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  • #234804
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wow, from the declaration of “all men are created equal” to ““We may hit it a few more times just for fun,” said the US leader.

    wow…

    #234805
    zerosum
    Participant

    acoustic detection systems,
    – Ukraine’s “Sky Fortress” system uses 14,000 acoustic sensors to detect Shahed drones by their “lawnmower” sound.
    – Zvook acoustic network covers 5% of Ukraine and provides early warning.
    – Czech JALUD Sound Event Detector identifies drones by sound and alerts security forces.
    – Academic systems combine sound + cameras for precise localization.

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    Russia is now fielding at least four distinct acoustic detection systems, ranging from large reconnaissance arrays to smartphone‑based FPV detectors. All are designed to counter Ukraine’s long‑range drones and FPV swarms, and several are direct copies of Ukrainian innovations.
    – BUH2 “Sova” (2nd‑generation acoustic reconnaissance system)
    – Malik (wearable/mobile acoustic drone detector)
    – A new smartphone‑linked acoustic FPV‑drone detector
    – A tower‑mounted acoustic network copying Ukraine’s “Zvook” system
    These are all confirmed by Russian state media (TASS) and independent defense reporting.

    Once located acoustically, other systems take over:
    Interception methods
    – Electronic warfare (jamming)
    – RF takeover
    – Kinetic interceptors (guns, missiles, anti‑drone drones)
    – Laser systems
    – Net guns / net drones
    Acoustic detection is just the first step in the kill chain.

    #234806
    zerosum
    Participant

    Iraq: a US base in the Middle East was attacked by a fiber-optic drone–US has no defense: “Footage is circulating on the network, which allegedly captures the first use of an FPV drone with a fiber-optic communication channel against the American military base Victoria in Iraq. According to sources, the attack could have been carried out by the pro-Iranian Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah.

    Fiber-optic FPV drones in the Middle East conflict zone are a serious concern to the US military. Such devices are extremely difficult to suppress by means of electronic warfare, since they do not use a radio channel. Moreover, for many standard air defense systems, such drones are a very difficult target due to their small size and low speed. -Tsargrad

    https://x.com/amborin/status/2033198900484653155

    Posted by: Allen | Mar 15 2026 16:40 utc | 709

    #234807
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    BARNES SHOCK CLAIM: Trump Will Lose Both House & Senate over Iran War

    #234808
    WES
    Participant

    Tel Avi Satellite Photos:

    Yesterday, I saw a link provided by a ZH commentor to the Iranians providing a satellite close up of Tel Avi showing some of the damage done by Iranian missiles.

    Israeli Government Bonds:

    Not too long ago, I read how some US counties (in Florida?) were moving their cash into safe Israeli government bonds.
    I expect this move will turn out very badly for these counties, in that these bonds are not liquid or require a big hair cut to sell.
    Of course, no one will be fired over this!

    #234809
    WES
    Participant

    Michael:

    I think Trump knowing that the RINOs planned to lose both the house and senate, played a major role in Trump decision in attacking Iran/London.

    #234810
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Also “we” are hitting “anti’s” with 2 year…
    US is holding onto 1/64″ ledge by the nails….

    #234811
    kultsommer
    Participant

    Like psychopath from some D-rate Lifetime movie who demands to be “loved”.

    #234812
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran Apologized to Kuwait and UAE — While Still Firing Missiles at Their US Bases

    #234813
    those darned kids
    Participant

    barnes isn’t shocking, it’s obvious.

    flip that burger* now and convict these lunatics. make america finally great by reading your own constitution, for the love of moo.

    it is the only way the empire can retreat.

    if the bull is in the china shop, you don’t wait until november to get him out.

    *shucks, put some of that ‘yummy’ american cheez** on it.

    ** protip: the transparent wrapper isn’t actually part of the cheez. don’t melt that on the grill

    #234814
    morongobill
    Participant

    Aspnaz, come back!

    #234815
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Don’t expect any of our Satanic adversaries to change much about what they’re doing. What else could one reasonably expect? Should we sagely and thoughtfully expect the perps to fall on their knees and beg for forgiveness? Or would it be more realistically expectant that they would double-down on the only things that they know how to do to stay alive? [that is, lie, cheat. steal and kill, etc.]

    #234816
    WES
    Participant

    Psycho:

    Somettimes … I read a comment … and go WOW … what a psycho … then I press post …

    The Odessa File – ZH

    #234817
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Lying with the explicit intention of causing culpable harm to another person or persons is not protected free speech, because the parts of it which were explicitly directed toward the intended felony were not speech. THOSE parts of it were the actual felonious crime itself. Every other part of the communication in question (the freely spoken parts) get a free pass. But the CRIMINAL FELONIOUS ACT does not, because it wasn’t actually “speech” in the first place at all. It was crime.

    #234818
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #234819
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Trump is Evil Crazy. Iran’s leaders unafraid of their people, march through Tehran amid US strikes

    #234820
    zerosum
    Participant

    Part of the plans of the chosen people.
    The US-Israeli war on Iran could starve millions.
    Fertilizer shortages and high prices could collapse the fragile system that feeds the world.
    Part of ‘Greater Israel’
    Part of enough energy for survivors

    #234821
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    A new talking point

    Trump crossed the Evil Crazy Threshold

    #234822
    Michael Reid
    Participant


    The US-Israeli war on Iran could starve millions.

    Elite guided by the Georgia stones

    #234823
    those darned kids
    Participant

    it seems our only hope is the law firm of pitch, fork and torch.

    #234824
    those darned kids
    Participant

    at this point, it would not surprise me if the iranians announce their double-warhead nuclear missile,

    “Minab 2”

    #234825
    those darned kids
    Participant
    #234828
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    Has anyone else noticed how Trump’s public comments about his war in Iran are sounding like that little German bastard yelling his head off from that bunker under Berlin? Lunatic delusional statements about battles and battleplans, about how non-existent armies and Wonder Weapons that will turn it all around and result in Glorious Victory for der Motherland.

    #234829

    ZH comments are taken over by “Mad enough? So there’s no point in voting, right?”.
    It appears to be a very successful psyop.

    How many have died?
    We don’t get the stats,
    But Epstein and ‘yahoo
    Are Schrödinger’s cats.

    #234830
    zerosum
    Participant

    Trump could starve millions in Cuba.
    Here is a report that, if you are interested, you could open.

    https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-03-14/oil-the-crisis-crushing-cuba-and-giving-trump-new-leverage.html
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    #234831
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2033226965671698935
    BREAKING!! “By God, they started crying — really crying.”

    Iraqis watch Victoria Base burn after a PMF retaliation strike: “They’re screaming — listen to their screaming. It’s all going up!”

    Reports state the PX was hit, killing multiple American troops. Victoria Base is a US military installation near Baghdad International Airport.

    #234832
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran’s Russia Card: “They Are Helping Us in Many Different Directions”

    #234833
    zerosum
    Participant

    Name the ways.
    https://x.com/IRIran_Military/status/2033279316352762131
    The U.S. decision to evacuate 10,000 of its citizens from Israel is a significant and telling sign: Israel’s situation is critical.

    #234834
    those darned kids
    Participant

    this is all so horrible.

    where’s hunter biden when we need him?

    #234835
    zerosum
    Participant

    Just checked that site again; now the delay is only 11 min.

    WTI Crude: $100.86
    Brent Crude: $105.17

    climbing up slowly …

    Posted by: George the Zeroth | Mar 15 2026 22:13 utc | 841

    #234836
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran’s New Paveh Cruise Missiles Blast U.S. Military Bases in New Strikes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx1T-rGQ54s

    #234837
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    The sheer stupidity, gratuitous violence on civilians{same as Gaza}, and insane explanations can only mean 1 thing…this is being done on purpose to destroy the West. Goyim killing goyim is just a cherry on top. They arrived, subverted, corrupted, stole everything, pillaged. raped and murdered. Now it’s time to burn the house down and hide the evidence.

    #234838
    WES
    Participant

    Silence:

    Notice that no information has come out of Israel over the weekend.

    Nothing out of the Gulf States either.

    Only some limited ,information from Iran and Iraq.

    Trump still sticking to 4 to 6 weeks timelines.

    So 4 to 6 weeks to degrade the IRGC’s hold on power in Iran.
    How do you kill over 100,000 IRGC who know you are trying to hunt them down?
    Pagers?

    #234839
    John Day
    Participant

    Six Fingered Netanyahu https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/six-fingered-netanyahu

    Perceptions are shigfting from another brief US regime-change operation to world War-3, as global supplies of mideast oil and gas, initially 20% of global production have been stopped cold at the Strait of Hormuz, while Iran appears ready to maintain this block indefinitely. Some of the interventions of Iran, Israel and the US also destroy capacity to pump, transport and refine oil, which will be slow to repair when the conflict may end. Current intelligence assessments of the US and Israel are that the Iranian political and military leadership is stable and popular support has increased since Iranian civilians have been heavily bombed, especially the schoolgirls on the first day.
    The semi-official report from Trump and Rubio is that the US had to attack Iran, because Israel was going to attack with nuclear weapons, and the US didn’t want that. The current, not-so-confirmed scuttlebut is that Israel is again threatening to nuke Iran, maybe even use the “Samson Option” and nuke the whole neighborhood, since the regime managing the zionist state is existentially threatened.
    Are Israeli elites existentially threatened 2 1/2 years into multi-front war against every non-Jew in the Mideast? They have escalated against Lebanon after violating the ceasefire every single day
    for half a year, and are taking losses from Hezbollah in the process. Gaza in still being choked to death, and Palestinians are still being starved, lynched, arrested, tortured in prison and robbed. There is no rebuilding, no water, no medical relief for them.
    There have been rumors since early this month of multiple decapitation strikes carried out against Israeli intelligence, military and govenmental elites, which can’t be confirmed, but are not being effectively refuted either.
    Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has not been seen in public for over a week, and has not done his usual 2 per day communications in that time, and he just missed a military council meeting for the first time ever. His house was blown up. there was video. His son Yair Netanyahu is a podcaster who has also fallen silent in this same time period.
    Photographs were supposedly taken of Netanyahu at the port of Ashdod Wednesday 3/10/26, and then a video released by the state of Israel wherein he gave a typical speech about advancing to “greater Israel”, but there were a few anomalies that suggested that it was an AI fabrication. there were transiently 6 fingers on Netanyahu’s right hand,an extra pinky finger without a fingernail persisted for a second or 2. Within “Netanyahu’s” mouth his tongue was apparent, and his front teeth, but his molars and pre-molars flashed in and out of existence between the tongue and mouth-opening. You may want to view these anomalies yourself.
    The implication is that Netanyahu is killed or severely wounded and cannot communicate, himself. Might that be an “existential threat” to the zionist state of Israel? Might a non-zionist state of Israel be secure going forward?
    What group decides whether to nuke the whole neighborhood when it comes down to the wire? In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Described in a book by Chaim Herzog, who was in the upper echelons of power, Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan were considering how they might be forced to attack all neighbors with their nuclear weapons, at what point they would make that suicidal decision, to kill everybody. They were very stressed by this truly existential question. As the tides turned against Syria, and Egypt was willing to relent for the return of the Sinai, they were relieved of the stress. Since then Isral has gotten long range ballistic missiles and submarine launched cruise missiles, presumed to be armed with nuclear warheads, as well as air launched platforms, including cruise missile and gravity bomb nuclear devices. Israel coul hit any major port city in the world, and most of the major cities of the US and Europe.
    This killing-everybody-when-Samson-dies paradigm is the essence of the Samson Option. How far does it extend? There is no official discussion of it. Scott Bessent, who is always calm, dominant and self-contained was giving an extended interview when he was called away to the situation room for an hour. Upon his return to the camera he was visibly stressed and his voice trembled.
    What was discussed in the situation room? There are speculations, and a body language analysis of the video clip.
    If there is to be an unseating of the western financial and military empire from the mideast oil lands, then the global financial system and real economy will both change, and this will constitute a World War. It is moving in that direction. Iran is targeting $200/bbl oil, and is letting oil sold for Chinese currency through, but not letting tankers pass carrying oil from any US ally. Iraqi resistance fighters attacked American aerial refueling tankers, and Iran seems to recognize their efforts against the US, allowing iraqi tankers through the strait. Iraqi or Iranian forces hit and disabled 5 more KC-135 aerial refueling tankers at a base in Saudi Arabia. How carefully was it guarded?
    The attacks upon the oil-producing gulf state aligned with the US will stop, and their tankers will be allowed to pass, when they eject the US from their lands, but will continue to harm and starve them until then.
    The US is attempting to defend the status of the petro-dollar by keeping oil prices under about $100/bbl, and letting enough flow to prevent major breakages of real economy, including plastics, artificial fabrics like polyester, fertilizer to keep Africa, India and Asia from starvation, and even helium, necessary to make micro-electronic circuitry chips. Everything is tightly woven together and can fail, along with all debt-servicing. Why use $US if you can’t buy the things you need and cannot get a real return on investment, especially when it becomes apparent that military threats from using the $US now exceed military threats from not using it?
    This is the war Iran is fighting, a war upon everything that supports the $US financial regime, which funds the western imperial system, and extracts value from all nations, value they cannot invest in their own futures, but which is invested in the US military and financial profiteering, and in keeping them in servitude.
    No imperial financial regime has lasted forever. Getting so much cheap stuff from colonies weakens the industry of the core nation, as it has done to the US and also Europe. Resets of financial regime typically involve a lot of debt-reputiation or default and a lot of currency devaluation. We saw what Russia went through in the 1990s. It was probably as good a model as there is for what we westerners face through the rest of this decade and the 2030s, and the oil is running low, at least the easy-oil is.

    Alex Krainer, Iran war accelerates the collapse of the West
    Already 38 years ago, U.S. military planners understood that the American hegemony in West Asia would slip away. On 28 February 2026, the dam broke. https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/iran-war-accelerates-the-collapse

    ​Citibank runs Visa: Iran has announced that the Middle East offices of a major US bank have been hit. https://en.topwar.ru/279353-v-irane-zajavili-o-porazhenii-blizhnevostochnyh-ofisov-odnogo-iz-krupnyh-bankov-ssha.html

    Michael Hudson, Thinking About the Unthinkable – Iran’s Grand Plan to End U.S. Presence in the Middle East
    Iran and Donald Trump have each explained why failure to fight the current war to the end would simply lead to a new set of mutual attacks. Trump announced on March 6 that “There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender,” and announced that he must have a voice in naming or at least approving Iran’s new leader, as he has just done in Venezuela. “If the U.S. military must utterly defeat it and bring about a regime change, or else “you go through this, and then in five years you realize you put somebody in who’s no better.’”[1] It will take at least that long for America to replace the weaponry that has been depleted, rebuild its radar and related installations and mount a new war.
    Iranian officials likewise recognize that U.S. attacks will keep being repeated until the United States is driven out of the Middle East. Having agreed to a ceasefire last June instead of pressing its advantage when Israeli and regional U.S. anti-missile defenses were depleted, Iran realized that war will be resumed as soon as the United States is able to re-arm its allies and military bases to renew what both sides recognize is to be a fight to some kind of final solution.
    The war that began on February 28 can realistically be deemed to be the formal opening of World War III because what is at issue are the terms on which the entire world will be able to buy oil and gas. Can they buy this energy from exporters in currencies other than the dollar, headed by Russia and Iran. https://www.unz.com/mhudson/thinking-about-the-unthinkable/

    The Honest Sorcerer, The New Gulf War: Epic Fubar Goes Global – Why there is much more at stake here than rising prices
    The present crisis is clearly shaping up to be the biggest supply crisis in recorded history. The global economy didn’t have a buffer, and now it’s absorbing the worst oil shock since the 1970s. The LNG market had no spare capacity before the war. Container shipping was already stretched from two years of Red Sea diversions. Air cargo was operating with thin margins. Fertilizer prices were already elevated. Even if hostilities would end today, it would take months to a year for the world economy to return to some kind of a (reduced) normalcy. Should the closure of the Strait of Hormuz last for months to come though, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, Pakistan, India, alongside an untold number of developing nations, would certainly come under extreme pressure. And with them, the entire world economy would suffer major shortages of raw materials and finished goods from bauxite and iron ore to pharmaceuticals and microchips. Food prices would almost certainly rise to destabilizing levels, threatening many countries with political chaos.
    High energy prices together with physical metal, sulfur and other raw material shortages are threatening many manufacturing plants designed to operate on razor thin margins and just-in-time delivery. Temporary shut downs in many areas (starting in Asia, then spreading around the world as part shortages proliferate) seem all but inevitable now. Prices, of course, would come down as a result, of demand destruction but shortages would only get worse. With lead times already extending to multiple years (in case of transformers of gas turbines for example) the resulting shipping delays—now affecting everything from machine parts to plastics and chemicals—would threaten to seize up the entire world economy. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/the-new-gulf-war-epic-fubar-goes

    #234840
    WES
    Participant

    Michael:

    Last video looks like pure AI generated.

    #234841
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ They are eyeing the USS Gerald Ford task force in the northern Red Sea, which has transited Suez. Yemen’s Houthis have announced imminent large-scale support for Iran’s military. https://en.topwar.ru/279348-jemenskie-husity-objavili-o-skoroj-masshtabnoj-podderzhke-voennyh-irana.html

    “2nd Smartest Guy” has 6-finger-Netnyahu video excerpts: IRAN WAR UPDATE: Netanyahu, His Brother And Six Israeli Generals May Have Been KILLED, Jared Kushner Running Trump Policies, False Flags & The 3-Point Peace Plan https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/iran-war-update-netanyahu-his-brother

    Hal Turner, Official Israeli Video Lends Credence to RUMORS Netanyahu is dead
    Last week, word came out that the private home of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been hit by an Iranian strike. Word came out claiming Netayahu’s brother had been killed. Now, it seems that the Prime Minister himself may also be dead.
    Here is just one example of the social media postings showing Netanyahu’s home burning after the attack… https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/official-israeli-video-lends-credence-to-rumors-netanyahu-is-dead

    Eric Yeung: I think Bibi may have been killed in an Iranian drone or missile strike. That could be the shocking news that Scott Bessent received when he was suddenly pulled from his interview mid-conversation. On top of that, Israel’s new leadership may have threatened the Trump administration that they would activate the Samson Option if the Trump admin doesn’t immediately greenlight a U.S. ground invasion of Iran. A ground invasion of Iran has always been one of the contingency options and has been planned in advance, if Trump gives the go-ahead. The “Samson Option” is the term used to describe Israel’s alleged deterrence strategy of employing massive nuclear retaliation as a last resort if its military is defeated or the nation faces existential destruction. It is named after the biblical figure Samson, who brought down a temple, killing himself and his captors. All of the above explains why they couldn’t wait for a false flag attack in the continental U.S. (to gather public support) before they pushed the ground invasion of Iran announcement button. https://xcancel.com/KingKong9888/status/2032726078641606977

    How Yair Netanyahu’s Twitter activity sparked viral rumors about father Benjamin Netanyahu
    Yair Netanyahu, Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s son is known to be active on X (formerly Twitter) and his social media silence has fueled speculations. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/yair-netanyahu-twitter-son-last-post-date-fuels-rumors-about-israel-pm-benjamin-netanyahus-death-is-he-alive-iran-x-101773514994674.html

    #234842
    John Day
    Participant

    BODY LANGUAGE ANALYSIS: The most DISTURBING thing about Scott Bessent’s return from the Situation Room https://xcancel.com/Knesix/status/2032526377254064515#m

    Trump ‘Not Ready’ For Iran Deal; US Urges Citizens To Flee Iraq, Israel Reportedly ‘Critically Low’ On Interceptors
    Araghchi said the strait was only shut to US ships and those of its allies
    Trump not ready to reach a deal with Iran yet https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-critically-low-interceptors-us-urges-citizens-flee-iraq-after-embassy-attack

    Gold & Geopolitics: Daily digest: 2026-03-15
    Hormuz open for yuan only – Iran’s FM Araghchi confirms the Strait is “not closed” but exclusively closed to US and Israeli ships. Iran simultaneously signals willingness to allow passage if oil is settled in Chinese yuan through CIPS. ZeroHedge models: China + India alone = 7 million barrels/day restored (39% of disruption)…
    ..5 US KC-135 tankers hit at Prince Sultan AB, Saudi Arabia – WSJ confirmed via two officials. A sixth KC-135 crashed in Iraq (6 crew dead). This is now 7 aerial refuelling aircraft degraded in 48 hours – targeting the circulatory system of the air campaign…
    ..Netanyahu absent from military council for first time ever – No public confirmed proof of life for 6+ days. Son Yair stopped tweeting. Israeli AI video circulating showing 6 fingers. Multiple Israeli media sources, Turkish TV, and North Korean state TV claiming death. White House silent…
    ..Fujairah oil terminal struck, operations suspended – Port of Fujairah – world’s 3rd largest oil storage/bunkering hub – hit by Iranian drones, oil loading suspended. This was the designated Hormuz bypass route…
    ..THAAD radar destroyed in UAE, Israeli interceptors critically low – Satellite imagery confirmed destruction of AN/TPY-2 radar at Al Dhafra (UAE). Without this radar THAAD interceptors are effectively blind…
    ​..Petrodollar under live attack​ – This is the week the theoretical became operational. Chinese shadow fleet tankers are the only vessels transiting Hormuz continuously – no Western insurance needed​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-03-15

    ​ (Guess who that means.) G​old & Geopolitics, March, 14: Agent Orange
    The Wall Street Journal confirmed five KC-135 and KC-46 refuelling tankers struck on the ground at Prince Sultan Air Base. Iranian missile strike. Damaged, not destroyed. No casualties.
    ​ Nobody tweets about tanker planes. They’re not sexy. No one’s making fan edits of a KC-135. But every single strike mission over Iran requires mid-air refuelling. Every one. The F-35s can not reach their targets and come home without a tanker waiting at 30,000 feet. Kill the tankers and $100 billion of stealth technology gets beaten by a fuel gauge.
    ​ Yesterday a KC-135 went down over Iraq with six crew. Today five more on Saudi tarmac. Iran isn’t just killing the radar layer anymore – that was week one. It’s moved on to the enabling layer. The logistics chain that makes the air campaign physically possible. Systematic. Methodical.​ https://no01.substack.com/p/march-14-agent-orange

    Pro-Iranian militias in Iraq deny the U.S. version and claim the downing of their tanker plane, with six dead​ https://www.mundoamerica.com/news/2026/03/13/69b424aafc6c830f668b458b.html

    #234843
    John Day
    Participant

    ​ A KC-135 Stratotanker went down over western Iraq last night. Crew of six. CENTCOM’s statement: the incident occurred “in friendly airspace” and was “not the result of hostile or friendly fire”.
    ​ Friendly airspace. Over a country where Iraqi Resistance groups have been launching drones and missiles at US positions for the past two weeks.
    Iraq is friendly. The drones are friendly. The missiles are friendly. Everyone’s having a great time. Not hostile at all.​ https://no01.substack.com/p/march-13-schrodingers-war

    ​ Iran believed the Iraqis shot down the tanker:Iranian Ambassador Says Iraqi Oil Tankers May Transit Strait of Hormuz if Identity and Ownership Conditions Are Met
    ​ Iran said Iraqi oil tankers may pass through the Strait of Hormuz if their identity and destination are declared and they are not owned by US or Israeli companies.​ https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/900141

    ​ 3 days ago: Iran allows the following countries to use the Strait of Hormuz:
    Pakistan China Russia North Korea Bangladesh Yemen Lebanon Iraq​ https://xcancel.com/Urgent_RussiaTV/status/2032231116124327943

    Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-03-14
    Kharg Island bombed by US B-2s (Day 13-15 of Operation Epic Fury). Trump announced the US “totally obliterated” military targets on Iran’s largest oil export hub, handling ~90% of Iran’s crude exports. Oil infrastructure deliberately spared – for now. Iran warned any hit to energy infrastructure means all GCC oil assets “turn to ashes.”​…
    ..5,000 Marines + USS Tripoli en route from Japan. Pentagon approved CENTCOM request for amphibious ready group. Ground operation against Iran or Kharg Island seizure scenario now explicitly on the table.​ https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-03-14

    Saudi Aramco To Buy Ukrainian Interceptor Drones To Defend Oil Fields​ https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/saudi-aramco-buy-ukrainian-interceptor-drones-defend-oil-fields

    #234844
    kultsommer
    Participant

    it seems our only hope is the law firm of pitch, fork and torch.

    Go with the best in town
    Pitchwitz, Forkman and Torcher.

    #234845
    John Day
    Participant

    ​Could it all be replaced in 7 years of peace? US so far burned through ‘years’ of munitions in Iran war: Report https://israelpalestinenews.org/us-so-far-burned-through-years-of-munitions-in-iran-war-report/

    ​Thanks Dan. They whispered that Iran kept trying to assassinate him for 18 months: Max Blumenthal: How FBI & Israel Got Trump to Attack​ https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/13/max-blumenthal-how-fbi-israel-got-trump-to-attack/

    ​Gilbert Doctorow on how the “protection racket” went bad: The value to the Gulf States of American military presence is less than zero https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/the-value-to-the-gulf-states-of-american

    Gold & Geopolitics: The war started. Oil predictably surged. But gold fell, silver fell, bonds fell.
    That’s the part nobody could explain. Iran was struck, the Gulf effectively closed (unless you happened to be Chinese). Oil spiked. Logically. But you know, gold is supposed to be the insurance against geopolitical instability. And those were the kind of headlines that used to send precious metals vertical. Instead, gold opened slightly higher on Sunday March 2nd and then spent the rest of the week chopping. Silver followed suit, just with more volatility…
    ​..So what happened?
    Oil happened. And then oil happened to everything else.
    ​ Crude went from $70 to $119 in ten days. Think about that number for a second. $119. The last time oil was there was March 2022, right after Russia invaded Ukraine, when the commodity markets went briefly insane and the financial system discovered it had quietly built itself on the assumption that nothing important would ever actually happen. It nearly came apart that spring. Nickel got suspended on the LME. Margin calls cascaded through commodity desks globally. It didn’t break, but only just.
    ​ At $119, equity markets dropped on recession and inflation fears simultaneously. Portfolios that had been managing risk perfectly fine at $70 oil were suddenly offside on everything else – corporate margins, consumer spending, rate expectations. When those positions started bleeding, you don’t get to choose what you sell. You sell what’s liquid. Gold is liquid. Silver is liquid. High-grade bonds are liquid. You sell what has a bid. And fast! Before your broker does it for you.
    ​ That’s why gold fell during a war. Not because anyone changed their view on gold. Because someone needed cash before the close.
    Silver fell harder because it always does – smaller market, thinner book, more violent moves in both directions.​ https://no01.substack.com/p/strait-to-brrrrrrr

    Sandstorm worsens the suffering of displaced​ people in Gaza​ https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/03/14/359541/

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