Trump After Other Countries Refuse to Join U.S. and Israel in War Against Iran: ‘WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE’
March 17th, 2026And this was a wildly nuts exchange!
“When Pepe has his big sugar ships coming around…”
— Heisenzerp ???? (@HeisenZerp_) March 16, 2026
Via: Politico:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fumed at longtime American allies he says aren’t doing enough to help the U.S. and Israel in their war against Iran, now arguing that their assistance was never needed after spending days publicly requesting their help.
“Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer ‘need,’ or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID!” he wrote on Truth Social. “Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!”
William McCasland Link to Missing Rocket Engineer Monica Jacinto Reza
March 17th, 2026Via: The Sentinel Briefing:
On June 22, 2025, a 60-year-old woman waved at her hiking companion on a ridgeline in the Angeles National Forest. She was 30 feet behind him. Bright red shirt. Green hiking pants. Clear weather. A route she hiked every week.
That wave is the last confirmed contact anyone had with Monica Jacinto Reza.
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Reza co-invented Mondaloy, a family of nickel-based superalloys now built into the engines replacing Russian-made rockets for American national security launches. She held the patent. She spent decades as a Technical Fellow at Aerojet Rocketdyne, the highest technical rank in the company. An Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At some point after 2023, she moved to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
That matters because of what happened eight months later. On February 27, 2026, retired Major General William Neil McCasland walked out of his Albuquerque home and into the Sandia Mountain foothills. Left his phone. Left his glasses. Left his wearable devices. Took a gun and his wallet. He has not been seen since.
In THE GHOST GENERAL, we mapped McCasland’s career. He commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory from 2011 to 2013, overseeing the $4.4 billion portfolio that funded the most sensitive aerospace research in the country.
That portfolio funded Monica Jacinto Reza’s work. Her alloy is in the engines his budget was was actively building.
Massive Healthcare Fraud in California
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— Nick shirley (@nickshirleyy) March 17, 2026
Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Resigns: “Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.”
March 17th, 2026After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this… pic.twitter.com/prtu86DpEr
— Joe Kent (@joekent16jan19) March 17, 2026
Via: ZeroHedge:
In a massive break from President Trump and MAGA, Joe Kent, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), announced his immediate resignation on Tuesday, citing irreconcilable opposition to the ongoing U.S. military operations against Iran.
Kent declared he could not “in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran,” stating unequivocally that Iran posed “no imminent threat to our nation” and that the conflict was initiated “due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.” The move comes weeks into active strikes targeting Iranian nuclear sites, leadership, and infrastructure, with Iranian retaliation underway and global oil markets feeling the strain.
The Nitrogen Trap
March 16th, 2026Via: Shanaka Anslem Perera:
The world spent fifty years and hundreds of billions of dollars building Strategic Petroleum Reserves so that no geopolitical rupture could fully sever modern civilization from energy. The United States alone holds just over 400 million barrels of crude oil in salt caverns beneath the Gulf Coast. On March 11, 2026, the International Energy Agency authorized a record 400-million-barrel emergency release from member-country reserves, the largest coordinated drawdown in the Agency’s history. Energy insecurity has institutions, stockpiles, and doctrine.
Fertilizer insecurity does not.
No country appears to maintain a fertilizer reserve system remotely comparable in scale, doctrine, or strategic importance to the petroleum reserve architecture built after the oil shocks of the 1970s. Today’s policy response to the Hormuz crisis is not a nutrient reserve release. It is an improvised attempt to rebuild shipping and insurance capacity on the fly. This structural asymmetry, now exposed with violent clarity, may prove to be one of the most consequential oversights in the history of modern statecraft. The Strait of Hormuz, a 21-nautical-mile corridor of shallow water between Iran and Oman, does not merely carry twenty percent of the world’s oil. It carries a significant share of the molecular foundation underlying half the planet’s food supply.
Over 3 Million Iranians Forcibly Displaced Under US-Israeli Bombardment
March 15th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
More than 3 million Iranians have been displaced by the ongoing US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic, according to the main UN refugee agency. Ayaki Ito, director of the Division of Emergency and Program Support at the UN refugee agency, has described that the US-Israeli attack has already triggered mass internal displacement across Iran.
“Between 600,000 and 1 million Iranian households are now temporarily displaced inside Iran as a result of the ongoing conflict, according to preliminary assessments, representing up to 3.2 million people,” Ito said.
The dark and twisted irony in all of this is that Washington and Tel Aviv have claimed they want to “help” the Iranian people go “free”… by bombing them and destroying their civic infrastructure, apparently.
Most of those fleeing are leaving Tehran and other major cities as the air war intensifies and the crisis accelerates.
Related: Israeli Attacks Displace One Million People in Lebanon
Mask Off
March 15th, 2026Via: Truthstream Media:
Hormuz Chokepoint Claims Next Victim: World’s Largest Aluminum Smelter Cuts Capacity
March 15th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
The world’s largest single-site aluminium smelter in the Middle East cut its output by about 20% on Sunday, marking yet another troubling development for the global economy. The disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is no longer just an energy story – it’s now spreading into industrial metals. These second- and third-order effects could soon disrupt global supply chains and tighten aluminium availability, thus pressuring prices higher.
Bloomberg reports that Aluminium Bahrain (Alba) began a controlled, safe shutdown of three reduction lines on Sunday to preserve business continuity amid heavily disrupted maritime shipping routes through the Hormuz chokepoint.
Secretary Hegseth on the Strait of Hormuz: DON’T WORRY ABOUT IT
March 13th, 2026There’s a disconnect between what U.S. leadership is saying and what’s happening on the ground, or, more accurately, on the water around Iran.
U.S. military strategists still aren’t fully comprehending the paradigm changing impact of unmanned systems. They, mistakenly, thought that destroying Iran’s traditional naval capacity would be enough to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.
Hegseth keeps repeating statistics about the destruction of Iran’s conventional military forces, but it’s Iran’s asymmetric capabilities that are the problem.
Try attacking a puff of smoke with a katana and see how that goes. If you’re Hegseth, you would boast about how sharp your sword is.
Iran can use small, cheap unmanned weapons, which they might have stockpiled by the thousands, to attack commercial vessels from dug in positions along hundreds of miles of coastline in the Persian Gulf.
Deployment of U.S. Marine amphibious units indicates that an Oh Shit scenario has materialized.
For the people who planned this thing, this is the realization that they rolled the dice and lost on any easy End Game. They were hoping that there would be some sort of popular uprising in Iran and ________ (fill in the blank with whatever fantasy world outcome you want because it doesn’t matter now). They were so confident, in fact, that they didn’t deploy the amphibious ready groups to the region as a contingency.
And now, as Sal Mercogliano states below:
“If you can’t risk a Navy destroyer into the Strait of Hormuz, why would you go on a LNG carrier, basically a floating bomb, into this region and think that you’re good to go?”
After oil markets closed for the weekend, The United States destroyed military targets on Iran’s main oil hub of Kharg Island:
The United States on Friday destroyed military targets on Iran’s main oil hub of Kharg Island, President Donald Trump said, threatening to strike its oil infrastructure if Iran continues attacks that have halted most ship traffic in the Strait of ?Hormuz.
The island serves as the export terminal for 90% of Iran’s oil shipments. In a social media post, Trump wrote the U.S. military “totally obliterated every MILITARY target” on Kharg while leaving oil infrastructure intact.
“However, should Iran, or anyone else, do anything to interfere with the Free and Safe Passage of Ships through the Strait of Hormuz, I will immediately reconsider this decision,” Trump wrote, a warning that could further roil markets already dealing with what the International Energy Agency has called the biggest oil supply disruption in history.
Iran had no ability to defend against U.S. attacks, the president added. “Iran’s Military, and all others involved with this Terrorist Regime, would be wise to lay down their arms, and save what’s left of their country, which isn’t much!” he said.
We have Trump, held in a joint lock by Israel over his activities with Jeffrey Epstein and who knows what else, engaged in a game of chicken with what amounts to a maniac death cult known as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
If neither side flinches…
There are already massively inflated fuel and fertilizer prices. Thousands of flights have been cancelled. Higher food prices are already on the way, regardless of what happens.
Petrochemical exports from Iran, Iraq, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman are mostly or totally disrupted. Saudi Arabia is still able to export some oil through the Red Sea via their East West pipeline.
By my simple arithmetic, the emergency IEA release will postpone a deeper decent into chaos by about 19 days. Grok guesses 20 days. Perplexity guesses 24 days.
I don’t see how this gets turned around in that short of a period of time.
If the Iranians are determined to keep attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the throughout the Person Gulf, as they already have, it’s hard to see how that could be stopped.
Keeping in mind the hundreds of miles of Iranian coastline, let’s focus on two statistics from the Wikipedia page for Iran’s Shahed attack drone:
Number built: Unknown
Operational range: 2,500 km
In other words, Iran likely has the capability to disrupt shipping in the Persian Gulf for an extended period of time.
If the war continues, my guess is that governments around the world will begin ramping up emergency measures within 20 to 30 days.
Via: What’s Going on With Shipping?:
The Marconi Conspiracy
March 13th, 2026Via: Pandox:
