3) Iran attacks some merchant ships in the Gulf and there are reports that Iran has deployed a small number of mines.
4) Trump says the war is a great success and looks desperately around for a way to end it.
Its breathtaking strategic incompetence battling with out of complete ignorance.
Let me take you through the last 48 hours.
1) The Trump administration panics because Iran threatens to block all trade through the Straits of Hormuz.
2) Trump threatens to commit mass war crimes and biblical levels of destruction if Iran does this.
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You can have the best armed forces in the history of the world, but if you are an incompetent criminal without a plan, you can still lose a war, and rather quickly.
NEW: The Iranian drone strike that killed 6 U.S. troops in Kuwait at the start of the war was far more devastating than previously disclosed.
Dozens suffered traumatic brain injuries, burns, and shrapnel wounds. At least one required an amputation. More than 30 remain hospitalized. (CBS News)
20 Prozent Rabatt mit Codewort „Naidoo“!
‘The shine has been taken off’: Dubai faces existential threat as foreigners flee conflict
Footage of the massive Hezbollah rocket attack on Israel. #Iran
The Trump administration just announced that gas prices will not return to pre-war levels until at least mid-2027 at the earliest.
Israel machts kaputt und wir zahlen dafür. Kannste Dir nicht ausdenken.
This is what I mean about early signs of rot in the US military under Trump. This was an early strike in what we were told was a well planned and resourced effort. Now it looks like a fundamental and easy to correct error was made.
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New satirical statue depicts Trump and Epstein as doomed lovers from Titanic
Oil tanks at Oman's port of Salalah continue to burn after being struck by Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones. #Iran
"The first 2 days of this war cost $5.6 billion. I seem to remember a president coming into office on the pretext he would focus on America First. And yet he's cut healthcare, cut food assistance, sent the cost of everything higher, but we have plenty of money for war."
❗️A fire broke out at the Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant in Tula, Russia. The plant produces high-purity pig iron and ferromanganese used in manufacturing military equipment and armored vehicles, located adjacent to the Tula Arms Plant and Tulamashzavod. #Russia
When Thomson Reuters employees learned that their company was providing ICE with investigative software, they mobilized. More than 200 Reuters employees have signed a letter asking that the company not renew the ICE contract when it expires in May.
Several members of the Iranian women’s soccer team have accepted asylum offers from Australia after playing in a tournament there. Sports competitions have long provided an opportunity for athletes hoping to leave their home countries to defect and seek asylum. Here are some high-profile instances.
The EU may withdraw funding from the Venice Biennale Foundation if Russia participates in the May-November festival, EU commissioners Virkkunen and Micallef warned. Culture ministers from 22 European countries including France, Germany, Poland, and Ukraine demanded Russia's exclusion. #EU
A Thai-flagged cargo vessel, Mayuree Naree Bangkok, was attacked near the Strait of Hormuz on March 11, leaving 3 of its 23 crew missing. The ship had departed Dubai and was heading to India when struck near its stern. #Iran
❗️❗️Satellite imagery confirms 5 Storm Shadow hits on Building No. 4 of the Kremniy El plant in Bryansk, with damage so severe that restoration without full reconstruction is unlikely, effectively putting the facility out of operation. One additional hit was recorded outside the plant. #Ukraine
A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”
This is from 1975.
‘Happy (and safe) shooting!’: chatbots helped researchers plot deadly attacks
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
BREAKING: A projectile hit a cargo ship In the Strait of Hormuz, setting the vessel ablaze after the United States targeted Iranian minelaying vessels that could target the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf. Follow live updates.
EU member states are preparing €30 billion in bilateral loans to Ukraine that would bypass Hungary and Slovakia's veto on the bloc's €90 billion loan package, two diplomatic sources told Politico. The funds, led by Nordic and Baltic states, would cover Ukraine's budget deficit through mid-year. #EU
Unmanned Systems Battalion “Combat hawks” of Ukraine's 25th Airborne Brigade struck a Russian material supply depot in Pokrovsk, triggering a large fire that caused the building's roof to collapse. #Ukraine
Ukrainian drones struck the KuibyshevAzot chemical plant in Tolyatti this morning, setting Workshop No. 11 on fire. The plant produces ammonium nitrate, ammonia, urea, caprolactam, polyamide-6, and other chemical substances. #Ukraine
Russia is deploying GRU and Wagner fighters on shadow fleet tankers to control crews and protect vessels from seizure, Helsingin Sanomat reported. Armed personnel were found on 17 vessels in the Gulf of Finland, also maintaining contact with the Russian navy. #Russia
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Trump's claim that Iranian Tomahawk missiles killed 170 people including children at a girls' school "goes beyond absurdity." "Iran does not have Tomahawk missiles, Donald Trump. He says whatever comes to his mind, regardless of the truth," Schumer said.
