John B Hammer

Trump’s Humiliating War Miscalculation Exposed Trump was briefed several times on Iran’s intentions with the Strait of Hormuz, which has now become the country’s strongest leverage.

“We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough,”

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Meatloaf?

THE ARISTOCRATS!

*TRUMP REPEATS US 'DECIMATING' IRAN

So...we're destroying 10% of the country?

I guess someone is mad about Matt Drudge plastering a “TRUMP’S BIGGEST MISTAKE?” headline at the top of his site for the last 24 hours.

"Find me a safe route out of the Persian Gulf for my oil tanker."

The (Shirley) Jones Act

The Central Bank Put is starting to crack around the world.
The Fed: 1/5

LOL

LMFAO, even.

Maybe Alex Karp should send his relatives out to the battlefield.

LOL

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

Another reality is that the insurance safety net doesn’t address the core reason ships aren’t sailing, according to shipowners and insurance brokers.  “It’s more about the safety of the crews rather than taking on insurance for damages,” said Jerry Kalogiratos, Chief Executive of Capital Clean Energy Carriers, which runs more than 20 LNG carriers. Excerpt From “U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance” Jean Eaglesham, Costas Paris The Wall Street Journal https://apple.news/Ah2VIFuhxTRK-rQkK23RPqg This material may be protected by copyright.

Trump was probably shocked to hear the shipowners wanted to protect their employees from flying missiles.

“Trying to figure out”

I am not anywhere close to being an expert on military strategy, but even I knew the Strait was a potential “kill box”.

And I knew this 40 years ago.

So glad we renamed it the dept of war for this

Incompetence

Every Fracker in the Permian and Bakken basins has probably been working double time to get as many holes in the ground as they can while the price of oil is above $60.

The Iranians don’t have to sink every ship. But if they even slightly damage one ship every five or six days, they can choke the global economy.

I want what Fink is smoking

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

I am beginning to hate the NFL.

I am going to have another unpopular music take (beyond my hatred of Styx’s Renegade).

I have seen the DMB in concert twice and they are incredibly boring.

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

WSJ: “.. Maersk has 10 ships trapped in the Persian Gulf and would need at least a week to 10 days to resume normal operations in the event of a cease-fire ..

“.. Brokers say there are more than 100 boxships trapped in the Gulf ..”

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Holy shit. They used the word “forthwith” in this episode.

Star Trek TNG: S3 Ep14 “A Matter of Perspective”

Basically a mediocre remake of Kurosawa’s “Rashomon”