TRUMP EXTENDS WAIVER FOR RUSSIAN OIL WHILE BLOCKING HORMUZ ILLOGICAL

On the one hand, Trump is extending the sanctions waiver on Russian oil to keep oil prices down but on the other he is continuing the naval blockade of Hormuz, sure to keep prices sky high while not bringing Iran to its knees or effecting regime change any more than the bombing campaign did.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-extends-waiver-allowing-countries-buy-russian-oil-2026-04-18/

Trump and the Epstein Billionaires are now desperate and clinging to wishful thinking or has Trump gone mad and does he actually believe the crazy things he says, as MAGA loyalists fear?.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/04/18/donald-trump-25th-amendment/

I believe Trump has gone literally mad encouraged by his yes men, including JD Vance,and a propaganda media.

None of his Iran decisions add up or seem to be based in real world facts, threatening the US and West more than Iran, Russia or China in the longer term.

EU PLANS JET FUEL SHARING TO MITIGATE CRISIS AS IRAN CLOSES HORMUZ AGAIN, FIRES ON A TANKER, DENIES PEACE TALKS PLANNED

IRAN HAS REIMPOSED THE CLOSURE OF HORMUZ AFTER TRUMP REFUSED TO REMOVE THE NAVY BLOCKADE

THIS AS TEE EU COUNTS DOWN TO A JET FUEL CRISIS WHICH COULD SEE MOST FLIGHTS GROUNDED IN JUST A FEW WEEKS CAUSING UNPRECEDENTED CHAOS

75 % OF  THE EU S KEROSENE COMES FROM MIDDLE EAST

EU S PRODUCTION OF KEROSENE SHRANK TO A QUARTER BETWEEN 2019 AND 2024

US CAN ONLY SUPPLY CIRCA 35% AND ITS KROSENE IS VERY EXPENSIVE

https://www.diepresse.com/20778738/drohender-kerosinmangel-gefaehrdet-flugverkehr-im-sommer

TOURIST DESTINATIONS LIKE GREECE WILL BE ESPECIALLY AFFECTED IF JETS RUN LOW ON KEROSENE, TICKET PRICES SOAR BUT THE ENTIRE EU ECONOMY WILL TAKE A HUGE HIT

ASIA WORSE HIT

From media

EU prepares for jet fuel sharing as supplies dwindle

Energy commissioner Dan Jørgensen says Europe moving towards supply crisis “very rapidly”

https://www.ft.com/content/494c1181-7bc3-42f3-b1af-c1dff3f62886?syn-25a6b1a6=1

From media

 Iranian gun boats attacked a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz after Tehran reimposed restrictions on the waterway in response to the continued US blockade of its ports.

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations said troops on two IRGC vessels opened fire on a ship 20 nautical miles north-east of Oman, without warning the crew.

It said the tanker and crew were reported as safe, but authorities were still investigating the incident. Iranian state media claimed that two Indian vessels were forced to turn back out of the strait following the clash.

Iran’s military declared earlier that the waterway would once again close after the US “did not fulfil their obligations” by ending its naval blockade of Iranian ports.

Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, pledged to “make the enemies taste the bitterness of new defeats” in a rare statement.

Khamenei, who has not been seen publicly since before the war, claimed that Iranian forces had already exposed the “weakness and humiliation” of the US and Israel to the world.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/18/iran-war-latest-news-trump-ceasefire-strait-of-hormuz-open/

From media

Tehran has not yet agreed to a next round of negotiations with Washington, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Saturday, citing “relevant authorities.”

“Iran has not, up to this moment, agreed to the next round of talks” due to the US blockade of Iranian ports and Washington’s “excessive demands in the negotiations,” it said.

“The absence of excessive US demands is a key condition for continuing talks,” the report claimed, adding that this message was relayed to the US via Pakistani mediators.

Citing Iranian sources, CNN reported on Friday that Iranian and American officials were expected to arrive in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on Sunday to hold a second round of talks on Monday.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260418-iran-has-not-yet-agreed-to-next-round-of-talks-with-us-report/

SEYED MARANDI SAYS JD VANCE WAS CONSTANTLY ON THE PHONE TALKING ORDERS, SPOKE TO NETANYAHU

 REVELATION THAT  TUCKER CARLSON, ALTER EGO JD VANCE TOOK INSTRUCTIONS DIRECTLY FROM NETANYAHU DURING THE ISLAMABAD NEGOTIATONS WILL SURPRISE FEW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwUL5ftAi38

JD VANCE HUMILIATED AT A TPUSA EVENT WHEN ALMOST NO ONE SHOWED UP TO LISTEN TO HIM AND ERIKA KIRK CANCELLED ON HIM DUE TO POOR TICKET SALES

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V54IAKGW5Nw

JD VANCE CAME OUT OF NOWHERE TO BE VP BECAUSE OF TUCKER CARLSON

I WOULD BE SURPRISED TO HEAR TUCKER IS ON THE PHONE TO BIBI TO GET INSTRUCTIONS BECAUSE EVERY POLITICIAN HE HAS GONE TO BAT FOR FROM JD VANCE, TO MLEI TO ORBAN HAS BEEN A NETANHAYU SUPPORTER

SEYED MARANDI SAYS TRUMP IS PLANNING A GROUND INVASION OF IRAN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NAVAL BLOCKADE

 WHEN AND IF THOUSANDS OF US TROOPS START BEING KILLED IN A DOOMED, LOST INVASION OF IRAN FROM DRONES, MISSILES AND GUERILLA WARFARE  AND WHEN THE COST OF LIVING AND GAS PRICES SOAR THROUGH THE ROOF IN THE USA, THEN THE EPSTEIN CLASS OF TRUMP,  JD VANCE, CAINE AND KUSHNER WILL BE HUNTED THROUGH THE STREETS OF DC AT THE LATEST COME THE MID TERMS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwUL5ftAi38

BESSENT THREATENS CHINESE BANKS NOT TO HANDLE IRAN PAYMENTS, CHINA WELL PLACED TO WEATHER THE BLOCKADE, REPORTS REUTERS

CHINA WELL PLACED TO WEATHER THE BLOCKADE

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-CRISIS/CHINA-OIL/egpbeormkvq/

CAN USE TRUMP S LAWLESS BLOCKADE FOR ITS OWN PURPOSES

HAS A BIGGER NAVY NOW THAN THE USA, ALSO BETTER MISSILES

https://time.com/article/2026/04/15/why-trump-s-strait-of-hormuz-blockade-may-be-a-gift-to-china/

 CHINA NEEDS TO HELP IRAN MUCH MORE THAN THE USA

IT NEEDS IRANS OIL OR FOR IRAN TO DESTROY THE WEST QUICKLY SO IT CAN BUY UP THE WEST

CHINA HAS OILSTOCKPILES, CAN RATION OIL OR , FOR EXAMPLE, ASK ALL CHINESE IN BIG CITIES TO WALK OR CYCLETO SCHOOL, WORK WHEREEVER  POSSIBLE

IF JUST 10% OF THE 1.3 BILLION CHINESE OR 130 MILLION CHINESE MADE 10% FEWER JOURNEYS BY CAR USING PETROL A MONTH  OR ABOUT A BILLION FEWER JOURNEYS, THEN THAT MIGHT EQUAL  A FEW WEEKS OF OIL FROM IRAN

IF AND WHEN IRAN FALLS, THEN CHINA WILL BE NEXT ON THE MENU OF THE EPSTEIN BILLIONAIRES WITH MACHINATIONS, WAR MONGERING FROM TAIWAN

BUT BESSENT THINKS HE CAN BULLY EVEN CHINA INTO COMMITTING SUICIDE FOR HIS PROFIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USWIF6v6xgY

CAINE AND HEGSETH MAKE THE CASE FOR THE BLOCKADE OF HORMUZ PROVING TIM DILLON MATERIAL FOR A SHOW OF WHAT A LACK OF ALL LOGIC LOOKS LIKE

 He followed with, "In the meantime, the War Department is locked and loaded." Additional main highlights to the Hegseth/Caine update and presser:

Iran likes to say it controls Strait of Hormuz but it has no navy

IT DOES NOT NEED A NAVY TO CONTROL A NARROW WATERWAY

IT NEEDS ARTILLERY MISSILES, DRONES, MINES, SUBS AND SPEEDBOATS AND IT HAS ALL OF THAT

Energy industry not destroyed 'yet', US blockade shutting down exports

IRAN SHUT DOWN ITS OWN EXPORTS WHEN IT CLOSED THE STRAIT LETTING ONLY ABOUT 4 TANKERS THROUGH PER DAY AS OPPOSED TO 138  BECAUSE IT NEEDS THE EXPORTS LESS THAN THE US REST OF THE WORLD

For as long as it takes, we will maintain blockade

IT WILL NOT TAKE LONG FOR  US WILL COLLAPSE INTO HYPERINFLATION, BANKRUPTCY, ECONOMIC RUIN VERY SOON  

AT THE LATEST AT THE MIDTERMS, TRUMP S VOTERS WILL SLAUGHTER THE GOP AND IMPEACHMENT PROCESS WILL START

Launching operation 'economic fury'

SET TO BACKFIRE SPECTACULARLY

Iran is digging out bombed out launchers

VERY ECONOMIC ACTIVITY

I hope you choose a deal which is within your grasp

EXACTLY, CAINE AND HEGSETH, TRUMP AND KUSHNER BECAUSE THIS TIME THERE WILL BE NO ESCAPE FOR YOU WHEN THE ECONOMIC CHICKES COME HOME TO ROOST

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hegseth-vows-hormuz-blockade-continue-long-it-takes-ships-now-subject-search-outright

MATHS SHOWS BLOCKADE IS NOT BREAK IRAN AT ALL BUT WEST WORKSLOP AND LIES OF US MEDIA WORKING FOR THE EPSTEIN BILLIONAIRES WILL DESTROY THE USA

Brandon Smith, Zerohedge, Alex Jones are all carying the Eptein Billionaires and the US oil companies propaganda about the US naval blockade breaking Iran.

But a simple maths calculation shows this is nonsense.

An average of 138 ships passed through the strait each day before the conflict started on 28 February, according to the Joint Maritime Information Centre.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w39lg84w2o

Since the war began, nearly 50 days have passed.

Only 279 ships have passed. since then.

That equals less than 5 a day.

Iran has not broken, folded because it has lost mostof its revenue in nearly 2 months.

It is not going fold now.

All China needs to do is keep transferring money as if it received oil from its state central bank.

The blockade is not harming Iran as much as the US, UK, Europe,Japan etc

Otherwise, Iran would not have insittuted the blockade. 

Drrrr...Tyler Durden....Derrr, Brandon. Braincells?

Seriously. Did they learn nothing from getting their China trade war predictions so wrong?

Of course not.To learn requires braincells which the paid for propagandists of the Epstein Billionaires, defence companies and oil companies no longer have after churning out slogans and AI workslop  for years even supposing they wanted to do an honest analysis and use logic.

No doubt  US oil companies will make a killing but the US economy will be finished, the debt will implode.

It is this kind worsklop from US reporters who no one would bother with if there was a free media, that is a Jeopardy to the US because they always get it wrong, including the China trade war and they are wrong again.

Brandon Smith cannot tell the different between a claim which is valid now an da probabilty of an occurrence in the future.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/14/how-many-ships-have-passed-the-strait-of-hormuz-and-how-many-were-attacked

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/16/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-war-news-us-trump-ceasefire-deal-lebanon-israel-oil-sanctions-latest-updates

https://www.infowars.com/posts/trumps-blockade-is-breaking-iran-and-european-elites-are-angry

As for Tcuker Carlson, he would have zero status in a genuinely free media market .

JD Vance, Tucker s alter ego in politics, is now almost more loathed than Trump for his lies and war mongering as the empty staudum for his TPUSA event on Tuesday showed and Tucker may soon be too as people wise up to the fact he overrated, overprivileged, papemped poodle of Peter Thiel like Vance who has deceieved the Americans for years.

The US media now operating were and are the fifth rate propagandists of a dying empire, too dense to do basic maths and think logically and too decadent to try.

EUOPRE HAS JUST SIX WEEKS OF JET FUEL LEFT, SAYS IEA HEAD

From media 

Europe has “maybe six weeks or so (of) jet fuel left,” the head of the International Energy Agency said Thursday in a wide-ranging Associated Press interview, warning of possibleflight cancellations “soon” if oil supplies remain blocked by the Iran war.

https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1301043/europe-has-maybe-six-weeks-of-jet-fuel-left-says-energy-agency-chief/