Iranians can fight back and draw blood. Americans cannot and most of the few who can would not because they're fascist paramilitaries who would be used by the state rather than attacked by it. Let's not forget they successfully kidnapped Maduro using advanced weaponry and helicopters. I think with their zionist training they'll probably do a good job as execution squads.
Just as everything is Hamas to the zionists, everything is Russia to the EU libs. Bad thing happened by other Europeans? They must secretly be Russian!
Their own (half)-century of humiliation.
This, the changes to merge the zionist military funding. This is all I think a way of locking in US-Zionist partnership in a hard way. They know that they're now unpopular with younger people. They know their propaganda messaging has failed and this is to pre-empt the potential of a future push to decouple and sanction.
The zionists have claimed that the Samson option isn't just nukes, that there are inside technological systems in all industries can can bring the whole modern world down if they fall. I feel this is part of that strategy. Get their tech integrated impossibly deep into the US military, state, law enforcement, etc so it's impossible for the US to conceive of doing anything against the entity. Epstein wasn't enough. It needs to be widespread, it needs to be an obvious gun against the head of the US if it twitches in its support for the zionist entity. A suicide pact of mutual destruction basically to assure the US props it up until the end of time.
Well Gordon Chang is the CPC's top undercover agent so I think that's fair.
Saw an RT article talking about how many of the newer hot AI weapons merchants trying to "disrupt" the traditional Lockheed Martin wunderwaffen $1 billion a product companies basically have to have war with China. That is that their cheap products and making sales of them depend on needing to replenish them and go through a lot of them. That while the traditional weapons companies are slow, love overpricing and underdelivering on complexity and can rely on long term contracts and delivering few products to profit greatly, these new companies only have a spot due to proposing being able to do the opposite and produce a ton of weapons quickly. Thus they require and are pushing hard for a hot war with China. Worrying stuff.
By sending the police into a frenzy. When they get that way after too much exposure to protestors they're liable to just start blasting in all directions and those stray bullets could injure an uninvolved person.
The zionist entity will never back down so I guess we're going to have dualing blockades. I'm not sure how well Iran can enforce its if ships are using shipping lanes right next to Oman and the US keeps hitting their naval radar. Given reports of US helping ships sneak through it seems both sides have some limited success getting some stuff through so neither is particularly pressured but the US in particular is less pressured than it needs to be given Iran has the Caspian Sea anyways.
Oil crisis is mildly interesting. Inconvenient for people who need to travel, higher costs for transporting goods yes. But the real economy breaker, the real changer of quality of life won't be $10/gal gas but inadequate supplies of patrochemical industry derived fertilizers and precursors which will lead to shortages, famines, and incredibly high prices on the food side and industry breaking down in various sectors due to those other shortages. So not getting the oil would be inconvenient but if they could sneak through enough of these essential products the US could ride it out pretty well due to our own massive domestic supply.
There was that video by Medhurst about the US long-term plan to seize control of petro-resources globally. They did Venzeuala successfully, if they keep Hormuz closed they control it in a Paul Atreides "he who can destroy a thing controls a thing" sort of way, they're going to control Greenland, they have massive US exploitation, they're beginning exploitation of Palestine's massive gas field and so on. So I'm not sure they are necessarily in a rush if they can get the essentials to get everyone cheap gas. It might be used to pressure countries into longer-term unfavorable contracts with the US and/or US companies like Chevron in this crisis which might far outlast it and give the US real leverage and profits into the decades to come.
So should I sell my broad exposure mutual funds now before they get burdened by and sunk by this? Who needs to actually worry?
US military secretly guiding ships through Strait of Hormuz – NYT (RT link)
Washington has reportedly coordinated the passage of 70 cargo vessels despite Trump’s abrupt suspension of Project Freedom
According to the Times, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has coordinated the passage of around 70 commercial vessels through the waterway over the past three weeks. An official told the newspaper that most of the vessels had turned off their transponders to avoid detection by Iranian forces. The ships reportedly used a shipping lane closer to the Omani coast.
In April, the US imposed a blockade on Iranian ports and has since intercepted more than 100 cargo ships. On Sunday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that 28 vessels had passed through the strait over the previous 24 hours after obtaining permission.
So to me it seems both sides are having limited success. US blockade isn't 100% tight but nor is Iranian control of the strait if that many ships snuck through. With recent reports of the US firing a missile at the engine room of a cargo ship for running the blockade I think the US just wants to sit and wait. If the US can get vital shipments of raw material through perhaps they believe they can choke Iran out with a blockade or at least not lose face. Iran meanwhile may not have the ability to project power that far from its coast or observe ships reliably that have transponders and lights off and may be moving through the most dangerous parts at night.
I increasingly think this means a collapse is impossible if this goes through. Sure some small investors might get screwed but government will be forced more than ever to bail them out and just continue handing them fistfuls of cash in the name of national security. A company or two might collapse but their competitor will immediately secure funds to buy out all their assets on the cheap to increase their own size and capability.
The government so badly wants a total AI panopticon, the problem with NSA mass surveillance was always not enough humans to sift through it but AI can do it and surveil and punish all citizens. With zionism being crushed among the youth in popularity and capitalism in crisis they are desperate for total police state and thought control now and will happily spend trillions of dollars to prop up this industry which can plausibly deliver it. It's worker discipline (we'll give your jobs to AI, so take the pay/benefit cut) plus control and it promises to lead someday to the capitalist promised land of autonomous robot armies and slaves so they can do away with the pesky human proletariat once and for all with mass culling via climate change and related issues while remaining utterly insulated and untouchable by the masses. Porky is willing to spend an awful lot for all of that.