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⏪ FLASHBACK: Reporter: “I’ve seen that you called Ayatollah Khamenei the new Hitler of the Middle East.” Mohammed bin Salman: “Absolutely. He wants to expand. He wants to create his own project in the Middle East, very much like Hitler did. Many countries didn’t realize how dangerous Hitler was until it was too late. I don’t want to see that happen here.” Keep this in mind when you look at the current war, because even this comparison alone caused backlash at the time, which tells you how limited the space is for saying things like this openly. And even here, he’s only pointing to expansionism, not the other, more obvious parallel that everyone in the region understands but no Arab leader can say outright to his own population. Iran has spent decades funding militias, arming proxies, and destabilizing multiple countries across the Middle East, yet large parts of the Arab world are still fixated on Israel, while the governments themselves understand exactly where the real threat comes from and what it means when someone is finally willing to confront it directly.

Russia promised Crimeans they wouldn't have to fight. Now it's sending all mobilized residents to the front starting April 1. ISW says heavy losses and a volunteer shortfall left Moscow with no other choice. euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/23/rus…

BREAKING: While the world watches Iran, Ukraine just set fire to Russia’s largest oil export terminal on the Baltic Sea. Overnight March 22-23, Ukrainian drones struck the port of Primorsk in the Leningrad region. Fuel storage tanks are ablaze. Personnel have been evacuated. Firefighting is underway. Leningrad Governor Alexander Drozdenko confirmed the hit. Russia’s Defence Ministry says 249 Ukrainian drones were launched across the country overnight. More than 70 were intercepted over the Leningrad region alone. The ones that got through hit the largest crude oil loading port in the Baltic. Primorsk processes up to 1.5 million barrels of oil and oil products per day. It handles approximately 100 million tonnes per year. It is the endpoint of the Baltic Pipeline System. It is the port from which the bulk of Russia’s Urals crude is shipped, including via the shadow fleet that circumvents Western sanctions. Both Primorsk and the nearby Ust-Luga port have suspended operations. Primorsk is 1,087 kilometres from Ukraine’s nearest border point. This is not a frontline strike. This is a strategic reach attack on the infrastructure that funds the Russian war machine while Vladimir Putin profits from a Middle East war he did not start. Hold two numbers in your mind. The Strait of Hormuz carries 20 million barrels per day and is effectively closed. The IEA estimates 7 to 10 million barrels per day of Gulf production has been shut in. Now add Primorsk: 1 to 1.5 million barrels per day suspended on the Baltic. The world’s two largest oil chokepoints, separated by 4,000 kilometres, are both on fire simultaneously. One closed by Iran. One burning because of Ukraine. Two wars. Two chokepoints. One global oil market. Putin’s Gulf war windfall just caught fire. In the first two weeks of March, Russia earned an extra 7.7 billion euros in fossil fuel exports as Hormuz-driven prices spiked. Those extra revenues funded approximately 17,000 Shahed drones per day at production cost. The money flowing through Primorsk was paying for the drones hitting Ukraine. Ukraine just hit the port that was paying for the drones. The timing is surgical. President Trump’s 48-hour ultimatum on Iranian power plants expires today. Iran has promised to permanently close Hormuz and destroy all regional energy infrastructure if that ultimatum is executed. Saudi Aramco is telling Asian buyers to prepare for partial April volumes through a Red Sea bypass port that Iran has already hit with missiles. And now Russia’s Baltic crude pipeline has a fuel tank on fire at its terminal. Oil touched $100 per barrel this morning. Brent is above $114. The IEA has already released 400 million barrels of emergency reserves, the largest in history. Analysts estimate those reserves buy 73 to 83 days. The Iran war is 23 days old. The Primorsk fire started hours ago. The two clocks are now running simultaneously, and the oil market has nowhere to hide. Every barrel that does not load at Primorsk is a barrel that does not reach a European refinery. Every barrel trapped in the Gulf is a barrel that does not reach an Asian refinery. The planet is now short on both ends: the Gulf that feeds Asia and the Baltic that feeds Europe. The fertilizer plants, the ammonia synthesis, the urea granulation, the planting season, the food supply, the helium for TSMC, the chip fabrication: all of it runs on molecules that are currently either trapped behind a closed strait or burning in a fuel tank on the Baltic Sea. Two wars. Two chokepoints. One planet. Zero spare capacity. Full deep dive analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

A Russian soldier surrendered via Telegram instead of fighting. POW: I wrote to the “I Want to Live” hotline. A bot took my details and passport. I sent my location. Then they gave a password, passed me to another operator, and connected me with someone on the ground. 1/

A bartender in Galveston, Texas was arrested for serving a drunk customer who killed someone. She makes $25 an hour. A federal judge makes $236,000 a year and has absolute legal immunity for every decision on the bench, including releasing violent offenders who kill again. 42 states have dram shop laws. The bartender’s causation chain has two links: pour drink, person crashes. Exposed window? Sometimes three hours. She can be charged with criminal negligence, sued in civil court, and lose her livelihood. All for failing to eyeball whether a guy at a crowded bar was too drunk for one more round. The judge has a pre-sentencing report, a criminal history score, a risk assessment algorithm, victim impact statements, and a prosecutor arguing the case in front of them. Every tool the system can produce. And when they get it wrong? Nothing. Absolute judicial immunity, codified since Bradley v. Fisher in 1871, means a judge cannot be sued for any act performed in judicial capacity. How absolute? In 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in Stump v. Sparkman that a judge who signed a petition to sterilize a 15-year-old girl without her knowledge or consent was fully immune. The court acknowledged the act was reprehensible. Didn’t matter. Judicial act, judicial immunity, case closed. That precedent still controls today. The recidivism data is where this gets obscene. The U.S. Sentencing Commission tracked violent offenders released in 2010 across eight years. 63.8% were rearrested. Median time to rearrest: 16 months. These numbers haven’t moved in two decades. The 2005 cohort and the 2010 cohort produced statistically identical outcomes. Judges aren’t making unpredictable calls. They’re making well-documented bets with other people’s lives, and the base rates have been published and available the entire time. The bartender gets three hours of ambiguous signals. The judge gets the full weight of the federal data apparatus. One of them can go to prison for getting it wrong. The other can’t even be named in a civil suit.

@_The_Prophet__ Spain is like a gang of teens with car keys and whiskey

⚡️Spain is begging for order without wanting to own the violence required to create it. That is the real content of the post. The humanitarian language is packaging. The actual message is energy panic. Europe can live with moral fog. Europe cannot live comfortably with a prolonged Gulf energy shock. Open Hormuz. Preserve the sites. Stop the escalation before oil, gas, shipping, inflation, and industrial stress start eating through the continent again. That is what he is really saying. This also reveals the hierarchy very cleanly. Spain is pleading over the ceiling of acceptable damage. America and the harder coalition actors are shaping the battlefield. Spain is trying to shape the bill. That is the role of a dependent power in a system it does not control. The deepest truth is that even the softer European voices have now accepted the core reality: Hormuz cannot stay half-governed by Iranian leverage. The artery has to be reopened and the Gulf energy system has to be preserved. They may phrase it in softer, more universal language, but they are converging on the same endpoint as the harder camp. They just want the outcome without fully endorsing the brutality of the mechanism. So what is really being said here? Do whatever you have to do to stop this from turning into a long energy regime shock for Europe. That is the real signal. And that is why this matters. Once even Spain is speaking this way, the diplomatic center of gravity has already moved. The argument is no longer over whether the energy system is the real battlefield. The argument is over how much pain gets inflicted before control is restored.

❗️Over the past 4 days, Russian forces carried out 619 (!) assault operations and attempted to break through Ukrainian defenses. During these days they lost more than 6,000 soldiers killed and wounded, – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrskyi stated that the total enemy losses over the week amounted to approximately 8,710 people killed and seriously wounded. The Russian command threw tens of thousands of soldiers into “meat-grinder assaults”, but the price of this offensive attempt turned out to be catastrophic for the aggressor.

WOW 🚨 Head of the EPA Lee Zeldin says the Biden Admin sent $160 million dollars to a Canadian electric vehicles company. They pocketed the money, didn’t send the school busses promised and then declared bankruptcy Textbook money laundering. People need to go to prison “There was $160 million that went to a Canadian electric vehicle bus manufacturer. The Biden administration sent all of the money — They gave all the money up front. Well, guess what? They just declared bankruptcy. — They still haven't provided $95 million worth of school buses to 55 school districts. It's the American taxpayer that gets screwed” I looked into it and have verified as of today, not a single penny has been recovered from this scam. The people involved got to keep all the money

All the legal geniuses who claim Trump attacking Iran’s energy infrastructure would be a “war crime” are eerily quiet about Ukraine’s successful attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure.

🔴عـــــــــاجل انقطاع تام للتيار الكهربائي في غرب العاصمة طهران اثر القصف الامريكي

🔥👀 Leningrad region, consequences of the work of the Russian air defense.

We remember Bahar 🕯️ In January, the Iranian regime shot her in the back of the head. She was only seventeen. The media cried when Iran's rulers died but they never mentioned her. We have not forgotten her

A man named David Funston is “a serial child molester — he used candy and toys to lure children in Sacramento County — His youngest victim was just 3 years old” He told the parole board in California he “still had sexual fantasies” even naming underage children in his fantasies He was scheduled to receive parole under California’s new elderly parole program He had 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation (including lewd and lascivious acts, forcible rape elements in some, leading to 3 consecutive life sentences plus additional time “It was the worst serial child predator case I've ever seen in my history.” Luckily he was not released but he very nearly was There are people like this California is releasing with this new program

BREAKING: Gold prices fall below $4,350/oz, now down over -5% since futures opened. That’s -$1.5 TRILLION in market cap in 3 hours.

BREAKING: This morning, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte went on CBS and said he is “absolutely convinced” the alliance will reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Since Thursday, 22 countries have signed up to coordinate with the United States. Most are NATO. Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Bahrain, and the UAE are included. The UK leads the effort under Prime Minister Starmer. President Macron joined after a call with Rutte and Starmer on Thursday. Military planners are working through three questions: what do we need, when do we need it, and where do we need it. Twenty-two countries. The number sounds like a war coalition. It is not a war coalition. Margaret Brennan asked the question that matters. She told Rutte that from the sources she speaks to, European allies “are not willing to send in the midst of combat.” Rutte did not deny it. He said he could not discuss operational details on a programme “aired around the world.” Ambassador Waltz, on the same programme, was more explicit. Italy, Germany, and France have committed to help with the Hormuz effort. Brennan interjected a single clarification: “After combat operations end.” Waltz continued without correction. The word “after” is now carrying the entire 22-country coalition on its back. The Thursday statement from the original seven signatories, reported by Axios, “does not include any commitment to send naval vessels.” Axios called it “largely a gesture to placate President Trump.” The coordination is real. The planning is real. The ships are not. Six days ago, Germany said this was “not our war.” France, Italy, and Spain declined. The EU debated extending Aspides to Hormuz and concluded there was “no appetite.” Then on Friday, President Trump called NATO a “paper tiger” and allied nations “cowards” who “complain about high oil prices but don’t want to help open the Strait of Hormuz.” President Trump added: “We will remember.” Six days of summits and bilateral calls failed to produce movement. Two words on Truth Social produced 22 countries in 72 hours. But the 22 countries answered the political question. Nobody has answered the mine question. Iran has 5,000 to 6,000 naval mines according to a Defence Intelligence Agency estimate. The IRGC retains 80 to 90 percent of its minelayers. The US Navy decommissioned its Avenger-class minesweepers in January, pulling them out of Bahrain weeks before the war began. Their replacements, USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara, were spotted this week in Malaysia. Thousands of miles from the mines they were designed to sweep. The Royal Navy’s last minehunter in the Gulf, HMS Middleton, left for maintenance before the crisis. Four of seven Royal Navy mine countermeasure vessels are unavailable. The US has devoted less than one percent of its naval budget to mine warfare, despite mines causing 77 percent of warship casualties since 1950. Gen. Rutte promised certainty on American television this morning. The CBS transcript delivers something else. It delivers a coalition that will arrive after the fighting, enter a strait without minesweepers, and attempt to clear mines laid by a navy that still has 90 percent of its minelaying fleet intact. The “when” question is the one Rutte would not answer. The strait is answering it for him. Every day it stays closed, 15 million barrels of crude remain trapped, one third of seaborne fertilizer stays blocked, the planting window in South Asia narrows, and the helium TSMC needs for chip fabrication stays bottled in Qatar. Conviction does not sweep mines. Ships sweep mines. And the ships are not in the strait. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Residents of Moscow and Saint Petersburg are reporting that internet blackouts are paralyzing taxi services, food deliveries, and medicine The Kremlin frames outages as security measures against drones strikes — but picture is more complicated euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/22/rus…

Los ricos ya no van a África de safari a hacer fotos de animales. Ahora van a Cuba a fotografiar pobres.

❗️🇷🇺Russian monitoring channels are reporting that 🇺🇦Ukrainian aviation has launched Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

At this point, it would be easier for NATO to join Ukraine than the other way around.