Debt Rattle March 23 2026

 

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  • #235918
    D Benton Smith
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    @zerosum

    America is Achieving Full-Spectrum Energy Dominance — And Nobody is Paying Attention

    A sudden 30% reduction of world total energy availability brings down the entire apparatus, triggering further reduction by more than 50% ……… regardless of who dominates the collapsing market, because the market at that stage will consist of hand-chopped firewood.

    #235919
    zerosum
    Participant

    Does unimperator get reliable info?

    BREAKING NEWS
    A massive attack on Ukraine is beginning.🇷🇺🚀🔥
    ▪️Enemy monitoring channels claim that Russian forces have already launched attack drones from six directions.
    Also expected tonight:
    ▪️Approximately 20-30 Kh-101 cruise missiles from Tu-95MS/160 aircraft;
    ▪️Up to 30 Iskander-M ballistic missiles;
    ▪️Approximately 20 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles;
    ▪️Up to 16 Iskander-K and Izdeliye-30 cruise missiles;
    ▪️Up to 7 Kinzhal hypersonic missiles from MiG-31K aircraft;
    ▪️Approximately 500-600 UAVs of various types;
    ▪️Up to 4 Tsirkon hypersonic missiles.

    Posted by: unimperator | Mar 23 2026 20:58 utc | 154

    #235920
    zerosum
    Participant

    Here’s the straight, operational answer — and it’s actually a smart question, because the U.S. force movements into the Middle East right now look like preparation for escalation, but they can also serve a completely different purpose.
    Let’s break it down cleanly.

    🪖 Could the U.S. troops being moved into the Middle East be used for evacuation operations in Iraq?
    Yes — absolutely.
    Even if the public framing is “deterrence” or “readiness,” the practical military function of these deployments is dual‑use. Evacuation is one of the core missions U.S. forces prepare for in any unstable theater.
    And Iraq is exactly the kind of place where the U.S. would pre‑position forces if they anticipate needing to extract personnel quickly.

    🎯 Why evacuation is a real possibility
    1. Iraq is politically volatile right now
    – Iranian‑aligned militias operate freely.
    – U.S. bases have been targeted before.
    – If Iran retaliates for anything, Iraq is one of the easiest places to hit U.S. assets indirectly.
    2. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is one of the largest in the world
    Evacuating it requires:
    – airlift
    – perimeter security
    – convoy protection
    – staging areas in Kuwait or Jordan
    You don’t do that with a skeleton crew.
    3. The U.S. always prepares evacuation contingencies during regional crises
    This is standard doctrine.
    Whenever tensions spike with Iran, CENTCOM quietly positions forces for:
    – NEO (Non‑Combatant Evacuation Operations)
    – embassy drawdowns
    – rapid extraction of contractors and diplomats
    It’s not dramatic — it’s just prudent.

    🛠️ What kinds of troops are ideal for evacuation missions?
    The types of units being moved into the region right now (based on public reporting) are exactly the ones used for NEO operations:
    – Marines (MEUs are built for embassy evacuations)
    – Airborne infantry (rapid insertion, perimeter control)
    – Air Force mobility units (C‑17s, C‑130s)
    – Special operations (for high‑risk extractions)
    These are the same units used in:
    – Kabul 2021
    – Libya 2014
    – Iraq 2014
    – South Sudan 2013
    So yes — the capability is there.

    🧭 What this means in practical terms
    Even if the White House frames the deployments as “deterrence,” the Pentagon always plans for the worst‑case scenario.
    And the worst case is:
    – Iran retaliates
    – militias in Iraq escalate
    – U.S. personnel become targets
    – evacuation becomes necessary
    So the troop movements serve both:
    – deterrence
    – evacuation readiness
    That’s not speculation — that’s how U.S. force posture works.

    #235925
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #235926
    kultsommer
    Participant

    It goes on and on.
    Country is FUBAR.

    #235927
    D Benton Smith
    Participant

    The assigned task of Zionist PsyOp creeps like @citizenX , CelticBiker, aspnaz and earlier creeps before them is to make you hate “Jews” (just Jews, mind you, and no one else!) so much that you don’t look at the other Zionist creeps of which the “Jews” are just one more part in the much bigger, older and nastier Satanic Murder Inc that those Jews he’s talking about belong to….. along with many others who are about as “Semitic” as Yosemite Sam.

    CitizenX (citizen of WHERE, I wonder) pretends to not get that obvious point because he’s working for the Zionists himself, and they both want you to go kill Zionist Jews so that you leave the other Zionists alone. The dark joke is that it’s extremely likely that the signatory on his paycheck is almost certainly Jewish.

    #235928
    kultsommer
    Participant

    And on and on and on….

    #235930
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    #235931
    zerosum
    Participant

    If Canada allows war planes to land and re-supply in NFD, does that make CND part of the WAR effort, and part of the illegal killings.
    Does it mean that Canada is at war.

    #235932
    chooch
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    #235933
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    Douche Bag Savant, mongoloid boomer, at least you’re mercifully more concise than your buddy, Dr. Demento. You guys got matching blue/white pom poms for your jew cheerleading dances?

    #235934
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran has respect for human life.

    U.S. and Israel are two terror regimes with no regard to civilian life.

    Now Iran is focused on smashing the key nodes that make the state of Israel function.

    This is called the Great Constriction
    16:00

    #235935
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/C-17_carrying_passengers_out_of_Afghanistan.jpg/960px-C-17_carrying_passengers_out_of_Afghanistan.jpg&quot; alt="A C-17 evacuating 823 passengers out of Kabul on 15 August 2021″ />

    Wikipedia says the US had 222 C-17s in service. Recent flight logs indicate at least 46 C-17 flights from the US to the Middle East since March 12. Mostly to Israel and Jordan.

    I wonder if evacuations are being planned.

    MT Anderson retweeted TheIntelFrog
    @TheIntelFrog 5h
    A significant movement is underway from US Army, Navy and Air Force bases in CONUS to the Middle East comprised of at least 35 C-17 flights since March 12th, with 11 more flights on the way.

    Origins:
    12-Hunter Army Air Field/Fort Stewart, GA
    8-Unknown
    7-JB Lewis-McChord, WA
    6-Pope Army Air Field/Fort Bragg, NC
    4-Campbell Army Airfield/Fort Campbell, KY
    4-Gray Army Airfield/JB Lewis-McChord, WA
    4-Naval Air Station Oceana, VA
    1-MacDill AFB, FL
    1-JB McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ

    Destinations:
    17-Ovda Air Base, Israel
    13-King Faisal Air Base, Jordan
    4-King Hussein Int’l Airport, Jordan

    https://xcancel.com/MT_Anderson

    #235936
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    A C-17 evacuating 823 passengers out of Kabul on 15 August 2021
    Wikipedia

    #235937
    WES
    Participant

    Maxwell/Epstein – Not Epstein/Maxwell!

    Maxwell Files – Not Epstein Files!

    The real operation was Maxwell/Epstein.
    Maxwell, billionaire’s daughter, was always calling the shots.
    Epstein was the front man/fall guy.

    However, the MSM would have you believe the easy to belive stereotype of man/woman scenario.

    The DoJ used the stereotype man/woman to target Epstein rather than Maxwell for blame.

    So, as intended, Maxwell is considered an accessory, because she is a woman.

    This is already a built-in bias for most people.
    People don’t even give it a second thought.

    So, as hard as it might be for you, please re-consider the operational outcome to be woman/man or Maxwell/Epstein.
    Yes, the woman was always the boss!
    Yes, hard to believe, but true.

    It is Maxwell they where always protecting, not Epstein!

    This is how Robert Maxwell, the father, set up the operation.
    His daughter was always in charge!
    Epstein played his role perfectly, as the frontman/fall guy, right until the end.
    As a result he led a fucking good life, without regards to breaking any laws.

    It was never the Epstein Files, but rather the Maxwell Files.

    Maxwell, the real evil, will soon be quietly released, when nobody is paying any attention, with zero msm mention.

    #235938
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Thank you DBS,

    A more just world order

    #235945
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it
    Hal Turner
    The U.S. government is insolvent. That’s not hyperbole — it’s the conclusion drawn directly from the Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for fiscal year 2025, released last week to near-total media silence. The numbers: $6.06 trillion in total assets against $47.78 trillion in total liabilities as of September 30, 2025.

    Importantly, the $47.78 trillion in reported liabilities does not include the unfunded obligations of social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare — those are disclosed separately in the off-balance-sheet Statement of Social Insurance (SOSI).

    The government’s consolidated balance sheet position, excluding the SOSI, deteriorated by nearly $2.07 trillion between FY 2024 and FY 2025, reaching a staggering negative $41.72 trillion. Total liabilities are now nearly eight times the value of reported assets. The largest drivers were a $2 trillion increase in federal debt and interest payable (now $30.33 trillion) and a $438.8 billion increase in federal employee and veteran benefits payable (now $15.47 trillion).

    The Off-Balance-Sheet Iceberg

    The off-balance-sheet picture is even more alarming. The 75-year unfunded social insurance obligation surged by $10.1 trillion in a single year, rising from $78.3 trillion in FY 2024 to $88.4 trillion in FY 2025 — driven primarily by a $6.9 trillion jump in projected Medicare Part B shortfalls and a $2.5 trillion increase for Social Security. The Treasury’s Statement of Long-Term Fiscal Projections shows the 75-year fiscal gap widening from 4.3% of GDP in FY 2024 to 4.7% in FY 2025.

    If the $88.4 trillion in 75-year off-balance-sheet obligations were added to the $47.8 trillion in official balance sheet liabilities, total federal obligations would now exceed $136.2 trillion — roughly five times U.S. annual GDP.

    The Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a disclaimer of opinion on the U.S. government’s FY 2025 financial statements — the 29th consecutive year it has been unable to determine whether the statements are fairly presented. This is primarily due to serious, ongoing financial management problems at the Department of Defense and weaknesses in accounting for interagency transactions.

    What $136 Trillion Looks Like in Your Living Room

    Not only has the financial press ignored the consolidated financial statements, but most members of Congress and members of the general public will not read the consolidated financial statements. Documents like the consolidated financial statements are not the kind of thing you want to read before driving. If that’s not bad enough, most people cannot relate to the trillion-dollar numbers in the financial statements. Therefore, it is appropriate to translate them into terms that people will understand.

    Most people cannot relate to trillion-dollar figures on a government ledger. So consider this: divide every number by 100 million — drop eight zeros — and federal finances look like a household budget in freefall.

    That household earns $52,446 and spends $73,378 — running a $20,932 annual deficit. Its total liabilities and unfunded promises amount to $1,361,788 against just $60,554 in assets, leaving it $1.3 million in the hole. Uncle Sam, by any accounting standard, is insolvent.

    Congress has clearly lost control of the nation’s finances. America is facing a fiscal catastrophe. The reckoning, long deferred, is becoming impossible to ignore.

    BY: Steve H. Hanke, David M. Walker, via FORTUNE Magazine at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/finance/economy/policy/articles/treasury-just-declared-u-insolvent-151425143.html

    Hal Turner Editorial Opinion

    Now, perhaps you understand why they’ve been trying so hard to actually START World War 3; they’re broke. They don’t want to take the blame for being the one’s who did it, they need a really big war to blame it on. Too bad for them the Russians didn’t take the bait with Ukraine.

    So now they’re trying to start it with Iran. They need some really big war they can point to, to tell the American people “we didn’t Bankrupt the country, it was the war!”

    You see, they’re worried about another potential January 6-style event, only this one with Guns and Nooses, lynching them from the lamp posts.

    But the Iranians aren’t cooperating either.

    So they’re in a jam. What do do now?

    HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.

    I wonder if some of those political psychos are thinking “False Flag attack upon America?” Maybe something akin to 9-11? Then they can BLAME IT on . . . . . whoever, declare war, and have at it!

    After all, it really doesn’t matter who they blame as long as they can deflect responsibility for wrecking the entire country’s finances. It seems to me they’ll do literally ANYTHING to avoid the blame.

    Americans would do well to learn the old skill of tying NOOSES.
    https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/the-treasury-just-declared-the-u-s-insolvent-the-media-missed-it?catid=20&Itemid=101

    #235946
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Wow

    This reminds me of a conversation I had with someone who always expected to reach the end of the internet.

    U.S. is insolvent.

    How long will that take to find MSM?

    Iran will have their way and break free.

    Uncertain times for the west. Possibly even starvation. I suggest we all plant gardens among other things.

    #235947
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    @ chooch,

    Thank you for that song. Memories

    #235948
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    TRUMP BACKS OFF ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE THREAT – THE US GOVT IS INTELLECTUALLY INCAPABLE OF DIPLOMACY

    #235949
    those darned kids
    Participant

    you know, celtic

    if i had the time, i’d convert to judaism just to bother you

    #235950
    zerosum
    Participant

    My opinion is irrelevant.
    $136.2 trillion — roughly five times U.S. annual GDP.

    That money was loaned to the gov. by the rich and from the savings from the sheep. (pensions etc,)
    The sheep have no way of forcing the gov. to pay them back.
    The some rich will also take a loss.
    The future revenues will also fall.
    The future demand for spending for services will increase.

    Trump tried to save the system, with tarrifs, for his friend and failed.

    #235951
    zerosum
    Participant

    Those are not war drums that you hear.
    It’s the exploding bombs.

    #235952
    zerosum
    Participant

    Independent confirmation: Victoria Base is one of two being emptied
    The U.S. is simultaneously withdrawing from:
    – Ain al‑Asad Air Base (Anbar)
    – Victoria Base (Baghdad)

    This is part of a broader, accelerated drawdown.
    But again — the reporting consistently describes the process as in progress, not finished.

    #235956
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    C-17 photo from 2011.

    #235957
    TAE Summary
    Participant

    * Israel
    – Nothing about Israel is as advertised
    – Ted Cruz and Chuck Norris: cheerleaders for Israel
    – ISIS and Al Qaeda were US and Israeli assets
    – Israel loves long wars and burnt offerings; They’re toast
    – Israel bombs hospitals
    – Iron dome is concave
    – Non-Jews are sub-human

    * Trump Daily Synopsis
    – Trump is not a prophet, seer or revelator
    – Housing, food and gas prices are up, pleasing Trump
    – Trump has lost control of the war; He chickens out, announcing a five day ceasefire to Curb the Flattening

    * Iran War
    – War isn’t murder
    – Iran gets to decide when to quit
    – Destroying Israeli water plants will introduce a fifth horseman to the apocalypse
    – US and Israel are terrorists; Iran respects human life
    – Iran plans to deplenish the US and Israel MIC
    – The marines may be there to help evacuate people from the shores of Tripoli
    – US and NATO forces are leaving Iraq; Safety first

    * The American Future
    – The US is killing us with injections and chemtrails
    – US Congressmen are almost all overweight
    – The US needs farm labor, is insolvent, absurd and has lost its hegemony but will still have full-spectrum energy dominance

    * TAE
    – Evil people like death
    – To lose is human, to loose is worse than murder
    – Some commenters are controlled opposition
    – Freedom causes some to gag
    – Negative behavior is unhealthy
    – TAE keeps one informed

    * Other
    – Blockading Cuba is pointless
    – Oil plunges, stocks jump, but it won’t last; Oil will jump and stocks will plunge
    – Only Fans owner dies; Funeral will be streamed to paying customers only
    – Stay calm and wear a stab vest; Since your neck is vulnerable, in case of knife attack retract your head
    – Epstein/Maxwell: Documents prove Ghislaine was on top
    – Drums go boom, bombs go BOOM

    #235958
    Michael Reid
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