Phoenix Ashborn

War. Trade. Energy. Leverage.
Comparative jurisprudence | Politics & IR
Reading the pressure points behind the headlines.

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Silent Tehran, Screaming Washington: A Blockade in Name Only

Time favours Tehran; the U.S. naval dragnet barely dents its calculus. Iranian replies stay measured signalling strength, not reflex.

Meanwhile, the “leader of the free world” carpet-bombs Truth Social:

• thanking and then threatening Iran
• praising Xi Jinping, then cursing him
• claiming the blockade works, then calling it a fiasco
• touting a “great” Pakistan deal
• promising bombs on Iran
• rechristening Hormuz the “Strait of Trump,” then the “Strait of Iran”

The stream feels like a sleepless rant, swinging between swagger and alarm.

Meanwhile, Tehran maintains radio silence and still owns the escalation ladder. If it decides the West needs a sharper reminder, it can squeeze the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and that’s when the real shock wave lands.

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BREAKING: 🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel started a ground invasion again in Southern Lebanon tonight

A huge battle ongoing with an enormous amount of Israeli casualties

Israel is advancing from three different routes towards the Ali al-Taher Hills area.

4 Israeli military vehicles are completely destroyed

Hezbollah fires AD missiles at warplanes & bombards evacuation sites for the injured soldiers.

Non-stop med-evac helicopter flights, as Hezbollah engages soldiers directly at zero distance while also throwing waves of rockets & artillery at the invading occupation forces.

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@marklevinshow Let me break it to you: in wars, the losing side pays reparations.
The winning side however, dictates terms.
Clear enough?

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@Abdulkhaleq_UAE لأنه:
السيف أصدق أنباءا من الكتب
في حده الحد بين الجد و اللعب
(و اللبيب بالإشارة يفهم)

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@WhiteHouse

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@RyanRozbiani That would be a wrong move, Arabs are tribal! The gun barrel should be pointed at Israel ;)
Haven’t you noticed that they don’t make themselves public any longer? 😏

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@KimDotcom

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@RT_com Unlike the staged assassinations in Trump’s case, it takes real guts to be in charge over there. Credit is due, they’re fearless ferocious men. Respect is earned

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@BRICSinfo They don’t take orders from an orange 😂

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@spectatorindex Wizz Air & Ryanair are next !

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@FT I hate to break it to you but the ship has hit the iceberg

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@BRICSinfo Seems that building a replica of the Third Temple worked!

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@WhiteHouse Not a ballroom. A Third Temple replica.
The rest… people remember.

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@RT_com USA advertising war crimes! “… and infrastructure”, that is boasting about destroying civilian targets! Strange times. These people have no regard for international law, which actually is the glue that held everything together. This will blowback in a horrible way.

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@Nameles09346132 @HatsOffff I take it with a grain of salt, that’s not the point though. What happened is that 3 American jets were downed! (Friendly fire or otherwise) However, an Iranian F-5/Kawsar got through, bombed them and returned.

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@Nameles09346132 @HatsOffff Which Kuwait story? The friendly fire fiasco or Iran bombing the base?!

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@FT How much the war costs the USA :

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@SecScottBessent Wishful thinking doesn’t win wars

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@mehdirhasan Not just any ballroom.
A replica of the supposed Third Temple.

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@BRICSinfo I wonder what would await the rest of the world in that scenario. They kept a tit for tat kinda response across the board so far !