For 47 years now, Iran’s knife to the throat of the West was to cut off Middle East oil by closing the Strait of Hormuz.
NO ONE was ready for the response Iran got when that long-feared card was finally played. Here’s Steve Green, joined by Bill Whittle and Scott Ott, on a new edition of The Right Angle.
Susan Kokinda argues that recent U.S. actions framed as confronting Iran are actually aimed at dismantling the British imperial financial and geopolitical system. She cites Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s April 16 meeting with UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves, highlighting the on-record “Economic Fury” campaign and U.S. tracking of financial flows to Iran that allegedly lead to London.
The episode shows Trump is ending a decades-old “world extortion” model tied to the Strait of Hormuz, Lloyd’s war-risk insurance, and London’s commodity pricing power (gold, metals, oil benchmarks). It also points to an Israeli–Lebanon ceasefire and Trump prohibiting Israeli strikes, arguing this removes Netanyahu’s leverage built on a perpetual Iran threat.
With London’s pricing nodes shifting toward New York and the “special relationship” weakening, the Hudson Institute is said to be pinning hopes on a King Charles visit to the U.S. Here’s more from Promethean Updates.
Operation Epic Fury was never the pretext for a larger, endless war, and the so-called anti-MAGA right—Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, or Marjorie Taylor Greene—should know better than to label it as such, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
The whole subtext of the Iran campaign is this: While regime change is not the primary agenda, America’s weakening of the regime may spur people to rise up and overthrow the government.
Even if the Iran War gets sorted out quickly, there will be some extreme consequences, says John Rubino, a precious metals advocate and financial analyst. Rubino looks for the American currency to continue to lose its value, and hyperinflation to become more persistent, perhaps even at an accelerating pace.
Rubino thinks you will be seeing $15,000 per ounce gold and $300 per ounce silver, but he can’t say exactly when. He just knows it will happen because with fiat currencies, history always repeats.
Rubino says, “This sounds crazy now, but they are probably going to happen. That is just how currency collapses play out. We have seen hundreds of currencies in human history that have died. Just Google hyperinflation, and you will see a list of name brand countries that destroyed their currency. They rode them down to virtually zero. It’s hyperinflation, and something like that is coming. . .. We should not even think about it in terms of dollars, just buy it (physical gold and silver) to have real money.” He discusses the situation with Greg Hunter on USAWatchdog.com.
Is all the chaos in the Middle East proving to be a benefit for the American oil market? Are we actually going to sell more oil to foreign buyers, pumping up our economy? Will the prices paid by consumers remain high or will they drop at some point?
There’s quite a bit to digest, but Liberal Hivemind offers a decent take.
On this episode of “The Liz Wheeler Show,” Liz gives a Catholic response to a meme shared by President Trump and some recent interactions between President Trump and Pope Leo. Liz also catches Tucker Carlson in a dilemma about Israel’s influence and the Iran war.
Has Iran overplayed its hand with its hardball ceasefire negotiations in Pakistan, stalling a settlement of the Iran War and delaying a smooth reopening of the Strait of Hormuz?
The longer the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the more global oil traffic is shifting. Here, we see global maps showing the newly emerging trade patterns. Two key, primary routes are now in play: More ships are traveling through the Red Sea and entering the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal. And more ships are traveling to Texas and Louisiana to pick up oil in the Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico).
So it looks as if the Middle Eastern oil nations, like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, have turned away from the Strait of Hormuz, and are using the Suez Canal to reach Europe. Meanwhile, ships in the Western Hemisphere, as well as more Asian ships, are now traversing the Gulf of America, tapping into American, Mexican and Venezuelan oil.
The longer Iran delays a ceasefire settlement, the higher the likelihood that Iran will become irrelevant. Iran could be left to face more chronic and potentially catastrophic economic collapse. Here’s more from Langley Outdoors Academy.
The [Deep State] is trying to gain the narrative in what Trump is doing but it keeps failing. Trump is dismantling the system that the [Deep State] has set up. As Trump goes deeper into the system and goes after certain players. the more unrealistic it becomes.
The system has had the people for a long time and now Trump is exposing and destroying it at the same time. Prepare yourself because more is coming. Here’s more from the X22 Report.