Oldrich Baroch

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@jbetlach A co chce Trump dělat? Írán vyhrál a USA nemají nic, co by proti tomu udělaly. Írán není Irák a pro Čínu je to páka proti USA. Nevidím žádnou možnost, jak by USA v tomto uspěly. Bude to horší druhý Vietnam.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@hodler_investor Objednávka na Amazonu US úplně bez problému, vše přišlo do Prahy dokonce o 5 dnů dřív, ale možná proto, že tam mám dlouhodobý účet.

[AJ Jaff @aj_geo_analysis]

Everyone is asking WHY IRAN won't make a deal. They are asking the wrong question.

The real question is WHY AMERICA CANNOT AFFORD TO.

I have been documenting this since the start of the war. Here is the complete list.

𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

Iran wants $100 to $173 billion in frozen assets plus interest before any nuclear discussion. Trump built his ENTIRE political identity attacking Obama for releasing $1.7 billion to Iran under the JCPOA. He called it disgraceful. He cannot now release 100 times that amount to the same country he just spent $50 billion bombing. Not before midterms. Not with a MAGA base already fracturing. The transaction Iran requires is the transaction that ends Trump politically.

𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝘂𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

America demands zero enrichment BEFORE sanctions relief. Iran demands sanctions relief before nuclear discussion. This week Iran's Supreme Leader released a decree banning any nuclear-related content from leaving Iran. Both positions are irreconcilable. Iran watched Gaddafi surrender his nuclear program in 2003 and die in a ditch in 2011. Iran signed the JCPOA in 2015, complied with every term per IAEA assessments, and watched Trump tear it up in 2018 and bomb them in 2026. Asking Iran to disarm before receiving guarantees is asking it to repeat history's two worst strategic decisions simultaneously.

𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘀" 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

Any deal requires Iran to abandon Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraqi militias. Iran's Unity of Arenas doctrine makes ALL THREE non-negotiable. These are 44-year blood alliances, not transactional relationships. Abandoning an ally under military pressure in Middle Eastern political culture is NOT a concession. It is a betrayal that no leader survives domestically. Iran cannot sign it and survive institutionally.

𝟰. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗮𝗵𝘂 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

Netanyahu is NOT at any peace table. He started this war and forced the hand of the USA. He cannot be bound by what others sign. He has Israeli elections by October 27 with 93% of Israelis demanding regime change. Israel demonstrated what it thinks of any deal by striking at least 10 cities across Syria, Lebanon and Gaza the same day the framework was announced. Any deal Washington signs without Netanyahu being bound by it is a deal Israel can break the following morning. And will.

𝟱. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

The Senate voted 50 to 49 to block the War Powers Resolution. Hegseth told senators BEFORE the vote that the administration already has ALL authorities necessary to restart combat operations regardless of Congress. Rubio called the War Powers Act unconstitutional. An administration that does NOT recognise congressional authority to end the war has no mechanism to make a deal that Congress would ratify as binding. This is one of the most overlooked aspects of this entire war.

𝟲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗻𝗮𝗺 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

Trump said "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER only" on March 6. That public commitment CANNOT be walked back without destroying his political identity and by all accounts it may have already been destroyed. If Iran receives anything less than full nuclear dismantlement, Iran wins the strategic argument regardless of the military outcome. Trump built that trap himself. No deal closes it. Iran will not surrender. It will likely fight to the last IRGC soldier because Iran is not Iraq or Afghanistan.

𝟳. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

Trump is bringing his real estate playbook to a civilizational conflict. LOI, MOU, urgency, closing dates, pressure. In real estate you take the deal or you walk. Civilizations do not close escrow. Iran has outlasted the Greeks, the Arabs, the Mongols, the British, and the Soviets. It does not read term sheets or act under timelines shorter than 50 or 100 years. This regime has outlasted American maximum pressure for nearly 50 years. It can likely last another 50.

𝟴. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗟𝗮𝘄 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

There is no international legal forum where a ceasefire can be enforced even if signed. Iran is not party to the Rome Statute. ICC has zero jurisdiction over Iranian commanders. Iran is not party to UNCLOS. The maritime law framework does not apply to Hormuz in Iran's view. No UN forum. No bilateral framework. No enforcement mechanism. Every ceasefire in this war has been announced, violated, and renamed at least 7 or 8 times without legal consequence to either party. That architecture does not change with a new signature.

𝟵. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

Iran's $770 billion in mineral reserves, world's second largest lithium deposit, and fourth largest oil reserves are NOT the subject of any negotiation currently on the table. They are the reason the war started and likely why a ground invasion will eventually occur. A deal that leaves those resources under Iranian governance leaves the strategic objective unachieved. Washington cannot sign that and call it victory. Iran knows this. So does China.

𝟭𝟬. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗯𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗰𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

America has $38 trillion in debt and a dollar losing reserve currency share. The only mechanism available to a declining empire to address an unpayable balance sheet is physical asset acquisition. Venezuela was step one. Iran is step two. A negotiated settlement that leaves Iranian resources in Iranian hands and priced in yuan does not just fail to solve the problem. It permanently closes the door on the only remaining solution. Without the prize the balance sheet has no resolution that does not end in dollar collapse.

𝟭𝟭. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗥𝗜 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗖 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

A deal does not just leave the resources. It leaves the roads.

China's Belt and Road Initiative. A $1 trillion network across 150 countries. Iran is its central land bridge. A deal rebuilds the China-Iran Railway that Israel bombed and reconnects the entire Eurasian connectivity architecture this war was specifically designed to fracture.

The International North-South Transportation Corridor. Russia, Iran and India through the Caspian Sea. 7,200 kilometres connecting Moscow to Mumbai without touching a single American-controlled chokepoint. The US Navy cannot legally enter the Caspian Sea. Iran is the geographic spine. Leave Iran intact and Russia, China, and India have a permanent sanctions-proof trade corridor that makes American maritime dominance strategically irrelevant.

Washington cannot sign a deal that leaves the resources AND the roads.

Because both together are the architecture of a world that no longer needs the dollar.

𝟭𝟮. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺.

The most honest reason. A deal that does not achieve Hormuz under American enforcement, nuclear dismantlement, and Iran's mineral resources in the dollar supply chain does not solve America's $38+ trillion debt problem. It does not restore the petrodollar enforcement credibility that Iran's 88-day Hormuz closure already damaged permanently. It does not break China's mineral processing monopoly. America needs this war to produce decisive outcomes. Anything less leaves the structural problem intact and hands the next century to Beijing.

Iran does not need to win this war. America cannot afford to not win it.

Those two realities produce one outcome.

The war continues...

𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

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[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@JoshYoung That's the paper oil. The physical oil will rise because you can't negotiate the deficit away.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@CommodMkt @HedgieMarkets Yes, it is no more service but a factory, the same as manufacturing.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@JakubSzanto Problém je, že z hlediska mezinárodního práva to nejsou mezinárodní vody. Půlka průlivu patří Íránu, jsou to jeho výsostné vody. Druhá půlka Ománu.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@martin_rytir Pozor ale na nemoc z ozáření 😃

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@FinanceLancelot suicide

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Pro Trumpa ano

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Nepochopitelné, plivnutí do moře, ale topa 2 USD dole🫣

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@MichaelPBento No, but he blames Iran for the rising. Besides, everybody will be occupied by the war and nobody cares for bonds when bombs fall.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Stačí aby přesekli kabely v zálivu a je vymalováno. Bye bye Amazon, Microsoft a další.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Mě by zajímalo co Softbank a její expozice vůči AI. Tam by to měl být průplach.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Souhlas, začne to margin call, protože bude stačit jen 10-15 % na semiconductors dolů a páka všechny odrovná, přidá se JPY, a Treasuries to dodělájí. Trump to jen zažehne tento víkend.

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Hasta la vista

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel @PBihary Ale to je tutovka

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Another 2 weeks ceasefire

[Oldrich Baroch @olbaroch]

@grunfeldpavel Jsou to šašci. Za ty manipulace s trhem by měli sedět.