Hormuz Confusion – Make it make sense!
Kit Knightly
Last month, I wrote an article tracking – or, at least, attempting to track – the very confused back-and-forth narrative around the Strait of Hormuz.
Is it closed or open? Who closed it and how? Were there mines or not?
These were just some of the questions to which it was impossible to find a single straight answer.
With peace talks underway in Islamabad today, we’re being hit with a fresh wave of contradictory messaging about the Strait’s status, and I just wanted to collate it all together in one place and ask, “Does this make sense?”
Do you remember the mines that both sides said weren’t there?
Well, now the New York Times is reporting they are definitely there, but Iran doesn’t remember exactly where…
Does that make sense?
Haven’t Iran-approved ships from friendly countries been paying at the “toll booth” for at least a couple of weeks? How is that possible if there were mines? Let alone mines that Iran can’t locate?
This potential contradiction doesn’t matter in the end, though, because Donald Trump has said the US Navy is already “clearing out” the mines (adding that all 28 of Iran’s mine-laying ships are “at the bottom of the sea”).
Does that make sense?
Because the US supposedly decommissioned their minesweeping ships back in September, and sailed them out of the Gulf theatre in January (and we know no new US naval assets have entered the Gulf since, see below).
Speaking of decommissioning the minesweepers…did that decision make sense, given the tension with Iran?
This January was actually the first time the US Navy had no minesweeping capacity in the Gulf in over forty years. Minesweepers were always docked at US bases in Bahrain, specifically to counter potential Iranian attempts to mine the Strait.
Oh well.
Speaking of the US Navy, earlier today, it was reported that a pair of US missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf, according to the Times of Israel…
A pair of US Navy guided-missile destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz while US-Iran negotiations commenced in Pakistan, The Wall Street Journal reports, marking the first American warships to do so since the US-Israel war against Iran began.
This was apparently done without pre-arrangement with Tehran. We can confirm this because Iranian news sources have claimed the naval ships were given a thirty-minute warning to retreat or be fired upon, and that upon this warning, the ships retreated.
However, an American source claims no such warning was ever received, and the ships have passed into the Gulf unmolested.
Bloomberg is reporting “differing accounts”, and the ships may have left the theatre again already.
In other news, three Chinese supertankers are passing through the Strait as we speak. This is the biggest single oil shipment to traverse these waters since the war began…
Does that make sense? Isn’t it awfully risky, since it’s apparently full of mines the Iranian government has misplaced, toll booth or no toll booth?
Speaking of their toll booth, did you know Iran’s “ability to control the strait” has only grown, despite being “weakened militarily”?
That’s what Landon Derentz says in his piece for the Atlantic Council:
Iran’s military capabilities have been weakened, but its ability to disrupt global trade via the Strait of Hormuz has grown and remains a major source of leverage.
He doesn’t explain how that’s possible. But the BBC agrees, with Faisal Islam highlighting that [emphasis added]:
Iran has now created a new reality in the Gulf […] It has established that it can control the key maritime chokepoint, even without a navy and an airforce. It had even begun to collect tolls.
How can it control it without a Navy or Air Force? We’re not told all the specifics, but The Guardian informs us…
As part of a clearance process described by analysts as “fairly unsophisticated”, Iranian officials standing on Larak Island in the north of the strait have used binoculars to check the names of passing ships and give approval to proceed.
To allow for visual verification, Tehran has tried to reroute ships to a more northerly corridor close to its coastline and away from traditional shipping lanes.
They are identifying ships through binoculars and asking them nicely to sail closer to the shore to make such identification easier.
Does THAT make sense?
Does any of it?
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Iran has endured years of no rain but after Iran destroyed US radar facilities the heavens opened up. Does it mean the US was using weather modification technology to deprive Iran of rain, or does it mean the US is now using weather change technology as a weapon against Iran by flooding the country ?
https://cairnsnews.org/2026/04/30/massive-rain-events-in-middle-east-after-iran-destroys-us-radar-facilities/
CONSENSUS OF US POINT OF ATTACK — tomorrow, Sunday
Qeshm island is within the Strait, pop. 118,000, extensive tunnels, airfield.
Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar during an interview said that we have had War Games specifically to test the outcome in a war w Iran, and that the result indicated that we should NOT engage Iran. Further, PRIOR to beginning the war, many of our military were moved out of the bases & into hotels. In other words, they KNEW the bases cdn’t be protected.
This individual felt that lower-yield tactical nukes are likely to be used; they are in the region and if the battle is going badly. . . .
Iranian terms 4-24 were a bit different than before, now including abolishing sanctions, secondary sanctions, UN sanctions or resolutions. Tremendous amt of military equipment added since “ceasefire:” Fighters have gassed up at BenGurion airport & UAE. Is it all a bluff?
NUCLEAR QUESTION: Turns out Potus didn’t ask for the codes, but was only musing aloud about the possibility when advisor Caine said, “No.”
However included in the buildup is a nuclear-capable sub .
China & India have told their citizens to evacuate.
WSJ: US admin now willing to consider ltd uranium enrichment.
Breaking NEWS: Pres Trump has not got dementia. Apparently Trump is a
believer of his crystal ball GROK, which hallucinates, and fools Trump…
Think on The Bright Side. Only 20% of the supply of oil comes through The
Strait of Hormuz. So it shouldnt be too difficult to adjust to a 4/5ths lifestyle
eg drive your car only 4/5ths of the way to work (the 1/5th walk will probably
improve your health; make only 4/5th of your regular meals(which will
probably improve your health, too)… But as for condoms ? Maybe best to
use them only 4/5ths of the time ? Any questions ? Ask Grok…
https://www.forbes.com/sites/asia-alexander/2026/04/21/the-latest-iran-war-price-shockwave-condoms/
SHIPPING
–At least 26 shadow-fleet ships have exited the Strait successfully.
–An Iranian container ship en route from China to Iran was disabled & seized by the US on the 19th or 20th.
–Today the 21st in the Asian Pacific US seized a China-bound tanker (probably shadow fleet)w 2 million bbls. Pretext for this may be that the first ship, the Iranian one, had “dual use” components usable for industry & also military (said to be metals, pipes & electronics). Trump has said this might be parts for drones, so this is war.
Trump is looking to put the US – on a war footing.
“The Pentagon has approached major US car manufacturers General Motors and Ford about producing weapons and military equipment, the Wall Street Journal has reported, citing sources.
General Motors already supplies military vehicles to the Pentagon through its GM Defense unit, while Ford has no major military contracts.
The discussions reportedly involved senior executives and focused on whether – and how quickly – civilian factories could be redirected toward producing munitions and other military supplies, as Washington seeks to replenish stockpiles depleted by the Ukraine conflict and the war on Iran, the outlet wrote on Wednesday.
GE Aerospace and vehicle and machinery maker Oshkosh were also involved in the talks, which began before the US-Israeli war against Iran started on February 28, it added.”
They are set up to get US in boundless debt.
“Pears it’s more about damaging China than anything else. The Strait of Malacca is as important to China as the Strait of Hormuz. Trump or whoever he’s acting for wants to control the coastal approach to China, so there’s his new military agreement w Indonesia & he’s already building something that looks a lot like a military base in the Philippines.
I’d sure like to know how that decision to send our industry to China came about. TPTB told us we were to become a “service” economy. James has documented how upper echelons of China met in the Rockefeller boardroom & subsequently they got all the investment cash and the technology transfers they needed. I have always interpreted the “one-child policy” as their payback– as part of the deal.
So obviously Rockefellers & those like them must’ve been the ones who decided so long ago to take America down. So why the Iran war? Simon Dixon seems to think it’s part of continuing the desired outcome– the way to destroy the US bases, degrade Israel, weaken the US.
So much to think about, eh? How to avoid the future they’ve planned for us.
Holyshit!
Provided links….
Appears Trump is rescuing his failed blockade by threatening the banks that process the payments to Iran. He will create “secondary sanctions” against them.
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120-150 empty tankers headed to the US to tank up. From Shanghai the trip takes 52 days. Shanghai from the Gulf is only 22 days. I’m sure this will mean a raise in US gas prices.
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Current ceasefire ends Monday; it’s widely reported that US is bringing in another 10,000 troops.
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Iran says $270bn war loss must be compensated, as
fresh talks with US loom.
Iran demands compensation for war damages caused by US and Israeli attacks on critical infrastructure.
Tehran’s envoy to the United Nations said on Tuesday that five regional countries must pay compensation, based on his accusation that their territories were used for launching attacks on Iran.
–Aljazeera
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First Negotiations Israel/Lebanese in Washington DC
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh Moawad
–Reuters
His description certainly matches Event 201.
matrixbot (@thematrixb0t): “US Congressman @RonJohnsonWI alleges that covid was “pre-planned by an elite group of people. Event 201”. In reference to the John’s Hopkins Center tabletop exercise with the WEF and the Gates Foundation.” | nitter.poast.org
Event 201 – Wikispooks
Yeah, it was a military program. I knew a couple people who died of the shot.
Such evil.
US SEEKING MILITARY OVERFLIGHT OF INDONESIA
with the signing of a ‘major’ defence cooperation agreement.
(About 4500 miles to the SE of Iran, the Indonesian archipelago is
halfway between Australia and Thailand)
Interactive map of the world:
https://map.proxi.co/r/00cofmceYIYgwrWtVL-y
Strait of Hormuz crisis
UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer has announced talks to be held this week and co-hosted with France, aiming at a diplomatic end to the war on Iran and securing safe passage in the Gulf shipping afterwards.
Legal Iranian residents of US being deported because they might be Sleeper Cells says Homeland Security & Sec’y Rubio. They are said to have “deep ties w the Iranian regime.” Now looking at Chinese too, cuz of effect of US policies on China’s economy.
BREAKING. TALKS TO RESUME IN THE AM
US, Iran prepare to exit war as fatigue and costs kick in; Pakistan will get peace bonusIran has signed the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state and has also given a written assurance of not developing a nuclear weapon.With President Donald Trump indicating that conflict resolution talks could resume in Islamabad as early as tomorrow, both US and Iran are headed for a political exit from the 40-day punishing and exhausting war as American appetite for long drawn war is diminishing with domestic economic factors coming into play.
–Hindustan Times
TRUMP’S NEW STRATEGY TO END UKRAINE WAR
is to impose up to 100% tariffs on China & India, since they’re trade partners of Russia. He says he’ll do this only if the EU joins in, and he’s already started talks w them.
–Times of India
[Didn’t Supreme Court recently rule agst Trump’s power to establish tariffs?]
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ANTI-SEMITISM REDEFINED: “CRITICiSM OF ISRAEL”
Police in France have arrested students at Sorbonne University, Sciences Po and Paris-Saclay University during a sit-in against a controversial anti-Semitism bill that could outlaw criticism of Israel.
I think some US States have adopted a similar definition. I’m pretty sure there are real impediments to any kind of Israel boycott.
IMHO.GIANBATTISTA POSTULATES .Their will always be an elite class. Society is a reflection of the elite class . Language is narrative control.
Contradictions: Mining the straits but ships get through. IRGC planted the3 mines and direct navigation. TPB have the technology to pin point your every move , evn if you do not have a modern elctonic device. Ipso facto. Now I can go as far back as Eisenhower with his cryptic message, DARPA HARPA> All financed via unhidden funds. IPSO FACTO admitted buy GW jr.Ipso facto missing Trillions of dollars. Ipso facto. Modern Monetary Theory invented straight out of thin air. Debated in the so called greatest democracy beacon on the hill. America “””””” ya f. USA known assisinations and attempts. Andrew Jackson. Lincoln.Mckinnley and JFK. In the hearings. from discovery oldest method of debate dsting bak to Aristotle. But I digress.. IMHO. Follow the money. Economics one oh one . All theories date bak to who. DAS KAPITAL. Engles wrote the manifesto IPSO FACTO> Bust of Marx LONDON The twelve familes of EUROPA NAZIFASCISMO MUSSOLLINI THE CORPORATE STAE MARX THE STA INCORPORATED HEDGING UR BETS BANKERS FINACED LENIN AND TROTSKY PRIVATELY FUNDING FASCISM> . IMHO FACTIONAL WAR> Europe is being called out. . LONDON PARIS ROME ARE ALL ON A WAR FOOTING OPERATION BARBARA ROSSA. RINSE LATHER REPEAT. US HAS LOST ALL ITS WARS POST WW2. NEW DOCTRIN DESTROY. SET BACK ECONOMICALLY EFECTS GENERATIONAL REBIULD CONCRETE. FRENCH RUN CEMNT COMPANIES THROUGH OUT WEST ASIA SINCE 1956. Ipso facto. FOLLOW THE MONEY dates back to the ROMAN CONCRETE . GILLET FAMILY DATES BACK TO CEASRS TIME. ipso facto. DISCOVERY ANCIENT ROMAN PRACTICE DATING BACK TO 299BC, CIVICS ONE OHHH ONE.
BULD BACK BETTER COVID 19 THEY GAVE IT TO THE PROLES ON A PLATE. BOMB BULLDOZE AND BUILD ANALOGY. CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.
Back to the narrative and consequences . Supply shortage or the narrative of supply shortages. WAR . Hedging your bets.
According to open source their has been i diversion of freight to Tankers are considered freight. USA GULF OF VTRUMP LOOOL> Hollywood. WAGBTHE DOG> .
Present narrative on open source USA IS LOSING Really LOYDS OF LONDON LOING IPSO FACTO > LOyds of London r up shit creek without a paddle. Ipso facto.
THe Ayaotlla who is the progenitor of THE ISLAMIC STATE OF IRAN . Came from the Paris commune with german journos acompanying him to IRAN SCIA> Ipso facto. ISreal is a London construct IPSO FACTO> Sykes Picot anyone Ipso facto.
To the narrative, Appearance USA dying . People are dying Ipso facto.
Intellectual honesty historical data Korea Vitnam Western Assia.INdia mediator between USSR and WEst. Eisenhower. Said it himself. World flooded with arms. London Rome Frankfurt. KNown Trafficking of Opium products out of afghanistan. Money Laundering . ODESSA ISTANBULL TEL AVIV CONNECTION DATING BACK TO THE OTTOMANS> SASOON KNOWN CONNECTION TO OTTOMANS REACH> IPSO FACTO> MONEY THE CONTROLLED DEMOLITION NARRATIVE> COVID STRAIGHT OUT OF TAVISTOCK>
Its planned but OLD MONEY dating back to Mckinley silvefrf standard threat. Those blood lines of old catholic Dominican (Bishop Vigano COVID> based in USA>Ipso facto. and Wasp new BORGHESI. Wealth from low GILDED AGE USA> Ipso facto . They are at war and the yanks are financially winning and london frankfurt paris rome are panicking and the gretater plan of we will own nothing and be happy is running to plan. Both Us and the rest of the world are all deploying similar civic laws with regard to digital panopticon.
POST SCRIPTUM; Open source facts prove above.
Docius in fondo. They reset then in 1720.they did it again fdr gold theft . 32 dollars an ounce lasted right into the fifties . US inflation in 1950 was greater than anyother western economy.Numbers do not lie. demand is down. Follow the money WTI selling only at 92 USD> Supply flood. Modern economies need fuel life must go on or else MAD MAX.
TAVISTOCK> OLD USA and LONDON are having a superbowl moment. US statute law. THE LENDER OF LAST REORT HAS THE LAST SAY.. IN plain english when shit hits the fan any lease or rent or morgage debt any shape way or form the debtor gets all ad the debtee gets penny on the dollar . Ipso facto.
Great article on this site explained it and what we are seeing the champions lugue finally and we the proles better beware. gilded age point 2. imho
So the Neo-Nazi dictatorship, that is Ukraine has just passed a law that will see folk given up to eight years in prison for anti-Semitic remarks.
I mean how will that work in Ukraine – with many Ukrainians being Neo-Nazi’s along with many of their battalions, and the National Hero Bandera of Ukraine – was a know Nazi sympathiser, many streets and monuments in Ukraine are dedicated to Nazi sympathisers.
Is it a ruse to put Iran off its guard, the Iranians would be very foolish to trust the US or Israel.
“U.S. and Iranian negotiation teams will return to Islamabad for peace talks later this week — Reuters”
You did not post any video
There appears to be an unusual amount of derailment, topic-flooding, evidence dodging, circular-whataboutism and odd voting patterns on OffG the last couple of days. Common here? I can’t recall who we associate these tactics with…
At the same time as a bunch of attacks on the server. There appears to be a push to justify a narrative being posted by the author. Qui bono?
For obvious reasons the ones trying to take down the site won’t be simultaneously reinforcing its undesired and dangerous message
I missing the obvious, explain.
“I’m”
It’s not rocket science Al – the zionists/globalists won’t be trying to silence people who are actively pushing their message – ie that this is a “clash of civilisation” war.
They’re trying to silence OffG because they are challenging that idea.
I happen to be a rocket scientist, man. So there!
Well, I’ve probably worn out my welcome at this point. Not the first time. You can only beat a dead horse for so long, as they used to say.
Stick the fuck around, man. This is war!
I’m grateful there’s a least some here who clearly value critical thinking. It’s a weird atmosphere around here at the minute. Look how heavily downvoted normal rational comment is. It’s a good job I love a challenge and absolutely value getting to truth. Hegel is my hero lol
Well thanks, back at ya. It is weird and definitely infiltrated, which too many are failing to see. I’ll just regroup and go from there.
standard techniques. Try to attack the site, flood the server and take it down. At same time try to dilute the site’s message with large numbers of comments that confuse the original message or divert the conversation to safer areas, while also subtly or not so subtly planting mainstream messaging and memes.
Pretend that the attacks, when they stated last week was not attacks
are promotion driven to get more promotion.
sites like this always claims attacks, it could be sever or wifi issues.
It was happening on here years ago during convid as well Observe. Inundated with bots and operatives who continuously posted things to derail conversations and posting things that had zero relevance with anything in the article, and some of it was really cringeworthy. It was one of the reasons I took a long break from this site, however, since I’ve been back, in my opinion, it’s nowhere near as bad as it was 5 or 6 years ago. And yes, I know about organisations like the 77th Brigade.
I remember that well! A lot of those covid shills have gone thank goodness. But we have Republic of Scotland and a couple of others working very hard! Thing is they’re so transparent they’re funny.
You think Republic of Scotland is an “operative”?
Your mates are doing it.
The US to ‘blockade’ every Chinese tanker that wishes to leave the Persian Gulf? Yeah, sure…
Fresh chorus of calls to invoke the 25th Amendment regarding
Trump mental health is something I did not see coming.
Would the 25th amendment apply in the (purely hypothetical) case of someone who claimed to be Jesus Christ, the rightful Pope and the true worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (whilst incessantly waging war). Or would ‘impeachment’ apply better in such a case?
If neither, then the US Constitution is simply flawed if it’s incapable of removing a Gogol-style madman from office
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_a_Madman_(Nikolai_Gogol)
He definitely seems to be a raving madman. But wouldn’t the 25th just put Thiel’s boy Vance into office? How about getting rid of the office all together. There surely are more sociopathic madmen lusting for the ring of power…
It’s in the constitution, but requires people to act. Usual method of employing 25th is thru the VP & cabinet, but as they are Israel firsters. . . .
There’s a 2d way under the 25th amendment; it reqires Congress to act; some Dems are willing, but few if any Republicans. Idiocy.
I thought USA agreed to flatten the curve for 2 weeks?
is this another variant?
Trump. Attacks the Pope for not being Urban II (the Crusader Pope). Pretends to be Jesus (sacrilege even in AI form). The guy’s seriously unhinged. Need to be removed
Good article. The whole war is fake as shit. The victims are being murdered by prior agreement, just as with covid.
The Iranians bomb apartment buildings the Israelis want to demolish but are held up by planning regulations or by residents refusing to be evicted. A few missiles and bam – buildings – gone, stroppy residents – gone. And a few nice pics for Bibi to put on the news to get people to feel under attack and love their government “protectors”.
You can assume it also goes the other way. And in Ukraine too.
Fake wars are not less evil, they’re more evil, because so calculated, cynical and disgusting.
Trump letting slip the real reasons for the blockade of Iranian ports?
So that the US could export more of its LNG (“more ships arriving every day”). So that Iran could do no rival business in oil exports.
And all under the pretext of stopping Iran getting WMDs (as if everyone has forgotten the Iraq 2003 propaganda)
It’s extremely unlikely Trump has any idea what the real reason is for the blockade or any other damn thing. Why would his handlers tell a dumb loudmouth like him anything important. He’s nothing but a clown puppet on a string.
” It’s extremely unlikely Trump has any idea what the real reason is for the blockade..”
Correct, the strategy and blueprint was designed and written for him and previous US presidents in 2009.
https://wikispooks.com/w/images/9/94/Which_Path_to_Persia.pdf
Thanks, brianborou. Didn’t realize Which Path to Persia was online. No wonder Iran was ready.
“An Israeli organisation has been caught on camera offering to help British citizens move to an illegal settlement in the West Bank.A landmark advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2024 placed countries “under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory”.
The court’s advisory opinion is not legally binding, but still carries significant political weight.”
In November, the World Zionist Organisation organised an event at a secret location in London. With “inspiring talks” and “practical information”, it was designed to help British Jews emigrate to Israel – a process known as aliyah.”
Exposed: Israeli operation to help Brits move to West Bank
The utterly oppressed Palestinians don’t stand a chance – their lands stolen and their children murdered and the West all but captured by the perps/Zionists.
On the settler angle, around one million English folk have moved to Scotland without any permission from a Scottish body – of course Scotland is a colony of England’s but the decolonisation process has begun at the UN, though many European nations are or have had a history colonisation, we expect more help from the Global South and the East – who have mainly been on the colonised end of European colonisation, and both regions have shown they know how it feels, and agree with us.
Woke “sense” = sentiment:
IRGC Hormuz blockage / Yemen Bab El Mandeb blockage / CCP Taiwan straight blockage/ Whitehall English Channel blockade / etc = good
Trump Hormuz blockage / etc = bad
TDS
The whole narrative coming from both sides is crazy.
“Mines are there” says Penatgon
“No they’re not there” says Iran and Trump
“Oh ok they are there but we’re borrowing minesweepers from EU to get rid of them” says Trump ( we never hear about those Euro minesweepers again)
“Nope, still no mines there” says Iran
“Actually there definitely are mines there”, says pro-Iran media
“Yes there are” say pro-US media
“We just sailed our ships through the strait” says Trump, so presumably NO mines.
“No you didn’t” says Iran but doesn’t mention the mines.
“Oh shit Iran did put mines down but has forgotten where they are” says CNN
“We’re using hi tech equipment to remove the mines”, says Trump. So presumably the mines just went on a little holiday for a while and are back now and Trump knows where they are even though Iran doesn’t.
The only constant seems to be the damn strait is going to be forever restricted or closed and oil is forever going to be scarce and expensive and energy and food are going to be expensive and rationed. Gee, what an amazing coincidence yet another random crisis triggering the exact same random result.
It’s as if in wartime there is heavy propaganda, disinformation and confusion. Were you not aware that this is a thing? Look back through history and you will see similar performances pretending up is down and down is up and information that appears contradictory or contrary to reality. And yes, opportunites being taken to exploit and extract profits during wartime are also a thing and always have been. It’s shit isn’t it!
Another geopolitical war puzzle that do not make sense is the Ukraine war.
Russian top generals claim they could have and can close the Ukraine war in two month.
The two month feasibility, and Putin’s dragging out the war in 4 years because Putin believes he can break the neck on NATO only by pussy footing and wool in mouth and talking it over in negotiations with Trump.
Its the second time Putin dont react to the circumstances and misread the geopolitical situation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2SuTHLWzU
An opposition like Orban’s is about to raise in Russia.
So Trump has ordered the US to chase down ships/tankers that pay the toll set up by Iran, now what if one, or more of those tankers are Chinese and are escorted by a Chinese warship -what then, and futhermore, by creating their own blockade – they will make it more difficult for tankers carrying much needed fuel to nations that desperately need it.
I doubt the world’s nations that rely on the straits will see Trump’s blockade as a good thing, I’m sure Trump said that – the US doesn’t really use the straits that much, whether or not that true I don’t know, but much of the world relies on the to receive goods and fuel.
Finally – just how much is this going to cost the American taxpayer having multiple warships out a sea guarding both ends of the Straits of Hormuz, or chasing a ship/tanker halfway across the Pacific
Is there even a blockade?
BY whom?
If you are referring to Iran, I’d say yes, why else would US warships be so standoffish from the straits, if you are referring to Trump’s blockade – I’m not sure if he’s implemented it yet.
Of course Trump – king of the Epstein Class, has a nickname online with regards to this war on Iran, it TACO – meaning Trump Always Chickens Out, and he usually chickens out on a Tuesday, which is today.
The fact we have got to a place where some fool in the media can say “Iran’s military capabilities have been weakened, but its ability to disrupt global trade via the Strait of Hormuz has grown and remains a major source of leverage.” – and be taken seriously means we have already succumbed to Doublethink.
Thank you Kit for preserving your independent intelligence and reminding us that we can all use our eyes to see the emperor is in fact NAKED.
A little logic and knowledge provides an explanation of why low-tech, asymmetrical warfare and tactics can absolutely cause mayhem. History proves this true. Therefore, the fact that Iran has a weakened conventional military capability does not equate to an inability to cause disruption in the Strait – and by extension to global trade – by other, highly effective means.
The idiot in the article quoted doesn’t say Iran’s ability to disrupt is unhindered, it says it is increased.
I look forward to you explaining the logic there.
In the real world of course having your navy decimated will emphatically reduce your ability to disrupt global trade.
I grant it might not entirely cripple it, if you have other resources such as missile points and drones, but it WILL obviously reduce your capacity.
Any other suggestion is pure irrationality.
At some point in my rebuttals to you I hope there’s a lightbulb moment for you. As always though, I’m sure you’ll move on to the next thing and never address my actual response. But here we go again, I enjoy a challenge:
I already laid out in the previous comment how asymmetrical, low-tech warfare can be a real and effective threat in this war (and as I’m sure you’re aware, in other wars/battles of the past) – missiles, small boats, mines, drones – all can play a part in causing havoc for shipping in the Strait, by threat alone or by actual attacks or harassment. They are a nightmare to find and destroy to the point of ensuring no threats remain and shipping can sail through unmolested.
For decades, Iran has prepared for and threatened the closure or disruption of the Strait but has never rolled out the operation and executed the strategy. In doing so for the first time during this war, they’ve demonstrated they can effectively restrict, control, and selectively manage shipping traffic there. Their leverage – their positional power in this specific area – is being proven and enhanced in real-time. The strategy has been highly effective and therefore their ability to disrupt global trade has increased. This is despite conventional losses, because conventional equipment and tactics are not needed for the strategy to be successful. Had the strategy not been successful or less so, their ability to disrupt global trade would have decreased.
Does that honestly sound like ‘pure irrationality’ to you?
Ok, let’s break this down
Not true. Back in the 80’s Iran would attack tankers in the gulf and there was much fear they might attempt to close the strait.
There will not be any military strategist, insurer, oil company or tanker captain not fully aware of Iran’s potential to mess things up in the Strait of Hormuz
See above, already dealt with.This attempt to meme the idea that no one previously was aware of what Iran could do in the Strait smacks of the Bush admin trying to get mileage out of “no one could imagine flying planes into buildings” post 9/11 and just days after they ran an exercise doing exactly that.
I trust you are not still marooned in the swamp of trying to make sense that official narrative? If so, you have my sympathies.
As we have established their “leverage and positional power” was already well understood. However their ability to exercise either has now clearly been diminished by the fact (if we dare call anything a fact in this insanity), a large part of their navy has been disabled.
You mean the realization of their potential for disruption has increased the fear of disruption, rather than their physical capacity for it.
Very different and rather sophistic to conflate fear of attacks with the capacity to actually implement such attacks in a militarily successful way.
And it makes little sense given that, as said, Iran’s capacity to disrupt has been center stage these last forty years for anyone who operates through the Strait.
Of course the “war” in the region increases fear and therefore disruption, but this has nothing to do with Iran’s physical capacity to fuck things up.
Their actual physical capacity to disrupt HAS decreased. And if the US really wanted to take control of the Strait at this juncture they could, because Iran can’t offer a strong enough resistance.
And this would also help to reassure commercial operators and negate whatever psychological impact Iran’s threats might have left.
Essentially Iran’s power to disrupt has only increased if everyone agrees to say so. It’s a purely psychological power, as you yourself imply, no longer backed by even as much military might as it had a few months ago.
The big question remains why the US will not even attempt to take control.
The claim that Iran has military superiority in the Strait is completely irrational. Your spin on it, trying to shift the “increased power” from being military to being psychological is simply sophistry.
Good God, never has one man misrepresented so much in so short a space.
Some attacks back when do not in any way undermine my point that the strategy and operational rollout of an actual closure of the strait was actioned for the first time in this war.
You agree then that Iran can and does actually mess things up in the strait. This is progress. Previously it was all fake and pretend for you.
I won’t bother to paste your quote about the navy because it is completely irrelevant to the impact Iran can and has had on the strait by other, well known, means.
The rest of your post waffles on about Iran being incapable of attacking a commercial ship in its own territorial waters because, apparently, you’ve never heard of missiles, drones or mines. To you, it appears that Iran is a backwater nation of imbeciles with no money, no technology and no brains. I recommend you watch some videos of their missiles hitting Israel.
You possess a shockingly blinkered, naive view of the capabilities of Iran and the almost universally known capability of relatively low-tech warfare being able to hit massive ship a very short distance away. Or, you’re taking the piss. I’m not sure which.
No, the reason you didn’t “bother” to paste and respond to anything else I said was that you knew you had no answer for it. So instead you, with pitiful cowardice and dishonesty wrote this…
An utter lie you invented because responding to strawman points I never made was easier than trying to deal with what I actually said, which to remind you, was this…
“Their actual physical capacity to disrupt HAS decreased. And if the US really wanted to take control of the Strait at this juncture they could, because Iran can’t offer a strong enough resistance.”
You will note. I make no mention of Iran “being incapable of attacking a commercial ship in its own territorial waters”.
You will note that what I actually say is
“their actual physical capacity to disrupt HAS decreased”.
Decreased. NOT, as you so cringily and weakly pretend, impossible.
Of course you are fully aware that IF the claims about Iran’s forces being depleted are true it’s inevitably also true that their physical ability to inflict damage is less than it was.
You are also aware that to suggest the US would have literally no chance of defeating them in this weakened state, is simply untenable and ridiculous.
But you don’t want to admit it, because that will force you to also accept the obvious fact that no one is trying to win this war, which is the last thing you will ever do.
So you resort to clumsy lies and obfuscations like the pompous blowhard fraud you are.
Yes, that sums it up. Of course it won’t matter. Our “Observe” will simply do what trolls always do i.e. he’ll pretend he won the argument anyway. And next time he posts, it’ll be back to square one.
You two are a cracking double act. And free to watch too!
Keep going…
I’m still chuckling at your name calling. A little embarrassing for you to have to resort to that but..
Keep going!
So you too reject the conclusion to this maybe dilemma. Cannons fits both these statements.
Yes, Iran’s military was weakened, but at the same time they maintain their ability to disrupt a Strait with very simple means – by cannons!
Or any simple ability to blow a hole in any bypassing ships. The double think theme is ok but not fit to this one here.
No no, according to that fool quoted in the article they don’t just “maintain” their ability to disrupt a strait – they increase it!
Having a working navy was actually holding them back! Who knew.
Ehhhh ahhhh oookey. Its somehow a bit complicated this issue, isnt it?
So was Melania Trumps strange announcement that she was not connected to Epstein an attempt to get the Epstein story to distract from the Iran War that was started to distract from the Epstein story . So the USA blocking the Straits Of Hormuz
will totally solve the problem of the Straits Of Hormuz being blocked/controlled by Iran.
So how long from decommissioning mine sweepers to actually scrapping or converting into other uses. Normally years so they could just as easily recommission them.
When things don’t appear to make any sense it is not cock up or confusion but that other C word Conspiracy there is method in the madness. We know those that are reordering the world that are behind the scenes want. They just have to tell us how wonder full the new reordered world will be . They are creating the problem with the war and economic collapse , The reaction as we beg for rescue . They just happen to have the solution waiting. Welcome central bank digital currency and your own personal daily score
of how much freedom you will be allowed .
Melania Trump’s G-string and none relationship with Epstein, while the Royal Elite were all crawling around on Paradise Island, is the key to understand NWO and the Iran war!
For decades Iran has asserted it has no nuclear weapons ambitions.
Which President Trump believes proves Iran has nuclear ambitions –
which is why this War against Iran is to prevent The Mad Mullahs
developing Weapons of Massive Destruction (WMD)…
Australia’s Supreme Leader must be thankful for President Trump’s
Blockade of Iran’s Blockade – no more agonising about how it will appear
when he agrees to pay Iran to let Australia’s oil pass through The Strait…
This morning, Monday morning Australian time, Trump has announced a full blockade of the Straits Of Hormuz to, er, stop Iran collecting illegal fees from ships. According to him. Make it make sense indeed Kit. I saw a couple of posts at the weekend including one from Ice Age Farmer warning that there may be food rationing in Australia.
I wonder how that will be done if that happens? Digital identity perhaps so they know “selfish people” aren’t cheating and taking more than they need. And of course digital identity is a core component of their digital panopticonic gulag to enslave everyone. The bastards needed a black swan event to bring in their new system… what a perfect opportunity for them with this war and shortages of fuel and food. People will be begging for something to be done.
Time to start stocking up on toilet paper again I suppose… and things like rice, pasta and canned vegetables. Sigh.
The world will not allow the USA to wreck their evonomy, complaining of extortion by Iran, which is true. But its also true that the USA is extorting because they are “forcing” Asia, China to buy from them as solution to the problem they have created – all because we have suddenly concluded that Iran must not be able to protect itself with Nukes like other nations. False flags on steroids to hide the Jewish plan for ekrkd domination as the puppet master of America, their proxy.
The first casualty of war is the truth. Look at how many lies there were about Russia’s war effort when the CIA told Western journalists to shill for Ukraine. The liberal Guardian never ‘fact-checks’ anything unless their spook handlers want to scotch the truth. They are still covering up for quack doctors and scientists who forced useless and dangerous ‘covid’ jabs on the public.
The mere fact the US got rid of their minesweepers from the gulf for the first time in forty years just a couple weeks before the “war” started should be enough to make it totally obvious this whole thing was set up.
What does anyone say to explain it non-conspiratorially? I’d love to hear the answers.
Shia and Sunni Islam losing its biggest weapons oil and gas: horrible
/sarc.
Next barter of oil for water at a ratio of one for one….
‘we’re sht, and we know we are…’
Y’all know the header illustration is total illusion. The narrowest part of the straits is 24 miles wide, Enough to not even be able to see a ship go through the straits from one of the shores adjacent.
Three down votes of the truth over exaggerated illustration? Well, that speaks for itself doesn’t it.
Bots and Operatives on here Sandy including the 77th Brigade. Don’t worry about the down votes because they almost certainly aren’t from genuine people on here. It’s been like that for aged.
Very true, Gezzah, and good to see you here again. Don’t let the bots drive you away again!
US scrapping of minesweeper fleet, just before Operation Epic Stupidity, is archetypal of elite creating baffling excuses for creating long term intractable conflict with “adversaries”. These people don’t solve problems, they create them. All the 911 non sequiturs, now Iran non sequiturs, all the Middle East military action non sequiturs, none of them make any sense as a defense of the US or Israel. (They blatently call them “national security interests” but are obviously hegemonic interests benefiting the elite’s “Commerce” interests.) Middle East military actions have only created failed states, terrorists, and geopolitical crisis points to exploit (such as Hormuz Straits). Any time something doesn’t make sense, there’s a hidden agenda. But not hidden anymore. These ops have become ridiculously transparent. The purpose of military and spys is to create plausible deniability excuses for enemies, wars, and conflict that are profit making abroad and at home for the ruling elite. Why does the US WAR DEPARTMENT have over 800 military bases everywhere on Earth? To be able to execute war anywhere on Earth. (Future wars are pre-identified by the first violent actions: “sanctions”.)
I posted some of this to Junior below:
Those minesweepers were removed as part of a shift from legacy hardware to autonomous technology. Massive investments are involved.
The specialized wooden-hulled Avenger-class ships were nearly 40 years old and becoming difficult to maintain. The Navy replaced them with Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), which use modular “mission packages” consisting of unmanned surface vehicles, underwater drones, and laser-equipped helicopters.
This shift into high-tech gadgetry is not only part of the removal (more accurately it is a replacement not a removal) it is also part and parcel of business deals the Trump admin is involved in.
For but one example Kraken Robotics which provides “advanced, high-tech mine countermeasure solutions through ultra-high-resolution sonar, autonomous launch systems, and specialized underwater vehicles” has recently received massive defense contracts for their products to replace the old mine sweepers.
Kraken is connected to Anduril Industries, a defense tech firm founded by Palmer Luckey, who is a long-time supporter of Donald Trump.
Moving the minesweepers out of Bahrain was sold as a security measure as Bahrain is within range of Iranian missiles and drones, the Navy did not want vulnerable ships sitting pier side during periods of high tension.
What it is in realpolitik is yet another business deal.
And this shit blather of an “explanation” is enough for you.
You have no problem believing the US command planned an attack on Iran that just happened to coincide with removing their minesweepers from the Gulf for the first time in forty years – FORTY years – and either didn’t realize their error or figured they wouldn’t be needing minesweepers despite fifty years of war gaming scenarios in which Iran responds to an attack by, guess what, MINING THE FUCKING STRAIT OF HORMUZ.
If they just replaced them with de-mining drones why didn’t they use those drones instead to clear the mines that may or may not be there?
What new piece of bullshit would they give you to explain that away?
You can try to not see the forest by focusing on the trees, but it’s not gonna save you when the ordure hits the rotating cooling device.
The death merchants are coming for humanity and their “war” has been carefully ringed round with narratives to prematurely explain why the coming nightmare can’t be avoided.
Get ready to watch people you love die you fucking fool.
That crappy pseudo technical bullshit you’re posting is aimed at midwits who just want to be reassured their governments aren’t all working together to wipe out their dumb lives. I can’t figure if that’s what you are or if you’re in a disinfo unit somewhere working your shift.
So war is not a racket _ _ _ I mean business?
More fool you.
BTW, if they start WW3, who’s gonna cut their grass and prune their roses?
The ‘drones’, the two-legged ones …
What are you talking about man? I am exactly saying war is a racket. A big phony racket.
Junior, sorry but people here tend to be passive aggressive loose cannons on a whim. Or some such perversity of mind. Like a bad dog. Bark Bark Bark. Nothing better to do I guess. BTW, thanks for your rebuttal to Maxwell. The excussionists do come outta nowhere, bots they are, conscious or not. Forest for the trees indeed. The purpose of that war and it’s extras like the Strait, is to create another failed state that cannot say no to the US elite. In the process making a failed world including the US whose corporations should be karma’ed down like that toilet paper factory. What howling insanity we live in!
@Admin – my comment has been auto-trashed. Again. Why??
Same here. Site seems a bit wonky at present.
We were attacked in big DDoS and all of the site went down, so some comments were lost I fear.
Pending…again. This is more than just annoying now – it makes for a really sh*t user-experience.
When you’re over the target, expect flak
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Well done.
Its fitting that actornauts Aldrin – Armstrong and Collins, have their names engraved at the Hollywood Walk of Fame, afterall they are/were actors.
They are next to James Stewart and Kirk Douglas.
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Did the latest actors claim to have seen a sky full of stars? Or are they still being trained (under the guise of isolation or recovery) for the press conference?
More poison for American’s to ingest.
Trump announces plan to allow corporations to dump coal ash – which is TWICE as radioactive as *nuclear fuel* – into our drinking water!
Yes, you read that right. Trump’s EPA is proposing to weaken rules for the safe disposal of super-mega-toxic ash produced by burning coal that contains hazardous heavy metals and contaminates groundwater.
“The Trump administration proposed easing standards for monitoring and protecting groundwater near some coal ash sites, and rolling back rules that require the cleanup of entire coal properties rather than just the sites where ash was dumped. The revisions would also make it easier to reuse coal ash for other purposes,” reports the Associated Press.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the proposal reflects the agency’s “commitment to restoring American energy dominance, strengthening cooperative federalism, and accommodating unique circumstances at certain (coal) facilities.”
The rules were strengthened by – you guessed it – the Biden administration a few years ago, and now Trump is trying to gut them on behalf of his cronies in Big Coal.
It is shocking to see just how eagerly the Trump administration is gutting all the regulations that keep us safe.
“The Trump administration just took a sledgehammer to the health protections in place for toxic coal pollution,” said Lisa Evans, senior counsel at environmental group Earthjustice. “This is yet another handout to the coal power industry at the expense of our health, water, and wallets.”
He is more than willing to make us drink poison and develop terrible cancers, all so his donors can save a little bit of money on cleaning up the toxic byproducts of their carbon pollution.
There is nothing sacred to these nihilistic scumbags, no respect for anything but their own bottom lines. Trump is willing to burn everything to the ground just so he can be king of the ashes – with not a care in the world for the millions of people who will suffer and die because of his decisions.
Oh dear, coal ash is NOT “twice as radioactive” as “nuclear fuel”.This is absurd and I think based on a poorly worded piece in a publication (New Scientist?) that was subject to correction.
What it meant to say was that fly ash releases more radiation than spent and stored nuclear fuel, NOT because it’s more radioactive, but because the nuclear fuel is shielded so that none of its high radioactivity can be released.
It would be just true to say your phone is “twice as radioactive as nuclear fuel” using that deceptive reasoning.
In reality fly ash is only slightly radioactive and certainly not dangerous.
This is just part of the demonizing fossil fuels agenda I’m afraid. Don’t fall for it.
nuclear fuel is shielded so that none of its high radioactivity can be released
After almost a century of nuke energy/bombs, how are the efforts of the enlightened West going? Any idea about progress at Hanford Nuclear Reserve in USA?
I see you provide no evidence whatsoever, but that’s okay – I agree that Fly Ash is the problem, so I’ve done the work you are too lazy to do.
Link at bottom of comment.
” Fly ash uranium sometimes leaches into the soil and water surrounding a coal plant, affecting cropland and, in turn, food. People living within a “stack shadow”—the area within a half- to one-mile (0.8- to 1.6-kilometer) radius of a coal plant’s smokestacks—might then ingest small amounts of radiation. Fly ash is also disposed of in landfills and abandoned mines and quarries, posing a potential risk to people living around those areas.
In a 1978 paper for Science, J. P. McBride at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and his colleagues looked at the uranium and thorium content of fly ash from coal-fired power plants in Tennessee and Alabama. To answer the question of just how harmful leaching could be, the scientists estimated radiation exposure around the coal plants and compared it with exposure levels around boiling-water reactor and pressurized-water nuclear power plants.
The result: estimated radiation doses ingested by people living near the coal plants were equal to or higher than doses for people living around the nuclear facilities. At one extreme, the scientists estimated fly ash radiation in individuals’ bones at around 18 millirems (thousandths of a rem, a unit for measuring doses of ionizing radiation) a year. Doses for the two nuclear plants, by contrast, ranged from between three and six millirems for the same period. And when all food was grown in the area, radiation doses were 50 to 200 percent higher around the coal plants.”
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste | Scientific American
Yes that is the article I mentioned in my first reply. Thanks for tracking it down. You will not the editor note and author correction at the end (my emphasis)
This is the point. They are unscientifically comparing shielded nuclear waste with unshielded fly ash.
The nuclear waste is actually highly radioactive, but because it’s shielded most of that radioactivity doesn’t leach out.
The fly ash is only mildly radioactive (not much above background) so does not need shielding and consequently its very minor release can be detected above background.
The concerned readers were right to require a change of wording as the original was extremely deceptive.
Thanks. Good to see this one debunked.
Sincere gratitude to Trump from the medical industry.
Jfk jr will stop this as he is making america healthy again.
Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon from their maps, as the Zionists murder and pillage their way across Southern Lebanon in aid of fulfilling the Greater Israel dream.
These well know big corps own shares in Apple.
“The Vanguard Group
~9.0%
Index/mutual fund manager
BlackRock Inc.
~6.5%
Index/mutual fund manager
Berkshire Hathaway
~5.8%
Conglomerate (active investor)
State Street Corporation
~3.7%
Index/mutual fund manager
Fidelity Investments
~2.2%
Mutual fund manager”
Who owns Apple? Ownership structure explained (2026)
Question – have you seen or are you aware of a SINGLE FUCKING PICTURE of this so called destruction? I am guessing that’s a no. So, why believe it? Because you trust the source? Why do you trust them?
Go check some of these “facts” you keep sharing. If you can’t verify em don’t believe em.
You people just have no idea of the scale of the lie do you? You’re all lambs to the fucking slaughter.
Facts…hmm, well Craig Murray has actually visited Lebanon, and seen the destruction for himself.
A Warning from Lebanon – Craig Murray
Did you read it? It doesn’t say he visited Lebanon. He shares another one if those weird close up phone videos that people always seem to take of missile damage these days, so you can’t get any perspective on the location and scale of destruction. You see the same thing in Ukraine and Israel.Mighty strange, but you probably don’t think so.
But even if this guy you don’t know did claim to visit Lebanon, what is that telling you? You need si much more skepticism than you’re capable of imagining
You really haven’t got a clue, have you.
Former British diplomat and journalist Craig Murray visits bombsite in Baalbek, Lebanon
241117 CraigMurray Blueprint of Destruction lr
What are you talking about man? The dumb article you shared didn’t say anything about this guy going to Lebanon. But like I said, even if he did, so what? What does it mean to you? You don’t know him. He’s an old G-man by the looks. What does his testimony mean to you? Explain.
He’s a major player in the decolonisation of my country – Scotland.
He went to prison for eight months – for exposing the fit up of Alex Salmond, which he exposed on his blog.
It appears Junior is rather stubborn- he has his “it’s all lies”, “they’re all in it together” and the rapidly tedious “false binary” defense mechanisms ever at hand. Ironically these are all ways to completely shut off critical thinking skills.
No amount of factual reporting will stir his/her curiosity.
And it appears you are a fool who thinks pretending shit isn’t isn’t happening is going to save you.
They’re planning for more than half the population of the West to die of hunger or disease in the next 5 – 15 years.
Live with that if you can. I have to.
Shoeonhead claim Israel’s reputation among young people is in the toilet.
So Israel pay a lot of ‘Influencers’ to write nice thing about Israel on social media to soften its reputation up from the toilet.
Are you one of these?
I haven’t said a single “nice thing” about Israel you retarded maniac.
You’re either quite dishonest or don’t have the desire or ability to look for sources.
There are plenty of images, live and otherwise that you can see.
Vanessa Beeley, Julia Kassem, Steve Sweeney, Dmitri Lascaris and many others are chronicling this.
I think you are in some form of denial.
I’m just a grunt man telling what I see with my eyes and hear with my ears every fucking day. What are you? Where do you get your information from? I get mine from the fucking horse’s mouth.
Google had better get in on the act too, if it knows what is in its interest.
BREAKING: Trump says oil and gas prices could be lower by the midterms — “or maybe a little higher.”
BREAKING: TRUMP CALLS FOR IMM’Y BLOCKADE OF THE STRAIT
and to interdict any ship at sea which has paid an illegal toll to Iran. This policy to be effective imm’y.
Who knows whether this is just blabbermouth talking or whether this will actually take place. As IO commented earlier, DURING the “negotiations” at least 1 US warship tried to enter the strait & was turned back by Iran’s nonexistent navy.
I’ll try to find out if this blockade/interdiction is actually taking place.
Why are you and that Tom guy both posting stuff that starts BREAKING in caps like that?
“Breaking” means a breaking news story; it’s generally reserved for brand new important news stories. I sometimes use an all-caps title to something I’m going to comment about so that people can tune in or avoid a topic they are or aren’t interested in.
I know what “breaking” means ffs – I’m questioning why two allegedly different commenters posting within a few minutes of each other both used identical wording and format.
I think you’re an operative using multiple IDs which explains why you post so much mainstream detritus.
I have been in those suites on some bases where fifty guys are at terminals spooling through twenty different avatars apiece and spamming mainstream talking points on a list of target sites. You have all the hallmarks “Penelope”.
You’ll like this one, it was couple of days ago.
“Israel ruthlessly carpet bombed Lebanon today, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 800.
How does the BBC report it?
“Israel says it hit more than 100 command centres and military sites in 10 minutes…””
Israel says it hit Lebanon 100 times in just 10 minutes – BBC News
Of course the BBC has major form in lying – anyone recall Tower 7 of which the BBC reported it had fallen when it was still standing in plain view behind the presenter.
Well, good for you that you’re seeing through it. BBC lies, Israel lies. They all lie and right now they all have a vested interest in pushing out lies about a war that is barely happening beyond lying headlines. The extent of the scripting would blow your mind if you knew
“The extent of the scripting would blow your mind if you knew”
On the above, but you know, care to share how you know?
Here you defend Israel again to get Israel’s reputation up from the toilet.
The English government want to play hardball with these protestors, their Zionist masters will be pleased.
“Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in prison. If convicted, the six Palestine Action activists and 18 others will likely be sentenced as terrorists, facing long prison terms.
The jury has not been notified about the ‘terrorist’ designation, and the British media cannot report this information under a court order. Activists will also be prohibited from telling jurors how their efforts sought to impede the Gaza genocide.
The prosecution followed a meeting between government officials and counter-terror officers, where designating Palestine Action as terrorists was discussed. Those officials admitted the group’s activities were “mostly confined to criminal damage,” not terrorism.”
UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout – The Grayzone
Remember when Ukraine was the only source of sunflower oil in the world and prices went up 10 fold when Russia invaded ?
Co-incidentally, every other commodity that we buy on a daily basis was also from Ukraine.
Who knew ?
Argentina and the US also produce sunflower oil , Argentina typically produces 3.4 million tonnes per year, and the US typically produces 860,000 tonnes per year – Ukraine and Russia are however the main producers of sunflower oil.
Yes, the sudden hyper-focus on Ukraine became a convenient narrative distracting from broader economic foolishness and corporate opportunism. Ukraine is a major producer/supplier in the ‘just-in-time’ system and everyone pretended it was simply efficient and not at all fragile. When some of the key goods were impacted, the knock on effect was huge – example, with no sunflower oil everyone switched to other veg oils which then also hiked in price regardless of where they came from. Then there’s hoarding, speculation, companies taking extra margin… For some, war is sunshine in which they get to make more hay. Or, to paraphrase a quote often attributed to Baron Rothschild: “Buy when there’s blood in the streets.”
The Ukraine-Russia war was first a distraction from the covid op that was falling apart and second an attempt at keeping the scarcity of commodities story going. The Iran war is much easier to leverage that way
Never has an operation fallen apart so succesfully that it enriched exactly who it was meant to by historic amounts, entrenched and increased control and power of those it was meant to, and propelled forward and enacted the plans for surveillance, employement change, automation, digital rollouts, population culling and more. What a failure!
1984 style logic? Trump to blockade the Strait of Hormuz in order to reopen it
War is peace.
Blockading is reopening.
Ha! I thought same immediately but then realised it makes sense to prevent all shipping as opposed to allowing Iran’s allies to be the only nations having it pain free. Hurt everyone to pressure Iran is a good tactic. Because of that, I’m certain it isn’t Trump’s idea!
Hegseth, Rubio, Vance etc, saying Trump is a conman and just generally denouncing him at every turn, before he became POTUS for a second time, now they can’t lick his boots quickly enough.
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Trump the king of the Epstein Class – on his social media platform said this, after the all but failed negotiations with Iran.
“Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz.
At some point, we will reach an “ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT” basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, “There may be a mine out there somewhere,” that nobody knows about but them.
I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits.
Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country.
The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION.
They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!”
I’d imagine Hezbollah will just move to a different area in Lebanon – to me it seems an extreme way to remove your domestic rivals – and the Zionists won’t stop there.
The BBC of all platforms, or was it the Guardian, I can’t quite recall, ran a not even a one day story – it was pulled very quickly – in which Lebanese Christians were helping Hezbollah in return for protection from the Zionist IDF, who were killing them.
“For those who don’t follow Lebanon,
the Lebanese government is looking formally to give to Israel Lebanese territory in majority Hezbollah supporting areas, in order to bolster its domestic anti-Hezbollah coalition.”
Courtesy of Craig Murray
Is this just “shocking the system” as described in the document that describes the economy as an electrical circuit found in behold a pale rider by william cooper?
The footage and commentary of the IRGC warning US navy ships to vacate the straits – or be attacked.
MonitorX (@MonitorX99800): “https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1fa-1f1f8.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f1ee-1f1f7.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/26a1.svgBREAKING: Iran has released footage showing IRGC Navy warning the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) and USS Frank E. Peterson (DDG 121) forcing them to turn away from the Strait of Hormuz or get struck. “Attention U.S. Navy warship, transiting near Fujairah Port and Oman Sea; this is IRGC Navy; LAST WARNING, LAST WARNING, LAST WARNING.”” | nitter.poast.org
This is illegal. USA has all International rights of freedom to sail in International water seas! Iran is NOT allowed to do this and will sued in Court the day tomorrow!
The US is ran by the Epstein Class, who are terrorist loving pirates.