Bill Christeson

I guess Trump found out that purposely bombing power plants is a war crime. He didn’t want to end up like Putin or Netanyahu, unable to travel to most countries because he’s indicted by the International Criminal Court. TACO!

Next to the White House. Guess Trump didn’t want to be indicted by the International Criminal Court for a clear war crime violation and thus unable to travel to very many countries.

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…

🚨🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran just made the one threat that could bring the Gulf to its knees Iran's military headquarters warned that if its energy infrastructure is attacked, all energy, IT, and desalination facilities belonging to the U.S. and its allies in the region will be targeted. Desalination. That's the word that matters most here. Gulf nations get most of their drinking water from desalination plants. One report estimated that hitting Saudi Arabia's Jubail plant alone would force the evacuation of Riyadh's 8.5 million residents within a week. Trump just gave Iran 48 hours to open Hormuz or he starts destroying power plants. Iran just responded by putting a target on the one thing Gulf nations can't survive without: clean water. Source: @sentdefender

My favorite Robert Mueller story was when he released a comprehensive report concluding that Russia helped Trump win the election but Bill Barr said "nuh uh" and the media used that as proof the libs were hysterical.

What happens when hundreds of precision targeted drones can overwhelm defenses? Maybe Trump should have thought of that before he targeted all the leadership of Iran’s fanatical regime. In Iran, the future of war is coming into view wapo.st/4siXt4W

How to open Hormuz? Israelis eliminated anyone who might have been able to negotiate. Modern navies are the cavalry in WWI. Only one drone needs to hit just one giant floating bomb - an oil tanker. Maybe I should just make popcorn & watch Trump & the RGC go after each other!

@JustinWolfers @TrueFactsStated My 401 K will take a serious hit but I won’t dig a hole and place my starved child in it. With the blocked fertilizer shipments impact on world agriculture, how many children are forecast to die? Please include that going forward.

The Pentagon said the Iran war cost $11 billion in the first week. But it's way way way more than that. Hundreds of billions more. Your family's share is thousands of dollars. And I've got receipts. Lemme youtubesplain: youtube.com/watch?v=CCF_i-…

This is what democracy looks like. Got a big problem. Democracy is the answer.

We’ve got Trump and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard deciding the economic future of pretty much everyone on earth. What could go wrong with that?

@atrupar Global coalition doesn’t mean much if any small fishing boat or other floating drone can drop mines or hit tankers. Just ask the Russian Black Sea fleet. Meanwhile the Americans are like commanders at the beginning of WWI calling for more cavalry.

Bessent: "I would be surprised if eventually there isn't some kind of global coalition to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz. It'd be very disappointing for those who benefit the most not to do something."

Democrats walk out of Pam Bondi briefing on Epstein files over subpoena compliance nbcnews.com/politics/justi…

@dcolascione @atlanticesque @AlecStapp In Philippines you get the clothes wet, rub the washing soap bar on them, then rub it between the fat part of your palm, near your thumb. In Bangladesh you soap the wet shirt, hold it up above a big rounded rock and mash it down again and again. Rinse and ring. PS quava stains.

@BillChristeson @atlanticesque @AlecStapp How did the techniques differ?

Washing machines are the *only* modern invention which every single Amish group has embraced at least to some extent Washing clothes is truly the worst chore without modern technology, bar none

If you live in Virginia, it’s a good day to go vote!

Nobel Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi will officially chair Crown Prince @PahlaviReza’s transitional justice committee. An important step towards bridge-building in the opposition. May this path be successful.

Hate dictatorships. All dictatorships. Defend democracy and those who seek democracy.

@listen_2learn So sorry your leader’s Kremlin-style show trials got blocked in the courts. Remember, Putin’s kleptocracy wasn’t built in a day.

Norm Eisen recently spoke with Lisa Gilbert from Public Citizen where he continued pushing fake narratives about Trump and Epstein. Lisa is brainwashed, so she doesn’t know any better. Norm also explained how he created the legal basis to disqualify Alina Habba, which in turn led to several other Trump appointees being removed, including Lindsey Halligan. Norm and his partner Abbe Lowell then used this precedent to get charges dropped against Norm’s proxy, Letitia James, as well as James Comey. I largely blame Chuck Grassley and John Thune for the U.S. attorney disaster. They might as well be working on behalf of Norm Eisen.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.