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@LindseyGrahamSC Awesome analysis, thanks that provided a lot of clarity. Thanks for sharing. Btw my original point was US does decide strait, not iran. Weird small boat attack permitted, on other hand helped by keeping it closed which is the goal right now. Thanks again for insighful post!

The Iranians have provided us with a lot of information to learn from over the past 24 hours if we choose. What have I learned? About 24 hours ago, the foreign minister, the guy in the suit, declared the straits open with full passage. Last night, the IRGC, the guys with the guns, attacked a container ship and said the straits were closed. Here’s what I’ve learned: the guy in the suit is not in charge. It’s the guys with the guns who are in charge. They are the IRGC, who are the Iranian equivalent of the SS/gestapo – an important distinction.   We miss this distinction at our own peril. I have all the confidence in the world that President Trump will not let this provocation go unchallenged and will continue to push for a quick resolution through diplomacy or otherwise ensuring that: -The United States and the world will control the Strait of Hormuz, not Iran -The over 900 pounds of highly enriched uranium that could be used to make a dirty bomb or quickly enriched to become weapons grade material is completely removed from Iran -The Iranian missile and drone program will be limited, their support for terrorist organizations will come to an end, and there will never ever be a path in the future for Iran to develop a nuclear weapon by being allowed to enrich uranium. Like many other countries, Iran can have peaceful nuclear power but no enrichment. How this conflict ends will determine the stability of the region and the world for decades to come. Due to President Trump’s strong leadership through imposing the blockade and our brilliant military, over time, we have all the cards. foxnews.com/live-news/trum…

2015 ████ (~7T) 2020 █████ (~8T) 2021 ████████ (~13T) 2024 █████████ (~14T) 2025 ███████████ (~16–18T) Billionaire wealth growth...yeah kinda think doubling is sign something going on. Never said Iran not bad, just saying US holds all the cards. A toilet don't flush in Iran without us knowing it. We owned them big time. Now just deciding who makes money off it. I guess you thought COVID was naturally occuring. .largest transfer of wealth in human history. But yeah, move on nothing to see hear LOL. No one traded before 911, and the spike in oil trade hours before Iran announced reopening never happened too.

@9472665PLACE @saif_aldareei Do you really believe there's some financial cabal somewhere that is behind all of this? You actually believe that? 40 years of Trump stating publicly on video.. Iran will never get a nuclear weapon Before you say oh there wasn't nukes or what about I think we know more

The Indian tanker captain in the Strait of Hormuz explodes in anger over the radio, confronting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats: “You gave me clearance to pass! My name is listed as number 2 in your papers! Now you’re firing on me?! Give me a chance to turn around and go back!” This is the reality in the Strait of Hormuz today. The Iranians… as naturally as they breathe… they lie… they betray… and they stab you in the back.

Grok During the Iran-Iraq War's "Tanker War," the US Navy decisively countered Iranian small-boat and conventional naval threats Iranian speedboats that sortied were quickly engaged and neutralized by air power. This remains the largest US Navy surface action since WWII and showed that massed small-boat attacks are highly vulnerable to coordinated air and surface responses in open engagement. As an aside it takes an F15 4 to 6 minutes to cross the strait. And Iran's air defense is gone per Trump. We own the skies.

@9472665PLACE @saif_aldareei Get a self educated about the IRGC boats and its strategy - before you go about posting online and making a complete utter ass of yourself

From a guy who knows oil is plentiful but like diamonds artificially controlled for the profits of a few. My point is the Iranian boats operate only as allowed by the US at this point. The US decides when that strait reopens not Iran. Very odd US would look weak having Iran appear to control it.

Your financial ramblings are incoherent. All futures contracts have a buyer and a seller. So your statement "Billions of dollars of oil futures positions got wiped out by the sudden reopening.... is made from ignorance. On that event the longs were very happy and the shorts got hurt. The shorts also had closing orders placed and hedges in place.

a single day's traded volume of ~1 million WTI contracts would represent a notional value in the tens of billions of USD (e.g., 1 million contracts × 1,000 barrels × ~$90 = ~$90 billion in underlying exposure) Plus, a bunch of trades occurred hours before Iran announced reopening, so traders knew reooening and tried to cover best they could..

This play was called by Wall Street not the IRGC. Billions of dollars of oil future positions got wiped out by the sudden reopening and threatened the bankruptcy of financial institutions and billionaires around the world. It would have been a global financial crisis if left open. Give it a few more days for the traders to offload the loss positions onto retirement funds and individual investor portfolios. Ask yourself this - you think the US Navy could not have scrambled a jet or drone to blow a couple of gunboats out of the water??? US has air assets 24/7 up and ready for action. Order to stand down would have come from Bessent and Lutnick both getting hammered with blackmail calls to tell Trump to give traders time to shift loses to retirement and individual investors. Global conflicts are now 80% rich getting richer and only 20% about control and power. Again, so obvious. At casual cruising speed an F15 would need 4 to 6 minutes to go across the Strait of Hormuz......

Grok. "Oil futures fell over 10% after Iran's foreign minister declared the strait open, confirming market disruption from the incident but without supporting evidence for the financial conspiracy narrative." Ok, I admit wall street did not do a press release so I am absent of evidence...

Not saying that at all and makes sense for India to use other weapon suppliers. Just saying that important to show respect to the nations supplying weapon systems and avoid going against their interests in the heat of the moment. Besides, Wall Street ordered the shots fired to provide a few days to offload loss positions on oil futures to retirement funds and individual investors. The reopening happened too quickly and left institutions and billionaires exposed to crippling financial exposure losses. It will reopen again in a week after they shore up their positions.

@9472665PLACE @saif_aldareei Or should we support America simply because it provides protection to Khalistani terrorists operating against our nation? Russia has not done anything like this with us till date

Not disagreeing with India's choice of weapons at all. Totally understand and thanks for sharing that insight. I was just pointing out that Russia definitely would not favor falling oil prices. And Israel ironically needs Iran to remain a threat (albeit a weakened one) in the region to justify continued US funding as the primary ally in the region. A full regime change in Iran back to being a US ally would relegate Israel to a Germany or Italy level of importance. So Israel finds itself in the position of holding the US back from finishing the job lest they lose their influence and subsidies. Israel right now is one of Iran's behind the scenes champions ensuring the US falls short of full victory. So that means Israel would be unhappy if India wiped out the few remaining sea assets that remain. And France, well they're French ... they might be ok with it. And again, no complaints on relying on others besides US for weapon systems, just saying that when using those, a nation should respect the country suppling them and not act rashly in the moment.

@9472665PLACE @saif_aldareei We purchase the majority of our weapons from Russia, France, and Israel because they provide them to us along with technology transfer; America, on the other hand, does not offer us technology transfer. So, if you were in India's position, whom would you choose to purchase from?

Ah.... hold on there. The same Indian Navy that holds annual joint exercises with Russia? Buys all their military hardware from Russia? The Russians would be very displeased with falling oil prices. High prices fund their economy and military campaigns. New Delhi would have a lot of explaining to do siding with the USA on this adventure.

@saif_aldareei I think the Indian Navy should be deployed, and they should launch such a massive missile barrage that if the Mullah regime even dreams of attacking next time, those motherfuckers will shit their pants😡😡😡😡😡

@WarArchiveClips Wait until they discover shotguns loaded with rock salt....

They stopped a deadly FPV drone with just scissors ✂️ Russian troops ambushed a Ukrainian fiber-optic FPV drone and cut its cable with medical scissors as it flew past. Do you think this simple trick can really defeat modern drones? 🤔

An old fashion confetti pop stick modified with strands of fishing line fouls their high rpm rotors causing loss of control. Combined with smoke grenades drones will face increasing difficulty on 1st world battle fields. No idea why shotguns not made anymore, some non lethal salt loads do a number on those up to 20 yds leaving friendlies caught in crossfire stung but not dead. Powers that be deliberately leaving human warriors vulnerable because drones big bucks business. Dollar store party favors start wiping out drones and trillions in profits evaporate overnight.

When soldiers are taught how to survive an FPV drone, they’re taught “how to try to survive.” Rule number one: don’t stay together. One strike can wipe out a group. If you scatter, the drone has to pick one target. After that — it’s all down to chance, The Telegraph. 1/

Its called statutes of limitations. A lot of crimes you get away with if really good at it. Arson 10 years Bank fraud 10 years Wire fraud / Mail fraud 5 years Tax evasion or fraud 6 years Securities fraud 6 years Health care fraud 6–10 years Break into USA and get away with it for 20 years, she just saying good for you. But do require become citizen as part of the deal. They should vote too.

Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) has introduced the Dignity Act to allow illegals to stay in the US if they’ve succeeded in illegally being here for five years or more. Why would you reward an illegal for evading capture for 5 years ?

I want lower healthcare costs. Insurance premiums go to insurance companies that extract profits and agency overheads, then pay healthcare institutions that again extract profits and organizational bloated overhead, who then spend billions overbuilding extravagant facilities in rich communities, and what is left over gets paid to actual doctors and nurses who are saddled with 6 or 7 figure college loan debts into their 50's and 60's. For my visit to my general family doctor, he gets paid about what it costs for me to have my car oil changed these days. Something is not right when the people actually providing routine and lifesaving care are living paycheck to paycheck, and the insurance companies, healthcare executives and construction company buddies are living the dream. not to mention all the campaign and other perks collected by elected officials. Can we all agree none of us cares what insurance costs? We do not want to buy insurance, we are trying to buy healthcare. Insurance is just supposed to be a way to share risk - not create a trillion dollar industry. The way it is right now, very few of my dollars make it into my doctor, nurse and frontline provider. Personally for the "miracles" modern medicine can perform these days, I would not object to doctors earning $1M per year base and nurses $100,000 - for 5 day a week 40 hours. Stop talking about healthcare insurance costs. Strip out all the overhead, and what we pay doctors, nurses and first responders in most cases is a crime!

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.

@engineers_feed This kind of thing like to see on X more often rather than slow mo rewinds of tragic news stories. For the record I missed the clue!

Who is the thief?

Then trees were brought here to terraform the planet. Capture co2 and lower temperatures while generating oygen. Alien to earth, invasive tree species spread without predators. Giant and massive they grew. And when they fell, Earth's microbes and molds could not even digest the alien fibers to decay and reuse them. So the carbon was safely encased in petrified wood or crushed down deep to become coal and oil. And Earth flourished. Until man discovered the carbon and burned it... erasing hundreds of millions of years of patient planning regulating the planet's atmosphere. A shame, but not as horrifying as the war that doomed sister planet Mars to become a red barren wasteland. Earning it the name god of war. And so over the ages real events dim in menory to become tales of great floods, battling giants, Johny Apple Seed and countless others. Some trace to original sources, some morph and combine with more contemporay events. History does repeat itself. But lifetimes once a thousand years or longer, are now so we only live dozens of years. Barely time to awaken our conciousness to understand who we are. And history erased with generations passing so quickly that memories are quickly lost. I am torn between thinking those who brought trees here should have been airlocked as punishment, and wondering if storing carbon on the planet was an ingenius failsafe in case humans rebelled. They would simply eradicate themselves after discovering black gold..

400 million years ago Before trees existed, Earth’s land was dominated by Prototaxites — towering structures up to 8 meters tall, likely giant fungi as visualised here using AI Life always finds a way.

What is overlooked is the US economy is now addicted to federal spending trickling down into consumer spending and household incomes. Remove it and the country collapses. Keep spending using debt and country collapses. We already won a generation or two ago. You lost, we won. Accept defeat graciously. There is no way out now. Checkmate!

The fraud in California, New York and Illinois is far greater than in Minnesota. My guess for how much fraud is happening nationwide is roughly 10% of the Federal budget, so about $700 billion per year.

@sciencegirl Maybe we're the aliens...

If aliens exist, why haven’t they visited Earth?

@Geniustechw The artwork created with food placement is worth the money. Amazing!!

Woman charges $900 for a grazing table at a party for 40+ guests. “I think this is quite reasonable at $20 per person.” Is this reasonable? 🤔