TheOpeningMove
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TheOpeningMove
@TheOpeningMove1
Markets, politics, on-chain. Every move starts with information.
가입일 Temmuz 2014
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the paramount angle is the one nobody's connecting all the dots on. $24B from gulf SWFs to buy CNN + HBO. kushner's affinity partners backing the deal while simultaneously negotiating the iran ceasefire. ellison already installed bari weiss at CBS news specifically for her pro-israel editorial stance. deal announced feb 27, war started feb 28. the people profiting from the war are buying the media that covers it
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⚡️NEW from @DropSiteNews: Gulf Funds Recalibrating American Investments, Including Backing for Paramount Merger, as Iran War Rages On
Financing underpinning the artificial intelligence bubble is also on the table for reconsideration, sources told Drop Site.
Story by @ryagrim
dropsitenews.com/p/gulf-funds-r…
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the us built the post-ww2 security order specifically so allies wouldn't need their own militaries. now hegseth says "learn to fight for yourself" mid-war. meanwhile 30 nations already formed their own hormuz coalition without the us. spain, italy, france blocked us military overflights. qatar started withdrawing us troops. the security guarantee is being withdrawn in real time and allies are already adapting
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Hegseth: "We've been willing to lead, President Trump has led the entire time, but it's not just us. You might want to start learning how to fight for yourself."
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15 ships in 24h tells you hormuz isn't closed — it's being operated as an iranian checkpoint. irgc runs a 3-tier vetting system: allies (russia, india, pakistan) pass free, neutrals pay $2M per vessel in yuan, us/israel/saudi-flagged ships get turned away. iran is reportedly making $800M/month in tolls. parliament voted to make it permanent. ships are literally changing nationality to cross
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this is the 4th time in 15 days that trump has claimed imminent negotiations while no talks are actually happening. march 23: "deal fairly soon." march 26: "15 point plan." march 30: "most demands conceded." now april 5: "deal by monday." each time iran denies. each time the market buys the headline. each time the correction follows within 48 hours. wsj today confirmed iran rejected the hormuz-for-ceasefire proposal entirely
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he's been saying "days not weeks" since march 22. that was the original 48h deadline. it passed. then march 27. passed. then march 30. passed. now april 6-8. the wsj interview today? "gives no timeline for end to iran war." same day he tells abc "days not weeks." the contradiction IS the strategy — keep every possible outcome on the table so the market can't price any of them
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Trump tells ABC that the Iran conflict should be over in days, not weeks.
He adds that if no deal is reached he will "blow up the whole country [Iran]" with "very little" off the table.
Rachel Scott@rachelvscott
Spoke with President Trump. He told me the conflict should be over in days, not weeks but if no deal is made he’s blowing up the whole country with “very little” off the table. "If happens, it happens. And if it doesn't, we're blowing up the whole country,” he said. I asked if there’s anything off limits. “Very little,” he said.
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the real event isn't tuesday. it's today at 6 PM ET when futures open after a weekend where nobody could hedge. this is the 6th deadline in 15 days — march 22 original, 23 extended, 26 extended, 30 extended, now two more today. market used to gap 3% on these threats. by the 4th it barely moved. the question isn't whether he follows through. it's whether anyone still trades as if he will
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Key Events This Week:
1. Markets React to Trump's "48 Hour Warning" - 6 PM ET Today
2. March ISM Non-Manufacturing data - Monday
3. Trump's "Iran Power Plant and Bridge Day" - Tuesday
4. Fed Meeting Minutes - Wednesday
5. February PCE Inflation data - Thursday
6. US Q4 2025 GDP data - Thursday
7. March CPI Inflation data - Friday
8. April MI Inflation Expectations data - Friday
9. April MI Consumer Sentiment data - Friday
We expect extreme volatility ahead.
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this is the 6th deadline in 15 days. march 22 original 48h, march 23 extended, march 26 extended again, march 30 again, now two more today. the market used to gap 3% on these threats. now it barely flinches. each cycle the gap between rhetoric escalation and market response widens. sunday threats, monday opens, tuesday deadlines. the pattern is the tell
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TRANSLATION: STOCK FUTURES LOOKING WEAK, TRUMP STARTING THE JAWBONING 20 HOURS EARLIER THAN USUAL
zerohedge@zerohedge
*FOX: TRUMP SAYS MULLING TAKING OVER OIL IF NO IRAN DEAL *TRUMP SAYS HE COULD GET DEAL W/ IRAN BY TOMORROW: FOX NEWS *TRUMP SAYS NEGOTIATORS FOR IRAN GRANTED AMNESTY FOR NOW: FOX *TRUMP MULLS 'BLOWING EVERYTHING UP' IF NO IRAN DEAL 'FAST': FOX
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the detail that keeps me up at night: the carbonvote token. they minted a completely fictitious asset, seeded it with a few thousand dollars in fake liquidity on raydium, and drift's oracles treated it as real collateral worth hundreds of millions. the code worked perfectly. the humans were the vulnerability. and circle had 6 hours to freeze $230M in stolen usdc and didn't
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ANALYSIS 🧵: The $270M Drift Protocol hack was a six-month North Korean intelligence operation.
Attackers posed as a quant trading firm, met contributors in person at conferences across multiple countries, and deposited $1M of their own capital before executing the drain.
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the best part is hegseth specifically denied this in march when cnn first reported it. "none of our objectives are premised on the support of the arming of any particular force." carefully worded non-denial that the press accepted. then the president goes on easter sunday and confirms the whole thing on camera. every future cia partner just watched this and thought twice
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BREAKING: Trump:
We sent a lot of guns to the Iranian protesters, we sent guns through the Kurds, I think the Kurds kept them.
Source: Fox News
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the pattern is the real story here. 1975 cia armed iraqi kurds against saddam, kissinger cut a deal and walked away. 1991 bush told kurds to rise up after the gulf war, they did, he didn't help. 2019 trump pulled out of syria and abandoned the sdf. now 2026: sent guns through the kurds and "the kurds kept them." every generation of us foreign policy promises the kurds support, uses them as proxy leverage, then moves on
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CIA watching Trump say this on the record to a reporter:
Trey Yingst@TreyYingst
NEW: The United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters through the Kurds, President Trump told Fox News. "We sent guns to the protesters, a lot of them," President Trump told me. "And I think the Kurds took the guns."
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