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06 March 2026 23:40

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷🇨🇳 "Maybe the war in Iran isn’t really about Iran…

Maybe it’s about energy dominance. And the target isn’t Tehran…it’s Beijing.

Most people are missing the real battlefield: not missiles, but oil.

The Strait of Hormuz. A narrow corridor that controls about 20% of the world’s oil supply every single day, oil from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Iraq.

Oil that China depends on heavily. China is the world’s largest oil importer, bringing in over 11 million barrels per day.

Nearly half of China’s oil imports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, and roughly half of its crude imports come from the Persian Gulf. Whoever controls the Strait of Hormuz effectively controls China’s economy.

Even more telling: China buys around 90% of Iran’s oil exports.

Much of it moves quietly through “ghost” supply chains and relabeled shipments to evade sanctions.

So if Iran collapses… or realigns… that flow disappears. Overnight.

From the Suez Canal to the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil corridor becomes one connected sphere of influence. And the country most exposed to that shift? China.

Which raises a question most people aren’t asking: What if this isn’t a war for Iran… but a war for control of the global energy arteries that power China’s economy?

What if it’s a war on China’s energy lifeline?"

It absolutely is a war with China as the final target. Supply lines choke points in an attempted to win the new industrial century. Will it succeed? I'd just weigh multi thousand years civilizations that have survived empires and invasions vs. a 250 year old project called America. It's going to get a lot hotter.

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06 March 2026 17:39

◾On New Year's Eve 2022, several dozen Right Sector militants went to Transcarpathia to the city of Beregovo on the border with Hungary to threaten the ethnic Hungarian habitants of the region:

You live in Ukrainian soil, we all now who you are Magyar. We know who you are, where you live and where your children are.

Today is Zelenskiy himself who is sending a direct threat to the Hungarian president Orban.

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06 March 2026 16:33

🇮🇷⚔🚢🔥 The Strait of Hormuz - A tanker attacked by an Iranian drone is on fire.

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06 March 2026 16:04

Witkoff expects 'additional progress' in Ukraine peace negotiations in the coming weeks

In light of latest prisoner exchange, says 'meaningful outcomes' continue to be achieved

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06 March 2026 12:55

Join Danny Haiphong LIVE today March 6th 11:30am eastern 5:30pm CET w/ Sharmine Narwani!

The editor of the Cradle joins the show to continue the daily updates on the US and Israeli war of aggression against Iran as Tel Aviv comes under heavy fire and U.S. assets regionally lose key radar and missile defense systems to Tehran’s historic retaliation. Will Trump pull the trigger on a ground war? We break it all down in this must watch stream!

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06 March 2026 06:04

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The Islander

06 March 2026 02:26

🇰🇵 Comrade Kim observed missile launches from the North Korean Choe Hyon class destroyer.

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05 March 2026 18:51

🇪🇪🐕Estonia threatens Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un.

Putin's friends — China and North Korea — are waiting their turn to be eliminated — said the head of the Estonian Foreign Ministry, Margus Tsakhkna.

The Islander

05 March 2026 14:16

Donald Trump sits at the heart of the 'Epstein regime' that dictates US foreign policy — journalist Sayed Mohsin Abbas

'The first place they hit in Iran was children. 165 girls killed'

Epstein was just the tip of the iceberg
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05 March 2026 12:59

🇬🇧🤡 'Elite drone hunters' that gained experience in Ukraine 🤣

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04 March 2026 23:53

🇮🇶❌🇺🇸 U.S. officials claimed that thousands of Israeli and American-backed Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran.

But apparently no one told the Iraqi Kurds about this...

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04 March 2026 13:11

🇹🇷❌🇮🇷 An Iranian ballistic missile was shot down near Turkey's territory - Turkish Foreign Ministry

"The ballistic missile, launched from Iran and flying through Iraq and Syria, was successfully intercepted and neutralized by the NATO air defence system in the eastern Mediterranean Sea," the ministry reported.

The Islander

04 March 2026 04:20

Qatar is flying to strike Iran!

⚡️Two Majors

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03 March 2026 19:47

I punched him 🇮🇷 because my friend 🇮🇱 was going to punch him and he would punch us back if he was punched.

t.me/RussianBaZa

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03 March 2026 17:18

🇺🇸🤡⚔🇮🇷 Human walrus John Bolton, whilst probably touching himself, dreams of regime change and "the Ayatollahs and IRGC are "swept aside"'.

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06 March 2026 23:39

🇺🇸🤡❌🇺🇸🍊🤡 The self-propelled grandfather stated that the Epstein’s boyfriend’s administration does share the same values as him.

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06 March 2026 16:58

🇮🇷⚔🇧🇭🇺🇸🔥The US Navy base in Bahrain was hit by an Iranian missile, once again the 'unlimited' US interceptor missiles not in mood to do much 'intercepting'.

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06 March 2026 16:28

🇺🇦🤡 Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky stated that he visited Slavyansk, Kramatorsk, and Druzhkovka - the three major cities that still remain under Ukrainian occupation in the Donetsk People's Republic.

❗️How nice, one last trip before the cities are liberated by Russia.

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06 March 2026 14:29

Iceland to consider joining EU over Trump's Greenland ambitions — The Independent

The island nation will hold a referendum this Summer on resuming talks to join the bloc

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06 March 2026 06:56

LNG shipping rates have gone from $40,000 to $300,000 per day — a 650% vertical climb in less than a week — and the men who ordered the strikes that caused this are still strutting around the Oval Office talking about “strength.” That is not strength. That is the economics of catastrophe unfolding in real time, and it will reach every kitchen table from Tokyo to Turin before anyone in the beltway finishes reading the intelligence brief they probably won’t bother to read anyway.

The Strait of Hormuz — through which roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day transit, representing north of 20% of global seaborne oil trade — has effectively ceased to function as a commercial corridor, and what’s doing the closing is less about Iranian missiles, and more the insurance market, the invisible hand of capital that everyone in Washington claims to worship suddenly delivering its honest verdict on Operation Epstein Epic Fury. Major commercial operators, oil companies and insurers have effectively withdrawn from the corridor, creating a de facto closure comparable in character to the Red Sea disruption — but with far larger volumes at stake. The market has spoken. The war lobby apparently has not listened.

Qatar declared force majeure on gas exports, and sources say it may take at least a month to return to normal production volumes — meaning global gas markets will experience shortages for weeks even in the unlikely scenario the conflict ends today. Read that sentence again slowly. Even if it stopped right now. Even if every bomb stopped falling this afternoon and every missile went cold, the damage is already baked in, the supply chain already severed, the cryogenic infrastructure already in shutdown sequence — because the cryogenic nature of LNG requires specialised storage maintaining temperatures of approximately -160°C, making it impossible to simply store excess production in temporary facilities, and once disruptions occur, restarting operations requires weeks of careful, sequential rehabilitation to avoid thermal shock to the entire system.

Qatar supplies 20 percent of the world’s LNG — and if that’s off the table, countries must scramble for what remains. Japan scrambles. South Korea scrambles. Taiwan scrambles. India, which sources nearly half of its LNG intake from Qatari supply under long-term contracts , scrambles. These are not abstract geopolitical actors — these are the factories that make your semiconductors, the power grids that keep hospitals running, the fertiliser supply chains that feed a billion people, and every one of them is now competing in a spot market that has been stripped of a fifth of its supply overnight. This is what cascading systemic failure looks like before it hits the news cycle.

Dutch TTF futures, Europe’s benchmark gas contract — rose 35% on Tuesday alone, with prices on the week running roughly 76% higher, while the Japan-Korea Marker benchmark reached a one-year high. Europe, still carrying the scar tissue of 2022 when Russia’s war on Ukraine sent the continent into an energy convulsion it spent hundreds of billions surviving, is now staring down a second shock — this one detonated by an ally that drew the target circles, pulled the trigger, and handed Europe the wreckage as a fait accompli — no consultation, no warning, no framework for what follows, just the bill. The shutdown also affects downstream products including urea, polymers, methanol and aluminium , meaning the price destruction moves through industrial supply chains like a slow haemorrhage through every sector that uses energy as an input — which is every sector.

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06 March 2026 04:40

Ladies, find yourself a Man who looks at you the way Kim looks at his Nukes.

t.me/RussianBaZa

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06 March 2026 02:19

🇺🇸🤡 US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth earlier claimed the US has no shortage of defensive weapons or offensive weapons.

Guess the defensive weapons in Kuwait were sleeping Pete…

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05 March 2026 15:20

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05 March 2026 13:06

🇺🇸💵🔥⚔🇮🇷 Makes you wonder, did Epstein's boyfriend use his illegal tariffs, which raked in $175bn in revenue, to fund his illegal war...Until the humiliating defeat to the US Supreme Court and refunds on said illegal tariffs now due, which have not been issued yet...🤔

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05 March 2026 02:00

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The United States military is dropping multimillion-dollar bombs on decoy fighter jets — painted plywood and metal silhouettes Iran left in the open specifically to be photographed exploding. Much like the decoy launchers.

Remember on Monday Israel's Channel 12 said that Iran had a dozen missile launchers left and yet Tuesday ended up with unprecedented barrages on Israel. Israel now looks like a hellscape.

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04 March 2026 18:27

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🍊🤡 Ali Larijani, the Secretary of the National Security Council of Iran, on Epstein's boyfriend being Netanyahu's b!tch.

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04 March 2026 05:00

⚡️Two Majors

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03 March 2026 20:20

🇮🇷🇺🇸 US commanders across more than 30 military installations, in every branch of the armed forces, have been telling troops that the Iran war is “Armageddon” — and that Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire that triggers his return to Earth. This is not a fringe sermon. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has logged over 110 formal complaints.
Read that again slowly.

The administration which sells itself as powerful military force in human history is psychologically preparing for war not with intelligence assessments, not with strategic objectives, not with an exit doctrine — but with a perversion of the Book of Revelation. Commanders are describing the bombing of a sovereign nation of 90 million people as a biblical event. Soldiers are reporting “unrestrained euphoria” in the officer class. One sergeant — trying to hold his constitutional oath together filed a complaint.

This is the command culture now taking incoming in Erbil, Dubai, Tel Aviv, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Al Udeid. These are the men invoking Jesus — the same Jesus who said blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are the merciful, blessed are those who hunger for justice. The Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount who told his followers to love their enemies and put away the sword. That Jesus. Apparently now returns on a B-2 Spirit out of Whiteman Air Force Base.
The Iranians are fighting for national survival.

For their martyred Supreme Leader. For forty years of preparation. Washington sent theirs to fight for the End Times — and didn’t bother telling the parents.

When the historians write this chapter, they will note that one side brought missile cities half a kilometer underground, closed the Strait of Hormuz, and a succession process that didn’t miss a beat. The other side brought a perversion of Revelation Chapter 19 and a man on a white horse. Look at that image. Some in the US military actually believe it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ And that is terrifying.

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03 March 2026 17:49

🇮🇱⚔🇮🇷🇷🇺☢️ Explosions at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant in Iran: Attacks on it could cause a nuclear catastrophe, - "Rosatom".

"Rosatom", whom is building the Nuclear Power Plant and carrying out its technical maintenance. Russia intends to evacuate its employees, and work at the Nuclear Power Plant has been stopped. There are currently 639 Russian specialists there, and about 150-200 of them are being evacuated. Important employees for the operation will remain in the country, as Russia is responsible to the people of Iran.

🔻The Director General of "Rosatom", Alexey Likhachev, stated that an attack on the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, which stores 70 tons of nuclear fuel and 210 tons of spent fuel, could cause a regional-scale catastrophe.

❗️Moscow has lost contact with the leadership of the entire nuclear industry of Iran, Likhachev added.

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03 March 2026 14:27

🇬🇧🇨🇾 UK considering deployment of a Type 45 destroyer to Cyprus.

❗️Weird way of announcing they want the ship sunk by Iran...

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