{"id":323975,"date":"2026-03-03T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323975"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:36:12","slug":"the-last-entry-iraq-syria-lebanon-libya-somalia-sudan-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=323975","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST ENTRY: Iraq. Syria. Lebanon. Libya. Somalia. Sudan. Iran."},"content":{"rendered":"

Islander Reports \u2013 Substack.com March 1, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

At 2:30 in the morning February 28, Washington time, a president who once promised to end the forever wars posted an eight-minute video to Truth Social and announced the beginning of a new one. Operation Epic Fury, they called it. Epic. Fury. The marketing department of imperial collapse has never worked harder.<\/p>\n

B-2 bombers. Carrier-launched strikes. Explosions across Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Karaj, Kermanshah, Tabriz. A girls\u2019 school in southern Minab struck \u2014 the death toll now confirmed at eighty-five children and counting, their bodies still warm as the Pentagon prepared its briefings on strategic objectives. And the stated goal, delivered by the most powerful man on earth from behind a podium in a white USA baseball cap at Mar-a-Lago \u2014 regime change. \u201cWhen we are finished, take over your government.\u201d Spoken to ninety million Iranians as their cities burned, as though revolution can be airdropped like a leaflet.<\/p>\n

Then, within hours, two things happened simultaneously that told you everything about what this day actually was.<\/p>\n

Trump reportedly asked Iran for a ceasefire. The same man who promised to \u201cdestroy their missiles and raze their missile industry to the ground,\u201d who told the IRGC to \u201clay down your weapons or face certain death,\u201d who called this a \u201cnoble mission\u201d \u2014 was reaching, through back channels, for an exit. Hours in. Not days. Hours. He has never looked weaker in his life, and given the competition, that is quite a statement.<\/p>\n

And by evening, Netanyahu \u2014 the architect of this illegal and mad war, the man who called it Israel\u2019s greatest existential opportunity, who on a Purim morning told the Israeli people that \u201cthe lion has roared, who will not fear\u201d \u2014 boarded his official state aircraft, the Wing of Zion, which had spent four hours circling off the Israeli coast to avoid Iranian targeting, and flew west. Over Greece. On to Berlin. Away from the missiles he had launched. Away from the Israelis he left to absorb the consequences.<\/p>\n

Between those two datapoints \u2014 Trump\u2019s panicked back-channel and Netanyahu\u2019s flight to Germany \u2014 is the entire story of this war. One man ordered it from a resort in Florida. The other ordered it and then departed the country it was supposedly fought to protect. The Israelis sheltering in bomb shelters from Haifa to Tel Aviv, the enormous damage across both cities, the sirens, the predictable interceptor failures \u2014 they are the ones paying for a decision made between a man monitoring his social media metrics at Mar-a-Lago and a man indicted for corruption who needed a war to survive his own electorate.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Iran announced it is preparing to deploy weapons \u201cthe world has never seen.\u201d Trump announced \u2014 on Truth Social, naturally \u2014 that Khamenei is dead. For hours, Iran\u2019s state media called him \u201csteadfast and firm, commanding the field.\u201d Then, by evening, Iranian state media confirmed it. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei \u2014 Supreme Leader for thirty-five years, the man who outlasted eight American presidents, survived sanctions, assassinations, a brutal war with Saddam’s Iraq, the twelve-day war \u2014 is dead. The decapitation strike succeeded. Iran\u2019s security council secretary promised an \u201cunforgettable lesson.\u201d Patriot systems failed to intercept the majority of the latest Iranian missile wave. China announced an immediate halt to all rare earth exports to the United States \u2014 triggered the moment the attack began. Beijing \u201cclosely monitoring.\u201d The Iraqi resistance has officially entered the conflict. And the missiles kept flying.<\/p>\n

What happened in the hours before the bombs fell will damn this administration in the judgment of history. The timing.<\/p>\n

On February 26, in Geneva, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi sat across from Oman\u2019s mediators and reached what Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi described publicly as a breakthrough. Iran had agreed to never stockpile enriched uranium above civilian levels. To full IAEA verification. To irreversibly downgrade its current stockpiles to \u201cthe lowest level possible.\u201d Al-Busaidi said peace was \u201cwithin reach.\u201d These were not diplomatic pleasantries \u2014 these were the actual terms of an agreement taking shape in real time. What followed was aggression and perfidy in the technical sense of both words: attacking a country during active negotiations in which that country was demonstrably willing to make significant and lasting concessions.<\/p>\n

Forty-eight hours later, the bombs fell.<\/p>\n

And this is the second time. In June 2025, Operation Midnight Hammer struck three Iranian nuclear facilities \u2014 Natanz, Isfahan, Fordo \u2014 while negotiations were simultaneously underway. The sites were empty. Centrifuges relocated days earlier. The United States fired thirty Tomahawk cruise missiles at a mountain full of evacuated tunnels and declared it a strategic success. Trump announced he had obliterated Iran\u2019s nuclear program. Then used that same obliterated nuclear program \u2014 the one he already destroyed \u2014 as the pretext for launching a larger war eight months later. An Israeli defence official confirmed to Reuters today that the date for today\u2019s strikes was decided \u201cweeks ago\u201d \u2014 while those negotiations were still ongoing. The date was already circled on a calendar in Tel Aviv before the Geneva talks began.<\/p>\n

You cannot make this up. You can only remember the day and wonder at the incompetence, the arrogance.<\/p>\n

On the eve of Operation Epic Fury, Trump told reporters he was \u201cnot happy\u201d with the negotiations. Iran wouldn\u2019t \u201csay the key words.\u201d He was \u201cnot happy\u201d \u2014 while Oman\u2019s mediator was on television describing a breakthrough. While Araghchi was shaking hands. While technical committees were scheduling follow-on meetings.<\/p>\n

Diplomacy, in the hands of this administration, is not a path to peace. It is reconnaissance and bad theater. A mechanism to identify what Iran values most, catalogue its concessions, then bomb the table while the ink is still wet. Twice. Same play, same script, same morning-after declaration of victory over rubble. If you needed proof that the goal was never nuclear disarmament, it arrived this morning in cruise missiles and burning schools and a ceasefire request that came before lunchtime.<\/p>\n

Twenty-three years ago, a retired four-star NATO general named Wesley Clark walked into the Pentagon weeks after September 11th and was shown a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense\u2019s office. Seven countries in five years, it said. Iraq. Syria. Lebanon. Libya. Somalia. Sudan. And finishing off \u2014 Iran. Clark went public in 2007. He was largely dismissed. Look at the scorecard now.<\/p>\n

Iraq: shattered, the state dissolved, conditions created for ISIS that haunt the region still. Libya: warlord-fractured catastrophe. Syria: collapsed. Lebanon: gutted. Sudan: civil war. Somalia: perpetual catastrophe. And now, at the bottom of the list, exactly where it was always written \u2014 Iran.<\/p>\n

The plan was never a response to September 11th. It predates it. Paul Wolfowitz told Clark in 1991 that the lesson of the Gulf War was blunt: the Soviets won\u2019t stop us anymore. \u201cWe\u2019ve got five, maybe ten years to clean up these old Soviet surrogate regimes.\u201d Clean up. Like history is a mess to be tidied, and the tidying happens to require carriers and munitions priced at twelve million dollars each.<\/p>\n

Iran was last on the list not because it was least threatening. Because it was most difficult. Because you needed the others dismantled first \u2014 Hezbollah degraded, Syria fallen, the regional architecture cleared \u2014 before striking the cornerstone. The cornerstone is now being struck, not because Iran built a nuclear weapon, not because Iran threatened the American homeland, but because the blueprint said so. And blueprints in Washington outlive every administration that claims to oppose them.<\/p>\n

Trump didn\u2019t write this plan. He signed it. The deep state doesn\u2019t need loyalty. It just needs access to the launch codes and a puppet that is too incompetent, too weak to say no.<\/p>\n

And then it truly went off<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Iran launched dozens of ballistic missiles along with shahed drones simultaneously at Israel and at US military bases across the Gulf \u2014 Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria. No warning. No choreography. The US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet command centre in Bahrain was struck directly. Al-Udeid in Qatar \u2014 the same base Iran surgically grazed in June 2025 as polite face-saving theatre \u2014 hit again, without the politeness. Explosions in Dubai. Jebel Ali port \u2014 the largest port in the Middle East \u2014 struck by a missile. Eighteen explosions in the city by early evening, including debris from Iranian drones falling on the Burj Al Arab hotel. Long lines at petrol stations across Beirut within hours. Fourteen thousand flights cancelled. Etihad suspended all services in and out of Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n

Enormous damage in Haifa after two Iranian missiles. Thirty-five confirmed strikes on Israeli territory by evening, with Israeli emergency services reporting ninety-four wounded. The Iraqi resistance officially entering the conflict. The Houthis resuming Red Sea operations. And Iran announcing weapons \u201cthe world has never seen\u201d \u2014 brief, unspecified, delivered with the composure of a command that doesn\u2019t need elaboration.<\/p>\n

What made Iran’s current response different from June 2025 was not the scale. It was the discipline. Before bringing a single air defence battery online, Iran cleared its airspace of all civilian aircraft. Every commercial flight out. Then, and only then, did the military activate its integrated air defence network and begin the retaliatory launch sequence \u2014 roughly an hour after the first strikes landed. This detail, small and unreported in most Western outlets, says everything. Iran\u2019s military took deliberate, methodical steps to ensure that would not happen again. This is not the behaviour of a regime in panic. This is the behaviour of a military that rehearsed this, lived through one version of it already, and came back eight months later with the lessons learned and the procedures corrected.<\/p>\n

Now the man who started it and then fled.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Netanyahu addressed Israel this morning in full Purim biblical register \u2014 invoking Aman and Esther, the lion\u2019s roar, the eternity of Israel. \u201cThe lot was cast,\u201d he told his people. \u201cWe will stand as one person with one heart.\u201d He told them there would be costs, \u201cperhaps even heavy costs,\u201d and that he knew they had the resilience to bear them.<\/p>\n

Then he got on a plane.<\/p>\n

The man who invoked Purim and the lion\u2019s roar and the eternity of Israel was in Germany when the missiles hit Haifa. He will have his cowardly explanations \u2014 security protocols, command continuity, the Wing of Zion always evacuates during escalations. None of it changes what the image says about the distance between the man who asks his people for \u201cheavy costs\u201d and the man who decided not to be present for them.<\/p>\n

Credible reporting suggests Trump was not so much the architect of this war as its willing dope of a hostage. The analysis holds that Netanyahu threatened to strike Iran unilaterally if Trump did not join him, making that threat precisely after Washington\u2019s coercive task force was fully assembled in the Gulf \u2014 knowing the carriers and the munitions were in position, and that a unilateral Israeli strike would put American forces in the blast radius of Iranian retaliation regardless of whether Trump had ordered a shot.<\/p>\n

The deepest irony: Israel is less safe than it was on Friday. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Iranian missiles are hitting Haifa. Patriot batteries are being depleted. The Houthis have resumed Red Sea operations. The Iraqi resistance has entered. Iran has announced weapons nobody has seen.<\/p>\n

How does this end? On whose terms?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Trump wants this short. He is watching the markets, the oil price, the approval numbers. Americans will not tolerate weeks of this with oil heading toward $150 a barrel, and Trump knows it. The back-channel ceasefire feelers before the first day was out confirm he knows it.<\/p>\n

Iran was in Geneva on Thursday. The deal existed. The deal was bombed. And the terms available today \u2014 with the Strait closed, Patriot batteries depleted, Coalition sortie generation constrained by standoff distances and a Chinese rare earth embargo already running \u2014 are worse than the terms bombed forty-eight hours ago. The bargaining position has not improved. It has deteriorated. And a man is in Berlin.<\/p>\n

The \u201cprotests\u201d that preceded all this were marginally were manipulated theater. The economic collapse was genuine. The rial at 1.4 million to the dollar. Inflation at forty-two percent. Food prices up seventy-two percent. Visceral rage \u2014 all of it the consequence of sanctions designed in Washington to produce precisely this kind of social fracture. Let nobody diminish the legitimate fury of ordinary Iranians ground down by mismanagement and clerical arrogance and an economic siege that Western press invariably forgets to mention when discussing why Iranians are angry.<\/p>\n

But into that genuine rage, other hands reached.<\/p>\n

On December 29, (2025), as economic pain spread from Tehran\u2019s Grand Bazaar, Mossad\u2019s official Farsi X account posted: \u201cCome out together into the streets. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.\u201d One point one five million views. Former CIA director Mike Pompeo responded: \u201cHappy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them.\u201d He said this publicly. The former head of American intelligence broadcast to the world that Israeli operatives were embedded in Iranian protests. Nobody in the Western media blinked.<\/p>\n

Iranian security arrested a confirmed Mossad operative in Tehran in early January \u2014 filmed, confessing, detailing remote recruitment via social media, handlers in Germany, instructions to photograph targets, attend protests, relay footage abroad. Safe houses raided: weapons, ammunition, bomb-making materials. Israel\u2019s Channel 13 had reported Mossad deployed approximately one hundred agents inside Iran before the June 2025 war to sabotage missile launchers and blind air defences. Electronic jamming equipment seized in Mashhad and Rasht, designed to hijack GPS signals on tactical drone systems. Israeli Unit 8200 hacked Iranian state television on June 18, 2025, cutting to footage of women\u2019s rights protests with a direct Farsi instruction: \u201ctake to the streets and finish the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not Iranian propaganda. The evidence is documented, much of it from Israeli sources who felt confident no consequence would follow. They were right. Until today, when all of it was confirmed dismembered. The network that was supposed to activate inside Iran during today\u2019s strikes activated nothing \u2014 not because the agents lacked courage, but because they were identified, arrested, turned, or killed in the preceding nine months. Iran read the lesson of June 2025 and acted on it.<\/p>\n

The 1953 CIA-backed overthrow of democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh \u2014 removed for nationalising Iranian oil \u2014 is not ancient history to Iranians. It is the operating framework through which every subsequent Western gesture toward Iranian dissent is correctly read. Pompeo confirmed the network was real on January 2, and too few filed it under evidence.<\/p>\n

The regime change fantasy deserves not dismissal but demolition. Last night, history has provided the demolition in real time.<\/p>\n

The Assembly of Experts convened within the hour after the Supreme Leader’s death. The command council activated. The IRGC issued a statement not of surrender but of escalation \u2014 \u201cthe martyrdom of the Supreme Leader obliges us to respond with maximum force.\u201d The Basij mobilised. The judiciary, the parallel command structures, the bureaucracy \u2014 every instrument of state authority continued without interruption and, if anything, hardened in resolve. Iran\u2019s constitution was written by people who survived the Shah, who understood what decapitation looks like, who engineered succession mechanisms for exactly this scenario. The successor process is now underway with the kind of orderliness that should terrify every architect of this operation. Not chaos. Definately not fracture. But procedure.<\/p>\n

Khamenei\u2019s death has done something the bombs couldn\u2019t: it has handed every Iranian \u2014 religious or secular, reformist or hardliner, pro-government or not \u2014 a martyr. Not a politician. Not a general. The Supreme Leader himself. The emotional unifying power of that fact inside Iran tonight cannot be overstated and should not be underestimated. The demonstrations that have run through Tehran and Isfahan and Mashhad today were already pro-government. After last night’s confirmation they will be something else entirely. Something older. Something that doesn\u2019t negotiate.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s theory of victory was always: kill the leadership, the population rises, the regime collapses, the MEK walks into the vacuum. What is unfolding tonight is the refutation of every part of that sentence simultaneously. The leadership has been killed. The population has unified. The regime has not collapsed. And the MEK \u2014 Washington\u2019s preferred government-in-exile, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, regarded inside Iran with the affection most populations reserve for collaborators \u2014 has no domestic base, no credibility, and no meaningful presence inside the country it claims to represent. A punchline with a Washington lobby budget.<\/p>\n

Where this is heading\u2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The seismic implication of Khamenei\u2019s confirmed death is not what Tel Aviv and Washington predicted. It is the opposite. The Islamic Republic has now demonstrated, in the most extreme test conceivable, that it can absorb the assassination of its supreme leader and continue fighting. Every movement in the Global South, every government that has quietly wondered whether resistance to American power is sustainable, every adversary calculating whether the United States can be deterred \u2014 they watched Iran\u2019s command structure hold the line after its supreme leader was killed, watched the missiles keep flying, watched the succession activate without a single visible fracture. That demonstration, broadcast in real time, is worth more to the cause of multipolar resistance than any diplomatic communiques issued in the last decade.<\/p>\n

Washington wanted to prove that American power can decapitate a government and trigger its collapse. It proved the opposite. And it did so in front of the entire world.<\/p>\n

Even the Atlantic Council concluded this week that regime change from outside, without large-scale military intervention or internal elite rupture, \u201cis not a credible near-term proposition.\u201d They wrote that before the supreme leader was killed and the missiles kept flying. The architects know. They proceed anyway, because the goal was never the stated goal. It was the geography, the energy reserves, the dollar-bypassing trade flows, and the strategic buffer a sovereign Iran provides to the Eurasian architecture Washington finds intolerable.<\/p>\n

Consider what this war costs America\u2019s putative allies \u2014 the ones who privately begged Washington not to do this.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s May 2025 Riyadh trip produced two trillion dollars in investment commitments. The UAE has positioned itself as the global financial hub for capital flight from every uncertain corner of the world. Bahrain hosts the US Fifth Fleet. Qatar houses CENTCOM\u2019s regional headquarters. All of them are under Iranian missile fire tonight. Kuwait condemned the attack on its soil as a \u201cflagrant violation of sovereignty.\u201d Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister, who called the breakthrough forty-eight hours before the bombs fell, told Washington bluntly: \u201cThis is not your war.\u201d Jebel Ali port \u2014 the economic engine of Dubai \u2014 hit by Iranian missiles this afternoon. Dubai International Airport concourse damaged. Residential areas struck. The US ambassador to Jerusalem today told American staff: if you want to leave Israel, \u201cdo so today.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Gulf monarchies understood though in the end still cowed, whatever their private feelings about Tehran, that a regional conflagration destroys the economic transformation projects that are their futures. NEOM. Dubai\u2019s financial architecture. The post-oil diversification on which they\u2019ve bet their national existence. All of it collateral in a war they did not vote for and cannot escape.<\/p>\n

The Strait of Hormuz is closed. Confirmed by Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guard, confirmed by the UKMTO, confirmed by tanker tracking services. Twenty million barrels per day. Thirty-one percent of global seaborne crude. Twenty percent of global LNG. The sole export route for Qatar and the UAE\u2019s gas to China, India, South Korea.<\/p>\n

The dollar\u2019s share of global foreign exchange reserves has fallen to 57.8% \u2014 a multi-decade low, down from 71% at the century\u2019s turn. China\u2019s Cross-Border Interbank Payment System handles trillions in daily settlement. The mBridge platform \u2014 a central bank digital currency corridor connecting China, Hong Kong, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Thailand \u2014 is fully operational. Iran has been selling its oil to China in yuan for years. Russia dumped its dollar holdings from 41% to under 10%. The architecture for post-dollar energy trade exists. It was built in anticipation of exactly this moment.<\/p>\n

China has now announced an immediate halt to all rare earth exports to the United States and we’ll see how it plays out. China controls ninety percent of global refined rare earth output \u2014 the materials required for guidance systems, missile components, jet engine coatings, permanent magnets in every advanced weapons platform the US military operates. Yttrium prices were already sixty percent higher this week, seventy times their year-ago level. Two North American coating manufacturers had already paused production. Now the tap is entirely off. The United States is attempting to prosecute a multi-day air campaign against a country whose most powerful strategic partner has simultaneously cut off the material supply chain for the weapons future campaigns require.<\/p>\n

A sustained Hormuz closure triggers a decision cascade in every energy-importing nation not already NATO-committed. Do you accumulate dollar reserves to buy oil no longer reliably flowing through dollar-denominated channels? Or do you accelerate into the parallel infrastructure Beijing has been laying since 2018? Saudi Arabia \u2014 Vision 2030 dependent on stability, largest trade partner already China \u2014 has been offered yuan settlement for years. The moment the Strait becomes a war zone under American management, Riyadh\u2019s calculation changes. Directionally. Irreversibly.<\/p>\n

The pattern is not subtle. Saddam priced oil in euros. He was removed and Iraqi oil reverted to dollars within months. Gaddafi proposed a gold dinar. He ended face-down in a ditch in 2011. Iran settled in yuan. It is being bombed today. Every finance ministry in the Global South is drawing the same conclusion: dollar dependency is a liability, and the infrastructure to reduce it now exists.<\/p>\n

The petrodollar system \u2014 the arrangement by which global oil was priced in dollars, forcing every importing nation to accumulate dollars, recycling into US Treasuries, funding the carriers now launching strikes on Tehran \u2014 is not a law of physics. It is a political arrangement sustained by trust in American management of the global commons. Every time Washington bombs a country that was negotiating in good faith, every time a breakthrough is torched from the air, every time the dollar is weaponized and another finance ministry updates its exit spreadsheet \u2014 the trust erodes.<\/p>\n

Israel is the only state in the Middle East with nuclear weapons. Dozens of them at the Negev Nuclear Research Centre near Dimona \u2014 never declared, never inspected, never subject to IAEA cameras, snapback mechanisms, maximum pressure campaigns, or Operation Epic Furies. The state whose nuclear secrecy is protected by an American UN veto stands as the co-architect of a war fought in the name of nuclear non-proliferation. Its defence minister called the June 2025 strikes the \u201cpromo.\u201d Its prime minister launched the main event and flew to Berlin when the response arrived.<\/p>\n

The nuclear program was never the point. It was always the pretext.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Araghchi named it: \u201cTrump has turned \u2018America First\u2019 into \u2018Israel First\u2019 \u2014 which always means \u2018America Last.\u2019\u201d You may dispute the framing. You cannot dispute the observable fact that American sailors are ducking Iranian missiles at Bahrain\u2019s Fifth Fleet headquarters while one leader watches from Mar-a-Lago and another watches from Berlin.<\/p>\n

MAGA voters who showed up because they were promised an end to forever wars were right that America had been betrayed by elites who put foreign (Israel’s) interests above theirs. They had the wrong villain.<\/p>\n

Fifty-three percent of Trump voters, polled before June 2025, said the US should not get involved in the Iran-Israel conflict. Forty-five percent of all Americans opposed US military action against Iran. The war proceeded. The base was ignored. The uniparty consensus \u2014 forged in think tanks funded by defence contractors who profit from every sortie, guided by lobbying infrastructure ensuring no American politician rises without pledging fealty to Israeli security interests \u2014 delivered the war the electorate couldn\u2019t vote against and will now pay for in blood, treasure, rare earth supply chains, and the monetary arrangement that has subsidised the American standard of living for fifty years.<\/p>\n

Final thoughts<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Bismarck described preventive war as committing suicide for fear of death. He was right then. He is right now.<\/p>\n

History will note that a deal was on the table, that the strike date was set in Tel Aviv while the deal was being negotiated, that eighty-five children died in a school in Minab, that the Strait closed by afternoon, that the ceasefire request came by evening. It will note the man at Mar-a-Lago and the man in Berlin. It will note that the supreme leader was killed and the missiles kept flying. And it will note that China turned off the rare earth supply to the military prosecuting the war within hours of it starting.<\/p>\n

Iraq. Syria. Lebanon. Libya. Somalia. Sudan. Iran.<\/p>\n

The list is complete. The twenty-five-year project has reached its final entry, and in doing so may have written the epitaph not of the Iranian republic but of the American one. The petrodollar that funded the carriers. The carriers that launched the missiles. The missiles that closed the Strait. The Strait whose closure accelerates the de-dollarisation that makes the next war impossible to finance. The rare earth ban that grounds the planes before the next forever war can be carried out.<\/p>\n

The empire is eating itself. And it called that epic fury.<\/p>\n

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