Just as everything is Hamas to the zionists, everything is Russia to the EU libs. Bad thing happened by other Europeans? They must secretly be Russian!

This, the changes to merge the zionist military funding. This is all I think a way of locking in US-Zionist partnership in a hard way. They know that they're now unpopular with younger people. They know their propaganda messaging has failed and this is to pre-empt the potential of a future push to decouple and sanction.

The zionists have claimed that the Samson option isn't just nukes, that there are inside technological systems in all industries can can bring the whole modern world down if they fall. I feel this is part of that strategy. Get their tech integrated impossibly deep into the US military, state, law enforcement, etc so it's impossible for the US to conceive of doing anything against the entity. Epstein wasn't enough. It needs to be widespread, it needs to be an obvious gun against the head of the US if it twitches in its support for the zionist entity. A suicide pact of mutual destruction basically to assure the US props it up until the end of time.

Well Gordon Chang is the CPC's top undercover agent so I think that's fair.

The zionist entity will never back down so I guess we're going to have dualing blockades. I'm not sure how well Iran can enforce its if ships are using shipping lanes right next to Oman and the US keeps hitting their naval radar. Given reports of US helping ships sneak through it seems both sides have some limited success getting some stuff through so neither is particularly pressured but the US in particular is less pressured than it needs to be given Iran has the Caspian Sea anyways.

Oil crisis is mildly interesting. Inconvenient for people who need to travel, higher costs for transporting goods yes. But the real economy breaker, the real changer of quality of life won't be $10/gal gas but inadequate supplies of patrochemical industry derived fertilizers and precursors which will lead to shortages, famines, and incredibly high prices on the food side and industry breaking down in various sectors due to those other shortages. So not getting the oil would be inconvenient but if they could sneak through enough of these essential products the US could ride it out pretty well due to our own massive domestic supply.

There was that video by Medhurst about the US long-term plan to seize control of petro-resources globally. They did Venzeuala successfully, if they keep Hormuz closed they control it in a Paul Atreides "he who can destroy a thing controls a thing" sort of way, they're going to control Greenland, they have massive US exploitation, they're beginning exploitation of Palestine's massive gas field and so on. So I'm not sure they are necessarily in a rush if they can get the essentials to get everyone cheap gas. It might be used to pressure countries into longer-term unfavorable contracts with the US and/or US companies like Chevron in this crisis which might far outlast it and give the US real leverage and profits into the decades to come.

So should I sell my broad exposure mutual funds now before they get burdened by and sunk by this? Who needs to actually worry?

US military secretly guiding ships through Strait of Hormuz – NYT (RT link)

Washington has reportedly coordinated the passage of 70 cargo vessels despite Trump’s abrupt suspension of Project Freedom

According to the Times, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has coordinated the passage of around 70 commercial vessels through the waterway over the past three weeks. An official told the newspaper that most of the vessels had turned off their transponders to avoid detection by Iranian forces. The ships reportedly used a shipping lane closer to the Omani coast.

In April, the US imposed a blockade on Iranian ports and has since intercepted more than 100 cargo ships. On Sunday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said that 28 vessels had passed through the strait over the previous 24 hours after obtaining permission.

So to me it seems both sides are having limited success. US blockade isn't 100% tight but nor is Iranian control of the strait if that many ships snuck through. With recent reports of the US firing a missile at the engine room of a cargo ship for running the blockade I think the US just wants to sit and wait. If the US can get vital shipments of raw material through perhaps they believe they can choke Iran out with a blockade or at least not lose face. Iran meanwhile may not have the ability to project power that far from its coast or observe ships reliably that have transponders and lights off and may be moving through the most dangerous parts at night.

No because they're in the middle of committing a crime. Someone invading your home to murder you and loot your belongings doesn't have a legal right to self-defense in the middle of the crime. Neither would the women who have been criminalized as murders have a right to defend themselves.

Yeah they'll treat it like a national security threat but not how you hope.

Privacy protection rights for all Americans like China and EU have done to rein in this excess?

Just slapping rules on they can only sell or store their vast surveillance data within the US or to explicitly US government approved 5/7/12/21 eyes friends?

This fund will I guarantee be under US control or that of a comprador state under the US thumb and they'll try to use it to leverage Iran into not reacting to future provocations and violations. See what they've done with Venezuela oil revenues. That's the only way the US would allow this.

At that point just get rid of him as a spy in the usual way. Say he was in a car crash, refuse to elaborate or explain and note down the names of any "reporters" (CIA assets) who come sniffing around asking about it. He'll likely still be a threat in 15 years but also a cause celebre who can tour the west making up horror stories and it's just straight up treason though for optics reasons it isn't best to try and press that designation.

Just imagining it now: "I spent over a year as a guest of Hamas and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"

No, they're going to coach at least a few of them into making up stories about horrors and atrocities and put those obviously staged and coerced "stories" on blast in the western news media. And if they can't coach any into that they'll just make it up like theremoveds and the western media will keep repeating it and using it to bash pro-Palestinians over the head.

On a related note. Bets on whether this ceasefire results in the ICC/ICJ washing their hands of the whole thing or the US managing to lean on South Africa enough to drop the case? Because I just can't see the west not pulling out all the stops to brush this whole thing under a rug and say it's in the past.