Khamenei, One of Most Evil People in History, is Dead
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UPDATED: Wednesday, September 2, 2026 05:42
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It occurred to me that attempting regime change in Iran might have the same goal: denying China Iran's oil. But why did Trump think it was going to work?
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Yeah. I called that the other day myself. Even mentioned that I've never heard the Legacy Media say anything about that possibility too.
I believe my exact words were that Trump's plan was to bring China to heel.
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Quote:That plan did NOT exist before Trump bombed Iran and wouldn't work if it did because everybody else in the world has less oil stored than China does.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:...
It occurred to me that attempting regime change in Iran might have the same goal: denying China Iran's oil. But why did Trump think it was going to work?
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Yeah. I called that the other day myself. Even mentioned that I've never heard the Legacy Media say anything about that possibility too.
I believe my exact words were that Trump's plan was to bring China to heel.
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Key details regarding China's crude storage:
• Total Capacity: Estimates vary but as of March 2026, storage is considered massive, with reports placing it around 1.2—1.3 billion barrels.
• Days of Cover: Most analysts estimate this covers roughly 110-140 days of net imports.
• Structure: Around 900 million barrels are held in state-controlled facilities (strategic), with another 400 million in commercial tanks.
• Recent Activity: China actively added to its reserves in late 2025 and early 2026, taking advantage of lower prices, according to Reuters and OilPrice.com.
• Storage Locations: Along with onshore tanks, a significant amount of oil is in floating storage (approx. 166 million barrels), particularly Iranian oil, according to CGEP and OilPrice.com.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Oh yeah? So what?
China uses 16.5 Million barrels per day. It also gets 91% of the 7 Million barrels that Kharg Island exports per day, which is 90% of Iran's total export output every day. And China was also getting 600k barrels from Venezuela every day.
Now it gets zero from both of those countries, which means that it's importing just a little above half as many barrels as it imported before 2026 started just from those two countries alone.
China will be burning through those reserves very quickly, and it will likely never get another barrel from Iran or Venezuela in the future.
You're a simple-minded moron who is only capable of thinking 15 minutes into the future, so I wouldn't expect you to be able to figure this one out on your own.
I guess I'll just staple another I Told You So to your forehead a year or so from now.
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Nobody said the plan would work.
Neocons were convinced that once Russia was blocked from SWIFT it would fold. Or that Russian oligarchs would revolt et viola! Regime change!
Whooda thought Russia would turn it into a ghastly, attritional war??
Somebody in the Trump admin thought that if they decapitated Iran's government there would be a palace coup, et viola! Regime change! Whooda thunk Iran would turn it into a kinetic war?
The USA deep state thought they'd be fighting a financial and a political war, but whhoda thunk their targets would fight back kinetically and economically?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:If China cannot buy crude from Iran and Venezuela, it will NOT just give up purchasing fuel. Instead, China will buy crude from other suppliers, who then won't be able to sell to, say, Japan/Taiwan/South Korea. China won't mind hurting those three. Trump cares even less than China about who he is hurting.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Oh yeah? So what?
China uses 16.5 Million barrels per day. It also gets 91% of the 7 Million barrels that Kharg Island exports per day, which is 90% of Iran's total export output every day. And China was also getting 600k barrels from Venezuela every day.
Now it gets zero from both of those countries, which means that it's importing just a little above half as many barrels as it imported before 2026 started just from those two countries alone.
China will be burning through those reserves very quickly, and it will likely never get another barrel from Iran or Venezuela in the future.
You're a simple-minded moron who is only capable of thinking 15 minutes into the future, so I wouldn't expect you to be able to figure this one out on your own.
I guess I'll just staple another I Told You So to your forehead a year or so from now.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Quote:There are many reasons Trump wanted war. Here are some more:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Nobody said the plan would work.
Neocons were convinced that once Russia was blocked from SWIFT it would fold. Or that Russian oligarchs would revolt et viola! Regime change!
Whooda thought Russia would turn it into a ghastly, attritional war??
Somebody in the Trump admin thought that if they decapitated Iran's government there would be a palace coup, et viola! Regime change! Whooda thunk Iran would turn it into a kinetic war?
The USA deep state thought they'd be fighting a financial and a political war, but whhoda thunk their targets would fight back kinetically and economically?
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
Donald Trump, Petropresident
Follow the Gulf oil money
Paul Krugman
Mar 18, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-petropresident
Why did Donald Trump attack Iran? Did he believe that a quick victory would boost his poll ratings? Was he looking for a way to change the subject from the Epstein files and affordability? Was he seduced into war by the Israeli government?
The answer, surely, is all of the above. Bad decisions don’t have to have a single explanation. In fact, debacles on the scale of what we’re now experiencing usually have multiple causes.
But when I look into the larger picture of Trump administration policy — not just the attack on Iran but domestic policies, especially the administration’s seemingly irrational hatred of renewable energy and its determination to keep America burning fossil fuels no matter what — I keep coming back to the huge influence now being wielded by oil money.
I don’t mostly mean the domestic U.S. oil industry, although them too. The U.S. oil and gas sector spent large sums helping Republicans in the 2024 election, while giving very little to Democrats.
But what really stands out is the centrality of oil money from the Persian Gulf, money that has been crucial in two areas: Trump’s international economic schemes and his personal enrichment.
One recurrent theme in Trump’s economic speeches has been boasting about the size of the foreign investment pledges he has received as part of his tariff strategy. “In 12 months,” he declared in the State of the Union, “I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe.”
Nobody knows where that $18 trillion number, which he uses all the time, comes from. The actual announced pledges by foreign governments to invest in the U.S. add up to only about $6 trillion, and many of these pledges are vague statements of intent rather than serious commitments. Indeed, the deal with Europe may well be unraveling in part because Trump’s tariffs have been ruled illegal.
But what’s especially interesting is who has made these investment pledges, such as they are:
Each of the major Gulf petrostates has pledged to invest more than the whole European Union, even though they have far smaller economies. Here’s another visualization:
So when Trump boasts about the foreign investment he’s bringing to America, the reality is mostly that Gulf petrostates have said — with dubious credibility — that they will make big investments. That puts his boasts in a somewhat different light, doesn’t it?
And then there’s Trump’s relentless use of his office to enrich himself and his family. As the New York Times editorial board has documented, Trump has raked in at least $1.4 billion since returning to the White Hou
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What is next? Will Trump torpedo supertankers? Great idea? Or is Trump stupid enough to do it?
Iran's oil exports continue as tankers cross the Strait of Hormuz despite conflict
By Doloresz Katanich with AP
Published on 18/03/2026 - 9:23 GMT+1
https://www.euronews.com/business/2026/03/18/iran-oil-exports-continue
-as-tankers-cross-the-strait-of-hormuz-despite-conflict
Iran keeps oil flowing, despite continued attacks aimed at one of the world’s most critical trade routes.
About 90 ships, including oil tankers, have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the start of the conflict with Iran.
The country continues to export millions of barrels of oil despite the waterway being effectively closed — and Iran claiming it will attack tankers attempting to cross — according to maritime and trade data.
Many of the vessels were engaged in so-called “dark” transits, evading Western sanctions and oversight, and are likely to have links to Iran, maritime data firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence said.
More recently, vessels linked to India and Pakistan have also crossed the strait, as governments step up negotiations.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done
Allied leaders know that any positive gesture they make will count for nothing.
By Anne Applebaum | March 17, 2026, 3:35 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/trump-iran-war-allies/686423/
Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places.
He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before.
For the past 14 months, few foreign leaders have been able to acknowledge that someone without any strategy can actually be president of the United States. Surely, the foreign-policy analysts murmured, Trump thinks beyond the current moment. Surely, foreign statesmen whispered, he adheres to some ideology, some pattern, some plan. Words were thrown around—isolationism, imperialism—in an attempt to place Trump’s actions into a historical context. Solemn articles were written about the supposed significance of Greenland, for example, as if Trump’s interest in the Arctic island were not entirely derived from the fact that it looks very large on a Mercator projection.
This week, something broke. Maybe Trump does not understand the link between the past and the present, but other people do. They can see that, as a result of decisions that Trump made but cannot explain, the Strait of Hormuz is blocked by Iranian mines and drones. They can see oil prices rising around the world and they understand that it is difficult and dangerous for the U.S. Navy to solve this problem. They can also hear the president lashing out, as he has done so many times before, trying to get other people to take responsibility, threatening them if they don’t.
NATO faces a “very bad” future if it doesn’t help clear the strait, Trump told the Financial Times, apparently forgetting that the United States founded the organization and has led it since its creation in 1949. He has also said he is not asking but ordering seven countries to help. He did not specify which ones. “I’m demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory, because it is their territory,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on the way from Florida to Washington. “It’s the place from which they get their energy.” Actually it isn’t their territory, and it’s his fault that their energy is blocked.
But in Trump’s mind, these threats are justified: He has a problem right now, so he wants other countries to solve it. He doesn’t seem to remember or care what he said to their leaders last month or last year, nor does he know how his previous decisions shaped public opinion in their countries or harmed their interests. But they remember, they care, and they know.
Specifically, they remember that for 14 months, the American president has tariffed them, mocked their security concerns, and repeatedly insulted them. As long ago as January 2020, Trump told several European officials that “if Europe is under attack, we will never come to help you and to support you.” In February 2025, he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he had no right to expect support either, because “you don’t have any cards.” Trump ridiculed Canada as the “51st state” and referred to both the present and previous Canadian prime ministers as “governor.” He claimed, incorrectly, that allied troops in Afghanistan “stayed a little back, a little off the front lines,” causing huge offense to the families of soldiers who died fighting after NATO invoked Article 5 of the organization’s treaty, on behalf of the United States, the only time it has done so. He called the British “our once-great ally,” after they
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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the USA is hitting back much harder, I dont think Israel could have fought this without the USA backing them up
but Iranians are causing military issues, destruction and chaos and either slowing or shutting parts of world trade
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf:
https://x.com/clashreport/status/2034318959097356473#m
An eye for an eye equation is in effect, and a new level of confrontation has begun
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
China uses 16.5 Million barrels per day. It also gets 91% of the 7 Million barrels
the Chinese will soon export energy to the world but before this event they had a dependency
Let me 'word' this statement of yours differently to help you understand,
You just JOLTED China gave them a SHOCK to wake them up
but to go forward let's go back and learn, once upon a time....this conquered city in China uses 16 Million tonnes of booze and opium a day, it also gets 90% of its Booze, Rice Wine, Opium from British
now imagine if an ancestor of Trump went out to the public with a statement let's enforce economic will and bomb the British Empire to spite a Dynasty Emperor of China...
oooh woo Looo ook at history and think about what happened
dont repeat talking points from people who were on FoxNews etc
the Fox talking heads ...do you now realize what you have done
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