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#Never4GetCharlieKirk. You can kill the messenger, but not the message!!!! The Light was dim in this life on Sin -MacMiller







This is the biggest freak athlete in this year’s NFL draft. I’d never heard of him till two days ago. He’s from a small village in Nigeria. He is 6-4 1/2, 306 lbs and jumps 10-10. Some folks in the NFL think he’ll go on Day 3 of the draft. Free story: nytimes.com/athletic/71683…





BREAKING: Trump told the world to take the strait. The world went to the United Nations to get permission. Russia, China, and France said no. On April 2, Bahrain brought a fourth draft resolution to the Security Council authorising member states to “use all defensive means necessary to secure transit passage” through the Strait of Hormuz for a minimum of six months. It was the product of weeks of negotiation among Gulf states watching their economies suffocate while 84 tankers exited Hormuz in the entire month of March, a volume that used to move in a single day. Russia broke silence. China broke silence. And France, a NATO ally whose largest shipping company CMA CGM has 14 vessels trapped in the Gulf, broke silence alongside them. The objections were coordinated. Russia and China called the text “one-sided” and demanded focus on “root causes.” Macron called a military operation “unrealistic.” No vote was held. The resolution died in the drafting room. The strait remained closed. And every Gulf state that heard Trump say “build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT” now knows that the legal cover to do so does not exist. This is the diplomatic kill shot nobody is pricing correctly. Without a UN mandate, any multinational naval operation in the strait operates without international legal authority. Warships engaging IRGC fast boats or clearing mines would act under national rules of engagement alone, exposing every government to legal liability and domestic political risk. The UK’s 35-nation meeting to “marshal capabilities” was already aspirational. Without a resolution, it is also unauthorised. France’s position is the fracture that reveals the architecture. Paris denied airspace to Israeli military resupply flights. Now it has blocked the resolution that would free its own ships. CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipping company, is a French firm headquartered in Marseille with 14 vessels anchored or diverted because of the closure. France chose diplomatic positioning with Beijing and Moscow over the commercial interests of its own national champion. That is not neutrality. That is a strategic calculation that the relationship with China matters more than the cargo. And China’s position is the most revealing of all. Chinese vessels already transit the strait freely under the IRGC’s selective passage regime. China does not need the strait reopened for everyone. It needs it open for China. And it is. The toll is paid in yuan. The clearance is granted. Chinese tankers pass while European, Japanese, and Korean vessels sit anchored. Beijing is profiting from the closure while blocking the resolution that would end it. The current regime gives China a competitive advantage it has never had in global energy markets, and the Security Council veto is the instrument that preserves it. Trump told allies to fight. The IRGC published what happens to their bridges if they do. And now the Security Council has told them they cannot legally secure the strait even if they wanted to. Caught between a president demanding action, an IRGC threatening retaliation, and a council withholding authority. The strait is not just closed by Iran. It is closed by the international order itself. The alliance did not break over a threat. It broke over a choice. And the choice was made in a room where three vetoes weigh more than twenty million barrels a day. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…


















