New Trump election jawboning
300,000 metric tons equals about 2.24 million barrels total.
The US alone consumes roughly 3.8 to 4 million barrels of distillate/diesel fuel per day.
The Arithmetic Verdict:
That 300,000 tons covers barely 14 hours of total US domestic consumption.
🧵 The ghost of Muammar Gaddafi’s 2009 UNGA address still haunts Turtle Bay, but history does not repeat itself—it mutates. In 2009, Gaddafi brought prose, and the physical shredding of the UN Charter, backed by zero leverage. If Masoud Pezeshkian takes the podium today, it won't be political theater; it might be an operational execution. Gaddafi 2.0 with actual teeth. Gaming a scenario
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗦𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗵 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 — 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲, 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵, 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
The weaponization of the "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" title is a textbook exercise in strategic deterrence, engineered to convert vulnerable sovereign infrastructure into an untouchable, religious red line.
Whenever coalition forces face acute battlefield setbacks or require immediate military commitments from regional allies, the structural ambiguity between municipal city boundaries and provincial administration is deliberately deployed. Under Saudi internal territorial demarcation, the Western Province is designated as "Makkah Province" (Mantiqat Makkah). This expansive administrative umbrella encompasses vital military and economic centers: King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) and Jeddah Islamic Port along the coast, as well as King Fahd Air Base in the inland heights of Taif.
By classifying intercepts anywhere across this vast territory simply as actions within the "Makkah Region," technical telemetry is masked. Conventional cross-border strikes against air and naval logistical hubs are immediately repackaged for global consumption as deliberate attacks against Islam's holiest sanctuary:
• 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗻-𝟭 𝗞𝗔𝗜𝗔 𝗩𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿): Sana'a launched a ballistic strike tracking the North-Northwest coastal trajectory directly toward the military installations at KAIA Jeddah. Saudi Press Agency and coalition statements framed the interception as occurring "65 km from Makkah," generating immediate diplomatic outrage over an alleged plot against the Kaaba.
• 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟳 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗸𝗮𝗻-𝟮𝗛 𝗧𝗮𝗶𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲): AnsarAllah targeted King Fahd Air Base in Taif—the primary operational staging ground for coalition air operations. Official communiques declared an intercept over the Al-Wasliya sector 69 km outside Mecca, asserting that the strike was calculated to disrupt the imminent Hajj pilgrimage.
• 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵 (𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗰𝗰𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀): Preceding three concurrent emergency summits (GCC, Arab League, and OIC) convened by King Salman in Mecca, intercepts took place over Taif and Jeddah. State-aligned broadsheets promptly framed these as hostile actions against the Holy City to secure unified multilateral resolutions against Tehran.
• 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 (𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗸𝗮𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻): Saudi Coalition spokesperson Maj. Gen. Turki Al-Malki officially announced that an inbound drone was intercepted south of Mecca before entering "prohibited airspace". State-aligned actors then amplified the command bulletin across social media using recycled September 2025 Medina footage to manufacture urgency and force kinetic compliance under the August 2026 "Makkah Joint Defence Agreement".
This deliberate conflation of administrative geography with religious sanctum constructs Thomas Schelling’s classic commitment trap. A secular security accord defending royal palaces permits external partners strategic ambiguity. A pact anchored directly to the Custodianship of Makkah, however, raises the domestic audience cost of neutrality for allies like Pakistan and Turkey to near infinity, removing their ability to maneuver and binding them directly to Riyadh's operational theater.
I met him in Lamerd, no older than six. His mother is gone, killed by the metal fragments a US PrSM sprayed across the neighborhood in the February 28 strike. His leg still carries the deep wounds from that afternoon. He lives now with his grandmother, and with the sister his mother left behind.
Before we left, he wanted to show us something. He led us around the side of the house to a strip of packed earth against the wall. His garden.
A marble standing in for a buoy. A green plastic toy, capsized, doing duty as a ship. A small flag on a splinter of wood, planted in the dirt.
"This is the Strait of Hormuz," he told us.
I raised the camera and took the first picture. He stopped me. Look again, he said, the flag wasn't standing right. He crouched down, straightened it with two fingers until it stood upright in the soil, then told me I could take the picture now.
A six-year-old orphaned by an American missile, rebuilding in miniature the waterway his country is being made to fight over and refusing to let the flag lean, even for a photograph.
PrSM is the missile Lockheed Martin is racing to mass-produce under an $8.4 billion contract. Lamerd, a city of 30,000, was its first use in combat. Whatever else that contract buys, this is what it has already cost: a boy's mother, a boy's leg, a boy's garden of toys standing in for a sea.
I keep thinking about the flag. A child who has lost almost everything still insisted, before anything else, that it stand straight.
Houthis: Roots vs Mercenaries
No fancy gear. No Empire branding. Just faith, family, history, and a love of country that still means something.
That is their real armor. You cannot buy it. You cannot brief it into existence.
The other side fights like mercenaries. Paychecks. Handlers. Pedo Epstein elites treating nations as assets and children as inventory.
One side has roots. The other has a contract.
That is why this footage hits harder than another billion-dollar press conference.
@alirezashirazi حدود 20 سال پیش فرمانده پلیس راهنمایی و رانندگی توی یک ستون روزنامه جام جم نوشته بود مطالعه کردیم که تنها راه حل معضل موتور توی تهران ممنوعیت واردات موتورهای قدیمی و ارایه تسهیلات موتور برقی هست. ظاهرا هیچ دولتی از طرحش حمایت نکرد.
Trump doesn’t seem to understand even the most basic legal terminology.
There's no such thing as "war crimes against humanity." There are war crimes, and there are crimes against humanity. Two different things under international law.
"War crimes" are what you committed when you deliberately targeted an elementary school and killed 168 children in Minab. "Crimes against humanity" are what your buddy Netanyahu has been charged with at the ICC for - among other things - using starvation as a method of warfare against the people of Gaza.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Iranian mirror of US secondary sanctions (OFAC-style network contamination), engineered to collapse the market for illicit STS lightering outside the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran is forcing nations to choose. Only way out is using 'bad' carriers like 'bad' banks were used to trade with Iran under Obama sanctions
See Game Theory choice distribution in pic
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.
These are some of Israel's crimes- Never forget how Israel killed Palestinian rescuers live on air in front of the world.
A moment the world must never forget.