“The entire country could be taken out in one night, and that night might be tomorrow night,” the president said.

Of course Stone Age types think "literacy" and "engineering" are values; it's because they don't have "books" and "machines." True post-Stone Age enlightened beings like Americans know the world actually runs on vibes, willpower, and "war fighting" spirit.

Incredible the comments on this one folks. The two top rated comments are:

Iran is turning into a major power? How? By being bombed day and night? By watching its leaders decapitated? Well, I don't really care. Let's wait for one more day, when Iran will either relinquish its control of the Strait or be bombed back into the stone age. No one could twist reality to present a stone age country as a major power.

"Stone Age country" successfully keeps the Strait of Hormuz closed is going to hit hard. The European Bell Beakers would be so jealous of the stone age tech Iran has invented. I'm sure the Stone Age peoples of Çatalhöyük would love launching a Shahed-136, really cutting edge Stone Age tech.

A few pipe lines to Haifa will make Hormuz and Iran obsolete.

"A few pipelines well within the range of Iranian standoff weaponry will make Hormuz and Iran obsolete!"

NYTimes with a new article, insane that the mainstream American press is printing stuff like this but such is the world the Epstein Class has decided to birth. «The War Is Turning Iran Into a Major World Power» is the title, and nothing in there is anything we haven't talked about here extensively, but to see the mainstream press draw these conclusions still reads like a fever dream to me.

Imagine Iran with control of about 20 percent of the world’s oil, Russia with about 11 percent and China able to soak up much of that supply. They would form a cartel to deny the West 30 percent of the world’s oil. You don’t need sophisticated analysis to recognize the catastrophic consequences: precipitously declining power for the United States and Europe, and a global shift toward China, Russia and Iran. The United States faces a difficult choice: either commit to a long-term effort to reassert control over the Strait of Hormuz, or accept a new global energy arrangement in which U.S. control is no longer assured.

If it chooses acceptance, the outcome is clear: The international system will reorganize with Iran as a fourth center of global power. Yet if the United States chooses to reassert military control, it is in for a long battle, one it could well lose. The Iran war is not a military conflict from which the United States can simply back out, with things reverting to how they were before. Iran would surely demand a heavy price in a new accommodation with the United States — but this price will surely be less costly than that of the alternative future. This is a transformational war, and if these changes continue for even a few years, the global order will change irrevocably.

Per https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/opinion/iran-war-strait-hormuz.html

Nah I mean the announcement of this with the French veto of the operation to reopen Hormuz. Yeah more broadly this tracks with what's been going on, and they started mid last year.

The Banque de France (BdF) announced last week that it generated a capital gain of €12.8 billion after upgrading 129 tonnes of gold – about 5 percent of France's total reserves – between July 2025 and January 2026. The gold was the last of the French reserves held in New York. It was replaced with the equivalent amount bought in Europe and held in Paris.

Probably just a coincidence given the timing, but France now no longer has any gold held in the United States. Italy and Germany still do, but the French are once again leading the euro-pack in terms of semi-autonomy from the American empire.

Per https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20260404-french-central-bank-nets-%E2%82%AC13bn-from-us-gold-sale-consolidates-reserves-in-paris

Yeah I'm not so sure. From what we've seen, any time they stray outside of their established "sanitised" routes, they get owned by Iranian air defenses. They've already used like half of the entire empire's stealthly standoff missiles. Tomahawks can be shot down, and probably have already used all the shipborne ones. I'm suspicious there's substantially more pain they're even capable of inflicting. I do not think it's really possible to «carpet bomb» Iranian cities outside of committing B2s, which the empire is usually loathe to do.

What can the US even possibly do other than straight up nuke Iran to make things even worse for Iran? Like, they're running out of standoff munitions and clearly do.not have air superiority.

Sure, a thousand of these missiles didn't degrade Iran's ability to control Hormuz nor collapse the state, but just maybe another 800 will!

Already happened my friend, an A-10 got shot down near Hormuz this afternoon, pilot was rescued though.

A ship owned by France’s CMA CGM has passed out of the Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, the first vessel owned by a major western shipping line known to have made safe passage since the outbreak of the US-Israeli war against Iran.

The vessel passed around Larak Island close to the coast of Iran, using a route that has become common for ships making the transit and which has become part of a system used by Iran to visually verify crossings, according to maritime executives and analysts.

So, with France (alongside Russia and China) blocking a resolution in the UN Security Council to sanction the use of force to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, coupled with this, a French company (the owner of which has very close ties to Macron) traversing the strait with its transponder on, clearly getting inspected by Iran, points to Something afoot with the euros.

Per Financial Times https://archive.is/wLGvM