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[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Bolton: Trump called Xi "King" and "the greatest leader in Chinese history."

Trump thinks he's friends with Xi and Putin. I guarantee that's not how they see Trump — they both see him as an easy mark.

[The Associated Press @AP]

Ukrainian drone pilots were invited to train NATO forces in Sweden - and delivered a critical message to the alliance. The pilots said the Western forces would have been dead if the mock attack they carried out had been real.

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

Donald Trump’s foul-mouthed communications chief had a meltdown after a former diplomat flagged the absence of any actual China expert on Air Force One to Beijing. https://t.co/S6hM4DaM6T

[Charities for Veterans @Charities4Vets]

Not all veterans charities are created equal. Find out which groups truly serve our vets and which serve themselves.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JUST IN: House Democrats secured the 218 signatures needed to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on Russia sanctions and Ukraine aid after Rep. Kevin Kiley joined Republicans Brian Fitzpatrick and Don Bacon in backing the petition.

[CNN International PR @cnnipr]

A new CNN investigation finds that a Russian cargo ship likely carrying two nuclear reactors and possibly destined for North Korea, sank in unexplained circumstances off the coast of Spain.

@npwcnn's exclusive report: https://t.co/axSox90gQY

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

TRUMP: “I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. Not even a little bit.”

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Russia is the first country to lose a battle entirely to robots.

Zelenskyy: “For the first time in the war, an enemy position was captured entirely by ground robotic systems and drones. No infantry. A robot entered the most dangerous area instead of a soldier & captured it.”

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Breaking: US belatedly admits US base in Kuwait was bombed by a VIETNAM ERA JET.

Absolute WTF!!!??

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Canadian Lauren Chen and her husband, who were recently allowed back into the United States by the Trump Administration after fleeing to Canada following their involvement in a Russian-backed intelligence operation which provided millions of dollars to Chen in order to spread Russian propaganda to American Conservatives via her now-defunct Tenet Media, was invited to today’s event celebrating Easter at the White House.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: The NYT just reported that Iran accepted the ceasefire following a last-minute intervention by China asking Tehran to show some flexibility. Every headline framed this as Beijing playing peacemaker. Read it again through the lens of what China actually gets from the pause, and a different architecture emerges.

Before this ceasefire, 1.22 million barrels per day of Iranian crude were flowing to Chinese teapot refineries in Shandong province via 26 ghost fleet tankers operating with transponders dark, settling in yuan through CIPS, which hit 928 billion renminbi in daily volume by March 9th. Those teapot refineries, roughly 250 independent plants processing 25 percent of China’s total refining capacity, were buying Iranian crude at a discount that had flipped to a premium during the war but still arrived cheaper than spot Brent because the ghost fleet avoids Western insurance, Western brokers, and Western currency.

The ceasefire does not disrupt any of that. It preserves it.

Hormuz reopens for two weeks under Iranian military coordination. The ghost fleet continues to operate. The yuan toll infrastructure remains in place. The CIPS settlement architecture is not dismantled. The 206 million barrels of Iranian crude already stockpiled in Shandong onshore tanks are not returned. The teapot refineries that processed 80 to 90 percent of Iran’s wartime exports continue running at 54 percent utilization with no change in their supply chain.

What the ceasefire removes is the risk that President Trump’s Power Plant Day would escalate the war to a level where Iranian crude exports ceased entirely, Chinese ghost fleet tankers were interdicted, or the conflict spilled into a regional conflagration that disrupted Chinese trade routes across the Indian Ocean. China intervened not to save Iran. China intervened to save the infrastructure it spent two decades building inside the crisis.

Trump understood this dynamic. His ceasefire announcement credited Pakistani mediation explicitly, naming Prime Minister Sharif and Field Marshal Munir, while saying nothing about Beijing’s role. The omission is strategic. Acknowledging Chinese pressure would position Beijing as a co-equal broker in a war that America prosecuted and America is now settling. By crediting Pakistan, Trump preserves the frame that the United States drove the outcome while using a trusted intermediary, and keeps China’s role invisible to the domestic audience that would interpret it as weakness.

The molecule thesis clarifies what the ceasefire changes and what it does not. The ceasefire reopens the strait. It does not rebuild the crackers. The ceasefire eases oil prices. It does not restore petrochemical production. The ceasefire pauses the bombing. It does not reverse the 85 percent destruction of Iran’s weapons-chemistry capacity that the IDF confirmed. And the ceasefire does not touch the parallel infrastructure that China built during the war: the ghost fleet logistics, the yuan toll framework, the CIPS settlement volumes, or the teapot refinery supply chains that now operate as a permanent non-dollar energy corridor between the Persian Gulf and Shandong.

The war destroyed Iran’s petrochemical capacity. The ceasefire preserved China’s shadow energy architecture. The first outcome was the American objective. The second outcome was the Chinese objective. Both were achieved simultaneously, and the two-week pause is the mechanism that locks both in place while Islamabad negotiates the terms of what comes next.

Phase 2 begins Friday. The molecules begin whenever the last reactor is rebuilt. The ghost fleet sails tonight.

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[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.

The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.

Congress is on recess.

This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

It looks like Iran has scared the shit out of Pete Hegseth! No wonder he and Trump get along so well because that was a Shart not a fart! 🤣🤣

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Wow. The biggest disaster of a president EVER

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

BREAKING: Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Alex Jones surprisingly joined the call to invoke the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, which would deem Trump unfit for office and transfer power to the vice president. https://t.co/E50e9LjLgp

[Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes]

The U.S. and the Philippines this week launched the annual Salaknib land force exercise that will involve roughly 7,000 soldiers, including troops from Japan, Australia and New Zealand. (from @sethrobson1) https://t.co/hqxJxxxieT

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Total meltdown. This loser really thinks he can bully news outlets into lying about the bad ceasefire deal he negotiated.

Not gonna work.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Donald Trump created an international disaster over absolutely NOTHING and then entered into a negotiation in which he gave up EVERYTHING.

This guy is a massive loser elected by 77 million lost and misguided Americans.

America is weak under Trump.

[POLITICO @politico]

Iranian hackers are targeting US energy and water sectors, federal agencies warn https://t.co/84rTvskQJw

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: MISSILES ARE HITTING TEL AVIV.

Less than two hours after a ceasefire was announced.