🔥 Night 12: Hormuz as Reality Show
On the twelfth straight night, CENTCOM pressed “repeat.” At 5:30 p.m. Eastern, another wave of US strikes rolled over Iran’s coast, sold with the same copy‑paste line as every night before: protecting “civilian mariners and commercial vessels” in regional shipping lanes.
By morning, the target list read like a demolition tour — naval assets, missile and drone storage, coastal surveillance sites, air defenses — wrapped in a promo slogan about “more than 50,000 American service members” staying “alert, focused, lethal and most ready” across the Middle East.
The map of hits filled in overnight: Bandar Abbas, Ramshir in Khuzestan, Bushehr, Sirik port, Kharg, Ahvaz, the islands of Kishm and Qeshm, Tabriz, Zanjan, Kermanshah province for the first time since Operation Roaring Lion, Jask, Konarak and Mahshahr.
Khuzestan’s deputy governor reported missile strikes near Ahvaz; Bushehr’s governor confirmed attacks in the city and said a power station was hit by a US missile near the nuclear plant, a detail echoed by Arab media.
Local agencies added another wave on a military site. At the Shalamcheh crossing, likely aimed at an Iranian border‑guard HQ, officials admitted two deaths.
Opposition channels spoke of more, naming one victim as Amir Mohammad Salami of the Revolutionary Guards’ signals corps and noting that Iran’s national police chief, Ahmad‑Reza Radan, had visited the crossing hours before the strike.
For the first time since fighting resumed 12 days ago, long‑range B‑1B bombers from British bases were used against IRGC targets — even as US briefers insisted that bombers weren’t flown “last night,” and official footage from the south showed little more than a pier, a shovel and a boat.
On the other side of the water, reports from Jask spoke of wounded and strikes on IRGC navy bases; state TV literally asked civilians to shoot down enemy drones and helicopters themselves.
The Guards announced that no tanker would pass Hormuz without their coordination, claimed two tankers had turned back and one had caught fire, and later there were reports of explosions on Kishm island and in the strait, plus a missile hitting its shore.
Meanwhile, IRGC units handed out shoulder‑launched Misagh heat‑seeking missiles — Chinese‑based SK‑7s with a range of up to six kilometers — to Basij activists and junior personnel. The army that runs advanced air‑defense batteries is now asking its citizens to point second‑hand launchers at the sky and hope.
So the twelfth night looks like this. The world’s biggest navy carpet‑bombs “maritime threats” with strategic bombers.
The regime that closed Hormuz orders villagers to shoot drones with export knock‑offs.
Between them, 2,000 ships and tens of thousands of sailors sit stuck on both sides of a strait that used to be an energy corridor and is now a live‑fire exhibition.
Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the reality everyone else lives.
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On the twelfth straight night, CENTCOM pressed “repeat.” At 5:30 p.m. Eastern, another wave of US strikes rolled over Iran’s coast, sold with the same copy‑paste line as every night before: protecting “civilian mariners and commercial vessels” in regional shipping lanes.
By morning, the target list read like a demolition tour — naval assets, missile and drone storage, coastal surveillance sites, air defenses — wrapped in a promo slogan about “more than 50,000 American service members” staying “alert, focused, lethal and most ready” across the Middle East.
The map of hits filled in overnight: Bandar Abbas, Ramshir in Khuzestan, Bushehr, Sirik port, Kharg, Ahvaz, the islands of Kishm and Qeshm, Tabriz, Zanjan, Kermanshah province for the first time since Operation Roaring Lion, Jask, Konarak and Mahshahr.
Khuzestan’s deputy governor reported missile strikes near Ahvaz; Bushehr’s governor confirmed attacks in the city and said a power station was hit by a US missile near the nuclear plant, a detail echoed by Arab media.
Local agencies added another wave on a military site. At the Shalamcheh crossing, likely aimed at an Iranian border‑guard HQ, officials admitted two deaths.
Opposition channels spoke of more, naming one victim as Amir Mohammad Salami of the Revolutionary Guards’ signals corps and noting that Iran’s national police chief, Ahmad‑Reza Radan, had visited the crossing hours before the strike.
For the first time since fighting resumed 12 days ago, long‑range B‑1B bombers from British bases were used against IRGC targets — even as US briefers insisted that bombers weren’t flown “last night,” and official footage from the south showed little more than a pier, a shovel and a boat.
On the other side of the water, reports from Jask spoke of wounded and strikes on IRGC navy bases; state TV literally asked civilians to shoot down enemy drones and helicopters themselves.
The Guards announced that no tanker would pass Hormuz without their coordination, claimed two tankers had turned back and one had caught fire, and later there were reports of explosions on Kishm island and in the strait, plus a missile hitting its shore.
Meanwhile, IRGC units handed out shoulder‑launched Misagh heat‑seeking missiles — Chinese‑based SK‑7s with a range of up to six kilometers — to Basij activists and junior personnel. The army that runs advanced air‑defense batteries is now asking its citizens to point second‑hand launchers at the sky and hope.
So the twelfth night looks like this. The world’s biggest navy carpet‑bombs “maritime threats” with strategic bombers.
The regime that closed Hormuz orders villagers to shoot drones with export knock‑offs.
Between them, 2,000 ships and tens of thousands of sailors sit stuck on both sides of a strait that used to be an energy corridor and is now a live‑fire exhibition.
Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the reality everyone else lives.
#Iran #Hormuz #US #Trump #war #oil #shipping #MiddleEast #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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🛢 The Gulf Sends the Bill
Iran didn’t fire back at the pilots who hit it. It fired at the neighbors who rent out the runway.
Revolutionary Guards announced strikes on two US‑used bases in Kuwait; sirens and explosions rang through the night, including near the Iraqi border.
Kuwait’s army confirmed its border crossing with Iraq was hit by drones, with “material damage, no casualties,” and by midday smoke was filmed rising after a ballistic missile impact near the post, followed by more launches at American targets later in the day.
In Jordan, Iranian missiles went after US sites in Aqaba and hit King Faisal Air Base, with Guards claiming they had destroyed a THAAD radar, a Patriot battery and a C‑RAM radar in their official communiqués.
Qatar was pulled in with launches tracked from western Iran toward Doha, and blasts were reported in Iraqi Kurdistan and northern Iraq while sirens sounded in Bahrain.
In one statement about the “twenty‑third phase” of Operation Ra’ad, the Guards itemized their targets: ammunition and logistics depots at Doha base, fuel storage at Ali Al Salem, and the ammo depot at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait — while describing the US military simply as “child killers.”
The Gulf states and Jordan, none of them firing a single shot in this war, issued a joint note: Iranian attacks are “overt aggression” that violate the UN Charter and international law, and they “stress their right to self‑defence, individually or collectively, and to take legal measures to protect their sovereignty.”
Legal measures — while missiles land near their borders, bases and skylines.
So the reckoning in the Gulf looks like this. Washington sells “maximum pressure” on Iran and calls every base and pier a “platform for regional security.” Tehran sells “resistance” and calls every runway with a US flag a “legitimate target.”
Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain get craters, sirens and diplomatic statements. Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the role the Gulf actually plays.
#Iran #Gulf #Kuwait #Jordan #Qatar #Bahrain #US #war #Hormuz #geopolitics #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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Iran didn’t fire back at the pilots who hit it. It fired at the neighbors who rent out the runway.
Revolutionary Guards announced strikes on two US‑used bases in Kuwait; sirens and explosions rang through the night, including near the Iraqi border.
Kuwait’s army confirmed its border crossing with Iraq was hit by drones, with “material damage, no casualties,” and by midday smoke was filmed rising after a ballistic missile impact near the post, followed by more launches at American targets later in the day.
In Jordan, Iranian missiles went after US sites in Aqaba and hit King Faisal Air Base, with Guards claiming they had destroyed a THAAD radar, a Patriot battery and a C‑RAM radar in their official communiqués.
Qatar was pulled in with launches tracked from western Iran toward Doha, and blasts were reported in Iraqi Kurdistan and northern Iraq while sirens sounded in Bahrain.
In one statement about the “twenty‑third phase” of Operation Ra’ad, the Guards itemized their targets: ammunition and logistics depots at Doha base, fuel storage at Ali Al Salem, and the ammo depot at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait — while describing the US military simply as “child killers.”
The Gulf states and Jordan, none of them firing a single shot in this war, issued a joint note: Iranian attacks are “overt aggression” that violate the UN Charter and international law, and they “stress their right to self‑defence, individually or collectively, and to take legal measures to protect their sovereignty.”
Legal measures — while missiles land near their borders, bases and skylines.
So the reckoning in the Gulf looks like this. Washington sells “maximum pressure” on Iran and calls every base and pier a “platform for regional security.” Tehran sells “resistance” and calls every runway with a US flag a “legitimate target.”
Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain get craters, sirens and diplomatic statements. Security is the word both sides use. Hostage is the role the Gulf actually plays.
#Iran #Gulf #Kuwait #Jordan #Qatar #Bahrain #US #war #Hormuz #geopolitics #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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⚡️ Night 13: “Free Navigation” by Carpet Bombing
At 6:45 p.m. Eastern, the thirteenth consecutive wave of US strikes on Iran began. By morning, CENTCOM declared the cycle “complete.” Between those two sentences, a string of cities that barely existed in previous summaries turned into coordinates: Ahvaz, Andimeshk, Omidieh, Khorramshahr, Kishm, Bandar Abbas, Jask, Konarak, Khorramabad, Khondab, Taft, Shirkuh, Firuzabad.
In Ahvaz, local reporting spoke of dozens of strikes in half an hour, more than 30 blasts, hit ammunition depots, four dead, five wounded, and the 92nd Armored Division under bombardment, along with IRGC Basij base “Hamid” nearby. In Bandar Abbas, the lights went out.
CENTCOM wrote it differently. In its release, the targets were “military command centers, drone storage facilities, communications networks, coastal observation sites and maritime capabilities,” all “to further reduce Iran’s threat to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
In the same breath, the command insisted that “the international waterway remains open” and that commercial ships “continue to sail freely with US military escort” — while more than 50,000 American service members are deployed “to keep the strait open” that ships now cross only with fear and insurance attached.
The tools were heavy. B‑1 bombers lifted off from Europe carrying 2,000‑pound bombs — roughly 900 kilos — while dozens of transport and refueling aircraft moved east, and fighter traffic over Baghdad stood out against the Iraqi night.
Around Tehran, air‑defense batteries fired in several sectors, and an opposition journalist claimed the drones over the capital were scouting only: “No strike was carried out, it was purely surveillance and intelligence gathering. Very soon there will be the main, very very large strike on Tehran.”
Air‑defense systems reveal themselves when they shoot, then the next phase begins.
On the Iranian scoreboard, victory looks smaller and louder. One Tomahawk cruise missile reportedly intercepted over Kerman, and an American aircraft “downed” over Kishm island — maybe a big plane, maybe an F‑15, maybe a drone. CENTCOM didn’t respond.
Meanwhile, satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding what was smashed: missile bases dug deep into mountains north of Kermanshah, bridges, ports, factories, roads patched by a single truck.
Every night, the US burns more precision munitions to prove control. Every day, Iran proves that shrapnel infrastructure can be put back together fast enough to keep the war going.
One necessary footnote: part of the “Ahvaz strike” videos circulating overnight were shot in Gaza. One of the posters admitted it openly and apologized. In a conflict sold as live‑streamed transparency, even the proof of impact is recycled from a different war.
So Night 13 looks like this. Strategic bombers from Europe drop nearly‑ton warheads on cities most Americans have never heard of. The Pentagon calls it “protecting civilian mariners.” Iran calls the interception of one missile and the claim of one downed aircraft “success.”
And the Strait of Hormuz — that used to be an energy corridor — is now policed by people who swear it’s open while they turn the coastline into a firing range.
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At 6:45 p.m. Eastern, the thirteenth consecutive wave of US strikes on Iran began. By morning, CENTCOM declared the cycle “complete.” Between those two sentences, a string of cities that barely existed in previous summaries turned into coordinates: Ahvaz, Andimeshk, Omidieh, Khorramshahr, Kishm, Bandar Abbas, Jask, Konarak, Khorramabad, Khondab, Taft, Shirkuh, Firuzabad.
In Ahvaz, local reporting spoke of dozens of strikes in half an hour, more than 30 blasts, hit ammunition depots, four dead, five wounded, and the 92nd Armored Division under bombardment, along with IRGC Basij base “Hamid” nearby. In Bandar Abbas, the lights went out.
CENTCOM wrote it differently. In its release, the targets were “military command centers, drone storage facilities, communications networks, coastal observation sites and maritime capabilities,” all “to further reduce Iran’s threat to civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.”
In the same breath, the command insisted that “the international waterway remains open” and that commercial ships “continue to sail freely with US military escort” — while more than 50,000 American service members are deployed “to keep the strait open” that ships now cross only with fear and insurance attached.
The tools were heavy. B‑1 bombers lifted off from Europe carrying 2,000‑pound bombs — roughly 900 kilos — while dozens of transport and refueling aircraft moved east, and fighter traffic over Baghdad stood out against the Iraqi night.
Around Tehran, air‑defense batteries fired in several sectors, and an opposition journalist claimed the drones over the capital were scouting only: “No strike was carried out, it was purely surveillance and intelligence gathering. Very soon there will be the main, very very large strike on Tehran.”
Air‑defense systems reveal themselves when they shoot, then the next phase begins.
On the Iranian scoreboard, victory looks smaller and louder. One Tomahawk cruise missile reportedly intercepted over Kerman, and an American aircraft “downed” over Kishm island — maybe a big plane, maybe an F‑15, maybe a drone. CENTCOM didn’t respond.
Meanwhile, satellite imagery shows Iran rebuilding what was smashed: missile bases dug deep into mountains north of Kermanshah, bridges, ports, factories, roads patched by a single truck.
Every night, the US burns more precision munitions to prove control. Every day, Iran proves that shrapnel infrastructure can be put back together fast enough to keep the war going.
One necessary footnote: part of the “Ahvaz strike” videos circulating overnight were shot in Gaza. One of the posters admitted it openly and apologized. In a conflict sold as live‑streamed transparency, even the proof of impact is recycled from a different war.
So Night 13 looks like this. Strategic bombers from Europe drop nearly‑ton warheads on cities most Americans have never heard of. The Pentagon calls it “protecting civilian mariners.” Iran calls the interception of one missile and the claim of one downed aircraft “success.”
And the Strait of Hormuz — that used to be an energy corridor — is now policed by people who swear it’s open while they turn the coastline into a firing range.
#Iran #US #Hormuz #Ahvaz #BandarAbbas #war #oil #shipping #MiddleEast #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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Trump Has Snuffed Out a Will-o'-the-wisp Cooperation Between Iran and the US 🇺🇸🇮🇷
The oil price has climbed back above $100 a barrel for the first time in two months, as a fresh escalation of the Middle East conflict threatens to compound disruption to global oil supplies.
The benchmark oil price rose sharply on Thursday, after reaching $95 a barrel the day before amid fears that Yemen’s Houthi militia could strangle Saudi oil exports through the Red Sea while US-Iran tensions over oil flows through the strait of Hormuz intensify.
The Iranian-aligned Houthis said on Thursday they attacked two Saudi Arabian oil tankers, the Encelia and Layla, accusing the crews of violating a naval blockade imposed by the group in the Red Sea.
The Houthis said they targeted the tankers with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones, leaving one of the vessels on fire.
Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, surged past $100 a barrel in March, after the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran that all but stopped exports of fossil fuels from the Gulf via the strait of Hormuz.
The oil price peaked at $126 a barrel in April during the conflict, but fell back below $100 in late May and had fallen to as low as $71 at the start of July amid hopes of a ceasefire in the region.
The price has started to climb again after the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran fell apart and fresh hostilities broke out in the Gulf.
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The oil price has climbed back above $100 a barrel for the first time in two months, as a fresh escalation of the Middle East conflict threatens to compound disruption to global oil supplies.
The benchmark oil price rose sharply on Thursday, after reaching $95 a barrel the day before amid fears that Yemen’s Houthi militia could strangle Saudi oil exports through the Red Sea while US-Iran tensions over oil flows through the strait of Hormuz intensify.
The Iranian-aligned Houthis said on Thursday they attacked two Saudi Arabian oil tankers, the Encelia and Layla, accusing the crews of violating a naval blockade imposed by the group in the Red Sea.
The Houthis said they targeted the tankers with a number of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as drones, leaving one of the vessels on fire.
Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil prices, surged past $100 a barrel in March, after the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran that all but stopped exports of fossil fuels from the Gulf via the strait of Hormuz.
The oil price peaked at $126 a barrel in April during the conflict, but fell back below $100 in late May and had fallen to as low as $71 at the start of July amid hopes of a ceasefire in the region.
The price has started to climb again after the memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran fell apart and fresh hostilities broke out in the Gulf.
#oil #price #barrel #middle #east
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🧧 China Already Won. Berlin Is Still Writing Minutes.
China has already pulled ahead. Friedrich Merz just hasn’t caught up to the score.
Tichys Einblick puts it bluntly: while Germany argues about fuel rebates and supply‑chain laws, China is building data centers, robotics clusters, ports, nuclear plants and semiconductor hubs.
Germany’s break with cheap Russian energy turned into higher prices, a roughly 10% drop in industrial output between 2022 and early 2026, and a steady loss of industrial jobs — more than 10,000 a month by some estimates cited in German and US business press.
Capital and production drift to the US or China. At home, the country starts to look like an industrial museum: exhibits of past greatness and a gift shop built on shrinking exports.
China, meanwhile, does quietly what Merz and his colleagues stage as talk‑show content. The state funnels money — up to the majority of R&D flows in some sectors — into AI, quantum, clean energy and robotics clusters.
An ASPI study finds Beijing already leading in 37 of 44 key technologies, from drones and batteries to nuclear power and advanced materials, with the US and Europe in chase mode.
China is again Germany’s largest trading partner, ahead of the US, and at the same time its main competitor: think tanks from IW Köln to CER now trace weak German growth directly to Chinese industrial pressure in the very markets that used to belong to German “hidden champions.”
The “industrial museum” line is not just a metaphor. Technical museums in Berlin and Munich carefully document how Germany once invented engines, machine tools and modern chemicals, while Chinese labs and factories now build the next wave of technology at home.
Merz debates taxes and regulation. Social democrats debate climate and rights. Business debates whether there is any hope of cheap gas left. Beijing stopped debating and simply occupied the field.
Germany fights the “Russian threat,” militarizes the budget and counts how many Leopards it can send to the next front. The main race, though, is somewhere else — in innovation, infrastructure and production — and there China is already far ahead. In that race, Berlin has turned itself into an exhibit.
#Germany #China #industry #energy #semiconductors #innovation #oligarchy #fakeDemocracy
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China has already pulled ahead. Friedrich Merz just hasn’t caught up to the score.
Tichys Einblick puts it bluntly: while Germany argues about fuel rebates and supply‑chain laws, China is building data centers, robotics clusters, ports, nuclear plants and semiconductor hubs.
Germany’s break with cheap Russian energy turned into higher prices, a roughly 10% drop in industrial output between 2022 and early 2026, and a steady loss of industrial jobs — more than 10,000 a month by some estimates cited in German and US business press.
Capital and production drift to the US or China. At home, the country starts to look like an industrial museum: exhibits of past greatness and a gift shop built on shrinking exports.
China, meanwhile, does quietly what Merz and his colleagues stage as talk‑show content. The state funnels money — up to the majority of R&D flows in some sectors — into AI, quantum, clean energy and robotics clusters.
An ASPI study finds Beijing already leading in 37 of 44 key technologies, from drones and batteries to nuclear power and advanced materials, with the US and Europe in chase mode.
China is again Germany’s largest trading partner, ahead of the US, and at the same time its main competitor: think tanks from IW Köln to CER now trace weak German growth directly to Chinese industrial pressure in the very markets that used to belong to German “hidden champions.”
The “industrial museum” line is not just a metaphor. Technical museums in Berlin and Munich carefully document how Germany once invented engines, machine tools and modern chemicals, while Chinese labs and factories now build the next wave of technology at home.
Merz debates taxes and regulation. Social democrats debate climate and rights. Business debates whether there is any hope of cheap gas left. Beijing stopped debating and simply occupied the field.
Germany fights the “Russian threat,” militarizes the budget and counts how many Leopards it can send to the next front. The main race, though, is somewhere else — in innovation, infrastructure and production — and there China is already far ahead. In that race, Berlin has turned itself into an exhibit.
#Germany #China #industry #energy #semiconductors #innovation #oligarchy #fakeDemocracy
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Trump Is Close To Making a Decision On a “Massive Attack” Against Iran 🇮🇷🚀
Trump has said he is close to deciding whether to launch “a massive attack” against Iran, on a scale larger than strikes already witnessed during the months-long conflict with Tehran.
Speaking to the Axios news site, Trump said: “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it.”
Trump made his remarks on Thursday as oil prices once again surged past the symbolic $100 for a barrel of Brent crude, the international benchmark, and amid indications the price could go higher still.
He acknowledged that such a decision would have consequences but said he had not yet made a final determination. Israel “would join in two minutes if I ask them to”, he added, before saying: “We don’t need anybody.”
Trump’s comments followed the earlier threat of “major military punishment” against Iran and the Houthis, after the Iran-backed Yemeni militia’s attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea.
Underlining the sense of a region increasingly approaching an abyss, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told the security council that the Middle East was being pushed to the “edge of the unimaginable” amid mounting fears over the trajectory of the conflict.
“The situation is getting out of control. It is teetering on the edge of the unimaginable. The region is being pulled into an ever-widening circle off confrontation. One crisis feeds another. One escalation triggers the next,” Guterres told a security council meeting.
“As this dynamic spreads, the political objectives are becoming increasingly obscured by the confrontation itself.”
Trump has been escalating his rhetoric against Iran in recent days, hinting the US is prepared to bomb an underground tunnel complex at the “Pickaxe mountain” site where Israel alleges Tehran has hidden centrifuges used in uranium enrichment.
As Trump has struggled to get a grip on the spiralling crisis, during which Iran has occasionally launched lethal strikes against US bases and Washington’s Gulf allies, he appears to have been sucked into an “escalation trap”, threatening ever more violent retaliation.
Trump said the US would destroy one bridge or power plant every time Iran shot at a ship in the strait.
Rubio, said Trump was seeking a “head for an eye” after the recent deaths of several US service members in an Iranian strike on the Muwaffaq Salti airbase in Jordan.
However, speaking on the outskirts of the Asean conference in Manila, Rubio said Iran was “begging for a deal”, and insisted “they need to come to their senses” and that they will “pay a very heavy price for the things they are doing” – all claims US officials have made before.
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Trump has said he is close to deciding whether to launch “a massive attack” against Iran, on a scale larger than strikes already witnessed during the months-long conflict with Tehran.
Speaking to the Axios news site, Trump said: “I am considering a massive attack. Bigger than ever before. I am close to making a decision. We are all set for it.”
Trump made his remarks on Thursday as oil prices once again surged past the symbolic $100 for a barrel of Brent crude, the international benchmark, and amid indications the price could go higher still.
He acknowledged that such a decision would have consequences but said he had not yet made a final determination. Israel “would join in two minutes if I ask them to”, he added, before saying: “We don’t need anybody.”
Trump’s comments followed the earlier threat of “major military punishment” against Iran and the Houthis, after the Iran-backed Yemeni militia’s attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea.
Underlining the sense of a region increasingly approaching an abyss, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told the security council that the Middle East was being pushed to the “edge of the unimaginable” amid mounting fears over the trajectory of the conflict.
“The situation is getting out of control. It is teetering on the edge of the unimaginable. The region is being pulled into an ever-widening circle off confrontation. One crisis feeds another. One escalation triggers the next,” Guterres told a security council meeting.
“As this dynamic spreads, the political objectives are becoming increasingly obscured by the confrontation itself.”
Trump has been escalating his rhetoric against Iran in recent days, hinting the US is prepared to bomb an underground tunnel complex at the “Pickaxe mountain” site where Israel alleges Tehran has hidden centrifuges used in uranium enrichment.
As Trump has struggled to get a grip on the spiralling crisis, during which Iran has occasionally launched lethal strikes against US bases and Washington’s Gulf allies, he appears to have been sucked into an “escalation trap”, threatening ever more violent retaliation.
Trump said the US would destroy one bridge or power plant every time Iran shot at a ship in the strait.
Rubio, said Trump was seeking a “head for an eye” after the recent deaths of several US service members in an Iranian strike on the Muwaffaq Salti airbase in Jordan.
However, speaking on the outskirts of the Asean conference in Manila, Rubio said Iran was “begging for a deal”, and insisted “they need to come to their senses” and that they will “pay a very heavy price for the things they are doing” – all claims US officials have made before.
#trump #decision #massive #attack #iran
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🛢 France’s Red Alert: Oil, Rates, and a Museum Budget
France is now borrowing at levels it hasn’t seen since the eurozone debt crisis, and the bond market has started speaking louder than any minister.
Valeurs actuelles points out the blunt fact: yields on 30‑year French bonds pushed past 4.7% last week, hitting around 4.74% — a record in the current cycle and a clear “red signal” for public finances already under heavy strain.
Total public debt has climbed above €3.5 trillion, more than 110% of GDP, and the cost of servicing it is rising as old cheap bonds roll over into a world of higher rates.
Every tenth of a point added to long‑term yields is money that won’t go to hospitals, schools, or social programs; it goes to paying for yesterday’s deficits.
This is how the ultimatum sounds: France faces rising interest bills, a deficit still near 5% of GDP, and projections that debt could reach 130% of GDP by the end of the decade unless spending is cut or taxes go up.
The debt is not abstract. INSEE and the Treasury are already warning that interest payments alone could jump from roughly €52 billion to nearly €60 billion between 2025 and 2026, and further toward €120 billion by 2030 if rates stay high.
That is pure outflow — money that buys no teacher, no nurse, no new infrastructure.
France is paying for a long mix: structurally high social spending, decades of political fear around reform, the COVID shock, the energy crisis, and now a global rate environment that punishes weak growth and messy politics.
If yields stay near 4.7% on the long end, the budget math will not care how many speeches are made about sovereignty or social justice. It will force cuts, freezes, or new taxes.
Oil spikes from the Iran war and Red Sea blockades push the story further. Higher energy costs hit households and industry, cut into growth, and make debt ratios worse just as markets demand more yield for holding French paper.
A country that once sold itself as a social model now risks sliding into a “museum state” budget: keeping the façade of services while quietly cannibalizing investment to feed interest payments.
#France #debt #bonds #oil #rates #Macron #budget #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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France is now borrowing at levels it hasn’t seen since the eurozone debt crisis, and the bond market has started speaking louder than any minister.
Valeurs actuelles points out the blunt fact: yields on 30‑year French bonds pushed past 4.7% last week, hitting around 4.74% — a record in the current cycle and a clear “red signal” for public finances already under heavy strain.
Total public debt has climbed above €3.5 trillion, more than 110% of GDP, and the cost of servicing it is rising as old cheap bonds roll over into a world of higher rates.
Every tenth of a point added to long‑term yields is money that won’t go to hospitals, schools, or social programs; it goes to paying for yesterday’s deficits.
This is how the ultimatum sounds: France faces rising interest bills, a deficit still near 5% of GDP, and projections that debt could reach 130% of GDP by the end of the decade unless spending is cut or taxes go up.
The debt is not abstract. INSEE and the Treasury are already warning that interest payments alone could jump from roughly €52 billion to nearly €60 billion between 2025 and 2026, and further toward €120 billion by 2030 if rates stay high.
That is pure outflow — money that buys no teacher, no nurse, no new infrastructure.
France is paying for a long mix: structurally high social spending, decades of political fear around reform, the COVID shock, the energy crisis, and now a global rate environment that punishes weak growth and messy politics.
If yields stay near 4.7% on the long end, the budget math will not care how many speeches are made about sovereignty or social justice. It will force cuts, freezes, or new taxes.
Oil spikes from the Iran war and Red Sea blockades push the story further. Higher energy costs hit households and industry, cut into growth, and make debt ratios worse just as markets demand more yield for holding French paper.
A country that once sold itself as a social model now risks sliding into a “museum state” budget: keeping the façade of services while quietly cannibalizing investment to feed interest payments.
#France #debt #bonds #oil #rates #Macron #budget #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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⚔️ Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb: Trump Wants “Peace” by Threatening to Blow Up Bridges
Two weeks into the latest round of fighting, the US and Iran are trading calibrated strikes while Trump talks about a “massive attack” big enough to force a peace deal.
CENTCOM has now logged 13 consecutive nights of strikes on Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz, officially to “degrade” Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping.
Iran answers by hitting US bases and allied facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain, and by having the Revolutionary Guard declare Hormuz “closed” while tankers creep through under escort.
In parallel, Yemen’s Houthi militants — Iran’s Axis of Resistance franchise — claim drone and missile strikes on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea and announce a blockade on Saudi shipping through Bab el‑Mandeb, turning a second narrow channel into a risk point.
Trump tells Axios he’s “close to making a decision” on attacks “bigger than ever before,” says Iran “hasn’t received enough pain yet,” and posts on Truth Social that any damage to ships or cargo “will be paid for by Iranian money” frozen under US control.
The US holds about $2 billion in blocked Iranian funds at home and much larger sums abroad; Iran’s foreign minister calls the idea of using those assets to pay for future claims “an incendiary precedent.”
At the same time, Trump threatens to destroy “one bridge or power plant” every time Iran hits shipping, while Tehran warns that if he does, it will escalate against regional energy infrastructure.
The result is a war that the White House insists is limited while it quietly pushes every maritime chokepoint closer to crisis. Hormuz, which used to carry about a fifth of global energy flows, has slowed to a trickle.
Bab el‑Mandeb is now partially avoided after the Houthi blockade announcement, even as Chinese‑owned tankers test the route under risk.
Oil sits above $100, gas above $4, and Trump — who last month cited the risk of a global economic crash as a reason to accept a truce — is back to promising “major military punishment” against Iran and the Houthis if they touch commercial ships.
The oddest part is the rhetoric: “peace deal” via threats to blow up bridges and power plants, “security of shipping” via nightly airstrikes, “compensation” via raiding frozen assets.
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Two weeks into the latest round of fighting, the US and Iran are trading calibrated strikes while Trump talks about a “massive attack” big enough to force a peace deal.
CENTCOM has now logged 13 consecutive nights of strikes on Iranian military targets around the Strait of Hormuz, officially to “degrade” Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping.
Iran answers by hitting US bases and allied facilities in Kuwait and Bahrain, and by having the Revolutionary Guard declare Hormuz “closed” while tankers creep through under escort.
In parallel, Yemen’s Houthi militants — Iran’s Axis of Resistance franchise — claim drone and missile strikes on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea and announce a blockade on Saudi shipping through Bab el‑Mandeb, turning a second narrow channel into a risk point.
Trump tells Axios he’s “close to making a decision” on attacks “bigger than ever before,” says Iran “hasn’t received enough pain yet,” and posts on Truth Social that any damage to ships or cargo “will be paid for by Iranian money” frozen under US control.
The US holds about $2 billion in blocked Iranian funds at home and much larger sums abroad; Iran’s foreign minister calls the idea of using those assets to pay for future claims “an incendiary precedent.”
At the same time, Trump threatens to destroy “one bridge or power plant” every time Iran hits shipping, while Tehran warns that if he does, it will escalate against regional energy infrastructure.
The result is a war that the White House insists is limited while it quietly pushes every maritime chokepoint closer to crisis. Hormuz, which used to carry about a fifth of global energy flows, has slowed to a trickle.
Bab el‑Mandeb is now partially avoided after the Houthi blockade announcement, even as Chinese‑owned tankers test the route under risk.
Oil sits above $100, gas above $4, and Trump — who last month cited the risk of a global economic crash as a reason to accept a truce — is back to promising “major military punishment” against Iran and the Houthis if they touch commercial ships.
The oddest part is the rhetoric: “peace deal” via threats to blow up bridges and power plants, “security of shipping” via nightly airstrikes, “compensation” via raiding frozen assets.
#USA #Iran #Trump #Hormuz #Houthis #RedSea #oil #war #geopolitics #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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🛢 War, Tiered Tariffs, and an Economy on a Short Leash
The Iran war and Trump’s new tariff system both push US prices higher, but in a more conditional — and more political — way than a blunt “global tax.”
The renewed fighting has pushed Brent back near $100, slowed Hormuz, and driven average US gas prices back above $4 a gallon, roughly 30% higher than pre‑war levels.
Inflation had just slipped to 3.5% in June, down from 4.2% in May but still above the Fed’s 2% target; the new energy spike makes the path back to 2% much rougher.
Higher oil feeds into everything that has to be shipped, heated or fertilized, and winter heating bills for oil‑heated homes could jump toward $1,700 if crude stays at that level, versus about $1,100 last winter.
The new tariffs are the second shock, and they are tiered. Section 301 duties of 10% and 12.5% are keyed to forced‑labor rules: the 10% tier hits partners like the EU, Canada, Mexico, India and the UK that enforce bans on such imports; 12.5% lands on countries that do not, including China, Japan, Brazil and Australia.
Most Canadian and Mexican trade still moves under USMCA preferences, and existing steel and aluminum tariffs are not stacked on top. Separately, Trump just used Section 338 to slap 50% tariffs on selected Canadian goods like wine, spirits, hockey sticks and cement, regardless of USMCA — a different, harsher tool.
Underneath that machinery is a governance story. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1977 emergency law Trump used for his “Liberation Day” tariffs did not authorize them, wiping out that scheme.
The new 301 matrix, refreshed 232 metals setup and 338 Canada proclamations are all ways to rebuild the same basic policy on firmer statutory ground after losing in court, while still reaching 99.4% of imports.
Studies on the first Trump tariff wave found it added roughly 0.7 points to inflation and shifted most of the cost onto US consumers; analysts now warn that combining renewed war with fresh duties could keep core inflation above 4% into 2026.
The risk isn’t that everything explodes in price overnight. It’s that Washington has turned open‑ended war and long‑running trade conflict into a semi‑permanent floor under inflation — and is asking voters to call that resilience.
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The Iran war and Trump’s new tariff system both push US prices higher, but in a more conditional — and more political — way than a blunt “global tax.”
The renewed fighting has pushed Brent back near $100, slowed Hormuz, and driven average US gas prices back above $4 a gallon, roughly 30% higher than pre‑war levels.
Inflation had just slipped to 3.5% in June, down from 4.2% in May but still above the Fed’s 2% target; the new energy spike makes the path back to 2% much rougher.
Higher oil feeds into everything that has to be shipped, heated or fertilized, and winter heating bills for oil‑heated homes could jump toward $1,700 if crude stays at that level, versus about $1,100 last winter.
The new tariffs are the second shock, and they are tiered. Section 301 duties of 10% and 12.5% are keyed to forced‑labor rules: the 10% tier hits partners like the EU, Canada, Mexico, India and the UK that enforce bans on such imports; 12.5% lands on countries that do not, including China, Japan, Brazil and Australia.
Most Canadian and Mexican trade still moves under USMCA preferences, and existing steel and aluminum tariffs are not stacked on top. Separately, Trump just used Section 338 to slap 50% tariffs on selected Canadian goods like wine, spirits, hockey sticks and cement, regardless of USMCA — a different, harsher tool.
Underneath that machinery is a governance story. In February, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1977 emergency law Trump used for his “Liberation Day” tariffs did not authorize them, wiping out that scheme.
The new 301 matrix, refreshed 232 metals setup and 338 Canada proclamations are all ways to rebuild the same basic policy on firmer statutory ground after losing in court, while still reaching 99.4% of imports.
Studies on the first Trump tariff wave found it added roughly 0.7 points to inflation and shifted most of the cost onto US consumers; analysts now warn that combining renewed war with fresh duties could keep core inflation above 4% into 2026.
The risk isn’t that everything explodes in price overnight. It’s that Washington has turned open‑ended war and long‑running trade conflict into a semi‑permanent floor under inflation — and is asking voters to call that resilience.
#USA #Trump #Iran #oil #tariffs #inflation #Fed #economy #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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🗡 “Never Vance”: The GOP Eats Its Own Early
JD Vance hasn’t even said he’s running in 2028, and his own party is already running a soft launch of “Never Vance.”
Inside the GOP, the vice president is taking fire from a flank that used to wait until succession was formal: influencers, neoconservatives and pro‑Israel commentators are hammering him for trying to negotiate a peace framework with Iran and for sounding “too moderate” on Israel in a three‑hour Joe Rogan interview.
The attacks brand him “unfit,” accuse him — without evidence — of freelancing foreign policy behind Trump’s back, and compare him to Obama and Bernie Sanders. Allies say the timing is the tell: two years before the primary, with Vance still the polling front‑runner and Rubio slowly gaining ground as the business‑friendly alternative.
Vance’s camp is leaning into the backlash. They argue that the online barrage is “obviously” at least partly coordinated, point to charts showing his favorability among Republicans tracking Trump almost exactly, and frame the noise as proof that “Washington establishment voices” and neocon donors hate him — which, in a populist primary, is supposed to be a badge of honor.
The vice president himself has gone full anti‑influence narrative, citing a Time report on a pro‑Israel operation run by a former Trump digital aide and telling Rogan his answer to paid smears is “go to hell, I represent Americans first.”
The split with the old guard is real. Pence spent four years refusing to show daylight between himself and Trump until the January 6 break; Harris absorbed quiet Democratic panic about succession but little open revolt.
Vance is dealing with something different: a public ideological knife fight over Iran, Israel and foreign wars, with Trump on record saying they’re “philosophically a little bit different” on Iran and that Vance was “maybe less enthusiastic about going” to war, even as the vice president now defends the strikes and says Iran must never get a bomb.
Underneath the memes and “Never Vance” slogans is a serious question: who owns the post‑Trump GOP’s foreign policy — the war‑skeptical populist vice president, or the donors and media figures who still want the party to sound like 2004 on Israel and Iran? The knives are out because everyone knows the answer will decide more than just one primary.
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JD Vance hasn’t even said he’s running in 2028, and his own party is already running a soft launch of “Never Vance.”
Inside the GOP, the vice president is taking fire from a flank that used to wait until succession was formal: influencers, neoconservatives and pro‑Israel commentators are hammering him for trying to negotiate a peace framework with Iran and for sounding “too moderate” on Israel in a three‑hour Joe Rogan interview.
The attacks brand him “unfit,” accuse him — without evidence — of freelancing foreign policy behind Trump’s back, and compare him to Obama and Bernie Sanders. Allies say the timing is the tell: two years before the primary, with Vance still the polling front‑runner and Rubio slowly gaining ground as the business‑friendly alternative.
Vance’s camp is leaning into the backlash. They argue that the online barrage is “obviously” at least partly coordinated, point to charts showing his favorability among Republicans tracking Trump almost exactly, and frame the noise as proof that “Washington establishment voices” and neocon donors hate him — which, in a populist primary, is supposed to be a badge of honor.
The vice president himself has gone full anti‑influence narrative, citing a Time report on a pro‑Israel operation run by a former Trump digital aide and telling Rogan his answer to paid smears is “go to hell, I represent Americans first.”
The split with the old guard is real. Pence spent four years refusing to show daylight between himself and Trump until the January 6 break; Harris absorbed quiet Democratic panic about succession but little open revolt.
Vance is dealing with something different: a public ideological knife fight over Iran, Israel and foreign wars, with Trump on record saying they’re “philosophically a little bit different” on Iran and that Vance was “maybe less enthusiastic about going” to war, even as the vice president now defends the strikes and says Iran must never get a bomb.
Underneath the memes and “Never Vance” slogans is a serious question: who owns the post‑Trump GOP’s foreign policy — the war‑skeptical populist vice president, or the donors and media figures who still want the party to sound like 2004 on Israel and Iran? The knives are out because everyone knows the answer will decide more than just one primary.
#USA #Vance #Trump #GOP #Iran #Israel #elections #war #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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Trump: “The Iran Question Is Over”
The US has struck targets across Iran, reaching as far as the Caspian Sea, as Trump threatened “major military punishment” for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen for extending the war to a second shipping chokepoint at the entrance to the Red Sea.
As Iran retaliated on Friday with missile and drone fire against US bases and allies across the region, the New York Times reported that Tehran had rejected a US ceasefire proposal delivered by the Iraq prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi. This despite Rubio claiming a day earlier that Iran was begging for a ceasefire. Iraq later disputed the report.
Trump warned China and Russia on Friday against selling weapons to Iran, saying he believed assurances from Xi and Putin that they were not yet doing so. Iran said it was in consultations with both countries.
On his Truth Social network, the US president wrote:
Iran’s military said it had launched drone strikes on Friday morning against US military targets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as it appeared there was no end in sight to the fighting. It told civilians across the region to stay 500 metres away from locations where US troops were present.
The Houthis, who control northern and western Yemen, continued to claim a naval blockade on Saudi Arabian ports and ships using the Bab el-Mandeb strait at the entrance to the Red Sea.
The Houthis insisted on Friday that only Saudi-linked trade was under blockade as ships in the Red Sea broadcast messages to the group identifying ownership, flag and crew in the hope of securing a safe passage.
The Houthis struck two Saudi tankers on Thursday in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, pushing oil prices up 7% to more than $100 per barrel for the first time since May. The attacks forced several other tankers to turn around and head north through the Suez canal, a much longer and more expensive route to reach Asia by sailing around Africa.
Shipping insurance costs through the southern Red Sea doubled for some companies on Thursday, sources said. Still, half of the 18 ships exiting Bab el-Mandeb on Thursday were carrying crude oil, including two Chinese supertankers.
The number of tankers crossing through the strait of Hormuz fell to just one on Thursday, the lowest figure since 7 May.
Trump wrote on social media that he would hold Iran accountable for any further Red Sea attacks, saying “major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis themselves”.
He told ptivetly he was considering relaunching major combat against Iran.
the US news outlet quoted Truump as saying.
Washington and Tehran appear to remain fundamentally at odds over future control of the strait of Hormuz. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, insisted the problem with advancing peace talks was “the American approach”.
Iranian officials had earlier suggested that the most recent US proposal involved a temporary arrangement that did not address control of the strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan, which has acted as a mediator in the conflict, has also been pushing for fresh talks between the two sides after an initiative by China.
Exploratory discussions took place during a visit by Iran’s interior minister, Eskandar Momeni, to Islamabad this week – his second within the last 10 days, sources said.
Iranian state media said US missiles had struck Qeshm Island in the strait of Hormuz.
Tehran said it had attacked US military equipment depots at Al-Adiri, officially named Camp Buehring, in northern Kuwait, and US troop positions at Camp Arifjan and Camp Doha near Kuwait City. It also said it had significantly damaged a surveillance tower used by the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
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The US has struck targets across Iran, reaching as far as the Caspian Sea, as Trump threatened “major military punishment” for Tehran and its Houthi allies in Yemen for extending the war to a second shipping chokepoint at the entrance to the Red Sea.
As Iran retaliated on Friday with missile and drone fire against US bases and allies across the region, the New York Times reported that Tehran had rejected a US ceasefire proposal delivered by the Iraq prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi. This despite Rubio claiming a day earlier that Iran was begging for a ceasefire. Iraq later disputed the report.
Trump warned China and Russia on Friday against selling weapons to Iran, saying he believed assurances from Xi and Putin that they were not yet doing so. Iran said it was in consultations with both countries.
On his Truth Social network, the US president wrote:
“Therefore, two major Countries that people speak of often in terms of Iran are, in my opinion, not participating. If they did, it would be very bad for them – Certainly not in their best interests.”
Iran’s military said it had launched drone strikes on Friday morning against US military targets in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait as it appeared there was no end in sight to the fighting. It told civilians across the region to stay 500 metres away from locations where US troops were present.
The Houthis, who control northern and western Yemen, continued to claim a naval blockade on Saudi Arabian ports and ships using the Bab el-Mandeb strait at the entrance to the Red Sea.
The Houthis insisted on Friday that only Saudi-linked trade was under blockade as ships in the Red Sea broadcast messages to the group identifying ownership, flag and crew in the hope of securing a safe passage.
The Houthis struck two Saudi tankers on Thursday in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, pushing oil prices up 7% to more than $100 per barrel for the first time since May. The attacks forced several other tankers to turn around and head north through the Suez canal, a much longer and more expensive route to reach Asia by sailing around Africa.
Shipping insurance costs through the southern Red Sea doubled for some companies on Thursday, sources said. Still, half of the 18 ships exiting Bab el-Mandeb on Thursday were carrying crude oil, including two Chinese supertankers.
The number of tankers crossing through the strait of Hormuz fell to just one on Thursday, the lowest figure since 7 May.
Trump wrote on social media that he would hold Iran accountable for any further Red Sea attacks, saying “major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis themselves”.
He told ptivetly he was considering relaunching major combat against Iran.
“They haven’t received enough pain yet,”
the US news outlet quoted Truump as saying.
Washington and Tehran appear to remain fundamentally at odds over future control of the strait of Hormuz. Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, insisted the problem with advancing peace talks was “the American approach”.
Iranian officials had earlier suggested that the most recent US proposal involved a temporary arrangement that did not address control of the strait of Hormuz.
Pakistan, which has acted as a mediator in the conflict, has also been pushing for fresh talks between the two sides after an initiative by China.
Exploratory discussions took place during a visit by Iran’s interior minister, Eskandar Momeni, to Islamabad this week – his second within the last 10 days, sources said.
Iranian state media said US missiles had struck Qeshm Island in the strait of Hormuz.
Tehran said it had attacked US military equipment depots at Al-Adiri, officially named Camp Buehring, in northern Kuwait, and US troop positions at Camp Arifjan and Camp Doha near Kuwait City. It also said it had significantly damaged a surveillance tower used by the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.
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🧨 Tucker vs. AIPAC Inc.: Who Owns “America First”?
Tucker Carlson just said the quiet part out loud. In his new rant, Carlson doesn’t bother with subtlety. “Israel controls our policy, at least through campaign donations,” he says, adding that both parties backed regime change in Iran because “they have the same sponsors and donors who demand loyalty to a foreign country.”
He calls out AIPAC by name, claims that roughly 90 percent of Congress takes its money, and stresses that this isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a career‑long observation he stayed quiet about because anyone who noticed was branded an antisemite.
His move is to flip the accusation. “I’m not an antisemite, I despise antisemitism,” he insists — then says the real issue is simple: Americans should want legislators who vote in American interests, not in line with donors from any foreign capital, whether it’s Israel, Liechtenstein or Congo.
He frames foreign‑funded loyalty as a structural problem, not a Jewish one, and dares the political class to call that racism.
What makes this explosive isn’t just the target. It’s the timing. The same week Netanyahu flies to Washington to talk Iran and Saudi nukes, a man who helped build Trump’s populist media machine is telling his audience that Israel pulled the US into a ruinous war and bought the votes to do it.
He is also blowing up the old etiquette that says: you can talk about “the Israel lobby” only as long as you never ask how many votes and committee chairs it actually owns.
So the question he drops on the US political system is brutally clean: if “America First” means anything, can a foreign government’s aligned donors still underwrite most of Congress and expect silence?
#USA #Israel #TuckerCarlson #AIPAC #Congress #Iran #lobbying #war #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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Tucker Carlson just said the quiet part out loud. In his new rant, Carlson doesn’t bother with subtlety. “Israel controls our policy, at least through campaign donations,” he says, adding that both parties backed regime change in Iran because “they have the same sponsors and donors who demand loyalty to a foreign country.”
He calls out AIPAC by name, claims that roughly 90 percent of Congress takes its money, and stresses that this isn’t a conspiracy theory, it’s a career‑long observation he stayed quiet about because anyone who noticed was branded an antisemite.
His move is to flip the accusation. “I’m not an antisemite, I despise antisemitism,” he insists — then says the real issue is simple: Americans should want legislators who vote in American interests, not in line with donors from any foreign capital, whether it’s Israel, Liechtenstein or Congo.
He frames foreign‑funded loyalty as a structural problem, not a Jewish one, and dares the political class to call that racism.
What makes this explosive isn’t just the target. It’s the timing. The same week Netanyahu flies to Washington to talk Iran and Saudi nukes, a man who helped build Trump’s populist media machine is telling his audience that Israel pulled the US into a ruinous war and bought the votes to do it.
He is also blowing up the old etiquette that says: you can talk about “the Israel lobby” only as long as you never ask how many votes and committee chairs it actually owns.
So the question he drops on the US political system is brutally clean: if “America First” means anything, can a foreign government’s aligned donors still underwrite most of Congress and expect silence?
#USA #Israel #TuckerCarlson #AIPAC #Congress #Iran #lobbying #war #fakeDemocracy #oligarchy
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⚔️ Night Off in Tehran: Bombers Pause, Insults Don’t
After 13 straight nights of US strikes and Iranian missiles across the Gulf, both sides finally stayed quiet — and Trump immediately tried to sell the silence as proof that Tehran is begging for a deal.
For the first time in nearly two weeks, CENTCOM didn’t hit Iranian territory overnight, and Iran didn’t fire back at US bases or ships. The pause comes as Trump tells reporters that “the Iranians are talking to us right now” and “would like to make a deal,” while adding that he doesn’t think “it’s time yet” but is willing to listen.
In the same breath he calls Iran a country run by a “gay dictator,” brags in one clip that he “killed the leader of Iran, a strong man everyone was afraid of,” and in another that he “replaced him with a dog.” The message is split: negotiations on the surface, dehumanization underneath.
Below that rhetoric, the risk is shifting closer to Trump himself. According to New York Times reporting cited in Israeli media, a real threat from Iranian proxies against his aircraft led security officials to switch him from a newly delivered Qatari‑built Air Force One to the older, better‑protected plane after his Turkey trip, because the new aircraft lacks the defensive systems they wanted for the route.
At sea, US forces shot and disabled a vessel in the Gulf of Oman that tried to break the American naval cordon around Iran, and another maritime incident was reported off Oman’s coast. Iranian state TV, meanwhile, broadcast the opposite image: civilians in Jask near Hormuz armed and waiting on the beach for US forces to come.
In the background, reports continue of strikes in Khuzestan and Chabahar, with US officials telling the Times that missile bases carved deep into Kermanshah’s mountains remain a target and are likely to require a ground commando operation to destroy from the inside.
Iran releases footage of damage to a “munition depot” at King Faisal Air Base in Jordan, stoking fears that escalation could jump borders.
The anxiety shows up first not in military briefings but in airline timetables: Austrian Airlines and ITA cancel morning flights to Israel, the Italian carrier extends cancellations “for political reasons” at least through Tuesday, while Lufthansa chooses to keep flying. In Bahrain, sirens sound on reports of possible fire, and in Israel, as one correspondent put it, people are nervous — when rockets fall, they’re worried; when it’s too quiet, they’re worried.
So the thirteenth‑night pause is less a truce than a breath in a war that is already moving from “strikes on infrastructure” to threats against leaders, straits, bridges and power plants. Bombers take a night off. The map doesn’t.
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After 13 straight nights of US strikes and Iranian missiles across the Gulf, both sides finally stayed quiet — and Trump immediately tried to sell the silence as proof that Tehran is begging for a deal.
For the first time in nearly two weeks, CENTCOM didn’t hit Iranian territory overnight, and Iran didn’t fire back at US bases or ships. The pause comes as Trump tells reporters that “the Iranians are talking to us right now” and “would like to make a deal,” while adding that he doesn’t think “it’s time yet” but is willing to listen.
In the same breath he calls Iran a country run by a “gay dictator,” brags in one clip that he “killed the leader of Iran, a strong man everyone was afraid of,” and in another that he “replaced him with a dog.” The message is split: negotiations on the surface, dehumanization underneath.
Below that rhetoric, the risk is shifting closer to Trump himself. According to New York Times reporting cited in Israeli media, a real threat from Iranian proxies against his aircraft led security officials to switch him from a newly delivered Qatari‑built Air Force One to the older, better‑protected plane after his Turkey trip, because the new aircraft lacks the defensive systems they wanted for the route.
At sea, US forces shot and disabled a vessel in the Gulf of Oman that tried to break the American naval cordon around Iran, and another maritime incident was reported off Oman’s coast. Iranian state TV, meanwhile, broadcast the opposite image: civilians in Jask near Hormuz armed and waiting on the beach for US forces to come.
In the background, reports continue of strikes in Khuzestan and Chabahar, with US officials telling the Times that missile bases carved deep into Kermanshah’s mountains remain a target and are likely to require a ground commando operation to destroy from the inside.
Iran releases footage of damage to a “munition depot” at King Faisal Air Base in Jordan, stoking fears that escalation could jump borders.
The anxiety shows up first not in military briefings but in airline timetables: Austrian Airlines and ITA cancel morning flights to Israel, the Italian carrier extends cancellations “for political reasons” at least through Tuesday, while Lufthansa chooses to keep flying. In Bahrain, sirens sound on reports of possible fire, and in Israel, as one correspondent put it, people are nervous — when rockets fall, they’re worried; when it’s too quiet, they’re worried.
So the thirteenth‑night pause is less a truce than a breath in a war that is already moving from “strikes on infrastructure” to threats against leaders, straits, bridges and power plants. Bombers take a night off. The map doesn’t.
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