As the average price of Diesel in the US hit an all-time record high over the weekend and gasoline hit an historic high for any Labor Day weekend, Iran is driving the war toward greater intensity and far more danger. That is going to put a lot more pressure on those prices. Hormuz traffic dropped back to its lowest since May over the weekend, so the intensification is working, even though the US president has repeatedly let us all know that he controls the strait.
Now Iran has tightened up the tension screws by making it clear that, if it needs to respond to Trump again, it will destroy US-owned oil infrastructure throughout the Middle East and it will start destroying US Navy ships, including eventually the biggest of them all. It has said it will start the new escalation by just sending 300-400 US sailors to the bottom of the sea. If that doesn’t seal its objectives, it will do more. Iran’s top military commander explained that Iran could have easily sunk every tanker it has struck but said Iran always avoids sinking any tankers in order to avoid creating an environmental catastrophe on its own shores because of all the oil they hold. Instead, it completely disables them with its precision hits.
You may think that is just saber rattling and wonder, if Iran can really do that to US Navy ships, why it hasn’t it? This weekend’s DEEPER DIVE gives a detailed report on Iran’s resolved objectives in the war, as well as Iran’s recent major change to an offensive war strategy, which will significantly up the costs for the US. It lays out Iran’s calibrated plan, which explains why Iran doesn’t do EVERYTHING that it can do. It explains why Iran retrains itself.
We know, for example, Iran has a lot of WMD—chemical and likely biological—because it used its chemical weapons years ago against Iraq, and it certainly has better weapons today. The US government has long said it expects Iran has sleeper cells in the US, yet it hasn’t activated any of them so far. Why not? We know that it has recently conducted cyberwar against US water facilities, but has achieved nothing. Iran says it was only firing a few cyber shots across the bow SO FAR to show that it can easily reach inside the US.
This weekend Iran test-fired its newest anti-ship ballistic missiles at a US aircraft carrier. The US says the missiles didn’t hit. Iran says it conducted the test in a way to prove they could. At first, Iran even said they hit their target. Did the missiles just hit unarmed because they were intentionally fired as shots over the carrier’s bow to prove that Iran can destroy an aircraft carrier by how close they got? The US has provided no details.
If you received my weekend Deeper Dive, you know that Iran does not want to go as far as sinking US aircraft carriers and you know why. It is not just that doing so would result in much more painful US retaliation against Iran. The article explains Iran’s strategic escalation plan in succinct detail. Unlike Trump, it is actually following a clear plan. (Not clear in terms of what targets will be hit and how, but clear in strategy, and it wants the world to know this.) Though the Deeper Dive went out to paying subscribers only, it can still be read by anyone who upgrades to a paying subscription now.
Once you know Iran’s three main objectives, you’ll understand why it has been holding back—not using its WMD, not deploying sleeper cells inside the US, not causing any actual cyber harm even as it makes its cyber reach clear. Iran is providing intentional opportunities for Trump to cut and run before the next new escalation, but only as a clearly defeated loser. They are planning to keep escalating to the point of doing the things I just mentioned if that is what it takes to achieve all three of their major objectives. And they don’t care how far they have to go to make Trump the clear loser … all the way to all-out war, no holds barred.
The Deeper Dive will help you understand why Iran is deliberately following a path of slow, rational escalation in order to achieve the objectives I’ve enumerated without turning the world against it. As it is, the world is more against Trump for starting this war, which is exactly where Iran wants him to end up at the end of this war because its third objective requires that Iran consistently shows itself to the world as the only rational player here. So, it provides opportunities to exit and avoid harsher strikes but the opportunities make it hard for him to take the exit because he would be showing himself to be the total loser.
Most of all, the Deeper Dive, along with its accompanying videos—particularly one—explains how, so far, Iran is clearly winning this war on its terms and explains how they are playing Trump to do exactly what they want while keeping him boxed into the war!
Stepping back from Iran and Trump to news that I read today, Prime Minister Netanyahu just indicated that Iran and Israel are both preparing for the likelihood of a multi-front war, regardless of what America does.
Economania (national & global economic collapse plus market news)
The next financial crash: AI debt could spark a chain reaction
Treasury yields face 4.8% test on 10YR as fiscal risks threaten to spill into other assets
The wealth of the world’s billionaires reached $15.1 trillion last year
Money Matters (monetary policy, metals, cryptos, currency wars & going cashless)
How about this mass migration from US Treasuries to gold and other alternatives:
World’s biggest sovereign wealth fund [Norway] plans to cut U.S. Treasury holdings
Japan Sold Almost $90 Billion In Treasuries To Fund Record Yen Intervention
Central Banks Bought 23 Tonnes Of Gold In July
Trump doubles down on threat to halt trade with top partners unless Fed cuts rates
Baby Trump say, “That’ll teach the Fed: Mess with me, and I’ll mess with the economy for you by terminating all trade with our most important trade partners! You want to hurt our economy? Well, then, I’ll smash it! I’ll make sure we suffer shortages.”
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance called for lower rates, arguing it would be the “proper and responsible” response to recent U.S. inflation data.
What an idiot! How about stopping all the things you are doing that is creating the inflation.
Yes, Gold Pays No Interest. Now Look at the Alternative.
Inflation Factors (too much money chasing too few goods due to weather, sanctions, tariffs, quarantines, etc.)
Diesel hits record high as Ukraine and Iran wars knock out refineries, fueling inflation worries (It’s $6.09 where I live over $8 in parts of northern California.)
Gasoline prices, over $4 per gallon, hit record Labor Day high
Iran war costs Americans $100 billion in extra energy bills: How much are households paying?
And that doesn’t begin to consider how much extra the rise in energy prices is adding to price of everything else! You! ain’t seen nothing yet
Wars & Rumors of War (including cyberwar, civil unrest and revolts)
Iran’s Qasem Basir Ballistic Missile Targets US Nuclear Carrier in Combat Debut
Hormuz traffic dips to lowest since May after US, Iranian strikes on ships
Israel ADMITS: Iran IS ABOUT TO LAUNCH A Multi-Front WAR
Pentagon refused payout for soldiers who died in Iran conflict ‘because it isn’t a war’
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Europe targeted by spiralling campaign of sabotage, and Russia is the chief suspect
Digital Dominance (AI threats, transhumanism, hacks & cyberattacks, etc.)
AI Model Turns ‘Evil’ During Test, Tries to Build ‘Bioweapons’ to ‘Maximize Civilian Deaths’
Trump Trade Wars & Turf Wars
Europe increasingly angry at US over world economy
Political Pandemonium & Social Senescence (socio-political issues & events)
Former labor secretary created ‘toxic’ atmosphere, drank at work and misused funds
Mind-Blowing Real Life of Dem John Fetterman Exposed
Teary Trump voter’s regret after brother who served with US Special Forces dies in ICE custody
Rabbis representing 100K+ anti-Zionist Orthodox American Jews who separate their religion from the State of Israel meet with Trump
Ben Gvir Positions to Succeed Bibi
Welcome to the World that Now Exists as Germany Turns over New Far-Right Leaf
Deep Domination (globalism, unelected government, unconstitutional government & censorship)
A Pox Upon Us (the plagues, pandemics & health police of the 2020s)
Calamity, Catastrophe & Climate Craziness
Nepal glacier collapse: what the media didn’t tell you
Hurricanes crowd the Pacific: What Hawaii and California can expect
Off-the-Beat News & Just Plain Offbeat News
The U.S. Navy Really Did Make Ships “Invisible” in WWII, Just Not the Way This Famous Legend Claims
The brain health damage you can reverse in midlife (and later)
The clues in human DNA that prove life had an intelligent creator, according to a medical scientist
Doomer Humor
Honestly, all I see is the big club that we ai n’t in, confabbing together to create such a tangled mass of Hannibal
Directive plausible deniability for a deliberately coordinated series of faux wars and false flags, that we never see this Unicrisis for what it really is: the ultimate globalist push towards Agenda 2030.
Wake me when Iran starts earnestly bombing the Middle Eastern data centers that Israel plans to use to run the electronic prison planet, and cutting the undersea cables that keep the global financial system going.
Until then, it’s all just a stage play buy the globalist wolf pack against the masses of human sheeple around the world, IMO.
Here’s an interesting point of view… 50 mental health experts say that Trump is mentally collapsing and planning to drop nukes on Iran. “whistleblowers have leaked alarming internal reports confirming the administration is preparing to execute a nuclear strike. … This is not political rhetoric. Donald Trump himself has come out and said he wants to bomb them, and the administration is actively weighing dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran right now.“
Source: https://markashryock.substack.com/p/the-much-more-dangerous-case-50-eminent
That said, I’m skeptical. This guy is not what I consider a reliable source. You’d never know by reading this article that the guy is a serious woo-woo. Astrological charts, the world transitioning from the 3-dimensional realm into the 5-dimensional realm, etc. However, about 1/3 of his posts are about serious world events like the Iran war, crashing bond market, and now Trump, and those “serious” posts don’t mention his Spirit Guides even once.