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Dr Amir Khan on Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 👇


Dr Amir Khan on Bold Politics with Zack Polanski 👇





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This C-RAM video from the US Embassy in Baghdad is extraordinary footage. American defensive technology shredding incoming Iranian-proxy ordnance at 4,500 rounds per minute to protect personnel under fire. It is also the most important food security signal on Earth that nobody has connected yet. Here is why this clip from Baghdad should concern every agricultural allocator alive. The United States is the only power with the naval capability to escort fertilizer vessels through the Strait of Hormuz and restore the molecular supply chain feeding half the planet. That same military is now simultaneously defending embassies, airbases, and personnel across Iraq from relentless Iranian-proxy drone and missile attacks. At least one C-RAM unit was disabled on March 14 when a precision strike hit its radar array. The system has an 80 to 90 percent historical intercept rate. That means 10 to 20 percent get through. This is not a sideshow. This is Iran’s strategy. Tehran cannot match American airpower. What it can do is stretch American resources across multiple fronts simultaneously. Every $10,000 drone launched at Baghdad is a resource allocation decision that pulls intelligence bandwidth, logistics coordination, and strategic attention away from the single mission that matters most for global food supply: getting commercial vessels safely through 21 miles of mined, uninsured water. The US Navy confirmed on March 12 it is not yet ready for Hormuz escorts. Germany refused to help today. Japan and Australia previously declined. Washington asked roughly seven countries for warships. Confirmed commitments as of tonight: zero. America is trying to solve this alone while its allies sit on the sidelines and Iran multiplies the fronts. One-third of global seaborne fertilizer trade passes through Hormuz per UNCTAD. Transit has collapsed 97 percent. Nearly 49 percent of traded urea is tied to conflict-exposed Gulf exporters. Bangladesh has shut five of six urea factories during rice season. India asked China for emergency urea. China banned phosphate exports through August. The $20 billion DFC reinsurance backstop, the largest peacetime maritime insurance intervention in a century, has zero confirmed fertilizer vessel utilization. Not because the program is flawed. Because financial instruments cannot substitute for the physical security that only a naval escort can provide, and that escort does not exist yet because the same military is being pulled in five directions at once by an adversary that understands exactly what it is doing. Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a weapon aimed at the global food system. Not with a single dramatic strike. With patient, calculated strangulation. Mines that make the water uninsurable. Proxy drones that stretch American defenses. A new Supreme Leader who declared on March 12 that the blockade must continue. And a timeline calibrated to inflict maximum damage by colliding with the Northern Hemisphere spring planting window that no military operation can extend. The Corn Belt needs nitrogen by mid-April. India needs Kharif prep by May. Australia needs urea by June. Miss those windows and the yield loss is permanent. 318 million people were at crisis-level hunger before any of this started. The footage you are sharing shows American systems doing their job under fire. What it does not show is the cost. Every day the US spends defending forward positions is another day the fertilizer stays trapped, another day closer to the planting deadline, another harvest lost on the steep side of the quadratic yield curve where the world’s poorest farmers cannot absorb the blow. The planting window does not wait for the fronts to narrow. It is closing. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Children of Men stands as Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece. Perhaps you've already seen it, but if not, witnessing the escape from the farm scene is a must. It's impeccably realistic, diverging from the typical action movie style to depict events exactly as one might envision them unfolding in reality.





The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.




What if Marilyn Monroe was born in other countries? © history.rewrittenai (IG)






