St.Albert James
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Tax-paying citizen of Oiler Nation. Geopolitics. Oilers. Edmonton.
The Epstein files… This is really terrible, just look at the video how frightened they are. The girls seem so scared.
Tyson Nash is shocked that the Oilers haven't aimed to sign a number one goalie. 😳 #OverDrive
“NATO WASN’T THERE WHEN WE NEEDED THEM, AND THEY WON’T BE THERE IF WE NEED THEM AGAIN. REMEMBER GREENLAND, THAT BIG, POORLY RUN, PIECE OF ICE!!!” - President Donald J. Trump
The reporter follows up by asking Carney: “do you regret your initial support of this war?” The point of this support, Carney replied, was “the ending of both that state sponsored terrorism and the nuclear ambitions of Iran.” “That remains the case.”
Trump just posted two messages within minutes of each other. Read them together or you miss everything. The first declares productive regime change, no uranium enrichment, nuclear dust removal under Space Force surveillance, sanctions and tariff relief for Iran, and many of 15 points already agreed. The second threatens 50 percent tariffs on any country supplying military weapons to Iran, effective immediately, no exclusions, no exemptions. The first is the carrot for Iran. The second is the stick for China. Together they form the architecture of the most ambitious great-power negotiation since Bretton Woods. Trump did not name China. He did not have to. Russia supplies weapons to Iran but annual US-Russia trade is under $500 million and already sanctioned into irrelevance. A 50 percent tariff on Russian goods costs America nothing. North Korea’s trade with the US is zero. The only country where a 50 percent blanket tariff on all goods sold to the United States inflicts catastrophic economic damage is China, which trades over $500 billion annually with the US and has been proven to be shipping military-grade chemicals to Iran during this war. Five Iranian-flagged vessels departed Gaolan Port in Zhuhai, China between late February and early April carrying sodium perchlorate, the critical oxidiser precursor for solid rocket propellant used in every Iranian ballistic missile. The ships are the Hamouna, Barzin, Shabdis, Rayen, and Zardis. The cargo is sufficient to reconstitute hundreds of ballistic missiles. The same missiles that hit Israel, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar after the ceasefire was signed. The gCaptain shipping report, the Telegraph investigation, and the Institute for the Study of War all confirmed the shipments. Trump’s intelligence briefings contain the same data. The tariff post is not about Iran. It is about Beijing. This is the card Bessent carries to the mid-May summit. The architecture is now visible. At Islamabad on Friday, Vance and Witkoff negotiate the Iran ceasefire terms: nuclear dismantlement, proxy cutoff, sanctions relief. On April 19, the Treasury waiver on 140 million barrels of Chinese-bound Iranian crude expires. If Trump lets it lapse, every Iranian barrel afloat becomes sanctioned cargo and Chinese teapot refineries face secondary sanctions. Now, on top of the waiver, comes the 50 percent tariff threat on military supplies. China is squeezed from three directions simultaneously: its ghost fleet faces the waiver, its arms pipeline faces the tariff, and its rare earth monopoly faces the Bessent negotiation. The question Xi must answer before mid-May is whether the cost of continuing to arm Iran and operate the ghost fleet exceeds the cost of trading those assets for tariff relief, rare earth agreements, agricultural purchases, and a framework that preserves Chinese access to the American market for another decade. Trump is not asking China to abandon Iran. He is pricing the relationship. And the price just became 50 percent of everything China sells to America. The molecule crisis connects these two posts at the atomic level. Sodium perchlorate molecules from Gaolan become missile propellant in Isfahan. Petrochemical molecules from destroyed Iranian crackers become the reconstruction that sanctions relief would fund. Rare earth molecules from Chinese processors become the chips, magnets, and motors that justify MAG7 valuations. Every molecule passes through a chokepoint that one of the two presidents controls. Two posts. Two targets. One table. And the price of every molecule on earth just changed. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Ice Man 🧊 #Condorstown
