THE ISLANDER@IslanderWORLD
🇮🇷🇺🇸 Gulf countries are losing $2.3 billion every single day — Saudi Arabia nearly $1 billion alone, UAE $350 million, Qatar $300 million, Iraq $300 million, Kuwait $200 million as Gulf oil exports collapse by nearly 60% through the chokepoint Washington spent fifty years promising to protect.
And the response from the most bloated military in human history, more than $25 billion spent begging for $200 billion more (shitty ROI given 200 billion is 14 years of Iran's total defence budget), wave 73 reducing part of Dimona and reducing Arad to rubble?
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz within 48 HOURS… the United States will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first. Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
Seriously Donald what if Iran hits Dimona FIRSTER? Oh they already did but why are you crying? You already won the war on days 1 through 10?
This is the price of the weak petrol dollar protection racket… you pay the Americans, you host their bases and buy their expensive useless weapon systems, you let them use your soil to launch a war against your neighbour, and when the neighbour closes the tap the protector sends a Truth Social post.
50+ years of petrodollar architecture or rather illusion and the arrangement that "guaranteed" Gulf security in exchange for dollar-denominated oil and American basing rights has produced this: refineries on fire, bases obliderated, airports hit, ports hit, the strait locked to the West, and a president typing tantrums at 7:44pm while the Gulf bleeds $2.3 billion a day.
History will call this poetic justice. The Apprentice calls it a 48-hour deadline — the same man who couldn’t stop wave 1 through 73 thinks Tehran is going to open a strait because he used ALL CAPS. Acta non verba Donald and your acta is frankly very weakly.