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Unusually Frequent US Military Flights at Krabi Draw Attention Locals in Krabi have raised questions as American military aircraft have been landing and taking off from Krabi International Airport more frequently than usual over the past few days. Thailand is a longstanding ally of the United States, but the recent uptick in US military traffic has attracted notice. The Thai authorities and military have not commented on the activity. #Thailand #US

For those hoping for a last minute 25th amendment, or Congressional action today: I’d remind you that the VP is currently in Hungary campaigning for a Putin ally, and is not present to convene the US cabinet. And Congress stands in recess. The guardrails are off.

Absolute horror on Al Jazeera. Live footage confirms the US and Israel are actively following through on threats to bomb civilian railway lines in Iran. Rescue workers are desperately pulling innocent commuters from the wreckage. These war crimes are sickening.

Yeah we know.

One month of war Here's what it did to your flight ticket. ✈️ Bangkok → Frankfurt: $474 → $2,870 ✈️ Hong Kong → London: $503 → $3,318 ✈️ Sydney → London: $733 → $3,875 ✈️ Singapore → London: $598 → $1,953 ✈️ Kuala Lumpur → Paris: $490 → $1,931 Some routes went up 5-6x in 30 days. This is what a closed Hormuz looks like at the checkout. In your holiday budget. Read my latest to understand what's going to happen 🔗 Link 👇 themerchantsnews.substack.com/p/what-happens…

America markets got played by insiders again. * Axios posts story pushed by administration insiders of peace talks, moments after billions in stock futures are bought. * Those stocks are dumped just 20 minutes before explosions heard on Khrag island. Criminal corruption!

THE GREATEST THREAT to this beautiful wee Planet of ours now is NOT IRAN, NOT CHINA, NOT EVEN NORTH KOREA. THE GREATEST THREAT TO OUR WORLD IS - ISRAEL/USA.

U.S.-South Korea Relations Are at Breaking Point: “What good is the U.S. security guarantee against China when the United States cannot even handle a middle power such as Iran? What was the point of suffering through China’s economic retaliation to deploy THAAD in the name of upholding the U.S.-South Korea alliance when the United States makes a mockery of that suffering by unilaterally pulling THAAD to a different corner of the world? What good is a guarantor that asks you to spend your resources to cover the liability it created?” 1/2

🚨 BREAKING IRGC Missile Command: ​"We announce the end of all targeting restrictions. We will strike infrastructure in a manner that will deprive the United States and regional countries of oil and gas resources for years to come. ​Orders have been transmitted to local missile bases, and operations will begin immediately."

They’re preparing to nuke Iran and people don’t realize it’s closer than ever For 39 days, the US has dropped its heaviest, $3.5 million GBU-57 bunker-buster bombs on Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility. And it’s failing. Fordow is buried 300 feet under a solid mountain. The laws of physics dictate that no conventional weapon on earth can penetrate it. So what happens when an empire realizes it can’t win conventionally, its aircraft carriers are retreating from cheap ballistic missiles, and the global economy is crashing? They dust off the Dial-a-Yield. Right now, military think-tanks are quietly discussing the deployment of the B61-12. It is a tactical nuclear gravity bomb. The US has been quietly stockpiling them in Europe and the Middle East. It has an earth-penetrating warhead and a dial-a-yield feature, meaning they can lower the kiloton blast to make it seem usable. In 2006, Pulitzer-winning journalist Seymour Hersh leaked that the Bush administration had drawn up plans to use these exact tactical nukes on Iran’s underground sites. (Yes 2006) The Pentagon was forced to shelf it because of the outrage. 20 years later, that exact plan is back on the table. Because Washington and Tel Aviv are currently trapped. They can't secure the Strait of Hormuz without a draft (which the public won't accept), and they can't destroy Iran's nuclear program with regular bombs. They are realizing that admitting defeat means the end of American unipolar hegemony. And history shows that declining empires would rather risk the literal end of the world than admit they lost to a regional power. They told you this was a surgical strike. We are now one bad Tuesday away from the first use of a nuclear weapon in combat since 1945, just to save the political egos of men who will watch it happen from an underground bunker. You are paying $10 for gas and funding the dress rehearsal for World War 3

🚨 🚨🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING IRAN JUST RELEASED THIS STATEMENT: "We will never bow down before pedophiles and genocidaires. We have seen the fate of those who laid down their arms before them, death with dignity is better than a life of humiliation. We will fight to defend our country and bring these war criminals to such an end that their pride will be ground into the dust. we will switch off the oil and gas for many many years to come"

Threshold 1: Energy markets and prices - Physical supply from the Gulf is shrinking faster than financial markets have priced in; current prices still reflect “normality + risk premium,” not a structural supply shock. - Expectation: in ~weeks 6–10 of the war, oil and jet fuel prices are likely to spike sharply (working assumption: prices roughly doubling) - Key point: you cannot “print molecules”; financial engineering cannot solve a physical shortage of energy. Early signals already visible: - EU discussing or beginning rationing measures. - Egypt introducing curfews to cut energy use. - Thailand/Philippines and others starting “energy emergency” narratives and micro‑measures (e.g. turning off elevators, pushing stair use, night-time restrictions). Consequences of a real spike: - Flight cancellations and route reductions; even if you have a ticket, flights may not operate because every leg loses money. - Supply chains seize: higher transport costs push up food and basic goods; for some routes, it’s not just “expensive” but literally “not available.” - Countries highly dependent on imported energy and imported food are exposed: they have money, but may not be able to physically buy what isn’t there or can’t be shipped safely.

Since the US & Israel bombed Irans railway today, I thought I’d share a video of from my 18 hour train ride over 700 miles from Bandar Abbas in the South to Tehran in the north. The train ride cost $8. You get a bed, limitless coffee and tea, and lamb kobideh for lunch.

Finally

A literal pedophile, a man who raped his wife, someone who said he’d marry his own daughter if she weren’t his daughter, calls a people with thousands of years of culture and history animals.

Iranian Tar player Ali Ghamsari is currently camped at Damavand Power Plant, which provides a significant amount of electricity to Tehran. Ghamsari says he’ll remain there for a while in the hopes that his presence will protect it from bombing.

The Trump regime and the Epstein Coalition has fully removed the mask of the evil empire.

Handala just revealed the identity of the IOF's ultra-secret UAV Squadron 166: Vered Haimovich, also "the mastermind and manager of the Hermes drone design teams at Elbit." They also published for the first time an image of the core members of Hermes drone team at Elbit:

1. Why were 4,000 Jewish people warned before 9/11? 2. Why did the warning come via an Israeli app in Hebrew? 3. Why wasn’t Howard Lutnick at work that day? 4. Why was owner Larry Silverstein absent? 5. Why did he increase insurance? 6. Who were the “dancing Israelis”?

Rob Schmitt: "Israel or Iran, which do you think is more dangerous to the West?" Glenn Greenwald: "Israel, with its gigantic nuclear stockpile led by religious and political fanatics, is infinitely more dangerous to the United States than Iran is."