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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Washington says it's bracing for weeks of fighting. The units you'd actually stand up for that fight are being sent home instead
Larry Johnson tracks the machinery behind the threats.
Per his sourcing, the deconfliction cell that keeps US and allied aircraft untangled mid-operation is being pulled out of the region, and the crisis action teams activated before February 28 have never been reconstituted.
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Its absence, he argues, means the path is still withdrawal, whatever the podium says.
He gave the "rogue elements" theory the same treatment.
Axios reported mediators believe MOU opponents inside Iran struck those ships.
Larry pulled up the published protocols: any vessel that skips Iran's application gets denied passage or fired on.
Paragraph five enforcement, spelled out in black and white, requires no rogues.
The bigger moment lands tomorrow.
Tasnim says the new Supreme Leader will lead commemorative prayers at Qom, his first public appearance, with Israel's death threat still hanging in the air.
And on the WSJ report of a fresh Iranian plot against Trump, Larry's logic ran opposite: a country working to push America out of the Gulf doesn't hand Washington a reason to return.
The ledger underneath it all: 60 MILLION barrels exported in three weeks per Windward Intelligence, 10 million of them in a single night.
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. strikes reportedly reached the railway linking Iran to China, and that target choice says plenty about what this phase of the war is actually about
Brandon Weichert connected the dots on the map. Kharg yesterday, the Gorgan line today, the final link of the Eurasian Land Bridge that starts in Xi'an and ends in Tehran.
Producing oil means nothing if you can't move it, and in his read Washington is now going after Iran's entire energy profile, the flow as much as the fields.
Iran's answer?
The same Bahrain and Kuwait packages, third wave tonight, smoke rising over the Fifth Fleet headquarters again in unconfirmed footage.
Brandon sees discipline in that restraint: Tehran is running an economic countdown while Washington burns through its reserve, and by his math the regime only needs to hold on another 20 or 30 days.
Qatar sits "on the menu," untouched, which tells him the red line hasn't been crossed.
His sharpest detail was legal, not military.
The whole fight over the Omani corridor exists because every ship that uses Iran's traffic separation scheme strengthens Tehran's case to charge its fee. The routes ARE the war.
One reassuring cross-check: a genuine clearing operation for a ground push would drop fifty times this ordnance. He agreed without hesitation.
His words: that's a blessing.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's endgame in the strait may be a Suez Canal of its own: a tolled corridor running through waters it legally controls
Stefano Ritondale spent his Army intel career wargaming exactly this fight, and his read cuts through the noise of the last 48 hours.
The ship attacks began, he believes, because Tehran watched vessels drift to the southern route with transponders off and realized it was losing its grip on the strait.
So it set out to make the northern passage the preferred one: coordinate with Iran, sail safe.
And because that corridor threads Iranian territorial waters between two Iranian islands, tolls and pilot fees there wouldn't even violate maritime law.
Day 60 arrives, and the tollbooth is legitimate.
The retaliation fits the same logic.
Drones on the same near-abandoned bases in Kuwait and Bahrain, ballistic launches held to a trickle.
His explanation: the production lines are wrecked, Iran can't rebuild missiles the way Russia does, so every launcher spared is leverage kept.
His tripwires for real escalation: Prince Sultan in Saudi, Al Dhafra in the UAE, or a tanker sunk on the Omani route. All untouched so far.
The watch item is Netanyahu landing at the White House to argue the MOU failed.
If that pitch sticks, he warns, regime change returns to the menu, and no air campaign has ever delivered one.
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Macroeconomist Philip Pilkington thinks Trump didn't prevent an oil crisis, he hid it long enough to make it worse.
For weeks, we were told the Strait of Hormuz disruption wasn't really affecting global supply, and that the market had plenty of breathing room.
Philip says almost all of it was fiction.
His argument is that the real stress never disappeared; it was simply hidden in the parts of the market almost nobody was paying attention to: strategic petroleum reserves, Chinese refinery policy, Russian diesel restrictions, and physical oil versus paper oil.
Then everything started moving at once.
China lifted restrictions on its refiners, Russia tightened diesel exports, and oil prices jumped.
That wasn't a new crisis beginning; it was the old one finally breaking through.
Philip says the Trump administration became so focused on keeping oil prices low that it distorted the market instead of allowing it to adjust naturally.
Policymakers chose to give the market cheap energy today by borrowing stability from tomorrow, and now the bill is starting to arrive.
He also made a broader point that goes far beyond oil.
Markets can absorb bad news, but what they struggle with is pretending reality has changed when it hasn't.
Trump may think he bought the economy more time, but Philip thinks he simply delayed the reckoning.
And if he's right, the real energy crisis is still waiting around the corner.
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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 Over 80 targets hit in one wave, 60 IRGC gunboats among them, and the revoked oil waivers could still outweigh every bomb dropped tonight
CENTCOM's statement landed while we were live: air defenses, command networks, coastal radar, anti-ship missile sites, and SIXTY of the small boats Iran uses to squeeze shipping.
Iran's answer came fast, drones over Bahrain and reportedly anti-ship missiles at US warships, intercepted so far.
But Stefano Ritondale kept pulling my eyes off the explosions and onto the paperwork.
Strikes get absorbed, he argued; sides trade blows and find equilibrium.
Killing the waivers guts the one conduit that brought Iran to the table, and it teaches every future buyer that sanctions snap back overnight, so who signs even if they return?
A liquidity-starved economy just lost its only breath of air.
His prediction: Tehran's next demand will be something irreversible, frozen assets released outright.
His read on why Iran hit those ships at all: the southern route was hardening into the new normal, convoy spacing on the trackers suggests coordination making it work, and their strongest card was bleeding value.
One unconfirmed report claims only the regular army is retaliating, which he took as messaging for home, not restraint.
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