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Brian Berletic

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3 months ago

I warned over a month ago in this video (timestamp included): https://t.co/6wrGD3sGBM It's amazing how clear things are when you just read the US' own signed/dated policy papers, follow their actions, and ignore the political theater of the US and its proxies...

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4 months ago

What a powerful music . #iran is one of the oldest civilizations like #Tamils #Tamilnadu #indusvally. It’s shameful ⁦@PMOIndia⁩ ⁦@narendramodi⁩ #Indian gov supports who don’t believe in god but only money & violence https://t.co/JFF0xNkDGl

NoviceTrader @NovisTrader3

4 months ago

@SimonDixonTwitt @NM_05698 It means ‘greater Israel project will RIP. That Chinese professor keep saying pax Judaea will be achieved in the end .

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4 months ago

@SimonDixonTwltl @neko_pantera @SimonDixonTwitt Done. Please check your telegram.

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AIM - A puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma.

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New to the world of investing - no advice given 😉

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@SimonDixonTwltl @neko_pantera @SimonDixonTwitt Done.

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4 months ago

@SimonDixonTwitt Thanks for your insight . If economic catastrophe is coming, is our private pension funds also in trouble blackrock and vanguard funds etc?

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Daniel Foubert 🇵🇱🇫🇷

@d_foubert

4 months ago

Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago. The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans. Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites. Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written. The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention. El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity. "Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different. The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes. Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe. The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire. In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it. The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence. So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East: The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys. The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world. Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic. Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite. History has a very dark sense of humor.

d_foubert's tweet photo. Trump thinks he can solve a clash of ancient civilisations that started more than 2500 years ago.

The Israelis are Mesopotamians, and the Iranians are Indo-Europeans.

Abraham is explicitly from Ur of the Chaldees, which is in southern Iraq, near modern Basra. There is no meaningful genetic discontinuity between the people of ancient Mesopotamia and the people who became Canaanites who became Israelites.

Hebrew is a Semitic language. The Semitic language family originated in Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula. Hebrew, Aramaic, Akkadian, Arabic, Babylonian — all branches of the same tree. Hebrew and Babylonian Akkadian are cousin languages the way Spanish and Italian are cousins. They share root words, grammatical structures, and conceptual vocabulary going back thousands of years before the Bible was written.

The foundational myths of Judaism — creation, the flood, paradise, the first man, the tower — all have direct Mesopotamian predecessors that are older. The ethical and legal framework — the covenant structure, the law codes — mirrors Mesopotamian forms. The calendar is Babylonian. The alphabet is Aramaic-Mesopotamian. The very concept of recording sacred history in written texts is a Mesopotamian invention.

El — the chief god of the early Israelites and the root of the word Elohim, one of the Hebrew names for God — was a Canaanite/Mesopotamian deity. The word Israel itself contains El. The angels, the cosmic hierarchy, the idea of a divine council — all have deep Mesopotamian roots. Early Israelite religion before the exile looks very much like a local variant of broader Mesopotamian religious culture, with Yahweh gradually absorbing the attributes of El, Baal and others into a single deity.

"Iran" comes directly from "Aryana" — land of the Aryans. The Iranians were Indo-European, not Semitic. This is the foundational distinction. Where the Semitic world — Sumerians absorbed by Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs — emerged from the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula, the Iranians came from somewhere completely different.

The Iranian peoples were part of the great Indo-European migration — a population that originated on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, in what is now Ukraine, southern Russia and Kazakhstan. Around 2000–1500 BC these steppe peoples began expanding in all directions on horseback, carrying their languages with them. One branch went west and became the Greeks, Romans, Celts, Germans, Slavs. Another branch went south and east and split into two streams — one into India becoming the Vedic civilization, one into Iran becoming the Persians and Medes.

Old Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin and all their descendants are branches of the same tree. The word for father in Persian is "pedar," in Latin "pater," in Greek "patér," in Sanskrit "pitár," in English "father." The word for god in Persian is related to the Sanskrit "deva." The Iranian god Mithra appears in Roman religion as Mithras and possibly echoes in the Vedic Mitra. These are not coincidences — they reflect a common origin perhaps 5,000 years ago on the Eurasian steppe.

The two main Iranian tribes that entered history were the Medes in the northwest and the Persians in the south. The Medes formed the first Iranian empire around 700 BC, destroying the Assyrian Empire — the superpower of its day — in alliance with the Babylonians. Then the Persians under Cyrus the Great overthrew the Medes in 550 BC and built the Achaemenid Empire.

In 651 AD the Sassanid Persian Empire — the last great pre-Islamic Persian dynasty — was destroyed by the Arab Muslim armies in one of the fastest conquests in history. Iran was Islamicized. Arabic became the language of religion and high culture. Yet something remarkable happened — unlike Egypt, like North Africa, like the Levant, which gradually became Arabized in language and identity, Iran kept its language. Persian survived. Within two centuries Iranians were writing sophisticated poetry, philosophy and science in Persian — using the Arabic script but their own language. The Persian cultural identity proved resilient enough to absorb Islam without being dissolved by it.

The Persian literary renaissance of the 9th-10th centuries produced figures like Ferdowsi, whose Shahnameh — Book of Kings — deliberately reconstructed pre-Islamic Persian identity and mythology. It was a conscious act of cultural preservation remarkably similar to what the Jewish scribes did with the Torah in Babylon. A conquered people writing their way back into existence.

So you have two civilizational streams that met in the Middle East:

The Semitic stream — out of Arabia and the Fertile Crescent, producing Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Jews, Arabs. Urban, agricultural, text-centered from very early, building civilization in river valleys.

The Indo-European Iranian stream — out of the Eurasian steppe, mounted, pastoral, bringing a completely different cosmology, a dualistic theology, a warrior aristocratic culture that then learned to govern sedentary civilizations from the Semitic world.

Modern Iranians are the descendants of that Indo-European Iranian stream, heavily mixed with the pre-existing Elamite and Semitic populations of the region, then further shaped by Arab Islamic conquest. Genetically they are distinct from Arabs — closer to South Asians and Europeans than to Semitic Arabs in certain markers, reflecting that ancient steppe origin. Linguistically Persian is closer to English than it is to Arabic — both are Indo-European, while Arabic is Semitic.

Which makes the current conflict between Iran and Israel — between the heirs of the Indo-European Iranian world and the heirs of the Semitic Mesopotamian-Canaanite world — in some sense a resumption of the oldest cultural fault line in the Middle East. The same two civilizational streams that first encountered each other when Cyrus walked into Babylon in 539 BC, when he freed the Jews and sent them home. Except then they were allies. And the Iranian was the liberator of the Semite.

History has a very dark sense of humor.

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Douglas Macgregor

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BREAKING: Iranian missile attack strikes Dimona, Israel, home to Israel’s nuclear facility. Multiple injuries, developing.

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marco orio

@Marcorio61O

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# 🚨 Iran Strikes Dimona: The Samson Option Threshold Just Got Real --- **Tweet 1/6** An Iranian ballistic missile struck the city of Dimona in southern Israel on March 21, 2026, injuring approximately 39 people—including a 10‑year‑old boy in serious condition—and causing a building collapse. Dimona is home to Israel’s Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, widely believed to be the production site for Israel’s estimated 80–400 undeclared nuclear warheads. From the analyst’s perspective, Iran did not need to hit the facility itself. Hitting the city next to it was the message. --- **Tweet 2/6** **What the sources say — Verified** ✅ Iranian state television confirmed the strike was retaliation for the US‑Israeli attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility earlier that day. ✅ Video footage shows the missile evading Israeli air defenses and impacting in a residential area. ✅ The missile traveled from Iran to Dimona—a distance of approximately 1,200 km—demonstrating precision strike capability. ✅ This follows Iran’s March 20 launch of missiles at Diego Garcia (4,500 km range), proving Tehran’s capabilities far exceed prior Western estimates. The analyst’s assessment: Iran’s missile forces are operating at a technical level Western intelligence did not anticipate. --- **Tweet 3/6** **The nuclear enrichment question — Why Western intelligence claims deserve skepticism** US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified on March 17, 2026, that “as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild.” The analyst notes: this assertion rests on **no independently verifiable evidence**. ❌ No satellite imagery showing destroyed centrifuges has been released ❌ No radiological detection data from international monitoring stations has been made public ❌ The IAEA has not issued a report confirming the destruction In past conflicts (Osirak 1981, Syria 2007, alleged Iranian facility strikes), photographic and/or environmental sampling evidence was eventually presented. Its absence here raises legitimate questions. --- **Tweet 4/6** **The central question: Does Iran have nuclear weapons — or the means to make them quickly?** The analyst examines three possibilities: 1. **Western intelligence is correct:** Enrichment was destroyed. Iran now has no active program. But then why would Tehran risk striking Dimona without a deterrent? 2. **Western intelligence is incomplete:** Iran dispersed its program before the strikes, or enrichment continues at undeclared sites. No public evidence disproves this. 3. **Iran already possesses a device:** Acquired from North Korea, Pakistan, or a pre‑existing covert stash. This would explain both the regime’s strategic patience and its current willingness to cross Israel’s nuclear red line. From the analyst’s perspective: **the absence of photographic and radiological evidence means the “obliterated” narrative remains unproven.** Iran’s behavior is consistent with a state that either retains a covert enrichment capability or already possesses a nuclear deterrent. --- **Tweet 5/6** **The Samson Option — What happens next** Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern warned on March 13: if the Iran conflict continues escalating, Israel may face a decision “more dangerous than anything since the Cold War.” The Samson Option—Israel’s doctrine of last‑resort nuclear retaliation—assumes the state faces annihilation. **Scenario A: Israel does not use nuclear weapons** - Iran wins the deterrence debate permanently - Every regional actor recalculates - US credibility collapses **Scenario B: Israel uses nuclear weapons** - Regional war becomes global within 48 hours - Oil prices $200+ - The US alliance system fractures --- **Tweet 6/6** **Conclusion — What the strike means** The Dimona strike is not a military defeat for Israel. It is a strategic crossing of a line that no adversary has dared cross since 1973. Iran has demonstrated: ✅ Missiles that can reach Israel’s nuclear core ✅ Willingness to strike there ✅ Capabilities (4,500 km range) hidden for years The question that now dominates strategic analysis: **would Iran do this without a nuclear deterrent of its own?** The analyst’s assessment: based on Tehran’s behavior, its decade‑long strategic patience, its knowledge of Israeli doctrine, and the complete absence of verifiable evidence that its enrichment program was actually destroyed—**it is highly likely Iran possesses either a covert enrichment capability or an undeclared nuclear device.** If correct, the war just entered its most dangerous phase. Not because missiles are flying. Because the rules of nuclear deterrence that held for 80 years may have just been rewritten without anyone announcing it. --- 🧭 My work focuses on decision-oriented strategic analysis. Not commentary. Not advocacy. I analyze incentives, constraints, and second-order effects. Structured, multi-layer strategic analysis available via bio. ⚖️ Marco | Independent Analyst

$Marcorio61O's tweet photo. # 🚨 Iran Strikes Dimona: The Samson Option Threshold Just Got Real --- **Tweet 1/6** An Iranian ballistic missile struck the city of Dimona in southern Israel on March 21, 2026, injuring approximately 39 people—including a 10‑year‑old boy in serious condition—and causing a building collapse. Dimona is home to Israel’s Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, widely believed to be the production site for Israel’s estimated 80–400 undeclared nuclear warheads. From the analyst’s perspective, Iran did not need to hit the facility itself. Hitting the city next to it was the message. --- **Tweet 2/6** **What the sources say — Verified** ✅ Iranian state television confirmed the strike was retaliation for the US‑Israeli attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility earlier that day. ✅ Video footage shows the missile evading Israeli air defenses and impacting in a residential area. ✅ The missile traveled from Iran to Dimona—a distance of approximately 1,200 km—demonstrating precision strike capability. ✅ This follows Iran’s March 20 launch of missiles at Diego Garcia (4,500 km range), proving Tehran’s capabilities far exceed prior Western estimates. The analyst’s assessment: Iran’s missile forces are operating at a technical level Western intelligence did not anticipate. --- **Tweet 3/6** **The nuclear enrichment question — Why Western intelligence claims deserve skepticism** US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified on March 17, 2026, that “as a result of Operation Midnight Hammer, Iran’s nuclear enrichment program was obliterated. There has been no efforts since then to try to rebuild.” The analyst notes: this assertion rests on **no independently verifiable evidence**. ❌ No satellite imagery showing destroyed centrifuges has been released ❌ No radiological detection data from international monitoring stations has been made public ❌ The IAEA has not issued a report confirming the destruction In past conflicts (Osirak 1981, Syria 2007, alleged Iranian facility strikes), photographic and/or environmental sampling evidence was eventually presented. Its absence here raises legitimate questions. --- **Tweet 4/6** **The central question: Does Iran have nuclear weapons — or the means to make them quickly?** The analyst examines three possibilities: 1. **Western intelligence is correct:** Enrichment was destroyed. Iran now has no active program. But then why would Tehran risk striking Dimona without a deterrent? 2. **Western intelligence is incomplete:** Iran dispersed its program before the strikes, or enrichment continues at undeclared sites. No public evidence disproves this. 3. **Iran already possesses a device:** Acquired from North Korea, Pakistan, or a pre‑existing covert stash. This would explain both the regime’s strategic patience and its current willingness to cross Israel’s nuclear red line. From the analyst’s perspective: **the absence of photographic and radiological evidence means the “obliterated” narrative remains unproven.** Iran’s behavior is consistent with a state that either retains a covert enrichment capability or already possesses a nuclear deterrent. --- **Tweet 5/6** **The Samson Option — What happens next** Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern warned on March 13: if the Iran conflict continues escalating, Israel may face a decision “more dangerous than anything since the Cold War.” The Samson Option—Israel’s doctrine of last‑resort nuclear retaliation—assumes the state faces annihilation. **Scenario A: Israel does not use nuclear weapons** - Iran wins the deterrence debate permanently - Every regional actor recalculates - US credibility collapses **Scenario B: Israel uses nuclear weapons** - Regional war becomes global within 48 hours - Oil prices $200+ - The US alliance system fractures --- **Tweet 6/6** **Conclusion — What the strike means** The Dimona strike is not a military defeat for Israel. It is a strategic crossing of a line that no adversary has dared cross since 1973. Iran has demonstrated: ✅ Missiles that can reach Israel’s nuclear core ✅ Willingness to strike there ✅ Capabilities (4,500 km range) hidden for years The question that now dominates strategic analysis: **would Iran do this without a nuclear deterrent of its own?** The analyst’s assessment: based on Tehran’s behavior, its decade‑long strategic patience, its knowledge of Israeli doctrine, and the complete absence of verifiable evidence that its enrichment program was actually destroyed—**it is highly likely Iran possesses either a covert enrichment capability or an undeclared nuclear device.** If correct, the war just entered its most dangerous phase. Not because missiles are flying. Because the rules of nuclear deterrence that held for 80 years may have just been rewritten without anyone announcing it. --- 🧭 My work focuses on decision-oriented strategic analysis. Not commentary. Not advocacy. I analyze incentives, constraints, and second-order effects. Structured, multi-layer strategic analysis available via bio. ⚖️ Marco | Independent Analyst$

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@Marcorio61O

4 months ago

**🇺🇸🇮🇷 Bessent: 'We Will See If Kharg Island Eventually Becomes a US Asset.' The Mask Is Off.** The US Treasury Secretary made a statement that changes the nature of this war. On one hand, he expressed concern for Iranian oil workers "coerced" to stay on Kharg Island. On the other, he openly mused about the island—which handles 90% of Iran's oil exports—becoming an American asset. This is not humanitarian concern. This is annexation logic wrapped in diplomatic language. The world is watching. And if this is where things are headed, the United States is becoming the problem—not the solution. 🧵 **Tweet 1** ✅ **VERIFIED: Bessent's Kharg Island Comments** During a Fox Business interview on March 19, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated: "The military assets on Kharg Island were destroyed. The other thing I can tell you, if you're an oil worker, you don't want to work there. So all the oil workers there are being coerced to stay there. And we will see what happens with whether that eventually becomes a US asset." He also claimed the US is "starting to see defections" within the Iranian regime. ✅ SOURCES: Yeni Şafak , This is Beirut , Business Standard **Tweet 2** 📊 **The Context: What Is Kharg Island?** Kharg Island is Iran's primary oil export terminal, handling approximately **90% of the country's crude shipments**. The US conducted a bombing campaign targeting military assets on the island last week. Bessent confirmed the strikes were "precision strikes" against military targets—but then suggested the entire island could become a US asset. **Tweet 3** ⚠️ **The Contradiction in Bessent's Statement** Bessent simultaneously claimed: 1. Concern for Iranian oil workers being "coerced" to stay 2. Kharg Island "may eventually become a US asset" The analysis highlights that this is not humanitarian concern. It is the language of a campaign to seize strategic territory, dressed in diplomatic clothing. **Tweet 4** 💡 **What Bessent's Words Reveal** The Treasury Secretary described a strategy that uses: • Sanctions as weapons (Iranian oil currently on the water—140 million barrels—may be "unsanctioned" to flood markets) • Military strikes to degrade Iranian infrastructure • The possibility of direct US control over Iran's primary oil export hub This is not a defensive war. This is a war for resources dressed as a war for security. **Tweet 5** 🌍 **The Warning: This Could Lead to Superpower Confrontation** One analysis warns: if the US proceeds down this path, it becomes the problem for the entire world. A confrontation between superpowers would be inevitable. Consider: • Kharg Island is Iranian sovereign territory • 90% of Iran's oil exports pass through it • Iran has spent 20+ years preparing defenses • Russia has deep strategic ties with Tehran • China buys Iranian oil and has a 25-year strategic partnership If the US attempts to seize Kharg Island, Iran will react. And its allies will not stand idle. **Tweet 6** 📉 **The Broader Strategy Bessent Described** The Treasury Secretary outlined a multi-pronged approach: • Unsanction 140 million barrels of Iranian oil currently at sea to flood markets • Release 400 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (IEA-coordinated) • Use Russian oil waivers (through April 11) to supplement supply • Continue military pressure while hoping for "defections" He admitted: "We will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign." **Tweet 7** ⚠️ **The Energy Markets Are Already Collapsing** The context Bessent is responding to: • Brent crude hit $118/barrel • Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG facility was struck—force majeure declared, 3-5 years to repair • The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed • IEA confirms the largest oil supply disruption in history (8 million barrels/day offline) Bessent's "concern" for oil workers appears to be a panic response to a market spiraling out of control. **Tweet 8** 🇺🇸 **Bottom Line: What Is Verified** ✅ Bessent explicitly suggested Kharg Island "may eventually become a US asset" ✅ He claimed US forces destroyed military assets on the island last week ✅ He framed concern for Iranian oil workers while floating annexation ✅ He described a strategy of using Iranian oil reserves to stabilize markets ✅ The US is now openly discussing taking sovereign Iranian territory The analysis concludes: The United States is not fighting a war for security. It is fighting a war for resources. If it proceeds down the path of territorial annexation, it will become the problem for the entire world—not the solution. Russia, China, and Iran will not simply watch. The confrontation Bessent is preparing for may be larger than anyone imagines. --- 🧭 My work focuses on decision-oriented strategic analysis. Not commentary. Not advocacy. I analyze incentives, constraints, and second-order effects. Structured, multi-layer strategic analysis available via bio. ⚖️ Marco | Independent Analyst

Marcorio61O's tweet photo. **🇺🇸🇮🇷 Bessent: 'We Will See If Kharg Island Eventually Becomes a US Asset.' The Mask Is Off.**

The US Treasury Secretary made a statement that changes the nature of this war.

On one hand, he expressed concern for Iranian oil workers "coerced" to stay on Kharg Island. On the other, he openly mused about the island—which handles 90% of Iran's oil exports—becoming an American asset.

This is not humanitarian concern. This is annexation logic wrapped in diplomatic language.

The world is watching. And if this is where things are headed, the United States is becoming the problem—not the solution. 🧵

**Tweet 1**
✅ **VERIFIED: Bessent's Kharg Island Comments**

During a Fox Business interview on March 19, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated:

"The military assets on Kharg Island were destroyed. The other thing I can tell you, if you're an oil worker, you don't want to work there. So all the oil workers there are being coerced to stay there. And we will see what happens with whether that eventually becomes a US asset."

He also claimed the US is "starting to see defections" within the Iranian regime.

✅ SOURCES: Yeni Şafak , This is Beirut , Business Standard

**Tweet 2**
📊 **The Context: What Is Kharg Island?**

Kharg Island is Iran's primary oil export terminal, handling approximately **90% of the country's crude shipments**.

The US conducted a bombing campaign targeting military assets on the island last week.

Bessent confirmed the strikes were "precision strikes" against military targets—but then suggested the entire island could become a US asset.

**Tweet 3**
⚠️ **The Contradiction in Bessent's Statement**

Bessent simultaneously claimed:
1. Concern for Iranian oil workers being "coerced" to stay
2. Kharg Island "may eventually become a US asset"

The analysis highlights that this is not humanitarian concern. It is the language of a campaign to seize strategic territory, dressed in diplomatic clothing.

**Tweet 4**
💡 **What Bessent's Words Reveal**

The Treasury Secretary described a strategy that uses:
• Sanctions as weapons (Iranian oil currently on the water—140 million barrels—may be "unsanctioned" to flood markets)
• Military strikes to degrade Iranian infrastructure
• The possibility of direct US control over Iran's primary oil export hub

This is not a defensive war. This is a war for resources dressed as a war for security.

**Tweet 5**
🌍 **The Warning: This Could Lead to Superpower Confrontation**

One analysis warns: if the US proceeds down this path, it becomes the problem for the entire world. A confrontation between superpowers would be inevitable.

Consider:
• Kharg Island is Iranian sovereign territory
• 90% of Iran's oil exports pass through it
• Iran has spent 20+ years preparing defenses
• Russia has deep strategic ties with Tehran
• China buys Iranian oil and has a 25-year strategic partnership

If the US attempts to seize Kharg Island, Iran will react. And its allies will not stand idle.

**Tweet 6**
📉 **The Broader Strategy Bessent Described**

The Treasury Secretary outlined a multi-pronged approach:
• Unsanction 140 million barrels of Iranian oil currently at sea to flood markets
• Release 400 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (IEA-coordinated)
• Use Russian oil waivers (through April 11) to supplement supply
• Continue military pressure while hoping for "defections"

He admitted: "We will be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians to keep the price down for the next 10 or 14 days as we continue this campaign."

**Tweet 7**
⚠️ **The Energy Markets Are Already Collapsing**

The context Bessent is responding to:
• Brent crude hit $118/barrel
• Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG facility was struck—force majeure declared, 3-5 years to repair
• The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed
• IEA confirms the largest oil supply disruption in history (8 million barrels/day offline)

Bessent's "concern" for oil workers appears to be a panic response to a market spiraling out of control.

**Tweet 8**
🇺🇸 **Bottom Line: What Is Verified**

✅ Bessent explicitly suggested Kharg Island "may eventually become a US asset"
✅ He claimed US forces destroyed military assets on the island last week
✅ He framed concern for Iranian oil workers while floating annexation
✅ He described a strategy of using Iranian oil reserves to stabilize markets
✅ The US is now openly discussing taking sovereign Iranian territory

The analysis concludes:

The United States is not fighting a war for security. It is fighting a war for resources. If it proceeds down the path of territorial annexation, it will become the problem for the entire world—not the solution.

Russia, China, and Iran will not simply watch. The confrontation Bessent is preparing for may be larger than anyone imagines.

---

🧭 My work focuses on decision-oriented strategic analysis.
Not commentary. Not advocacy.
I analyze incentives, constraints, and second-order effects.

Structured, multi-layer strategic analysis available via bio.

⚖️ Marco | Independent Analyst

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Liam

@LiamEvergreen

4 months ago

Our economy might collapse from this peep 😳 What y’all think — real threat or just noise 👀

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@MarioNawfal Why did you not mention Palestinians?

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Simon Dixon

@SimonDixonTwitt

4 months ago

This is what I covered on my show. Who really closed the strait pf Hormuz? It was the financial industrial complex

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8 months ago

@grok do WhatsApp read all the conversation ?

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over 1 year ago

@PensionCraft Hi Ramin, is there a live YouTube this evening 27th March)?

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BMH 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @BMHLTD

about 2 years ago

As the #ARCM share price languishes in despair, it’s worth a reminder of what @ArcMinerals unearthed in Zambia. If minnow Arc can deliver these kind of cores, what will @AngloAmerican #AAL discover with $74m of drilling in an imminently beginning campaign in copper country?

BMHLTD's tweet photo. As the #ARCM share price languishes in despair, it’s worth a reminder of what @ArcMinerals unearthed in Zambia.

If minnow Arc can deliver these kind of cores, what will @AngloAmerican #AAL discover with $74m of drilling in an imminently beginning campaign in copper country? https://t.co/94jTYvaehE

NoviceTrader @NovisTrader3

about 2 years ago

@soundenergyplc What is happening about Calvalley deal? Any updates?

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That Baratheon Girl 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🌹 @baratheongirl

over 2 years ago

I'm sorry, why isn't Martin Lewis in politics again? What an ending to a speech!

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over 2 years ago

@ResourcesXtract Why there is no RNS about ”#XTRACT RESOURCES PLC ‌2024‌ ‌EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING‌ Vote by ‌06-FEB-2024”? - email from IG #XTR @ColinBirdMining

NoviceTrader @NovisTrader3

over 2 years ago

@ColinBirdMining Why there is no RNS about ”#XTRACT RESOURCES PLC ‌2024‌ ‌EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING‌ Vote by ‌06-FEB-2024“? #XTR

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