Albert Balido

The Rubio-Bessent combo in Iran operation is just lethal, looking at the designations now. IRGC out of cash.

@CAgovernor Your party is so morally bankrupt you can’t even dare to mention the President of the United States. Audit your soul…

Relieved everyone at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner is safe tonight based on initial reports. A free press is foundational to our country. Violence is never acceptable.

Fernando Mendoza stayed home with his mom to celebrate being selected first overall in the NFL Draft instead of attending the in-person celebration She has multiple sclerosis, causing her to be in a wheelchair. This is what matters. Not trophies—family.

Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.

Singapore has a robust safety net, but it’s a unique model and not based on the dailies of Western Europe, and Yew did a lot for it, but it is the most liberal economy on earth, the most capitalistic and the wealthiest per capita behind places like Monaco. Yew also advised China to follow similarly, but China never embraced the political reform Yew advised, despite their embrace of a capitalist economy.

@AlbertBalido @kane He largely kept in place the institutional and social model built by his socialist predecessor

Leftists hate Lee Kuan Yew because he showed in one generation that good governance is a technical and operational endeavor, not a moral performance or an exercise in redistributive grievance.

@piersmorgan If you all couldn’t win with the mightiest fleet to ever sail 250 years ago you’re not going to do it now nor retain the Falklands when your navy can barely sortie a frigate. This is of course all conjecture…

If President Trump wants to take the Falkland Islands away from Britain, then we must reclaim the United States. Perfect way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence. King Charles can announce it to Congress next week.

You’re right Joe. I’m an R from Florida and this is stupid. The Dems have a golden opportunity to grab the Senate and should be priority one. They have the House already won given that no majority of either party this small has ever survived a midterm in US history. Unlike 2024 where the D’s outspent the R’s by nearly a billion top to bottom, it’s the R’s that have a $600M advantage, the D’s need to concentrate their cash on the 4 Senate flips. Only this will tee up the needed contrasts politically to hedge the Presidency in 2028. If they go down this road to pick up a handful more House seats and end up with a 50-50 or 51-49 R Senate it would be a catastrophe.

NO NO NO NO NO NO

@robertcobrien @realDonaldTrump Beautifully stated!

President @realDonaldTrump's action against Iran is already the 3rd most successful "punitive expedition" in US history - Only exceeded by Jefferson's take down of the Barbary Pirates & his own capture of Maduro. If Trump eliminates Iran's enriched U, it easily jumps to 1st place. Eminent historian @ArthurLHerman & I discuss how @POTUS conduct of the op is "quintessentially American." 19fortyfive.com/2026/04/americ…

@mhmiranusa The water is perfectly still in the video. The current in the strait of Hormuz is one of the most voluminous on earth, it’s why Iran lost track of the few mines they laid. Also they have near zero aircraft to film this.

IRGC published a video of the two container ships they seized in the strait of Hormuz today, EPAMINONDAS and MSC FRANCESCA.

@MarcACaputo The water is perfectly still. The current in the strait of Hormuz is one of the most voluminous anywhere, it’s why they lost track of the few mines they laid. Also they have near zero aircraft to film this.

@ScDomnick @FirstSquawk That’s not what happened during the Libya operation which went 7 months without a congressional vote.

@AlbertBalido @FirstSquawk Albert, almost like you haven’t read the War Powers Resolution of 1973. If Congress doesn’t authorize use of force by May 1st, then it is illegal for Trump to continue the War. He could certify he needs 30 days for a safe withdrawal of forces, but that is it.

AMERICAN STUDIES PROFESSOR FAWAD YAZIDI: IF IRAN REJECTS THE CEASEFIRE EXTENSION BY MAY 1, WHEN US CONGRESS VOTES ON THE PRESIDENT'S WAR AUTHORITY, TRUMP COULD BE LEGALLY COMPELLED TO END THE WAR. - IRIB

Democracy is when 51% vote to strip away political representation from the 49%, keeping the latter in a perpetual state of servitude to the former with no power to change it. Which is why the distinction between democracy and republic is not merely pedantic.

@BRICSinfo Tick tock Tehran…

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian official says "Trump's ceasefire extension is an attempt to buy time for a surprise strike." "Extending the ceasefire has no meaning."

@avavidan @StealthMedical1 Tick tock…

@StealthMedical1 The 5 Iranians thefp.com/p/meet-the-new…

@NiohBerg Tick tock…

Blockade -----> no money No money ----> no salaries No salaries ---> defections

@avavidan The Shah lost control when he lost the oil. When he couldn’t pay salaries he abdicated. The IRGC is not as pragmatic so it would have to run until they lose the entire economy. Same situation, different timelines!

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Trump’s Leverage Masterstroke Exposed Iran’s Fatal Paralysis. President Trump has executed the leverage game with ruthless precision, turning Iran’s self-inflicted vacuum into a strategic trap the regime cannot escape. By tightening sanctions, enforcing the oil blockade, and setting clear deadlines, he forced Tehran’s fractured factions into the open. The pragmatist trio of Pezeshkian, Qalibaf, and Araghchi desperately signaled for negotiations and sanctions relief. The IRGC hardliners under Vahidi and Zolghadr responded with threats, proxy probes, and bureaucratic sabotage. No unified voice emerged. The political class proved incapable of coherent negotiation because the one man who could arbitrate, Mojtaba Khamenei, has remained invisible for forty-four days. Trump did not need new weapons or allies. He simply held the cash valve shut and watched the regime’s engineered stagnation collapse inward. It was all fun and games while the regime could still posture with proxies, issue contradictory statements, and bleed the economy slowly. That era ended the moment the dollars stopped flowing. Oil revenue now hemorrhages at roughly four hundred million dollars per day. The two hundred seventy billion dollars in strike damage cannot be repaired without foreign capital that will not arrive under maximum pressure. Hyperinflation has already pushed food prices beyond the breaking point for millions of Iranians. When the cash runs out, the power evaporates right after it. The IRGC can still point guns at the street, but it cannot print hard currency or reopen refineries. The parallel institutions designed to survive a decapitation strike have instead become rival camps locked in paralysis without a visible Supreme Leader to issue a binding order and effectively blocking any deal dooming it's own fate. Every political effort has now failed. The back-channel talks, the Russian and Chinese mediation attempts, and the Islamabad half-hearted Hormuz de-escalation gestures have produced nothing but more leaks and rumors. The deadline will expire with no deal. At that point the equation shifts irreversibly. War will ignite not as Iran’s first choice but as the hardliners’ only remaining option to restore cohesion and distract from the economic free-fall. The same internal rift that prevented negotiation will now multiply the coming conflict by even more compounding distraction. Domestic unrest, factional leaks, and the constant need to manage an exhausted population will force Tehran to fight on multiple fronts at once. Trump has not merely delayed Iran’s ambitions. He has engineered the precise conditions under which the regime’s own design guarantees its next crisis will be its most dangerous if it survive it, it will face negotiations from a weaker position, bleeding faster and trying to hold it all with less cash and less power only to be forced to reject the next offramp by the same design and compound even more destruction. The clock is running out. The cash running dry. The war that follows will reveal whether the Islamic Republic can survive the very limbo it created only to get back to the same position again weaker.

@Inevitablewest It won’t mean shit if it doesn’t force an election. Rayner is worse than him.

🚨BREAKING: Labour MPs are now turning on Keir Starmer en masse, with EVERY UK political party demanding his resignation One way or another, he's done. These are the final days of the socialist tyrant.

Well aware of his involvement, but he alone, nor people who fought for the axis make an ally or a nation state become involved, or reflect the overall sentiment of a people. There were people like this in Prague, Vienna, Tunisia, Spain, Portugal, and even the US. Many states overrun by the Axis had sympathetic puppet governments installed, many officials coming from people who volunteered due to their sympathies with the axis powers. In almost all your examples the very places they resided had more sympathy for the Allies. None of this changes reality of who as actually aligned with whom.

@AlbertBalido @MarioBojic @janekin24

🇪🇺🇧🇬BREAKING: EU in panic as shocking polls reveal the candidate defying Brussels is now the frontrunner to win Bulgaria’s election! Bulgaria is voting RIGHT NOW in a massive parliamentary election - and polls show that ex-President Rumen Radev is CRUSHING it! After the EU helped take down Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Brussels is throwing EVERYTHING they've got at stopping Radev from seizing power... and here's exactly why they're panicking: Rumen Radev isn't just a politician - he's a Major General and former commander of the Bulgarian Air Force. A true patriot who refuses to bow to dictates and occupation from Brussels. His political agenda is the complete opposite of what the European Union wants: - He fiercely opposes the migrant quotas that Brussels is shoving down everyone's throat. - He rejects sending weapons and money to Ukraine. - He wants to lift sanctions on Russia. - He's against joining the Eurozone and any financial or other control coming from Brussels.