Debt Rattle April 11 2026

[Raúl Ilargi Meijer]

Caspar David Friedrich Woman before the Rising Sun 1818 • Trump’s Gambit: Civilizational Expansion or Nihilistic Western Decline (CTH) • President Tru
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 11 2026]

[Michael Reid]

US Middle East Policy: The Growing Propensity for Genocide

[Michael Reid]

War on Iran and the Global South: Update 19 part 2 Mission Improbable

[Michael Reid]

Iran Just Took the Crown: Netanyahu’s War Crime, Trump’s Desperation, and the Petro-Dollar Collapse

[John Day]

My essay from last night, Precariously Balanced https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/precariously-balanced

There are so many weak points in the politics of all parties to the wars in the world now, that each party must guard, constraining room for maneuver and attack. Additionally, too much of an attack upon another party might trigger a desperate response. An attempt tocut off the ability to respond may trigger the feared response.
Frenemy alliances are apparent, as may be the case between Trump and Netanyahu (if he still lives), and is clearly the case between Trump and Macron, Starmer & Merz.
All of this occurs in the context of declining total global real economy, which economy is built upon oil, gas and coal, with other mined minerals. It is fed by mechanized agriculture, with 2/3 of the grain output derived from fertilizers, which are derived from oil and natural gas.
Many people barely survive on the food supplied through these expedients, and they are threatened with death by starvation. Other people continue to be under direct, genocidal military attack.
These threats of starvation and genocides-in-progress are increasingly disturbing to the gentle citizens of western liberal democratic nations. This disturbance to the bodies-politic is still increasing. People see the deaths of the innocent and helpless, and see themselves and their own families, as threatened.
In the present wars, Russian forces are grinding forward slowly in Ukraine, not making sudden moves, not spooking European leaders or banks into any sudden moves.
Israel as a political state is riven with discord. Israeli families and businesses are extremely fatigued of the war. Israelis see their own mobilized-reservist family members pressed into extended duty on the new Lebanese battlefields, where they are taking significant losses. More are being called up. Ultra-Orthodox Israelis are not yet pressed into this involuntary service.
Benjamin Netanyahu, might have been killed in early March, as might have been Itamar Ben-Gvir. They now present as questionable video apparitions.
What could possibly be a workable political reset within Israel? It would have to be arranged quietly first, before revealing these leaders to be deceased. It would have to give something to the far-right and religious factions they represent, but not the continuance of war. They would have to accept it as a “win”. The negotiators for those parties would need to know their weakened position during negotiations, but keep the secret until later.
Could such a secret be kept? How might Netanyahu’s trial figure into that? The procedings can be closed for security reasons… the clock is ticking.
Iran is in a chronically bad political state, from decades of US economic sanctions and covert military attacks. The government is widely unpopular because it has treated the people repressively, as if a hot war was ongoing for these decades. High inflation, unemployment, and scarce food and fuel have been ubiquitous.
Under current US and Israeli attacks, the IRGC seems to be in a stable, arrangement for prolonged attritional-war, receiving supplies and targeting information from China and Russia via secure overland routes. Iran needs to outlast Israel, and outlast the American news cycle, which is increasingly hard upon Trump and incumbant Republicans.
This is a midterm election year, and gas prices keep rising. The worse economic consequences have yet to hit. Can they be delayed until mid November?
European globalist leaders are finished following American leaders, but they have been left in a ditch with no winch to pull them out. They accepted being cut off from Russian oil and gas, and now they have nothing, not even their pride, as Trump insults them unchivalrously in public They cringe as Trump demands extorniate rates for inadequate supplies of these critical resources for their collapsing industrial economies. They can’t yet admit that they need Russia.
European nationalist leaders are under direct attack from EU globalists, and they have to live through it. Hungary’s Orban faces his most difficult election Sunday, which has had heavy EU social media influencing against him, and polling results (artificially?) showing him behind, which is to be used against him should he win in the ballot counts.
This weekend should entail a holding pattern for war fronts, with Orthodox Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, Hungarian elections, and peace talks between the US, Israel and Iran in Pakistan, while Israel is holding its fire in Lebanon to allow the talks with Iran to proceed. Israelis need the breather from Iranian missiles and drones, since they and the US are essentially defenseless against Iranian heavy missile attacks now.
Israel will have direct negotiations with the Lebanese government in Washington this coming week, a rare thing. They have been at war since 1948 and lack formal diplomatic relations. Israel has never respected any ceasefire agreements with Lebanon to date, and is intent upon carving out a “buffer zone” from southern Lebanon, at the expense of all of the people who have homes there.
The government of Lebanon is not able to negotiate for the real Lebanese army, which is Hezbollah. Hezbollah is a party in the Lebanese Parliament, but the Lebanese government is a weak and factionalized construct, left to them by their former colonial masters in France.
Israel has always refused to negotiate with Hezbollah, and has impossibly demanded that Lebanon disarm Hezbollah, a poson-pill to any agreement.
Israel does not have an economic plan for the future after expansionist-wars, except IMEC (India Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor), whereby flows of oil, gas, data, trade and banking from India and the Mideast, to Europe, are controlled through Haifa, Israel. All other alternate trade routes need to be suppressed to make this one work for Israel (Looking at You, Iran). https://escapekey.substack.com/p/stranded-in-haifa
Overall, the US-Israel are stocking up on air-defense systems and bombs, while aircraft carriersapproach theeater of operations presaging more attacks and a ground operation in the near future. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE have recently attacked Iran, “standing shoulder to shoulder” with the US & Israel.
[I must wonder if Trump might decide to step down and let JD Vance take over the presidency in October, fall upon his sword to save the Republicans in midterm elections, but it is just a thought. Trump has never shown any inclination towards anything like that.]

[Michael Reid]

Additional UPDATE 11:18 PM EDT — FLASH: U.S. RELEASING $6 BILLION IN “FROZEN” IRAN ASSETS
Hal Turner
This story publishes at 6:15 PM EDT, Friday April 10. Within the past 60 minutes, the United States RELEASED $6 Billion in “Frozen” Iranian assets, and directed those in possession of the funds, Qatar and South Korea, to effectuate the transfer of those funds as soon as practicable.

Whether or not that happens now, on a Friday after all markets closed, or before the resumption of hostilities, remains to be seen. Iran is wary that this is simply another US ploy, and that the US may renege on it. The world is now watching for that, too.

Release of those frozen Iran assets is a pre-condition set by Iran for them to enter into talks with the US.

No word yet on Iran’s other pre-condition, that Israel ceasefire in Lebanon.

UPDATE 7:31 PM EDT —

From the Iranian Embassy of South Africa:

ADDITIONAL UPDATE 11:18 PM EDT —

In a very unexpected twist to this entire situation, SAUDIS, EGYPTIANS, QATARIS, AND THE CHINESE WILL INFORMALLY JOIN THE US-ISRAEL TALKS TOMORROW MORNING IN ISLAMABAD.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/flash-u-s-releasing-6-billion-in-frozen-iran-assets?catid=17&Itemid=101

[chooch]

Michael, none of that is happening.

[those darned kids]

• Trump’s Gambit: Civilizational Expansion or Nihilistic Western Decline (CTH)

•• hmmm, what would the extortionist-in-chief do?

• President Trump Blasts the Grifters, Blackpillers and Anti-MAGA Podcasters (CTH)

•• kushner’s gone!?!?

• Games Nations Play (James Howard Kunstler)

•• zionists people ignore

• It’s ‘Death To Everyone’ When Fertilizer Supply Shock Hits (ZH)

•• trump gut will be a thing..

• Comrade Mamdani Is Getting Smacked Around by Reality (Kruiser)

•• hang ’em by the bootstraps!!!

• DOJ Opens Criminal Investigation Into J6 Witness Cassidy Hutchinson (Margolis)

•• so?

• Scott Jennings Torches CNN’s Fake News About MAGA on Air (Margolis)

•• america isn’t greedy again?

• It’s a MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ World and We’re Just Living In It (Moran)

•• that’s fine; you’ll never have trouble getting a date.

• UK Government’s TWISTED Priorities Exposed…(MN)

•• yeah! they should be killing school girls.

• Justice Sotomayor Suggests Justice Kavanaugh is an Uninformed Elitist (Turley)

•• takes one to…

• Facebook interfering in Hungarian election – Budapest (RT)

•• facebook still exits?

• Melania Calls for Public Congressional Testimony from Epstein Victims (CTH)

•• donald calls for melania…………………..

[John Day]

Reuters: Exclusive: Iranian source says US has agreed to unfreeze Iranian funds, Washington denies it https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/iranian-source-says-us-has-agreed-release-frozen-iranian-assets-qatar-other-2026-04-11/

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