Debt Rattle April 15 2026
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the western world is experiencing the final death throes of The Dutch East India and British East India companies. Dominance in trade is no longer a given. All of the current turmoil is just spasms and seizures in the death process.
Ozymandias
Some tweets from Courtney Bonneau, a war correspondent in Lebanon.
Apr 13
Fuck you @NPR for perpetuating the lie that Israel is striking ‘Hezbollah targets.’ They are committing daily massacres off the battlefield of civilians and your correspondent in Beirut knows it.
5h
Another hearty “fuck you” to @NPR for airing the Israeli ambassador saying that they are working on liberating the Lebanese people from Iran.
Let me be crystal clear; the only country bombing Lebanon for the last two years is Israel. The only country forcibly displacing over a million people is Israel. The only country killing children, paramedics and journalists is Israel. The only country committing egregious acts of ecocide with white phosphorus is Israel. The only soldiers who have threatened me and my colleagues for telling the truth are Israeli soldiers.
I am a witness. I have photos and video of all of it. NPR, do better. Your correspondent in Beirut knows what’s actually happening. Let them say it.
5h
Another Israeli double-tap attack on medical professionals in Mifdoun, Lebanon. Two people were killed and four wounded after ambulances were intentionally targeted as they arrived at the scene of another ambulance that had been targeted.
Targeting medial professionals is a war crime. Israel has killed almost 100 medial professionals in Lebanon since March 2nd.
Momentous events are transpiring. Here’s a partial list of the biggest ones on the front burner at the moment.
@DrD
Iran is not crumbling you dolt! Can you see? Can you read? Can you count numbers ?
Victor David Hansen is a rich accredited but also self-important old man in love with his own unshakable delusion that the Zio-American Empire is the white city on the hill when the entire remainder of the world is fully aware … beyond any attempt to gas light them … that the Zio-American Empire is pretty much the worst thing that has happened to Earth in the past many centuries. Just count the dead bodies and who killed them. The killers are the Zio-American Empire and the corpses are their former slaves and subjects.“Dear Dr. D,
Do you agree with:
U.S. military operations against Russia?
U.S. military operations against Iran?
U.S. military operations against China? Reid.It depends. Which operations? All wars, all actions, all operations in all times and places? No, of course not.
In general, do I disagree with recent, headline operations against Russia (in Ukraine), China (???Huh???), and Iran (this specific 40 day period) then yes, I disagree with all of them. However, you also know WHY I think this (these several) administrations did them and why. They are each for very specific strategic GOOD. Not just us, but planetwide.
1) The U.S. resistance, being unable to throw off internally, and ruled by Globalists mainly in Europe, were staging a WWIII with Russia with such complete power, 100-year planning, and zealous resolve as to be unstoppable. Yet for the sake of all life on earth needed to be stopped. Having tried 50 different things, the only thing left at that particular time was what we see now: The U.S. (non-evils) lured Europe into a trap then cut them off to let Russia deal with them.
I have about a thousand data points indicating this at this point, And for twelve years you’ve heard them every day.
But the problem with military traps is this: Someone Has to Get Killed. Sorry. You all want a war, a world war where not a single man gets killed and we never do, or ever PRETEND to do, an evil action. We never tell a single lie, we never waste a single dollar. Sorry. That’s not earth. The only way to “Suck Europe in” to COMMIT, FULLY, was to have it look really, entirely, totally real. And from Day One it was always less than real, with every one of us EXCEPT Europe going “HuhWhut?”
It did not ENTIRELY commit them, but it ADEQUATELY committed them, and now “A Miracle!” Not Trump – who was not in office – but the PENTAGON, who everyone called unrestrained warmongers, refused every war and almost every war material, sending one bullet and one tank at a time, as often said, with ZERO interest in winning. Huh? Yes, every day they declined using a new way, sending only the minimum every day, and too late.
And here we are. No WWIII, Europe gutted and lost. Now: You CHOICE was 6,000 MILLION people dead – including you, by the way – and the Globalists winning forever, OR 1-2 Million people dead, mostly Ukrainians who didn’t shoot their government instead.
Everyone is sad ONE person died, and I am too, but Get Real. This is the REAL math of adults who don’t live in a candy-apple Telletubby world. This is the same math as any “Private Ryan”: Do MORE people die by killing these four men, or LESS people. So killing a million we save a billion. Your choice, the evil was not going to let us out of it
UNLESS ALL HUMANKIND BECOMES ENLIGHTENED TOMORROW and stops being evil, having any weaknesses or bad habits ourselves. News for you: that ain’t gonna happen. So if you want war to stop, fix YOURSELF, not the other guy.
I run long on that because it’s exactly the same as China and Iran. NONE of what is being said is what’s really going on, OBVIOUSLY. Sachs and every other expert says “I don’t know what’s going on, none of it makes any sense to me” which should be your first clue not to listen to them. They then “Make S—t Up” out of what they don’t know and won’t ask, when all over the world people are tediously and expensively drafting press releases that tell you everything you need to know. You, Ritter, Sachs, read them and say they’re lying, but what I just made up from no information at all is the truth. Okay.
China: Was expressly, SINCE NIXON set up by the Globalists as our replacement. They started detonating the U.S. and West industrial military basis the day after, as Rubio was quoted as saying this week. By Papa Bush, we had “That giant sucking sound” which 100% of Americans – except the 535 in D.C. — all knew was certain death. And we didn’t start shooting on the spot then. China did in fact become the new Hegemon, replacing us, exactly as planned. Every hour of every day Sachs or Davis writes, “Why resist your death? It’s inevitable Mr. Anderson” just give in, surrender, it’s hopeless – which is always the talk of the side of the angels. However, Xi mud-f—ked them harder than they’ve ever been f—ked before. He locked out China to Western Globalist capital ALSO after luring them in for years – and cut them off too late, with nowhere to go. They cannot escape there while they rob and burn the entire West to US/Russia ashes, and collect Insurance on the Arson Casino. They then tried Dubai, Saudi, Anywhere…no dice.
However, if you look, you will still see 100 times a day, that we MUST have a World War with China. Yeah, dude, no. We don’t have a single ship for that. CLEARLY the Pentagon said no, like 30 years ago on that s—t. We ain’t fightin’ nobody, it’s a joke in the deranged delirious fever dreams of the terminally online. Nor does China want to, really. So we’re on the same page. Again, this is John Wick 4. Watch it. The blind China man and John – backed, allied by Russia – do not WANT to fight, at all, ever, over anything. It’s all staged bulls-t of the (EUROPEAN) High Table.
So there IS no fight with China except in people’s deranged, overactive imaginations. China is an ALLY, fighting the same people we are, as is Russia. However: realpolitick exists. China is fine now, but they COULD take over everywhere and be every bit the menace the Globalists designed. All cultures do this as they get strong and China more than most DGAF about anyone not Chinese. Therefore we need a BALANCE of powers. THAT we are doing in Hormuz, balancing China’s power with our control over oil. If we make them pay retail and double the flow – what we did in Venezuela – China is fine with it. Better, in fact, it’s a world win-win. If we cut it off, well, China will probably nuke us, so fat chance we’ll do that. That’s world PEACE, for God’s sake, not war. Unless you WANT China to get all uppity and conquer Indonesia, and level Japan, which they were beginning to get in the mood to do over there.
Same with Iran, but we’ve covered that non-stop. Iran is merely a proxy of London, of Globalists, to extort hundred-bil at a pop, and keep all other powers AT WAR. Forever. Off balance forever. The U.S. involved forever. So stopping that was going to take really big steps with everybody screaming. Apparently everyone at Fox News has a desk at MI6, so I’m not surprised they didn’t like it: we just shut off $100 Billion money flows from Europe, London. And the U.S. is now fabulously powerful and rich selling oil, so sad!! And Russia can be rich too if Europe ever decides to stop mass-murdering all their people and buy Russian oil.
…WHICH THEY ALREADY ARE, in ever-increasing quantities. The liars. But Europe can do fine if they want to. THEY DON’T WANT TO. They want to KILL THE PLANET.
So Iran now cannot be a proxy. Put it this way (again): LONDON cannot nuke China, Russia, America, Panama because we’ll f-ing nuke them back, dude! However, London CAN have IRAN nuke Malacca, nuke the US Navy in Sri Lanka, and go “Oopsie! It weren’t us! Dem crazy crackers!” Yeah I don’t want that, that’s what we just took away from them here.
So although I don’t approve of it, I also don’t have the classified documents and I can UNDERSTAND it. It’s logical, reasonable, rational. Is Patton leveling 100,000 men, or Sherman marching to the sea a GOOD thing? No. But we can’t figure out anything else and it ends the damn war. I want it ended.
Again, if we kill 100,000 to save 100 Million, are you onboard? No I would guess. You only accept ZERO losses, zero hard choices. That’s okay, but I can say it to you and make these words reach your mind for consideration.
No I do not approve. However, it’s very, very, very possible if WE had the info they have, we also WOULD approve.
My job here is not to say what — I — want, ’cause no one cares, but to explain what THEY are thinking, the people in power. Everyone these days spends all day pretending not to understand things that are perfectly simple.
The Hormuz Strait ?
Iran imposes tole.
US imposes insurance
Money flow changes but we still do the paying.
let us put to rest the waking dream the US is going sieze global finance and trade from the City of London et al.
US Sanctions 10/1/2024:
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Master-Sanctions-List-Updated-10-01-2024-.pdfso the plan is to capture or steal existing capital from allies use the existing market and supply chains and commandeer all of the profits.
and i’m going to get laid tonight
Hanson, Roberts and Dr. D have splinters in the windmills of their mind
It’s all guesses.
Decision makers/doers have a secret.
Youall knows that they are not telling youall their secrets.Copilot said:
What TV Often Says
News segments frequently imply things like:
– “The U.S. is blocking Iranian oil shipments.”
– “Ships must follow U.S. procedures in the Strait of Hormuz.”
– “The U.S. Navy is enforcing a blockade.”
– “Captains must check in with the U.S. Navy.”
– “The U.S. controls the Strait.”
These statements are simplified or exaggerated versions of reality.✅ What Is Actually True (Legally & Operationally)
1. There is no U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz
A blockade is a wartime act under international law.
The U.S. has not declared one, and ships are not required to stop for the U.S. Navy.2. The U.S. imposes sanctions, not navigation rules
Sanctions affect:
– What cargo a ship can legally carry
– Who can insure the ship
– Who can buy or sell the cargo
– Which companies can do business with the vessel
But sanctions do not control how a ship physically sails through Hormuz.3. The Strait of Hormuz is governed by the IMO and coastal states
The navigation rules come from:
– International Maritime Organization (IMO)
– Oman
– Iran
Not the United States.4. The U.S. Navy is present — but it does not control traffic
The U.S. Navy:
– Escorts some ships during high‑risk periods
– Responds to distress calls
– Monitors for threats
– Tracks suspicious activity
But it does not:
– Tell ships which lane to use
– Require captains to check in
– Stop compliant vessels
– Control the TSS (traffic separation scheme)5. What the U.S. does enforce is sanctions compliance
This is where the confusion comes from.
The U.S. monitors:
– AIS patterns
– Ship‑to‑ship transfers
– Suspicious routing
– Tankers linked to Iranian oil
– False documentation
If a ship is suspected of carrying sanctioned cargo, the U.S. Treasury may:
– Sanction the vessel
– Sanction the owner
– Sanction the insurer
– Freeze assets
This is financial enforcement, not maritime control.✅ Why TV Makes It Sound Like a Blockade
Because the effects feel similar:
– Ships carrying Iranian oil face consequences
– Some tankers avoid the region
– Insurance companies refuse coverage
– Ports refuse entry to sanctioned vessels
So media outlets simplify it as:
“The U.S. is blocking Iranian oil.”But the mechanism is economic pressure, not naval interdiction.
April 15, 2026
War On Iran: – Closing The Red Sea
To break the stalemate caused by the U.S. blockade of its country the military of Iran announced that it will restrict commercial traffic across the Red Sea, the Gulf and the Sea of Oman.It will not require much action from Iran to do so. A few drone strikes against civilian ships near Arab Gulf countries and a few threats by Ansarallah in Yemen against ships in the Red Sea will up the insurance costs sufficiently to make any traffic in those areas unprofitable.
From a Yemeni news source, Iran may target regional ports to cut off supply chains for American forces.
Iran revealed its plan to confront the American blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
The spokesman for the “Khatam Al-Anbiya” headquarters affirmed that the security of the ports of the Gulf and the Sea of Oman is either for everyone or for no one, in a clear reference to the Iranian forces placing the region’s ports on the list of targets if the American plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz is implemented.
He also indicated that the plan includes preventing the passage of enemy ships.
American forces use those ports for resupply and food, which means cutting off their supply chains.
The Iranian hint at placing all ports in the region within targets comes amid anticipation of a new American escalation in Hormuz.
Also this –
Data from the ship tracking company Kepler revealed that at least 4 ships have departed from Iranian ports and crossed the Strait of Hormuz following the American announcement of a navigation ban on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran not blockadable’: Tehran says all ‘means of pressure’ will fail
Wednesday, 15 April 2026 1:20 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 15 April 2026 3:34 PM ]Iran is “not blockadable,” the Foreign Ministry spokesman says, rejecting the US attempt to impose a naval blockade on the country, while warning that it violates the fragile ceasefire and could trigger a proportional response from Iranian armed forces.
Esmail Baghaei was responding to recent American announcements that Washington has imposed a blockade of Iranian ports and disrupted the country’s maritime trade.
He dismissed the feasibility of any such effort.
“Firstly, Iran is not blockadable,” the spokesman said. “Secondly, if you fail to reach a result through a diplomatic process, resorting to other means of pressure will certainly not lead to any result and you will not succeed.”
He added that the US move is a provocative act, contrary to the principles of international law, and has no legal legitimacy. “This US action could be considered a prelude to violating the ceasefire,” he warned.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran and its armed forces are carefully monitoring developments and will respond proportionally wherever necessary.”
Strait of Hormuz security assured with regional help
The spokesman also addressed European proposals for an international coalition, potentially under UN auspices, to secure navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, including mine-sweeping operations.
“The security of the Strait of Hormuz has been ensured by Iran for decades. Iran has been the guardian of this waterway’s security,” he said.
“The only reason security and safety in this waterway were disrupted during the past 40 days was the US-Zionist-imposed war.”
He rejected foreign intervention, saying any move or interference in regional affairs would only complicate the situation further.
“We are glad that many European countries have the wisdom not to fall into the trap laid by the US and the Zionist regime.”
He stressed that Iran, as a coastal state and with the help of regional countries, is fully capable of providing security for the strait, provided that American aggression and interference in the region come to an end.
Neighbors’ role in aggression documented
Asked about Persian Gulf states that allowed the use of their infrastructure for attacks on Iran, the spokesman said Tehran has documented all cases.
“We consider any use of these countries’ facilities or territory for aggression against Iran, whether missile launches, drone launches, refueling or any logistical support, as part of the US-Zionist military aggression.”
He said any assistance to aggressor nations entails international responsibility for the assisting countries.
“This is an accepted principle in international law, clearly stated in the UN General Assembly’s Definition of Aggression resolution and affirmed by general principles of international law.”
“All cases we have been informed of have been documented by the armed forces and are being pursued seriously.”
He warned that countries involved in such assistance will be held accountable.
US presence fuels insecurity
The spokesman painted a bright outlook for Iran’s relations with regional countries, provided that all parties learn from recent events.
“The first lesson is that US military presence in the region fuels insecurity and does not create security.”
“Second, regional security will only be achieved through cooperation and collaboration among regional countries.”
“Third, regional countries must not allow the Zionist regime and the US to use their facilities, territory and capacities for aggressive actions against another country.”
He expressed hope that regional governments would end any unintentional or intentional provision of facilities for US-Israeli attacks on Iran.
“Relations between Iran and regional countries must be based on good neighborliness, friendship and respect for each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
Iran will not accept US dictates
Turning to the ongoing Iran-US talks mediated by Pakistan, the spokesman dismissed any notion that Tehran would accept American conditions.
“We are not entering negotiations to accept US conditions. Our criterion is the interests and rights of the Iranian nation.”
“If negotiations are based on one side imposing conditions on the other, that is not negotiation; that is dictation and imposition. The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian nation will never accept such imposition.”
He said Washington’s expectation that Iran would unconditionally accept its proposals is unrealistic and incompatible with the logic of negotiations.
“No date has been set for the next round of talks,” he added, noting that the nuclear issue remains the most significant point of disagreement between the two sides
US lawmakers move to impeach War Secretary Hegseth over Iran ‘war crimes’
Wednesday, 15 April 2026 7:05 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 15 April 2026 7:37 PM ]A number of US lawmakers are set to file five articles of impeachment against Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over war crimes committed in Iran.
The impeachment resolution will be introduced by Rep. Yassamin Ansari (D-Ariz.), the first Iranian American Democrat in Congress, on Wednesday, accusing Hegseth of war crimes in connection with the US-Israeli aggression against Iran, abuse of power and mishandling of the Department of War, according to Axios.
Eight Democrats are co-sponsoring the resolution, including Reps. Steve Cohen (Tenn.), Jasmine Crockett (Texas), Nikema Williams (Ga.), Sarah McBride (Del.), Brittany Pettersen (Colo.), Dina Titus (Nev.), Dave Min (Calif.), and Shri Thanedar (Mich.).
Ansari announced last week that she was filing articles of impeachment, saying Hegseth was “complicit” in President Donald Trump’s “devastating, illegal war” against Iran.
The first article says Hegseth violated his oath of office in overseeing an “unauthorized war against Iran and reckless endangerment of United States service members.”
According to the resolution, the secretary is guilty of war crimes by targeting civilians and breaking the rules of armed conflict, citing the deadly US bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Iran’s Minab.
The articles also focused on the mishandling of sensitive information, referring to the use of the Signal app on his personal cell phone to discuss a pending strike on targets in Yemen.
Moreover, the resolution accuses Hegseth of obstructing Congress’s ability to oversee the military by withholding information regarding military actions in Venezuela and Iran, and other countries.
It also accuses the secretary of abusing his power, “including targeting and launching bogus investigations against specific elected officials for the express purpose of political retribution.”
The articles, however, are almost certain to go nowhere in the House controlled by the Republicans.
Trump’s war on Iran, which began on February 28, has further fueled Americans’ anger. According to a poll published last week, most Americans want Congress to impeach US President Donald Trump over his war on Iran and other controversial policies.
The costly and illegal war on Iran has already consumed tens of billions of dollars and raised concerns about the strain on US weapons stockpiles.
The war has also carried a considerable political cost for Trump. His approval rating dropped to 39 percent in early April, down from 42 percent in late February before the war began, with 53 percent disapproving, marking the lowest rating of his second term.
Inside Congress, Democrats supported impeachment by 84 percent to 8 percent, with 78 percent strongly backing removal. Republicans, however, opposed impeachment by 81 percent to 14 percent, with 77 percent of GOP foes strongly opposed. Independents swung toward impeachment, 55 percent to 34 percent.
In the House, lawmakers need only a simple majority to impeach Trump, but Democrats lack the majority.
Senate conviction requires a two-thirds vote in a chamber that remains firmly Republican. Currently, no votes for removal exist on either side of the chamber.
Iran has declared a “historic victory” following the war of aggression by the United States and the Israeli regime that lasted 40 days, announcing that Washington had been forced to accept an Iranian proposal.
On April 8, the United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire after Washington received the 10-point proposal from Tehran.
Israel’s Maariv newspaper admitted that the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic has ended in a “decisive victory for Iran,” with both the US and Israel conceding to a “strategic surrender” and retreating from the battlefield.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/15/766950/US-lawmakers-move-to-impeach-War-Secretary-Hegseth-over-Iran-%E2%80%98war-crimes%E2%80%99Randomer put into words in an earlier post thoughts that have been rattling around in my head the past couple of weeks, and I just now had a chance to respond…
A divide seems to be forming on TAE over the Iran war, and not as the result of paid trolls as seen in the past, but between consistently solid commenters including our host. I always enjoy reading D’s comments. His exaggerations and sarcasm always make me laugh and mostly make a solid points. I don’t always agree, but give it careful consideration. After all, he was one of the first here to blow the whistle on the Covid plandemic. That carries a lot of weight with me. And he often sees connections that the rest of us miss. I hope he’s right, that the damage and life lost in Iran is the cost of avoiding an even greater catastrophe, like WWIII. That it is also helping to dismantle the Davos crowd / City of London money spigot.
That said, I’m also aware of my own biases, that I see the Persians as a healthier culture as compared to our own. The Muslim clerics do not scare me. I see religion as a means of moral development, a way to not only activate the higher emotions, but to also curb the darker impulses of human nature. Note the contrast in the subway video posted earlier. If you love your fellow man, which culture would you choose for him to live in? To work and raise a family? Maybe leave the windows open at night to let in the cool air without worrying about being raped, robbed, or murdered as you sleep? Whether your daughter can walk home from school with her friends without being abducted? Your son suckered into a street gang?
I also don’t buy into Iran being “the most evilly terrorist nation the world has ever know” bullshit propaganda that is consistently pumped out. If you are worried about Islam, then show them a better way. Create a happly, healthy, and productive culture. One in which the label “Great Satan” doesn’t automatically stick like glue.
Another bias is that I see Bibi as a genocidal Zionist psychopath, Trump as a sociopath and possible pedo, and both as pathological lying sacks of sh*t. It’s hard to stand behind such people and root for their success. Possibly due to too many westerns, I suppose, wherein the evil and greedy villain gets it in the end. You know, where the rich landowner also owns the town businesses, city council, sheriff, and operates above the law, running off the “free grazers” and stealing their herd. But that’s the movies and this is real life. Yet these moral principles are built into each of us and cry out from our depths. We don’t want evil to triumph over good.
I voted for Trump and was supportive of his America First agenda. Having the globalist-backed empty sock-puppet Kamala in power was just unthinkable.
The average American sees our downward trajectory and is crying out for justice and reform. They don’t give a sh*t about the DJIA record highs. When this is touted on the evening news as a sign of political success, it makes the average poor bloke’s blood boil.
Empire of Piracy blockades Iran and China
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suAll hail the almighty return of Pirates of the Caribbean, now upgraded to Pirates of the Persian Gulf.
The spectacular collapse of the Islamabad diktats – Barbaria came to dictate, never to negotiate – has been followed by a coercion psy ops on steroids: Jesus! (literally, as he posted it on Truth Social) threatening every single ship now paying the Strait of Hormuz toll booth.
As every grain of sand from the Gobi to the Sahara already knows, this is all about China.
So the question needs to be posed again. CENTCOM has now merged into INDOPACOM, a new pyrate hydra. Will INDOPACOM have the balls to harass a Chinese supertanker which sailed through the Strait of Hormuz after paying the toolbooth in yuan?
In his trademark delusional supremacy mode, US Treasury Secretary Bessent said that China will no longer be able to get oil from Iran.
This Baboon of Barbaria gimmick in fact translates as economic warfare against not only China but an array of mostly Asian nations, disturbing global energy flows, trade, and major shipping transporting all manner of goods from the West down to the East and from East to West. An oil blockade targeting not only China but also a great deal of the multipolar world.
Before the start of the American blockade, ships from only five nations could transit through the Strait of Hormuz: China, Russia, India, Iraq and Pakistan. Once again: will INDOPACOM dare to seize or sink ships from four nuclear powers?
South Korea went a step ahead and sent a special envoy for direct negotiations with Tehran to guarantee safe passage through Hormuz and buy more cheaper oil and gas. As it stands, at least 26 South Korean tankers remain stranded.
Now compare Bessent with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in Beijing, after talking to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and being received in person by President Xi:
“Russia can, without a doubt, compensate for the shortfall in resources that has arisen.”
Roughly 13% of China’s oil imports come from Iran – approximately 1.38 million barrels a day. In parallel, Power of Siberia-1 – operating at full capacity – delivers 38 billion cubic meters of gas a year of gas, and the ESPO oil pipeline is hitting record highs.
Power of Siberia-2 may only become operational next year. Russia already supplies as much as 20% of China’s oil. “Compensate”, in Lavrov’s terms, means pushing spare capacity to the limit. But that’s doable.
Iran for its part can count on an alternative pipeline and the Jask oil terminal, with capacity for 1 million barrels a day, which completely bypasses the Strait of Hormuz.
So far, 8 Chinese tankers transited via Hormuz since the blockade was announced. Moreover, China has as many as 1.3 billion barrels in inventories, enough to cushion some losses from Iran for months. And China will continue – in theory – to receive oil from tankers departing from other non-Iranian Persian Gulf ports (they will still need to pay the toll booth).
The big question is how long Iran – and China, for that matter – will tolerate the shadow fleet being interdicted by INDOPACOM without a ballistic response.
Waiting for the Al Aqsa Triangle Blockade
A blockade of all Iran’s ports – and not of the Strait of Hormuz per se – may soon meet its match: the incoming Al Aqsa Triangle Blockade (Bab-al-Mandeb, Yanbu port in Saudi Arabia, Suez, in connection with Hormuz), as qualified by Yemen’s Ansarallah. The Houthis are just waiting for the uber-strategic moment to join the chat. That will inevitably lead to oil reaching over $200 a barrel – and counting.
Translation: an irretrievable, system-wide supply shock.
The cowardly Baboon of Barbaria administration certainly did not think this through – as it’s obsessed with starving China of oil and US dollars while destroying, in theory, key nodes of the New Silk Roads/BRI.
What everyone else is paying attention to is how the INDOPACOM-enforced blockade will devastate scores of nations outside of China.
Which brings us to a pedestrian but quite feasible calculation – in tune with mutts such as Bessent: let’s starve everyone of oil and US dollars so they will be desperate to sell their US Treasury bonds back to the US way below face value, as long as they can get oil and/or US dollars in return.
This is Grifter Central: the Americans take their debt out of circulation – at a huge discount – and simply erase those humongous interest payments on the debt which they are unable to pay.
There’s no guarantee the Baboon of Barbaria administration will get what it wants. Tehran does not depend on maritime routes. After decades of sanctions, they developed an array of alternative land corridors, barter trade channels, and swapping mechanisms, for instance via Turkmenistan.
China, once again, is not a prisoner anymore of the Malacca Dilemma – between Malaysia and Sumatra in Indonesia – because they have meticulously diversified their sources, starting with the Sino-Russian pipelines.
Moroever, the China-Myanmar pipeline totally bypasses Malacca.
The long China-Central Asia gas pipeline spanning Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan – paid by China and bypassing American thalassocracy – has been in effect since the early 2010s.
Then there’s Gwadar deep-sea port in the Arabian Sea, the key node of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and a stalwart of BRI. Gwadar is only 80 km east of the port of Chabahar in Sistan-Balochistan in Iran: hence far away from the Persian Gulf. That translates into an overland route from the Arabian Sea to Xinjiang.
China will not starve if deprived of Iranian oil. China leads in nearly every single energy and power production sector. They have the industrial capacity – talk about productive capitalism – the raw materials, the supply chains, and enough skilled labor to produce the technology and infrastructure necessary for every relevant energy system: solar panels, turbines, batteries, transmission lines, everything in solar, wind, hydro and next-gen nuclear power. That’s exactly what I saw traveling across Xinjiang back to back last year while shooting a documentary.
Obviously myopic Baboon of Barbaria minions cannot possibly understand how China’s strategy of total domination in EVs, solar batteries and exporting electricity is protecting the Middle Kingdom from artificial oil/gas shocks such as the blockade.
As it stands, The Invincible Armada remains in the outer fringes of the Gulf of Oman, out of range of many – but not all – Iranian missiles and drones, but certainly targeteable by long-range ballistics and hypersonics. The Americans will continue to use their ISR to track ships; then small boats and helicopters will engage in the “interdiction” procedure.
So far, nothing happened. Well, actually a big thing happened: a sanctioned, non-Iranian supertanker capable of carrying 2 million barrels of oil, sailed to Iran via the Strait of Hormuz with the AIS switched on for every tracker to see. INDOPACOM didn’t dare to touch it.
The Iranians, meanwhile, are just waiting. Asymmetrically. But make no mistake: they are itching to fight – in case the ceasefire collapses.
In this case, we’ll be plunged right into the Mother of All Cliffhangers. Iran just needs to sink one American destroyer; and/or “disable” one of those multibillion-dollar sitting ducks with a missile/drone volley, guided by Chinese intel.
The whole planet will then see it for what it is: the definitive, graphic strategic defeat of the Empire of Chaos, Lies, Plunder, Piracy and “If I Don’t Like You I’ll Kill You”.
Bring it on.
Mamdani: “we’re taxing the rich!”
The rich: “WE’RE PASSING THE TAXES IN OUR SALES.”
HAHAHAH!
Didn’t you figure out how we got rich and everyone else got poor?Michael:
City of London created Project Israel
City of London controls Canada, installing Carney to protect their interests, not those of Canadians.
Notice Carney’s strange globalist’s behavior toward US.City of London controls Australia and NZ too.
Notice, they won’t supported US in Iran per London
Europe/Nato won’t support US in Iran per globalistsThe RINOs & DINOs of Congress are allies of Globalists, thus multiple impeachments in Trymp’s first term.
CIA was controlled by City of London, CIA London bureau chief always became next CIA chief in US.
This London capture of CIA is slowly being neutered.Right now, Democrats are trying to stop the US war on London’s proxy Iran, by impeaching Sec of war!
So, if you understand the City of London/Globalists owe no loyalty to any one nation, but happily pit nations against each other, for their benefit and profit, then a lot of the so called “Banker’s Wars” start to make more sense!
Only 3 nations do not have Rothchild controlled central banks.
Iran Not Crumbling:
Don’t be fooled by those saying Iran is not crumbling.
The economic part of Iran, that keeps the 250,000 mullahs & IRGC wealthy elites in power, is indeed crumbling!
The Iranian elites control just over 40% of Iran’s economy.
That part is gone!You just can’t see it!
Rest assured that cutting off Iran’s elites from their cash flow and their London banker is a crisis!
It is just that nobody is going to publically say anything, because then they are putting a target on their back, both inside and outside, of Iran!
Oman and UAE London bankers branches have been closed, for now.
Iranians aren’t bikini vacationing there either!This economic strangulation of London’s proxy Iran is taking hold but is often the slowest to become apparent.
It wasn’t the German Panzer tanks that flattened France in the spring of 1940, but the German bankers following in their footsteps!
Top 200 Iranians Eliminated:
Over 200 of Iran’s top mullahs & IRGC leaders, eliminated early in the war, must have also controlled much of Iran’s money.
I wonder how many of these people vanished with their bank passwords?
Certainly, none of these people will bring any of Iran’s money back, just when Iran could really use the cash.
This is a mute point, because London won’t give the money back!
WES wrote
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the US war on London’s proxy Iranthe City of London/Globalists owe no loyalty to any one nation
Only 3 nations do not have Rothchild controlled central banks
Don’t be fooled by those saying Iran is not crumbling
The Iranian elites control just over 40% of Iran’s economy.
That part is gone!Oman and UAE London bankers branches have been closed, for now.
This economic strangulation of London’s proxy Iran is taking hold
“WES:
Which 3 nations do not have Rothchild controlled central banks?Iran is crashing, TV says, Iran is not selling its oil. Therefore, Gov. gets no money to pay its soldiers etc.
(Same logic for Russia)
I don’t understand why.
In Canada, everyone is paid in CD$ not US$.
US$ are used to buy US products.
If you don’t or can’t buy US product then you don’t need US$Central Bank of Iran
The Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI; Persian: بانک مرکزی جمهوری اسلامی ايران, romanized: Bank Markazi-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslāmi-ye Irān; SWIFT Code: BMJIIRTH), also known as Bank Markazi, was established under the Iranian Banking and Monetary Act in 1960. It serves as the banker to the Iranian government and has the exclusive right to issue banknotes and coinage. CBI is tasked with maintaining the value of the Iranian rial and supervision of banks and credit institutions. It acts as custodian of the National Jewels, as well as the foreign exchange and gold reserves of Iran.[7] It is also a founding member of the Asian Clearing Union, controls gold and capital flows overseas, represents Iran in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and internationally concludes payment agreements between Iran and other countries.[7]Who owns Iran’s central bank?
According to article 10(e) of the Monetary and Banking Act of (1972), CBI’s capital “is fully paid up and wholly owned by the Government”. Bank Melli Iran had supervisory functions and regulated the activities of all banks in Iran, while being the largest profit-making commercial bank in the country.
WES:
You are cheering the killing of Iran people and the bombing of their country by U.S. and Israel for what reason?Because you think some people in Iran have money that flows to the City of London?
Michael:
Two are North Korea and Cuba.
I would have picked Iran, but that pick just got got blown to hell!
Sudan might be the third?
Basically all of the world’s central banks are connected to the BIS in Switzerland naturally the Rothchiods were involved in setting it up.
Probably the world’s first world entity!Yeah, so we serfs are doomed, sooner or later!
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
TardmasterYou can write all the true things you want here, but they are not TAE.
Fixed it for you asshole.
You suck shit out of war criminal child raping zionist scum every day… you’re so fucking full of shit and it could not be more obvious.
I must admit I’m rather taken aback that our gracious host, having been perfectly well able to see through the Empire’s obvious lies and misrepresentations in respect of the origins and prosecution of the illegal war of aggression in Ukraine, appears to simultaneously believe that, when it comes to Iran, every pronouncement by the denizens of the western MICIMATT complex is true and credible
Yup. It’s been going on here at TAE for way tooooo long. Raul’s a fucking hypocrite, drunk ass thief.
Feeding homeless eh raul? Fucking liar.Trump DOES kill little children. We have the receipts to prove it.
Raped them too with his bff Epstein.
Raul… everyone here except Dr Dumbass sees through your bs. You’ve lost ALL the good truth minded commentators here due to your own mental illness and internal dishonesty. The world has no time or money for scum like you.
Cry all you want bitch. Your own trump worshipping holds zero truth his actual warmongering murderous policies.
Why Lockdowns Work
Bahahaha from your very own mouth….
Trumps the “good kind of isane”
From your very own shithole mouth…
Dude….you’ve lost it and you’re too stupid to see truth smashing your broken brain.
Fuck you.
To paraphrase Catherine Austin Fitts let’s pretend there’s a red button on your screen and if you push it the American empire disappears and the wars in Iran and Ukraine end. But if you push it the price of gas is $10 a gallon and rising, your food bill doubles, you can’t get a new laptop or get your current laptop fixed and you can’t afford to fly on airplanes anymore. Donald Trump would not press the button and he believes that inaction is equivalent to pressing the button (and this may be true). I’m not saying he’s right, just that I think this is how he sees things. I think he’s miscalculated and that what he is doing will be equivalent of pressing the button soon enough.
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