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War On Iran: – All Signs Point To Escalation
On Sunday U.S. President Donald Trump renewed his threat to devastate Iran:
‘We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran,’ Trump wrote.
‘NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They’ll come down fast, they’ll come down easy and, if they don’t take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years.
‘IT’S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END!’
The deal Trump is offering is, of course, neither reasonable nor fair.
Masoud Pezeshkian @drpezeshkian – 15:34 utc · Apr 20, 2026
Honoring commitments is the basis of meaningful dialogue. Deep historical mistrust in Iran toward U.S. gov conduct remains, while unconstructive & contradictory signals from American officials carry a bitter message; they seek Iran’s surrender. Iranians do not submit to force.
To surrender is something Iran can not and will not do.
Larry Johnson, Alastair Crooke, Gideon Rachman of the FT and others find it likely that war will further escalate. Michael Tracey points out that Trump has not and is not bluffing. He will order to bomb all power plants and bridges.
The current ceasefire, which the U.S. has already broken with its blockade of Iran and by last night’s high-jacking of an Iranian container ship, will run out Tuesday evening. Negotiations between the U.S. and Iran in Islamabad, if they happen at all, will likely not start before Wednesday.
U.S. and Israeli bombing of Iran might well restart before they happen. Trump may wait though until the markets have closed on Friday.
If it happens it will be absolutely massive – as will Iran’s retaliation.
As usual US is very good at poison propaganda against those who refused to bow and sux their dicks.
“Messages to America: The Letters of Ho Chi Minh
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Born in 1890 in Vietnam under French colonialism to a committed nationalist father, Ho Chi Minh would grow up to lead not one, but two successful wars of independence to liberate his country. In his formative years, Ho traveled widely as a sailor and lived in Paris, Harlem, and Boston, where he worked as a cook, baker, and did menial jobs. In his travels, he made contact with other colonized people, communists and nationalists, and saw the Vietnamese under France as part of an international system of empire.
Returning to Vietnam to expel the French colonizers and emancipate his homeland, Ho Chi Minh looked to the United States, once a colony of the British, as a model—the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence is clearly modeled on the United States Declaration—but also as a potential ally. Ho wrote numerous times to American audiences, presidents and the American people, reaching out for support. But American elites, seeing France expelled and wary of independence movements “infecting” their own colonies, decided to punish Vietnam and engaged in a decades long war of almost unthinkable violence.
During this time, while Ho Chi Minh was demonized in the United States, he continued to push the United States to respect Vietnam’s sovereignty. He passed away in 1969 at the age of 79, not living to see the eventual Vietnamese victory in 1975. In 1976, Vietnam’s capital city, Saigon, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in his honor.”
https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon2/hochiminh/
Posted by: Surferket | Apr 21 2026 1:49 utc | 212
On a really OT OT side Note. See what happens to your sovereign Gold entrusted to Fort Knots. They turn into junk gold!!
📝Yellow Metal, Gray Reputation📝
The scandal over gold quality at America’s Fort Knox logically continues the story of France’s “golden evacuation” from the US: it turns out that a significant portion of American bullion technically fails to meet modern standards, and major central banks are already voting with their feet and their money.
🔻What are the claims about?
▪️Analysts at Money Metals, drawing on open materials from the US Treasury and inventory documents from the early 2010s, point out: only around 17% of the bullion listed in American treasury reserves has a purity of 995 or higher — that is, meets modern exchange standards for “pure” gold suitable for quick trading and delivery to major platforms like LBMA. The rest consists of old, low-purity bullion.
▪️According to the inventories discussed in specialized materials, the average purity of the entire volume is around 916 (that is, 91.6% gold in the metal). This is the classic “coin” or “semi-finished” format, which looked fine in the mid-20th century, but does not meet the requirements for deliverable gold in the 21st century. To turn this reserve into a full-fledged exchange asset, it needs to be massively remelted and further refined — with expenditures of time and money.
▪️A separate problem is the absence of a modern comprehensive audit. An independent review of deep storage reserves has not been conducted since the 1950s: after the closure of the “gold window,” only internal checks and demonstration tours for journalists were carried out, as in 1974, when a delegation was shown through one section of the vault without systematic verification of bullion against registers or purity checks.
For critics, this is the main argument: the world relies on figures that no one has truly confirmed for decades.
🖍Against this backdrop, the decision by the Bank of France became an example of how a major player can simultaneously solve both a technical and political problem. Asset owners did not “sell off gold,” but rather got rid of precisely the old and non-standard bullion that remained overseas.
These 129 tons were sold at peak prices, and with the proceeds, an equal amount of already modern, highly liquid gold was purchased, which was physically placed in Paris. The volume of reserves remained the same, but its quality and jurisdiction changed.
❗️The French case demonstrated to fellow club members a very simple algorithm: there is no need to argue with Washington about the contents of the vault — questionable gold can be sold to those who don’t ask extra questions (and even make a decent profit on volatility), and with that money buy normal metal and store it at home.
https://t.me/rybar_in_english/30409
Posted by: Surferket | Apr 21 2026 8:09 utc | 299
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