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Is Trump Playing 4D Chess with the Strait of Hormuz?

Fascinating hypothesis – h/t Sooke + RN

Just How Far Can Iranian Missiles Fly?

The following may be propaganda, so view it with healthy skepticism:

Here’s NATO Secretary, Mark Rutte, talking about the same.

If the Iranians really do have such long range capabilities, shouldn’t they be stopped? Asking for my European friends.

Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter

Iran denies, but which Iran?

Related @RealAndyLeeShow: Canadian entities named in sanctions against Hizballah.

Put A Chick In It And Make Her Gay

Gateway Pundit;

One of the Secret Service agents who failed to secure the roof of the AGR building at the Butler rally on the day of the assassination attempt against President Trump has been suspended again.

Myosoty “Miyo” Perez was one of the agents who failed to secure Trump’s July 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Perez was one of the female agents seen fumbling with her firearm and struggling to holster her gun following the assassination attempt.

Unexpectedly

Juxtapose time.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed sharply in January as exports surged to a record high and imports fell, a trend that if sustained, could see trade contributing to economic growth in the first quarter.

Canada’s trade deficit widened in January as exports of motor vehicles and parts fell to the lowest level in more than four years. Canadian goods exports decreased by 4.7%, the biggest monthly decline since April 2025, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. That pushed the country’s trade shortfall to $3.65 billion.

Kill shot: Economists surveyed by Bloomberg were expecting Canada’s trade deficit to shrink to $1.1 billion January from $1.3 billion in December.

Operation Epic Fury


Coulda had a pipeline: “…the scheduled increase in the industrial carbon price to $110 per tonne April 1 couldn’t come at a worse time.”

More background on the installation hit.

Israel targeted oil depots under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. For years the IRGC has used state oil assets as its private revenue stream. Instead of operating through a normal government budget, it was granted control over oil resources and the income they generate.

Those funds have financed the regime’s regional war machine—paying for proxy militias, purchasing weapons and equipment from China, and underwriting destabilization from Lebanon to Yemen.

Operation Epic Fury: Day 5

During an official Department of War (DOW) press conference Thursday afternoon, Cooper said that the number of Iranian ships now sunk under ocean waves thanks to American forces is up to 30, with a particularly large vessel set ablaze just before the press conference began.

“if I just look back over the last 24 hours of the operation compared to where we were at its start, ballistic missile attacks have decreased by 90% since day one,” Cooper said, illuminating how few weapons the Iranian regime still has at its disposal.

He continued, “Drone attacks have decreased by 83% since day one. Having said this, we remain vigilant. Our strikes against the Iranian Navy have intensified. You may have heard the President say, just a little while ago that we have sunk or destroyed 24 ships. That was true at the moment. We’re now up over 30 ships.”

Most impressively of all, and perhaps explaining why Hegseth and Cooper were late starting the press conference, they had just received word of another victory: “And in just the last few hours, we hit an Iranian drone carrier ship, roughly the size of a World War II aircraft carrier, and as we speak, it’s on fire,” Cooper confirmed.

More at Battleswarm blog.

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