Please put all the latest news here. We would like to preface that we mourn ALL lives lost in this unnecessary conflict whether they are civilian (Iranian school girls, Israeli families, Iranian hospital patients) or military (American soldiers, Iranian sailors).
War has no victors.
Interesting screenshots after the jump.
this is america’s war to establish control over middle east and displace china from this region. israel is just a mid wife.
The numbers for US to capitulate are getting there.
DJI 47,048 (-6% loss from a month ago)
Brent Crude 91
Marban Crude 100.60
US 10 year Treasury yields 4.1% Needs to get closer to 5%
Note: The US is self sufficient in oil. BUT the US is a free trade, capitalist economy. So US oil producers price oil at World prices. To bad for US consumers, they get to pay high prices even though US produces enough oil for it self.
The energy squeeze is going to hurt the CCP a lot more than it will the US. Short-term economic volatility can be easily managed by the US. This is just more boomer wishful doomer thinking on the US. I recognize the affliction.
But China is receiving oil supplies?
a) China is getting oil from Russia
b) China has huge oil stockpiles
c) Iran is allowing Chinese tankers to go thru Hormuz
Short-term economic volatility can be easily managed by the US.
Trump recently capitulated when Treasury Bond Yields spiked. Can recall what was the issue.
Yes the myth of American infallibility.
At least Iraq was a “tactical victory” even if a strategic disaster. There can be no ground invasion.
Presumably Iran can get supplied by land but furthermore it hasn’t closed Sino-Russian shipping.
Iran seems fully stocked?!?
RecoveringNewsJunkie FYI
Part about Gulf Bases at 8:23
Col Douglas MacGregor also reading the Tea Leaves
https://youtu.be/NZi0cJy8Eic?t=503
27 bases?
In other “unrelated” coincidences, the PLA has suddenly paused some its grey zone ‘invasive’ flights into Taiwanese airspace – activity it has been carrying out for the last few years.
This feels….ominous. My mind instantly recalls that the CCP, after years of prep during the 1950s, chose the cuban missile crisis to launch its attack on India to seize Aksai Chin in 1962. The fate of Tibet was sealed as a result, and also East Turkestan.
Russia repaying US for Ukraine help
Russia Giving Iran Targeting Intelligence Of American Warships, Aircraft: US Officials
Allegations just after Iran destroyed advanced US radar system located inside Jordanian territory…
“Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major US adversary is participating – even indirectly – in the war, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-giving-iran-targeting-intelligence-american-warships-aircraft-us-officials
Yes the “Quad” is Sino-Russia, N. KorIran.
If Iran, who is the weakest, can inflict such damage one can only imagine what the “Hermit Kingdom” can do. Most likely pull the Korean Peninsula & Japan with it.
This was very very foolish by Trump. He & Bibi seemed to have stumbled into an indestructible fortress.
The Straits are completely controlled; Sino-Russia are going to keep Iran afloat. No one knows Iran’s
Stockpiles and its distributed infrastructure .
Also the real leadership kill seems to be Khaemeini, who was martyred.
Where are the wins of this op?!?
On the flip side, injecting volatility into energy supplies for the CCP, over the medium term at a minimum, will have some non-trivial second order effects.
I think its quite premature to declare Iran’s victory just yet.
“Iran is not Venezuela,despite Trump’s hopes of repeating ‘regime capture’ strategy”
By Tom Philips and Robert Tait
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/06/iran-venezuela-trump-regime-capture