A while ago Donald Trump promised to Iran that the USA will obliterate their various power plants, "without threat", somehow. The time is running out. How will Iran respond? How much more US military hardware will be destroyed by Iranian missiles and drones that Iran supposedly - according to Donald Trump - doesn't have anymore? Time will show.

Meanwhile a barrel of oil was worth $101 a short while ago - now it's around $90. The prices are still up. The rest of the NATO still refuses to get involved with the Strait of Hormuz. This Sand War is getting more ridiculous with time.

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Bad Orange Man recently announced during an interview that he spoke with the religious side of Iran about peace. Implying that somehow, the current Iran's ayatollah - a hardliner - picked up the phone and either called Donald Trump, or accepted a call from him. And all of this was supposedly done without the IRGC (all hardliners) or the Iranian government knowing anything at all.

Whoever writes Donald Trump's speeches wants to kill his reputation. That, or Donald Trump is trying to do some 4D chess again. In any case - the Sand War continues, the blatant manipulation of the global markets continues, people are still dying, etc etc. Nothing new to observe so far.

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Caitlin Doornbos, a certified Twitter user, thought she posted some shocking relevation. In reality she forgot that the only reason Russia is so bent on revenge against "Americans" is because the USA is still sending weapons and intel to Ukraine - which killed and still kills God only knows how many Russians. And now Russia returns the favor, and Caitlin is outraged about it.

The sheer chutzpah of funding a war against Russia for four years, and openly supporting the killing of Russians in mass media via 50 shades of "they are bad because Ukraine has the right to defend itself", and then - after 4 years of the biggest war in Europe since WW2 - various Caitlins kvetch online when Russia merely pays back with the same coin to the USA - all of this is very tiresome. It is, however, nothing new. Those who live in privilege treat equality as oppression.

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On one hand, trusting MSM of any kind, any origin, and any language is a stupid idea.

On the other hand - the sheer idiocy of this war against Iran on behalf of Israel is growing too much for the USA to handle internally. The usual liberal hippies (paid and genuine) protest every war, that is not surprising, but when the Trump's administration is trying to sell this war as a "Holy War" of sorts - even those Americans who wouldn't care otherwise start asking questions. The same Americans that just wanted to grill begin to notice that there is too much going on overseas, and it might get out of control - like the oil prices, and the following prices on everything because everything is being delivered on vehicles that need fuel to move.

Now add sending US troops to the Sand War, for a yet another time, against Iran that has been "totally destroyed" how many times over the past 4 weeks? This war may turn into a new Vietnam war for the USA, except this time all the footage comes online.

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The Sand War continues. Donald Trump still demands Iran to re-open the sea routes to let the Arabian oil reach the global markets. Iran still insists that the "pool is closed". Every new day the Bad Orange Man makes sillier and sillier posts on the social media. The IRGC replies with snarky responses or memes, like this one.

Meanwhile the global markets - and the rest of humanity - still suffer, all because the "judeo-christian" forces vastly over-estimated their own capabilities, even though Iran have been preparing for this war for around 45 years non-stop. The sanctions didn't bother the Iranian military, as it turns out - if anything, they only taught Iran how to make their own weapons using all commercially available components.

Recently the US chair force traded several planes and helis to save their two downed airmen. One would think "at least the lives were saved", but can the USA keep exchanging their military hardware for downed pilots at such rate? Time will tell.

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The newest Sand War is, supposedly, over. The USA claims the victory due to the inflicted deaths and destruction on Iran. Iran, however, will control the Strait of Hormuz together with Oman - for some reason - and as such, Iranian GDP will grow up by about 20% from now on. The ships will have to pay in the Chinese money, yuan, to Iran. Iran will split the fees with Oman. So far it seems that the real winner of this war was the small country of Oman.

Anyway - Donald Trump admitted the 10 points, given by Iran as part of the peace agreement, as legitimate. Among those points are guarantees that neither Iran nor Iranian allies in the Middle East will be attacked. Time will show if Donald Trump - or Israel - can keep their word. Personally I remain skeptical.

If all goes well - the USA will get back to their internal bickering, Israel and Iran will begin the repair efforts, and the Arabs will mourn the loss of their safe haven for the rich people. Except for Oman. Oman won, bigly.

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After what was supposed to be the end of the war between Israel and USA on one side, and Iran on the other - a continuation of the war is taking place instead. Netanyahu stated during a press conference that Hezbollah isn't part of the peace agreement, and Lebanon will be attacked by Israel anyway. The Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, stated a bit later that the USA will have to choose between a ceasefire, and the continuation of war for the Israel's interests.

The global markets felt a bit of a relief yesterday, and the trade almost began to return to the normal conditions. But now it's back to the chaos. The Strait of Hormuz has yet to be fully reopened - for obvious reasons. Officially, there is an ongoing ceasefire between the USA plus Israel, and Iran. But in reality, mutual strikes between two sides of the conflict still take place. Missile alarms were sounded in the Gulf region yesterday, and Iran reported that enemy military drones showed up in the Iranian air space.

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The world's shortest ceasefire has ended almost as soon as it began. After the announcement of a ceasefire by Donald Trump - who called the 10 points given by Iran a "workable solution" - the USA and Israel have violated 3 out of 10 points of a potential peace agreement, after which Iran had to do something in return. The conflict was reignited before it was allowed to cool down even a little.

The spokesperson of the Iranian Parliament, Ghalibaf, who is referred to by Western mass media as the negotiator of Iran, said that under such conditions it makes no sense to either negotiate a ceasefire, or continue the negotiations. The sea route near Iran is still dangerous, and the world's economy is still suffering. Both sides have yet to announce when will this end.

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The CENTCOM declared that the Strait of Hormuz is double-closed now. Apparently 10.000 US servicemen were sent over there together with the US military hardware to make sure the world's economy chokes since about 25% of global oil and gas export is put on a hold right now.

The memes about this situation are delightful. The economic consequences for nearly entire humanity are not as pleasant. In the most recent interview, Donald Trump said that the war against Iran is "almost over". If this is how "almost over" looks like - I am afraid to imagine how does "completely over" look like to the US president. Plus I still expect China to do something big about this situation. India too, given how much oil and gas they buy from the Middle East.

Perhaps this is indeed a part of Donald Trump's 4D chess move. In other to confuse your enemies - you must confuse yourself first.

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About Trump's endless ceasefire extensions

There is an old meme on /pol/ dated around 2022 - "two more weeks". It was related to the Russo-Ukrainian war, and the exact original use of this phrase is forgotten, however the substance - "something will be done\fixed\reached, in two more weeks" - is still remembered and used.

Since the start of the latest Sand War, Donald Trump and his team seemingly can't decide how much time do they need to neutralize Iran. Ceasefires are being announced one after another. Extensions and cessations of the blockade are being announced constantly by Trump. The time scale varies from a few days to a few weeks. Hence the "two more weeks" - it feels like the Trump believes that in just "two more weeks" everything will be fine. It isn't getting any better, but he keeps doing that anyway.

Makes me wonder how long the Sand War will actually last. Two more weeks? Months? Years?

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Anti-drone warfare above Tehran

The Sand War continues. After a period of relative silence, suddenly drones appeared over the Iranian capital of Tehran, and the local air defenses opened fire. What was assumed to be an epic attack of swarms of the large, well armed airplane-sized military drones turned out to be a mass harassing attack of relatively small and harmless quad-copters, launched, apparently, somewhere within Iran - given the distances. Currently the drones are destroyed.

It wasn't quite the "Operation Spiderweb" - the one that Ukraine pulled against Russia (only once) - but the noise was made. The Sand War continues, oil grows in price, Iran dumps more sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, etc etc. Ceasefire didn't last two weeks, it seems.

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War. War never changes.

The summer of 2026 is here. The newest Sand War is still going on, despite the wishes of the world's economy, common sense, and the civilians of the Gulf States - with a possible exception of Iran since at the very start of the Sand War, the Judeo-Christian forces made sure the Iranian commoners will be motivated to fight to the victory. They did that by bombing Iranian civilian buildings, schools for little girls included, with their overwhelming air superiority. Suppose the Judeo-Christian forces believe that Iran is one large Gaza Strip and the usual methods could be applied to Iran.

Speaking about the "Judeo-Christian" part - apparently the US government considers an option to merge the US forces with the IDF. Given the cult status of the state of Israel among the US officials - and especially the Evangelicals - I expect this to happen within this summer. Even the Idiocracy movie couldn't predict this outcome. What a time to be alive.

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An another day in the Strait of Hormuz

The negotiations between Iran and the Judeo-Christian (tm) alliance went nowhere, so the missiles started flying again. It is pointless to list all the places that were hit - it'd be easier to name the areas that weren't attacked by either side by now.

Before this new surge of military activity, Iran declared that no ships can pass the Strait of Hormuz - with or without paying Iran. The crews of cargo ships and the tankers, already used to minimal traffic of no more than 30 ships per day - in both directions - are forced right now to just drop the anchors, and wait. Wait until the current firework is over. Wait until the missiles and drones and jets stop flying above their heads. They wait, and wait, and so does the world's economy. Factories are still stalling without the raw resources, trucks can't move as much due to the lack of fuel, etc etc.

And all of this was started to cover the Epstein scandal. And because Bibi told Trump to do it.

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End of the Sand War, until a further notice.

Donald Trump's "Special Military Operation" appears to be over. He naturally declared that the goals are reached, Iranian military is defeated, the Strait of Hormuz is now 100% open, all that jazz. The "Brent" is going down in price, the global markets feel optimistic for once, and the Iranian servicemen stationed at the Iranian island of Kharg have a chance to safely return home and resume their peaceful lives.

All of this could happen if America's greatest ally (tm) can restrain itself from brutalizing Lebanon. Supposedly Trump told Bibi to stop provoking Hezbollah, which is being directly supported by Iran. If - big if - the Greatest Ally can indeed stop being a problem - there is a chance the entire Gulf Region can start the repairs. However, since there were cases of diplomacy being used as a cover for more attacks - I remain suspicious. I doubt the Iranian soldiers on Kharg will see their homes any time soon. Hopefully I am wrong.

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The Strait of Hormuz is open (sort of)

After 66 days of the most amazing counter-blockade performed by the biggest navy on this planet - the meme waterway is open again. Kind of. The details remain murky, but some cargo ships and oil tankers are currently passing the Strait of Hormuz. Not in the same amount that it used to be before the Donald Trump's "Special Military Operation", but still - it's something at least.

The insurance on the shipping will remain high for a while I suppose, for many reasons.

The US navy mostly left the area to the Gulf of Oman - aside from some warships tasked to remove the sea mines.

Iran is selling the oil again - which made the "Brent" fall to $83 per barrel. It won't save the world's economy right away - the inflicted damage is too big, and the world will suffer.

If nothing goes wrong - the economic suffering will be slightly less horrible in the near future.

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With friends like this...

I am willing to give Donald Trump a benefit of the doubt this one time, based on my guess that he is dumb enough to trust Bibi in the first place.

I think he was led to believe that he can win the war with Iran. Trump said around a year ago that he wants to do good deeds, and go to Heaven. If he really meant that - then he was opened for a manipulation.

Now, Bibi. Israel vs Persia. The whole "Purim" thing those Israelis are so obsessed about. Bibi tricked Trump into a war vs Iran. Israel more or less tells Pentagon what to do. But suddenly - Trump remembers that he is a politician, and he must be loved by his voters.

Trump agrees on peace. Both he and Iran win. Except for Bibi. And what does he do? He keeps attacking Lebanon, knowing that it will cancel the peace, and it will drag the USA back into the war vs Iran.

They are obsessed with Purim. They just can't stop themselves. Even if the world has to burn. And Trump will be blamed for it.

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Back to square one

The Strait of Hormuz is stalled once again. After some initial successes on the last week - things happened, shots were fired, missiles were launched, threats were made, and now there are about 20 to 30 ships that pass in that meme waterway daily. Down from 150 to 200 ships that used to pass there before Donald Trump's "Special Military Operation".

One can assume that Bibi and his mates were displeased how Donald Trump tried to more or less enforce the peace deal on Israel and Iran via the memorandum of understanding - which was even "signed" virtually between the parties.

Some say that Iran shouldn't be allowed to win and get around $200 billions back from the frozen funds. Iranians can say a lot of words about the Judeo-Christian forces too. The peace in the Middle East was very close, and then it evaporated like a puddle on a hot summer day of 2026 somewhere in western Europe.

This is all so tiresome.

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The most ridiculous Sand War so far.

The latest Sand War didn't end in a nuclear war - like a certain country hoped - but some serious damage was done here and there. Currently the Strait of Hormuz is half-open, and the USA demand to open the waterway fully.

I will allow myself some optimism and try to predict the future US-Iranian deal.

Trump wants to keep his power, and Iran wants to repair the damages. Both sides can make an openly secret deal of staying in their own corners. The USA will return the frozen Iranian money (via US goods) to Iran. Iran will declare that they won't make nukes, but they'll keep their missile industry. Bibi and his mates will try their hardest to reignite the war by provoking Iran. Trump, as much as he wants to keep Bibi happy, will have to remind Bibi that the times have changed, and the USA will have to cut off the weapons supply to Israel. No more bombs to bomb Lebanon.

And now - I wait. I am curious what will "rejected" Israel do in the future.

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A few more words about the Gaza Strip from Scott Ritter, who reminded that the situation in the Gaza Strip has layers:

Firstly he reminded that the nearby Muslim countries could have done much more for the "fellow Muslims" - instead most of them chose to do little or very little to help, with only Iranians - who are Persians, not Arabs - caring fully and loudly about the Palestinians.

Secondly - the Hamas is still alive and active in the Gaza Strip. Israel has yet to defeat them, despite the long military actions and the bombing runs. Scott Ritter assumes that the Palestinians shouldn't relax, now or in the future - he predicts that in the future they might be promised something nice about their situation, and then nobody will truly care about the Palestinians once again, aside from Iran.

Jared Kushner was mentioned, together with the Trump's administration. The overall prediction about their roles in doing anything good for the Palestinians boils down to "nothing ever happens".

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Iran-backed Iraqi militia had fun.

The Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi ordered an immediate investigation and arrests after the Iraqi militians drove over US and Israeli flags during the Sovereignty Day parades in Baghdad, related to the withdrawal of the NATO forces from Iraq on September 30, 2026.

Long story short - Iraq's govt promised arrests. Some men were arrested. Officially Iraq doesn't support such actions. In reality Iraq is being happy that the JudeoChristian military forces are finally out of the country, and the Iran-backed militias are making plans for the future. Hence the Hezbollah flags during the parades.

The situation looks similar to Afghanistan - back when the US left the country - except this time the local militias, supported by nearby Iran, openly declared to the Iraqi govt that they will keep doing whatever they want to do.

Other than that - it was a perfectly normal day in the Middle East.

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