steve mcmaster ⏳

🇮🇷 IRGC spokesman had a message for Trump in English: "The outcome of the war cannot be determined by tweets. The result of a war is determined in the field, the very place where you and your forces do not dare to approach, and which you can only talk about in your tweets. It would be better to name this war 'Epic Fear' instead of 'Epic Fury.'"

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 The Persian Gulf, one of the most trafficked bodies of water on earth is a ghost. The Strait of Hormuz, which normally processes 138 ships every single day, is down to two or three transits (all approved by Iran). The only vessels still moving are shadow fleet ships running dark, AIS switched off, no insurance, no rules. Every Western tanker, their LNG carriers, every bulk cargo vessel has stopped. Anchored and waiting. Going nowhere. Trump said the strait would be open “very soon.” He said it on Day 5. He said it on Day 10. He’s still saying it on Day 16. Meanwhile his own Energy Secretary quietly told CNN “worst case, that’s a few weeks.” Iran’s new Supreme Leader said on March 12 in plain language, “the Strait of Hormuz must remain closed.” The IRGC commander mocked Trump’s Epstein coalition request for China and Russia to help by pointing out the strait “has not yet been militarily closed — it is merely under control.” They don’t even need to formally close it. The threat alone is enough. What’s actually stopped moving? A fifth of the world’s oil. Thirty percent of global LNG. One third of the world’s fertilizer supply through a strait that’s been shut for two weeks as spring planting season begins and a quarter of American farmers haven’t bought fertilizer yet. Maersk stopped. CMA CGM stopped. Hapag-Lloyd stopped. COSCO stopped. The Red Sea is backed up too... tankers and bulk carriers queuing through the Gulf of Aden because the Houthis just resumed attacks, forcing the Cape of Good Hope reroute that adds two weeks to every transit. 3,200 ships or four percent of global tonnage are sitting idle in the Gulf region right now. Port storage is filling up. Floating storage contracts are being signed. The global supply chain is seizing. Brent above $100. US gas at $3.63 and climbing. Urea up 77%. Food inflation baked in for months. And Trump is on Truth Social asking China in humiliating fashion to send warships to a strait Iran hasn’t even formally declared closed — because the threat of getting hit is enough to keep every insurer, every captain and every shipowner on the dock. This is what a war of choice looks like from the outside. One man’s 4l year obsession. The whole world pays the bill.

The five-second epistemology of the announcement. The announcement of the plan to announce the coalition to escort the ships through the Strait that’s been closed for sixteen days. Not the escort. The announcement of the escort. Not the coalition. The announcement of the coalition. Not the operations. The discussion of when the operations would begin. The announcing of the announcing. The planning of the planning. The discussing of the discussing. Three headlines. Zero ships in the water. As soon as this week. The as soon as applied to the announcement. Not the escort. The announcement. The as soon as this week that the announcement will be announced. The escorting that might be announced as soon as this week from the war that’s been running for sixteen days and the Strait that’s been closed for sixteen days and the announcement that announces as soon as this week that the thing that should have been as soon as day one might be announced. The announcing as the doing. The planning as the executing. The discussing as the escorting. The headline as the ship. Still discussing when operations would begin. Still. Discussing. When. Three words. Still discussing when. Day sixteen of the closed Strait and the discussing still discussing when. The when that joins the if needed and the potentially and the hopefully and the few weeks and the four to six. The when that doesn’t have a when. The discussing of the when that doesn’t know when. The operations that would begin when the discussing decides when the operations would begin. The beginning that hasn’t begun discussing when to begin. Five countries asked. Zero committed. Germany no. France no. Norway no. Switzerland never. Japan not considering. South Korea noting. China silence. UK looking. The coalition announced before the coalition exists. The announcing of the coalition that has no members. The escort announced before the escort has ships. The announcement as the coalition. The headline as the warship. The WSJ as the Navy. Three bullets. Zero ships. The announcing that announces the thing the announcing doesn’t have. Iran said neither truce nor talks. Iran said delusional. Iran said keep firing until. The IRGC said come closer. The Houthis said fingers on the trigger. The franchise collecting at three doors. The storage at 70%. The allies approaching Tehran for permission while the announcement announces the coalition the allies declined to join. The announcing and the declining in the same week about the same Strait. The coalition announced to the countries that said no about the water they’re calling Tehran about. The five-second epistemology of the announcement. The announcement of the plan. Not the plan. The announcement. The coalition that will be announced before the coalition is formed. The escort that will be announced before the escort begins. The operations that will be discussed before the operations operate. The as soon as this week applied to the saying not the doing. Day sixteen. Announcing. The way the war announces. The way the briefing announces. The way the podium announces. The Strait that doesn’t read announcements. The announcement that can’t read the Strait. Day sixteen. Announced. Not escorted. Announced. Day sixteen.

🤖🇨🇳 In China, humanoid robots are training on the streets for the Beijing Yizhuang Robot Marathon Didn't know we already have robot "marathons"

They are ants solving a geometric problem and it is mind-blowingly colorful.

France’s Macron to tell Lebanon to RECOGNIZE ISRAEL to end war — Axios

🚨داریم به مرحله هیجان انگیز و فاز اصلی جنگ می‌رسیم! هزاران عضو بسیج در سراسر ایران در تلگرام پیام‌های تهدیدآمیز از حساب‌های ناشناس دریافت می‌کنند که به آن‌ها هشدار می‌دهند: بسیجی ستمگرا! تو کاملا زیر نظر ما هستی!!! یا تسلیم شو یا فرار کن و جونت رو نجات بده!! ما می‌دونیم چه جنایت‌هایی علیه مردم ایران مرتکب شدی. تو و همه رفیقات رو شناسایی کردیم. انتقام شروع شده. هر جا کم و گور بشی، هدف ما هستی و خواهی بود! همین حالا تسلیم شو یا برای نجات جون بی‌ارزشت فرار کن! هشدار دومی در کار نیست!

Hunt successful: Geran-2 kamikaze drone OBLITERATES Kiev's HIMARS launcher in the Kharkov region Transporter-loader and escort vehicle taken out as a bonus