by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Mar 31, 2026 - 10:00 AM
Summary
Trump reportedly told his aides he's willing to end the war without reopening the Strait of Hormuz
Iran struck a fully-laden Kuwaiti oil tanker in a Dubai port
Iran rejects 'excessive, illogical' US demands while Trump mentions 'progress' with a 'more reasonable regime'. Trump again threatens to destroy Iran energy sites and Kharg Island. Hundreds of US Special Forces arrive in region.
White House seriously considering ground operation to seize Iran's enriched uranium stockpile but also wants Tehran to negotiate handing it over willingly. Bessent: US will 'retake' Hormuz Strait 'over time'.
Bazan oil refinery in Israel's northern city of Haifa is on fire after a second apparent Iranian missile strike of the war. Trump says US response 'coming shortly'.
Iran accuses Israel of more 'false flags' - after Kuwait water desalination plant hit.
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Trump Told Aides He's Willing To End War Without Reopening Hormuz; Report
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that President Trump told aides he's willing to end the U.S. military campaign against Iran even if the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, administration officials said, likely extending Tehran's firm grip on the waterway and leaving a complex operation to reopen it for a later date.
In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint would push the conflict beyond his timeline of four to six weeks.
He decided that the U.S. should achieve its main goals of hobbling Iran's navy and its missile stocks and wind down current hostilities while pressuring Tehran diplomatically to resume the free flow of trade.
If that fails, Washington would press allies in Europe and the Gulf to take the lead on reopening the strait, the officials said.
The longer the strait remains closed, the more it will roil the global economy and boost gas prices.
Oil is falling significantly on the news, erasing all of its earlier gains on the news...
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Just declare victory and leave.
ReplyDeleteMar 31, 2026
ReplyDeleteUS President Donald Trump has shared a video showing a massive explosion in Iran on Truth Social.
Initial reports suggest US and Israeli forces carried out joint strikes on the city of Isfahan overnight.
The footage circulating online appears to show a huge blast, with speculation that a missile or weapons site was hit.
Recent intelligence indicated Iran may have moved enriched uranium stockpiles to underground facilities in the area.
If confirmed, the strike could mark a major turning point in the conflict and significantly impact Iran’s capabilities.
Massive explosions after the U.S. hit the Isfahan underground missile city overnight with 2,000-pound bunker-busting bombs.
Secondary explosions can be seen in the footage, with Iranian missiles and ammunition cooking off.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2038853563825213447?s=20
Cancer drug facility hit in Israeli-US strikes, Iran says
DeleteFormer Iranian foreign minister and founder of the Payab Research Institute, Mohammad Javad Zarif, said Israeli-US strikes have hit one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the country producing anti-cancer, anaesthetic and specialised medicines.
He said “desperate attackers, having failed to realize their evil fantasies” have targeted a manufacturer of pharmaceutical materials used to treat cancer patients.
Iran’s official IRNA reported his comments, adding that “After a month of war crimes, the Tawfiq Darou engineering research company was targeted today.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/31/iran-war-live-kuwaiti-oil-tanker-hit-in-dubai-port-3-un-troops-killed#:~:text=As%20the%20war%20on%20Iran,In
Thank you IRGC for helping MAGA Make More Money.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. is running Elon's playbook on LNG: Build it before the world knows it needs it. A decade ago, American LNG exports were near zero. Today the US is the world's largest exporter at 15 billion cubic feet per day with eight new terminals under construction. Capacity doubles to 29 billion cubic feet per day by 2029. Total capital committed: $150 billion. The contracts are 20-year take-or-pay, denominated in USD. During COVID, buyers cancelled every cargo they could. They still paid billions in fixed fees. Then Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. Qatar, 20% of global LNG supply, went offline. Vessel transits dropped from 129 per day to 4. Europe needed a replacement. BUT the contracts were already signed. US share of European LNG: 27% in 2021, 56% today. Germany went from zero LNG imports to sourcing 94% from America. Japan is locked through 2050. American LNG is a 20-year legal obligation with no exit clause.
https://x.com/gaurab/status/2038658734524915818?s=46
ooop… who's the buyers?
DeleteWakakaka… mainly those EU countries who used to get cheap natural gas from Russia.
Now, they r forced to pay through the nose to buy yanks LNG!
Not All Is Doom And Gloom like what MSM like to report….
ReplyDeleteDrill Baby Drill
🚨America’s Booming LNG Industry Rides to the Rescue
Let’s look at LNG and America’s new leadership role in the global market now that Qatar’s export capability will be offline for the coming 3-5 years.
The U.S. can’t ramp up immediately to fill the hole of that loss of 17% of global supply, but the chart below from the @EIAgov shows it will happen by 2029.
Here are the key points:
⚡️ Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility, which produced roughly 10 bcf/day, has been taken offline for an estimated 3–5 years following the recent conflict in the Gulf. That creates a significant, long-term supply gap.
⚡️ The United States was already positioned to fill much of that gap through projects that were permitted, financed, and under construction well before current events.
⚡️ U.S. LNG export capacity stands at about 11 bcf/day today and is on track to reach 28+ bcf/day by 2029. In just 3 years, the U.S. will make up the difference left by Qatar’s shutdown, and more.
⚡️ Key projects ramping up or coming online between 2026 and 2029 include:
• Plaquemines — already in the early stages of ramp-up
• Corpus Christi Stage III
• Golden Pass (ExxonMobil/QatarEnergy joint venture)
• LNG Canada — delivering Canada’s first major exports
• Sempra’s Port Arthur expansion
• NextDecade’s Rio Grande LNG
• CP2 Phase 1
• Woodside’s Louisiana LNG (targeted for 2029)
⚡️This build-out represents years and billions of dollars of private investment and infrastructure development in Texas, Louisiana, and along the Gulf Coast. The timing now aligns with heightened global demand caused by the disruption at Ras Laffan.
⚡️ Buyers around the world, including China, Japan, South Korea, India, and much of Europe, are facing limited alternatives for reliable, scalable LNG supply. The United States is the one supplier capable of adding this volume on a relatively fast timeline.
⚡️ Market signals already reflect the change: higher netbacks for U.S. producers, increased activity in the Permian and other basins, and upward pressure on spot LNG prices in Europe and Asia. This outcome stems directly from sustained investment in American energy infrastructure rather than short-term policy shifts.
⚡️ Energy security rests on tangible assets: pipelines, liquefaction trains, export terminals, and the people who build and operate them. The current situation underscores the value of that long-term work.
⚡️ American energy producers and workers are stepping up to meet global needs at a critical moment. That is the practical result of consistent development in the shale and LNG sectors.
Bottom line: This global emergency - and America’s role in solving it - illustrates the wisdom of both #drillbabydrill and #buildbabybuild.
#LNG #Qatar #Iranwar
https://x.com/energyabsurdity/status/2036783245887480268?s=46
the hydrocracking shale oil extraction technique used by the yank has contaminated all the groubd water & soil structure of those exploited land.
DeleteWhen themed cycle comes, (whatever it's), u would cry another ki.d of motherfatherchant - that's if u r still around & possibly curse by almost the later generations to come, mfer
🚨JAPAN TELLS BRITAIN “RELEASE MORE OIL”
ReplyDeleteJapan’s finance minister has advised Britain and the rest of the G7 to unlock more oil supplies to stabilise spiking prices.
Satsuki Katayama is articulating what we’ve all been thinking!
Miliband and Reeves have taken the nonsensical route, namely to ignore the North Sea.
Given our already rich bottom reserves, surely now this will be a wake up call for Labour to finally DRILL!
https://x.com/seddsezz/status/2038636414175219727?s=46
wakakaka… starting to drill!
DeleteBy the time these oil wells start to flow,theeorld WOULD be in a very different energy demand curve, mfer
Stoooopid Miliband.
ReplyDeleteStoooopid Reeves.
Stoooopid people fall for Climate Scammers.
Norwegians say Thank You.
$1.5 trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund
Rich Norwegians can afford to buy expensive Teslas, build nationwide charging infrastructure. 90% of all new cars are EV.
But they also have 65 wind farms and 1,392 wind turbines….more for PR lah, can show off spinning blades on windy days, they can afford it anyway, funded by Drill Baby Drill.
Meanwhile Bank of England has achieved Net Zero. Everybody Happy Happy?
Same Sea. Same Oil. Same Pollution.
What has UK achieved?
Japan calling for more supply makes sense in a tight market—but blaming UK policy alone ignores bigger factors like global demand, OPEC decisions, and geopolitical risks💥
https://x.com/tirthrajsharma5/status/2038725048660537805?s=46
wakakakaka…
DeleteU, smart?
Ooop… just too thick in the head
No Imminent Threat yet 47 attacked IRGC. He should have waited until Iran has nuclear-armed ICBMs, 10,000 ballistic missiles, a Chinese- and Russian-built military, a million attack drones, a fully operational terror network, and hundreds of billions to harden its economy. Only Then the threat will be imminent and we’ll fight them to reopen Hormuz.
ReplyDeleteMake Sense?
indeed!
DeleteApplying this logic allover the blue planet, then the world would be a much peaceful place w/o the demoNcratic myths expounded via western propagandas, mfer
Dunno about you folks but I want the Boeing ayam flying on to be burning Carbon Based A1 Jet Fuel, not Jagung or Kelapa Sawit based biofuel. Otherwise I don’t fly.
ReplyDeletemfer, staying grounded lah
DeleteEd Miliband shutting down drilling in the North Seas is one of the most counterproductive and ridiculous government policies of the modern era. An act of enormous stupidity.
ReplyDeletehttps://x.com/jamesmelville/status/2038896597682036844?s=46&t=8K6fzabO3g6uaj4KxwSSjg