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BREAKING 🚨 China’s HQ-9B fails the real test in Iran 🇮🇷🇨🇳 Reports claim US and Israeli strikes destroyed the systems almost instantly 🇺🇸🇮🇱

🚨🇺🇸🇯🇵 Trump is expected to press Japan hard for military and logistical support in Iran war during their White House meeting. Japan has no real choice but to comply. The country literally owes its existence to the United States as the U.S. could raze the rest of it to the ground and annihilate every major city with nuclear fire in 1945.

I want to be clear about what I’m arguing and what I’m not. I am not arguing that Trump planned this from the beginning. The P&I club withdrawal was a cascading system failure that no central planner could have predicted or orchestrated. What I am arguing is that the administration has, whether by design or adaptation, assembled the tools to exploit this moment. The DFC facility is the option. The incomplete P&I coverage is the strike price. The Jones Act waiver and Venezuela sanctions easing are hedge positions. The Navy’s deliberate pace is time decay working in America’s favor. The strongest version of this thesis is not “Trump is playing 4D chess.” It’s that the administration holds more options than anyone realizes, and the insurance mechanism, not the Navy, is the real lever of power. The man who launched the SHIPS Act, tariffed Chinese shipping, killed the IMO carbon tax vote, brought CMA CGM to the Oval Office, signed the most ambitious Maritime Executive Order in decades, and then made the U.S. government the insurer of last resort for the world’s most important shipping lane does not lack a maritime strategy.

Three years ago the US could only manufacture 7GWh worth of battery storage systems domestically. That number is now 70. Reaching 100% domestic production capacity for energy storage isn't just an energy story. It's a supply chain story, a national security story, and quietly, a Tesla story. Megapack is built in the US, and the addressable market just got a lot harder for foreign competitors to touch. The infrastructure buildout people kept saying was "coming someday" is already here.

BREAKING: Six American allies have just pledged to secure the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes. Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. The regime is losing both militarily and diplomatically.

This bear trap may have been one of the most ruthless and vicious I've seen in more than 27 years of investing. So many people got fooled in to thinking we are heading in to a deeper bear market when the 4+ year bear market actually ended in early February when Bitcoin bottomed.

Lennar, America's 2nd largest builder, has cut prices 24% from peak. Their price on new deliveries hit $491k in 2022. But they've cut by over $110k since then, through price reductions and mortgage buydowns. The result is a $374k net price in 2026, down -8% YoY and -24% from peak. This is the cheapest we've seen in a decade, even lower than the pre-pandemic norms. This is actually great news for homebuyers. Housing deflation is setting in, and Lennar is leading the charge for builders in returning affordability to buyers.

BREAKING: The S&P 500 erases losses and turns green as US oil prices fall below $93/barrel.