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Trump is losing the Iran War. I'm saying this as a person that has supported Trump since day one. In a response to Trump's Strait of Hormuz blockade extension, you know the strait Trump wanted opened before he closed it, Iran has warned that the US naval blockade "will soon be met with practical and unprecedented military action," saying "patience has limits" and that Trump's decision leaves Iran no choice but a "punishing response." Source: Press TV. Iran says Trump is now "searching for an off-ramp, having suffered significant losses on both the battlefield and at the negotiating table." Iran is not wrong. Trump's war is causing millions of Americans severe economic stress. Keep in mind that we just got out of Trump's and Biden's COVID nightmare that caused 40 year high inflation, along with Biden's terrible economic policies. Trump has little choice but to declare a fake victory over Iran if he want to try to salvage the MAGA movement. If he continues this war he will continue to humiliate the USA. Iran has struck many of our military bases and damaged billions worth a radars and military equipment. Iran is ready for a 20 year war if necessary. With the overpriced weapons that US taxpayers are forced to pay for, the war in unsustainable. Iran's cheap drones are being shot down by $4 million interceptors. Make no mistake. This is a war for Israel and MAGA is now MIGA. This movement was supposed to be America First, but Trump pulled a bait and switch on the American people. Trump started a war after promising peace, now Americans are stuck with the bill and will be long after Trump leaves office. Oil prices are the unheard of $177 per barrel and the America people are suffering. Do you think Trump will declare an empty victory or will his war for Israel rage on?

On Monday Marco Rubio said that we cannot allow Iran to have control over the strait of Hormuz, picking and choosing who enters and what currency they use. There is a very important reason why the administration feels this way: because it would be the greatest military defeat in US history. We lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan in a sense but never like this. If we leave now with the new status quo being Iran controls the strait then we have transformed a relegated, isolated, sanction crippled nation into a global power. Leaving now is an admission of a tremendous defeat and it’s also the best possible thing to do. This is the trap that Trump is now in all because he listened to Netanyahu and launched the insane war of choice.






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امروز نفت برنت کاغذی (futures) درحالی به ۱۱۵ دلار رسیده است که هر بشکه نفت فیزیکی به بهای ۱۵۰ تا ۲۰۰ دلار معامله میشود و حتی در برخی موارد فراتر از ۲۰۰ دلار را در شرق آسیا ثبت کرده است. خزانهداری آمریکا (تحت مدیریت اسکات بسنت) با باز کردن پوزیشنهای فروش سنگین (Short Positions)، سعی در سرکوب قیمت دارد، یعنی در واقع درحال استقراض از آینده است؛ اگر قیمتهای فیزیکی همچنان بالا بماند، در زمان سررسیدِ قراردادها، خزانهداری یا باید ضرر دلاری هنگفتی را بپردازد (Cash Settlement) یا در بازاری که نفت در آن کمیاب است، برای تحویل فیزیکی اقدام کند، هر دو مسیر به معنای خروج میلیاردها دلار از خزانه عمومی است. این استراتژیِ خزانهداری نه تنها یک ریسک مالی، بلکه یک انتحار سیاسی در میانمدت است. انباشت این ضررهای پنهان در ترازنامه خزانهداری، مانند یک بمب ساعتی عمل میکند که انفجار آن دقیقاً با فصل رقابتهای انتخاباتی همزمان خواهد بود. اثرات مخرب این شوک درمانیها انباشته شده و در شش ماه آینده بر شدت شکست جمهوریخواهان در انتخابات میاندورهای خواهد افزود. استفاده از مالیاتِ مالیاتدهندگان برای پوشش ضررهای ناشی از شرطبندی در بازار آتی نفت، میتواند به یک رسوایی سیاسی (Scandal) تبدیل شود که دموکراتها از آن به عنوان ابزاری برای حمله به جنگ طلبی ترامپ و مدیریت اقتصادی دولت فعلی استفاده خواهند کرد.


A good reminder that crudes type matter, especially in times of physical shortage. I often use the global oil “bathtub” metaphor to explain the law of one price and how everyone is hurt from price shocks. But the bathtub model assumes oil is perfectly fungible. It isn’t. Different oils produce different ratios of products, and product types matter. Mideast oil is an especially important source for middle distillates, eg jet fuel and diesel, so that’s where product shortages are worst — and why the cost of airfare will spike more than the cost of gasoline, at least in the short term.












