO SEE.
Tel Avi got battered after the missile attack yesterday.MISSILES ARE GETTING THROUGH
https://x.com/i/status/2030313124658606171
In the 1970’s students at MIT made a computer out of Tinkertoys that could play tick-tac-toe:
“The Tinkertoy computer is not fully automatic: a human operator must crank the read head up and down and must manage its input. After the computer’s opponent makes a move, the operator walks to the front of the machine to adjust the core piece inside the read head, registering the contestant’s move. The operator then pulls on a string to cock the core piece for its impending whirl of recognition. When it discovers a memory that matches the current state of the game, the core piece spins, and the computer indicates its move.”
Tinkertoy ComputerTheoretically you could build a computer like this large enough to run any LLM. To claim that an LLM can be conscious you have to believe that if you put enough tinker toys together the right way, adjusted their core inputs, pulled the string, waited a long time and read the output, that mass of tinker toys gave you a conscious response.
Did you know?
There are about 2.4 million Filipinos working in the region is currently considered not yet possible due to widespread airspace closures. The Philippines have warned that a total withdrawal of their workforce could be devastating for both the host countries and the Philippines’ own economy, as Filipinos run approximately 50% of the healthcare and service capacity in the Emirates.
The Indian government has already organised special flights to repatriate stranded nationals, priority is being given to exigencies such as distressed workers, medical cases, and pregnant women.
The Dubai airport lounges are jam-packed!
Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026
Jobs Shock: US Lost 92K Payrolls In February, Unemployment Rate Rises
Red at those redlines…goin’ down Baby!
You read and decide
4 glaring mistakes in 5 minutes
Today, Pezeshkian’s video message was released, which in itself is a record, because in this 5-minute message, there were 4 glaring mistakes and errors:1) “We will no longer attack neighboring countries!”Pezeshkian’s explicit admission will forever serve as evidence of the Islamic Republic’s aggression and invasion of neighboring countries, based on which those countries can demand compensation and reparations! This is despite the fact that we did not attack these countries, but rather targeted American military bases in these countries!
2) “I need to apologize for attacking neighboring countries.”We defended our country against America’s aggression and targeted American bases, and there is no reason to apologize for this! Have the neighboring countries, from whose soil America attacked us, apologized to us? Our action in targeting American bases located in neighboring countries is legal and does not require an apology.
3) “The armed forces should not attack neighboring countries unless we are attacked by these countries.”We have been attacked from the soil of neighboring countries (both in the 12-day war and in the recent war), and for this reason we have the right to unlimited defense (as long as American bases exist in these countries), and we do not need to be attacked again by these countries to have the right to respond!
4) “We must solve these issues with neighbors through diplomacy and not fight.”Every child knows that aggression and invasion of a country are not solved with diplomacy! In international law and our Iranian and religious culture, responding to an enemy’s aggression is called “defense”! But Pezeshkian, instead of the word defense, uses and has used the colloquial and vulgar word “fight”, and apparently does not know the difference between the two! Fighting is the act of wicked and illogical people, while defense is the duty of honorable and brave people!
If there were one or two wise and learned advisors around Pezeshkian, and if he were required to read his speeches from a paper, and if his speeches were prepared by several literate, religious, and revolutionary advisors, we would not witness so many terrible blunders in a 5-minute speech!
✍️ Mohammad Sadegh KoushkiPosted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 11:55 utc | 815
Spokesman of the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff:
Countries that have not provided space and facilities to the U.S. and the Zionist regime have not been our targets so far, and will not be targeted in the future.’
Posted by: Fredrick | Mar 7 2026 12:38 utc | 828
Truth for some. Illusion for others
On the “Victory”: “THE IRANIAN REGIME IS FINISHED! TOTAL OBLITERATION!! OUR BRAVE WARRIORS HAVE DONE WHAT NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. THEY ARE BEGGING FOR MERCY BUT THERE WILL BE NO MERCY UNTIL TOTAL SURRENDER!!”
On the Pentagon “Generals”: “I TOLD THE STUPID GENERALS TO HIT THEM HARD AND FAST. SOME OF THEM ARE SLOW, MAYBE EVEN DUMB, BUT I AM RUNNING THIS SHOW NOW. NO MORE WOKE WARFARE. WE WIN OR THEY GO!!”
On the “Invisible Shield”: “PEOPLE ARE SAYING THE MIDDLE EAST IS A MESS. WRONG! DUBAI IS SAFER THAN EVER. ISRAEL IS PERFECT. OUR TECHNOLOGY IS AN INVISIBLE SHIELD THAT NO ONE CAN PENETRATE. FAKE NEWS MEDIA LIES!!”
The “Final Warning”: “THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS COMING NEXT. IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST THING IN HISTORY. GAME OVER FOR THE RADAL MULLAHS. MAGA!!!”
Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:44 utc | 1034
Ten hours that shook West Asia
We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order.Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK.
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Ten hours. That’s what it took for Iran to:
put the Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Permanent Strikes under siege all across the Gulf.
bomb 27 major US military bases, relentlessly – inflicting extensive damage.
determine that all US and Israeli assets and interests in West Asia are legitimate targets for retaliation.
block the Strait of Hormuz (then unblocked; but free passage only for Russian and Chinese vessels).
Up next: if US warships do not retreat, they will be sunk.The whole drama, predictably, developed as Deceit in the Making. The war was ordered by the leader of a death cult in West Asia, a genocidal psycho who then took refuge in his “Wing of Zion” and fled to… Berlin. His American sidekick, neo-Caligula, a megalomaniacal Narcissus, co-ordered the war from Mar-a-Lago.
Their spectacular success on Day One: to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in a decapitation strike. And to kill scores of girls – 100+ and counting – in an elementary school in southern Iran.
Predictably, this was also a remix of the assassination of Hezbollah’s Sayyed Nasrallah in Beirut.
During indirect “negotiations” in Oman the Trump 2.0 team required Tehran to clarify an offer that required some final fine-tuning.
Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al Busaidi confirmed that Iran, for the first time, agreed to “never” accumulate nuclear material for a bomb; maintain zero stockpiles of enriched material; agree that existing stockpiles would be down-blended; and allow full IAEA verification.
The meeting took place in Tehran on Saturday morning, uniting top members of the Iranian leadeship.
The Epstein Syndicate duly bombed the meeting, killing top officials plus Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The Empire of Chaos does not do negotiations: it uses them as a weapon.
Yet there was no instant collapse leading to regime change. Less than half an hour after being struck, the Tehran leadership launched a stunning, lightning-fast, coordinated counterpunch on a massive scale, in 24-hour continuous launch mode, thus establishing the parameters of escalation as well as resilience supremacy on the battlefield.
For instance, Iranian tactics are now very different compared to the 12-day war. In the second wave against Bahrain, they used Shahed-136 kamikaze drones only after a massive ballistic missile barrage which completely bewildered US defense systems. The result: scores of expensive interceptors expended too early. The drones only came later.
Only on Day 1 Iran fired over 1,200 missiles and drones. Tehran has tens of thousands of missiles and drones in stock. US interceptors are about to run dry in a matter of days. Each THAAD costs $15 million. The math is definitely not leaning the imperial way.
From martyrdom to revenge
Iran going after US assets in Dubai is a masterful strategic play – linked to destroying sheltering US military personnel and/or clandestine CIA digs. All those tacky Dubai symbols of bling bling opulence are on fire; Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab, Palm Jumeirah.
As correctly argued here, 88% of the population of Dubai is foreign. Apart from being the world capital of money laundering, this is most of all a special economic zone with a flag, now running the risk of a bank run.
After all, the UAE does not produce anything – as in productive capitalism; it’s a tax-free service economy built around bling bling opulence and safety (now gone).
Dubai also happens to have enormous leverage over neo-Caligula – as in “Trump coins”, personal investments, donations to the Board of Peace, a.k.a. Board of War. Aviation is 27% of Dubai’s GDP – and 18% of the UAE’s. Dubai airport in the dark is an absolute disaster. Mega-airlines like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways – complete with their mega-airports – are key vehicles/nodes of the global transportation matrix.
Dubai in the dark is a very bad business proposition for Trump. There’s no question MbZ is already on the phone begging for a ceasefire. Moreover, Tehran also made clear that energy giants Chevron and ExxonMobil are legitimate targets. So it’s no wonder neo-Caligula already wanted a ceasefire on Day 1, communicated via Italian diplomatic channels to Iran.
Whatever the torrents of speculation on whether the genocidal psycho in Tel Aviv did force neo-Caligula to go to war when his Invincible Armada was still not ready, the fact is the Pentagon lost the strategic initiative.
The script is being written in Tehran; that’s going to be a war of attrition, where Tehran has gamed every possible scenario.
So here’s how it all developed, in a flash. Decapitation strike. Council of Experts convened in minutes. IRGC: “maximum force” response within the hour, unleashed over the death cult + petro-chihuahuas. Succession mechanism: in place. Command structure: in place. No regime change. Zero imperial strategic dominance. From martyrdom to revenge.
The whole Global South is watching.
Total strategic rupture
According to several IRGC sources, Ayatollah Khamenei had everything prepared in excruciating detail via a series of directives. He had instructed Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Security Council, and selected leadership members not only on how Iran could resist to the Epstein Syndicate firepower but also any assassination attempts, including on himself. Khamenei was killed alongside Ali Shamkhani, the former National Security Council secretary, and IRGC Commander Mohammed Pakpour.
Khamenei named no less than four layers of succession for each key military command and government role. No wonder all crucial decisions after the decapitation were taken in record time.
The genocidal/murderous American-Israeli duo has no idea what’s coming. They managed to affront the whole of the Shi’ite world – not to mention hundreds of millions of Sunni Muslims as well.
Total strategic rupture does not even begin to describe it: we have reached the absolute point of no return between Washington and Tehran. Instead of this childish notion of regime change, which only braindead fanatical Zionists can entertain, the killing of Khamenei is consolidating a national consensus; legitimizing a no holds barred retaliation; and unleashing a multi-front confrontation stretching from the Gulf to the Levant.
Iran’s immediate tactics are crystal clear: to saturate Israeli air defences and trigger a massive Interceptor Crisis. That is bound to compel Israeli generals to beg neo-Caligula for a ceasefire – even as Iran will not cease to pick Israel’s infrastructure and economy apart, possibly causing the death cult to crack in a matter of days.
Russia and China meanwhile will be working in the shade to ensure Iran’s defense network remains intact.
If West Asia gas and oil stops flowing only for a few days, all ominous bets are off when it comes to the global economy. Iran has gamed all scenarios and can apply and release pressure at will.
The Global South will be learning all the lessons of how the Iranian leadership displays solidarity and clear objectives while forced on an unprecedented fight on several fronts against the imperial colossus – and that after 47 years of relentless sanctions. This kind of resistance, in itself, is already a miracle.
Now the path may be opened towards the end of American military footprint across West Asia – something envisioned by a lineage of martyrs, from Soleimani and Nasrallah to Khamenei.
We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order, where that ghastly death cult with its pathetic intolerant God will be strategically wallowing in the mire, its deterrence in tatters, consumed with paranoia while fighting multiple instance of asymmetrical pressure.
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