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The Facts About Iran

The Facts About Iran

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Wow. Mike Green is a Zionist. WTF.

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GM! Let's briefly summarize Trump's statement on Iran: January 18: "Iranian patriots, help is on the way, we're coming" • February 28: "We're launching a decisive operation, it will be very quick" • March 2: "We will win easily" • March 3: "We've won the war" • March 7: "We've defeated Iran" • March 9: "We need to attack Iran, the war is almost completely and beautifully coming to an end" • March 12: "We've won, but we're not completely won yet" • March 13: "We've won the war" • March 14: "Please help us open the strait" • March 15: "If you don't help us, I'll definitely remember this" • March 16: "We don't really need any help at all, I was just checking to see who was listening to me" • "If NATO doesn't help, something very bad will happen to them." • March 17: "We don't need NATO's help, and we don't want it." "I don't need Congressional approval to leave NATO." • March 18: "Allies must cooperate to open the Strait of Hormuz." • March 19: "US allies must gather strength and help open the Strait of Hormuz." • March 20: "NATO is cowardly." "Perhaps we will gradually phase it out." • March 21: "We don't use the Strait, we don't need to open it; other countries need it." • March 22: "This is the last time. I give Iran 48 hours." "Iran is finished." • March 23: "We give Iran another week and we will start bombing power plants." • March 24: "The war is nearing its end." • March 25: "We are negotiating with Iran." • March 26: "Iran is begging for peace." "They gave us a gift." "We are postponing attacks on the power plants." "We are giving them more time." • March 27: "The Ayatollah and I will manage the Strait of Hormuz together." • March 28: "Regime change has occurred in Iran." • March 29: "Negotiations with Iran are going extremely well." • March 30: "Threat of explosion and complete destruction of Iran's oil and energy infrastructure and occupation of Kharg Island." • March 31: "We are ready to end the war without opening the Strait of Hormuz." • April 1: "I predict the war will end in three days." "We will bomb them for another two or three weeks until we bomb them back to the Stone Age." • April 2: "We destroyed three of their major bridges, why don't they call us?"

So last weekend an incoherent neighbor was trying to bet me 1000 USD that everything the Pentagon is saying about this war is true. I declined because I didn’t believe he would ever believe he was wrong. Last night we had dinner. I started to explain about the Gulf states and the Petrodollar. He is so incurious he doesn’t even understand what the fuck the Petro dollar is. Or how dollars are created and come into the economy. Careful out their kids. You might just be *fucking retarded*. Jesus fucking Christ.

If you think China is DC’s avowed enemy please continue reading: The Scale of Dependency According to Govini's 2024 National Security Scorecard (using DOD spending data): - 9.3% of Tier 1 subcontractors across 9 critical defense sectors are Chinese firms - Chinese suppliers in US defense supply chains quadrupled from ~10,000 to 40,000+ between 2005-2020 - 41% of DOD weapons systems rely on Chinese semiconductors - 91% of Navy weapons use critical minerals dependent on Chinese processing Specific Systems with Chinese Components | Platform | Chinese Content | |----------|-----------------| | F/A-18E/F | ~5,000 Chinese semiconductors | | Arleigh Burke destroyers | ~6,000 Chinese semiconductors | | F-35 | Chinese magnets discovered 2023-24; production paused months | | B-2 bomber, Ohio-class SSBNs | Significant semiconductor presence | | Tomahawk, Patriot, JASSM, JDAM | Chinese components in guidance/detonators | | MQ-9 Reaper drone | Chinese integration in lower sub-tiers | | 155mm artillery ammunition | Chinese sources identified in supply chain | How the Supply Chain Works The structure is: Prime contractors (Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop) → Tier 1 suppliers → Sub-tier suppliers Chinese components typically enter at the lower tiers through "open market transactions" - US companies buying generic electronics/semiconductors without full traceability. The Federal Procurement Data System provides "limited visibility" into country of origin, and prime contractors aren't contractually obligated to disclose it. Critical Minerals Chokepoint This is the deeper vulnerability: - US was 95% dependent on China for rare earths post-Cold War - China produces 70% of global rare earths, processes 90% - An F-35 carries 435 kg of rare earths; a destroyer needs 4.5 tons; a nuclear sub needs 1.5 tons - In 2024, China restricted gallium and germanium exports - both critical for military electronics What's Being Done - January 2027 deadline: New DOD rules ban Chinese-sourced rare earths from entire defense supply chain - $1B+ direct investment in domestic rare earth processing - $5B Congressional funding for industrial base - Australia partnership for mining/processing - REalloys building metallization facility in Ohio (the processing step that barely exists outside China) The Core Problem As one analyst put it: "1% reliance on China is 100% reliance." If any single input comes from China, the entire production line is vulnerable. The 2027 deadline is aggressive - industry is scrambling to qualify non-Chinese sources. Sources: Govini National Security Scorecard 2024, GAO-25-107283, Defense One, European Security & Defence. Note that Govini is a defense analytics firm with DOD contracts - their data is widely cited but they have institutional interests in highlighting supply chain vulnerabilities.

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Iran is the last major sovereign energy and financial system in the Middle East that operates outside the architecture. It is not connected to SWIFT16. It does not comply with the BIS supervisory framework17. It runs its own energy grid, its own financial settlement system, and its own governance structures. From the perspective of the conditional infrastructure being built across the region — the IMEC corridor connecting India to Europe through the Gulf and Gaza, the Abraham Accords18 integrating financial and trade flows across aligned states, the programmable settlement rails being tested through the BIS Innovation Hub — Iran is an uncleared node. A participant in the regional system whose transactions do not pass through the clearinghouse. The template is consistent: uncleared nodes either comply voluntarily or they are cleared through destruction and conditional reconstruction. —- Iran - by esc - The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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