A RUSSIAN IN MY DESK

Why has the Argentine government suddenly started seeing a Russian plot against it?

 

By Sir Charlattam

I certainly thought that the wildest delusions and the most delusional figures had already secured their place in Washington (DC) and London, but I was wrong: Donald Trump and Keir Starmer have some competition. I was just about to have my coffee on a cloudy, chilly morning when my mobile rang, showing a message from a friend in Buenos Aires. And there I saw it: ‘The Russians are funding fake news’ – an accusation that didn’t surprise me, knowing the score, until I reached the end and read that it was intended to ‘damage Milei’s image’. That’s when I realised the whole thing is a smokescreen.

In the middle of last year, around August, the Argentine government tried to impose a censorship crackdown on investigative journalism, accusing it of something similar (an illegal espionage operation) for having exposed the involvement of the president himself and his sister in the multi-million-dollar scam surrounding the LIBRA digital currency.

There is no doubt that all this is the result of a plot, or at least an initiative with a distinct Atlanticist slant. It has been a constant feature of Argentina’s liberal governments to kowtow to whatever is dictated by the centres of Anglo-Saxon power. Remember when the oldie submarine ‘San Juan’ disappeared in 2017? Russia offered to provide the then-liberal Macri government with data and technological tools to search for the stricken vessel. What was that government’s reaction? To consult with London, which was deeply involved and uncomfortable at the prospect of having to explain its naval movements in the South Atlantic. That was a scandal which (how could it be otherwise?) was played down by the mainstream media in Buenos Aires. For that government, the approval of Downing Street was more important than finding its 44 crew members, and their families have never received justice regarding their fate.

I tried my best to take this seriously, but I couldn’t manage it. I cannot find a single reason why the Kremlin would have devised this supposed operation. Reading the Argentine media in Buenos Aires (especially the Herald), anyone would realise the childish oversimplification with which these gentlemen approach issues of foreign policy and geopolitics, making assertions such as ‘Putin did, Putin said, Putin wants’ and so on. Anyone could see that these editorials are either deliberately written by political illiterates, or are aimed at readers with no critical thinking skills whatsoever, or are, rather, intended to influence rather than to inform.

If we analyse this from the most significant aspects of foreign policy down to domestic matters, we will see that it makes no sense whatsoever. Let us suppose (as many of these media outlets claim) that Putin ordered the creation and funding of a fake news campaign to ruin Javier Milei’s image. What would be the justification and strategic purpose of this? I ask because such a manoeuvre (which would likely involve intelligence services) requires prior planning and very serious geopolitical considerations. As I looked out of the window to see if it would rain, sipping my coffee, I wondered: what could be the momentous objective or threat to the Russian Federation posed by a Milei government?

Absolutely none. The childish excuse I came across in one of these media outlets—which are always so eager to toe the editorial line of their Anglo-Saxon counterparts, particularly outlets like the BBC here—is that Putin was angry about Milei’s support for Ukraine. Is that all? In an attempt to give the story a bit more substance in order to build a case, some journalists have claimed that this whole operation has been in the works since 2021 and that part of it involved the arrival of thousands of Russian citizens to settle in Argentina with the ultimate (and sinister) aim of acquiring Argentine nationality and a passport. This raises a question for me: what about the British, Germans, Americans or Israelis who do the same? Will they also use that passport to travel with other hidden intentions?

Trying to understand what on earth all these arguments could possibly mean, I have come to the conclusion that, according to the analyses of these brilliant researchers, those babies born in Argentina would be –or perhaps already have been– enlisted on the payrolls of the FSB and the SVR, a load of rubbish that seems to flourish only in the minds of hired Russophobes. And who is paying them? 

What’s more, the sum spent on funding this so-called ‘operation’ is so laughable that any member of the intelligence community would burst out laughing. I reckon that if I were younger, back in my working days, I would have fallen off my chair with laughter, much to the consternation of the other customers in the café.

The argument they have used to try to implicate the Russian Federation in this is so ridiculous that it collapses under its own stupidity. It is so blatantly biased that even these media outlets and some of their journalists have had no qualms whatsoever about starting to see Russians everywhere, as if that were a bad thing. Here in the UK and across Europe, this is called Russophobia, and given the current government in Argentina, this trend does not surprise me.

Nor would I be at all surprised if this idea had come from some official in your intelligence department who, in turn, listens to the MI6 lot –experts in anti-Russian campaigns– at the embassy in Buenos Aires. What’s more, within Argentina’s domestic political landscape, there are constant rumours of a government with a weak stance based on improvisation, with its own corruption and propped up by a mythology that is losing credibility. So, if fabrication is part of his politics and his Atlanticist alignment is well known, why should his foreign policy be any different?

 

TRUMP: MEJOR ME VOY!?

De ser cierto ¿Cuáles son los factores reales que lo empujan a huir de Asia Occidental?

 

Por Javier B. Dal 

A más de un mes del inicio de la ilegal agresión anglosionista sobre Irán y de los resultados esperados, todo parece quedar resumido a la nada. Tanto Trump como Netanyahu pese a seguir dando discursos rimbombantes la situación del terreno les es apabullantemente contrario y son sus propios ciudadanos que lo perciben. Es más, tanto los estadounidenses como los israelíes además de ver a sus líderes como meros estafadores quienes han solicitado aumentar sus presupuestos militares a cifras astronómicas, ya se han dado cuenta que el dicho que reza “la guerra es una estafa”, se da nuevamente y se ajusta muy bien en esta ocasión.

Si algo han logrado estos actores (al sufrimiento, la destrucción y la muerte) es la generación de un verdadero tsunami económico-comercial que ya ha comenzado a extenderse como onda expansiva que golpeara a todo el planeta sin excepciones (y eso implica también a la Argentina) y será ahí cuando los habitantes del mundo se acuerden de Trump y Netanyahu. Para las bolsas y en especial para los títulos financieros estadounidenses la cachetada más sonora es la adopción del Yuan por Teherán como la moneda para comercializar el petróleo que sale por estrecho de Ormuz y detrás de ello, una catarata de nefastas consecuencias para todos los derivados del mercado relacionado con el petróleo y la energía en general (ORACLE).

Queda por descontado tener que explicar que Argentina también ha comenzado a resentir los efectos de esto y aún faltan más reverberaciones por la continuidad del conflicto que no olvidemos, fue iniciado por Israel.

Al presente hay un panorama que ni Washington, ni Tel Aviv y menos aún los medios de desinformación (en especial los argentinos) dan a conocer y es que Irán -a regañadientes de israelíes y estadounidenses- ha reconfigurado el Golfo Pérsico de forma definitiva ¿Cómo ha sucedido eso? La desactivación operativa mediante la destrucción de las bases militares estratégicas estadounidenses en la península arábiga es sin dudas el primer y más trascendental paso. Y esto no es una exageración. La base naval de la 5º flota en Bahrein que servía como una barrera de protección para Israel hoy ya no existe y con solo esto, para Washington ya es una catástrofe.

La privación de esta base portuaria con la cual se controlaban toda clase de operaciones que el Pentágono y Tel Aviv llevaban a cabo contra Yemen, Siria, Iraq, representa un golpe estratégico que en Washington jamás se hubiesen imaginado incluso, en alguno de sus costosísimos ejercicios simulados por ordenador, e incluso ni Hollywood se habría animado a recrear en alguna de sus películas-propaganda más delirantes.

Pero no solo el arma naval ha sido duramente golpeada. Las CGRI también han borrado literalmente la base aérea más importante en Qatar. La base Al Udeid ubicada al sudeste de Doha recibió una respuesta demoledora tras la agresión del 28 de febrero y por los daños sufridos ha perdido la capacidad táctico-estratégico que tuvo antes de la retaliación. Uno de los principales daños y más costosos fue la destrucción del complejo de radares THAAD (de 1.1 billones de dólares) con el cual se monitoreaba y controlaba las defensas antimisiles que protegía a Israel. En solo unos segundos los misiles iraníes lo convirtieron en un amasijo de chatarra en llamas y las tan promocionadas defensas aéreas israelíes prácticamente quedaron ciegas. Con estos desastres a la vista ¿Qué consideraciones están tomando los cerebros que asesoran a Trump?

En realidad a Trump poco le importa lo que sus asesores le informen. Si es que acepta algún tipo de consejo o asesoramiento ello podría provenir de las rumiaciones de su yerno y de las editoriales de algunos medios como AXIOS que no por casualidad tiene vínculos con las FDI israelíes. Lo único que está buscando por estos días es tratar de salirse del conflicto con alguna apariencia de control o en un vano intento de conservar una imagen ante el mundo. Como se dice en el boxeo, busca las cuerdas para salirse del ring sin que le tiren la toalla.

Las muy intencionadas informaciones sobre una posible acción terrestre sobre territorio iraní, centrándola sobre la isla de Kharg o como han señalado otras fuentes sobre Bandar Abbas, más allá de la veracidad que ello supondría, ciertamente no resolvería el desaguisado creado. Por el contrario, aumentaría el desastre que ya le ha costado a los EEUU en material, hombres y prestigio moral (si es que le quedaba algo). La situación para Trump es crítica y sin exagerar se halla como bien reza el dicho “entre la espada y la pared”.

Incluso y según algunas fuentes anónimas dan cuenta que algunas incursiones de fuerzas especiales estadounidenses tratando de colarse al interior, fueron interceptadas por las fuerzas iraníes y las que no han sido eliminadas ya están detenidas. Si esto se confirma ante el público norteamericano ¿Qué podrá seguir a esto? Las últimas reacciones de Trump hablando de regresar a Irán a “la edad de Piedra” dan un indicio de este fracaso.

Al mismo tiempo Netanyahu y su horda de locos talmúdicos también se saben acorralados y aunque ya es sabida la total ausencia de empatía que les destaca, hay sectores políticos dentro de Israel que si bien odian con el mismo fervor a los musulmanes y a los iraníes en particular, no están dispuestos a jugar el papel mesiánico de iniciadores del Armagedón, usando el arsenal de misiles nucleares que tienen alistados en sus submarinos para crear un holocausto nuclear, como ya lo ha vaticinado el viceministro del Consejo de Seguridad de Rusia Dimitri Medvédev y de lo cual también deberían entender como una advertencia.

En Washington también están muy atentos a esto e incluso más, son conscientes de que hay un actor tras bambalinas, preparado y ansioso para respaldar a Irán ante un plan semejante ¿Quién es ese actor y que no es Pakistán?  Se trata de Corea del Norte quien por décadas ha sufrido las mismas presiones, hostigamientos y sanciones por parte del mismo eje que mediante aquel ataque pérfido trato de destruir a Irán. Kim Jong Un ha ofrecido su ayuda a Teherán y eso (los analistas de la CIA lo saben) es suficiente para que sea un hecho. Esto es tomado con mucho cuidado y atención ya que, por las más que probadas capacidades nucleares que ha desarrollado Pyongyang y de sus propios misiles con tecnología hipersónica, el asunto va más allá de una mera especulación.

De este modo, los posibles y demenciales planes de usar armas nucleares contra Irán encontrarían una respuesta proporcional y ciertamente devastadora que definitivamente no le conviene ni a los EEUU, ni a los sionistas más suaves que la banda que hoy los lidera ni mucho menos aún al resto del mundo.

 

 

ESTRATEGIA DESESPERADA Y SOFISTICADAS

¿Cuál es la carta que Israel se guardó bajo la manga y que forma parte de su doctrina de hacer la guerra mediante el engaño?

 

Por Charles H. Slim 

El presidente Donald Trump puede decir muchas cosas, pero todos sabemos que lo que dice está dirigido a crear ilusiones, en especial para los mercados. En la agresión contra Irán Trump solo es el actor de reparto en un guion donde el protagonista es a su vez el productor y director de esta tragedia que no es otro que Benjamín Netanyahu. Poco importa ahora que Trump diga “hemos ganado y volvemos a casa” o alguna tontería semejante no solo porque es falso sino, porque eso no le sirve a Israel. Solo pregúntense ¿Qué sucede si el estado sionista queda sin apoyo de Washington?

Las promesas del Mossad canalizadas a través de los sionistas de AIPAC y Cía de una decapitación exitosa (que implica un crimen internacional) y una victoria rápida se esfumaron como el humo dejando en el absoluto ridículo al jefe de la Casa Blanca. Ahora todos estos tipos se ocultan en sus cuevas tratando de escapar al señalamiento público. Al mismo tiempo, Irán no olvida el ataque artero y la criminalidad que supuso, entonces ¿Por qué van a creer en una negociación?

Israel ciertamente se halla arrinconado y sus debilitadas defensas aéreas ya no defienden. La seguridad es un espejismo y mejor prueba de esto es el paradero desconocido de Netanyahu quien algunas fuentes señalan que lo mueven constantemente por la UE y por estos días se hallaría escondido en una ciudad de España. El grupo de tareas estadounidense también ha sentido el rigor de los misiles tierra-mar iraníes y en previsión de no sufrir más daños y bajas en sus tripulaciones se han alejado de las costas e incluso de la propia entrada al estrecho de Ormuz. Y si todo esto no fuera bastante, la confirmación de los derribos de los F-35, de un KC-135 y la destrucción de otros cinco y de un avión de alerta temprana E3 Sentry AWACS estacionados en la base estadounidense en Arabia Saudita habla de una muy buena salud tanto de las defensas aéreas como la fuerza ofensiva iraníes.

En el frente norte las cosas no podían ir peor. Hesbolá literalmente les viene pateando el culo empujándolos desde el sur del Líbano hasta los asentamientos judíos Kiryat Shmona, Dishon y Safed, en el norte de la Palestina ocupada. Solo como un dato de lo que le viene costando a las FDI su campaña aquí, son los 100 vehículos acorazados entre los que se cuentan los tanques Merkava destruidos y en muchos de esos casos, toda su tripulación aniquilada. Seguramente los comandantes sionistas se deben agarrar la cabeza gritando ¿Dónde están los americanos?

Netanyahu es quien más temeroso y consciente esta ya que sin la cobertura estadounidense sus FDI simplemente no son nada.

Con este contexto las opciones convencionales se reducen de forma crítica y abre el camino a tácticas desesperadas ¿Cómo cuáles?

Las llamadas operaciones de bandera falsa que durante años han sido bastardeadas como elucubraciones de mentes conspiranoicas, hoy están bien a la vista de todos y también quienes son los que más la han utilizado para su provecho. Hace unas semanas, dos episodios muy curiosos se produjeron supuestamente acusados a Irán. El primero fue un presunto ataque con drones y un misil que cayó en cercanías del aeropuerto de Azerbaiyán presuntamente atribuible a Irán. Teherán lo negó pero la duda fue plantada. El hecho se dio justamente en momentos que se atacaban todas las bases y posiciones de los EEUU en el Golfo Pérsico.   

Otro episodio similar ocurrió en territorio turco cuando supuestamente un misil balístico entro al espacio aéreo turco proveniente de Irán. Tal como lo sucedido en Azerbaiyán, Teherán negó haber lanzado algún misil en esa dirección y fue categórico al acusar a Israel de estar detrás de estos ataques, pero ¿Cómo podría lograrlo?

Lo que Israel está haciendo es combinar su tecnología informática (muy avanzada por cierto) con sus células terroristas operativas en la región para crear atentados de falsa bandera. Ha dejado de ser una cuestión de ciencia ficción la interceptación y hasta falsificación de comunicaciones, especialmente por el internet. Durante décadas la Unidad 8200 de la inteligencia electrónica israelí tuvo un papel crucial en la ilegal interceptación y escucha de las comunicaciones de cualquier país, incluido los EEUU. Con el avance tecnológico y la aparición del internet sus capacidades se multiplicaron llevando adelante desde la falsificación, intoxicación y suplantación de sujetos e información en línea, especialmente por redes sociales como FACEBOOK hasta los ataques informáticos a plantas nucleares y telefonía celular con efectos destructivos.

Desde que Israel inicio el ataque contra Irán, han tratado de utilizar toda esta batería de trucos dentro del país persa, pero sin los resultados esperados. Con el paso de los días y ante la complejidad que fue tomando el conflicto, estas unidades de inteligencia electrónica (con la muy posible cooperación de la OTAN) se han enfocado en buscar crear la confusión en los países limítrofes y hasta endilgar responsabilidades a los iraníes usando la estrategia de la falsa bandera mediante la creación y emisión de falsas señales de radar que muestran en la pantalla de un operador turco una nube de drones y misiles pero que en realidad esconde un misil (adquirido en el mercado negro por el Mossad) o Drones duplicados que han sido disparados desde una inmediación que implique a Irán.

Si bien Ankara tomo en consideración las explicaciones de Teherán dándole seriedad a las sospechas de un intento de engaño israelí, Bakú ha mostrado mayor renuencia y ello se debe a su cercanía al régimen israelí especialmente vinculada a los negocios de compra de equipamiento militar y de inteligencia. 

Por lo pronto queda claro que los engaños de Israel ya no alcanzan e incluso más, les serán contraproducentes dado que ante las evidencias y de un largo historial de operaciones semejantes en otras latitudes, su credibilidad ha quedado por los suelos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARISE

IRAQI MOQAWAMA

Was the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq the result of an agreement reached with the puppet regime in Baghdad, or was it a consequence of the resistance regrouping?

 

By Ali Al Najafi

Once again, Washington is at it again, and I am referring to the air strikes that Israeli and US aircraft had already been carrying out over western Iraq, apparently with the aim of weakening the border with a decimated Syria, through which they are almost certainly attempting to infiltrate special forces. They were also intended to cover up the alleged involvement of the Kurds from the Barzani clan, an idea that was rejected by the Iranian Kurds. All this began long before the Iraqi resistance forced US troops and the remaining NATO forces still in the country to withdraw from Baghdad.

On 25 March, the US air force launched several attacks against western Iraq, targeting positions of the Iraqi resistance groups which, since 2011, have been the only real military force truly independent of the tentacles of the collaborationist monstrosity in Baghdad. Just a few months ago, the regime of Mohammed Shia Al Sudani —who is the successor to the chain of collaborators hand-picked by the occupation and its administrative monstrosity dating back to 2005—was attempting to dismantle the Islamic resistance groups in accordance with Washington’s directives. That is why Al Sudani’s apparent eagerness to cooperate with the resistance is not to be trusted.

To put the significance of Iraq’s Islamic resistance groups into historical context, we must recall when, why and how they emerged. When the US and its allies invaded the country in 2003, they soon realised they had fallen into a deadly trap. Resistance to their presence – by which I mean the military – began just a few months later and displayed a worrying degree of organisation and effectiveness. This was hardly surprising, given that, in addition to Saddam’s supporters, groups of volunteers from all provinces had been organising for years in anticipation of what was to come. It was therefore that the CIA, Britain’s MI6 and military intelligence units set in motion a counter-insurgency programme based on deception and terror, staging attacks on civilian targets such as markets and mosques aimed at fomenting chaos, particularly against Shia communities. Thus, they planted Arab agents and cells (in the service of the CIA) to organise and direct hoaxes such as ‘Al-Qaeda’, which was commanded by the Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (a CIA asset) and who, sometime later, would be conveniently eliminated, only to be replaced in 2006 by the farce of the ‘Islamic State of Iraq’ (another farce in which the Turkish MIT played a significant role), led by another shadowy figure named ‘Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi’, who had been invented by US intelligence.

The Shia community soon took matters into its own hands; refusing to be deceived or to make deals with the mafia-like elements of the Shia DAWA sect, it set up its own armed organisations to protect its people. The most prominent leader in those circumstances was undoubtedly the Shia cleric Moqtadar Al Sadr, who mobilised the Mahdi Army as a modest but inspiring contribution to what would become the Shia wing of the resistance.

Unlike the corrupt Shia politicians of the time—such as Ibrahim Al Jaafari, Yalad Alawi and Nouri Al Maliki—who willingly sided with the invaders and in turn received benefits and political directives from Tehran, did not lend himself to advancing Iranian geopolitical interests, which at that time were very convenient for the Anglo-American occupation as a counterweight, with the sole aim of fragmenting the predominantly Sunni Iraqi resistance.

Precisely because of his refusal to side with the occupation—which meant cooperating with US plans—he was the target of several assassination attempts, which failed in part due to the large mass of supporters he was able to mobilise. It was his “Jaysh Al Mahdi” forces that fought the Americans in the historic Battle of Najaf in 2004 and subsequently in the repeated but failed attempts to penetrate the Al Sadr district in Baghdad.

Thus, the invaders trained and armed the forces of the collaborationist regime, which included criminal gangs such as the Badr Brigade, who played a sinister role in the ‘cleansing’ operations led by the CIA using its own death squads, with the cooperation of Israeli elements. At the same time, the Shia who did not share in this criminal collusion, and inspired by the Lebanese Shia resistance, took the decision to join the side of righteousness; thus were born the ‘Kataib Hezbollah of Iraq’ and the ‘Asaib Ahl al-Haq’, who made life impossible for the Anglo-American occupiers until their official withdrawal in 2011.

Surrounded by a well-earned epic, they became the inspiration for a new generation of the Iraqi resistance, which would take shape with the Popular Mobilisation Forces (Quwwāt al-Ḥashd ash-Shaaʿbī), created in June 2014 against a backdrop of the government forces’ inefficiency, lack of equipment and abysmal morale. They played a central role in repelling the sudden invasion by the Islamic State (Daesh) and, following an agreement with Washington (under the Democratic administration of Barack Obama), answered to the Iranian high command and Commander Sayed Qassem Soleimani, who would later, in January 2020, be assassinated in an attack ordered by Donald Trump and carried out by a joint operation between the CIA and Mossad.

It is thanks to the persistence and resolve of all these groups that form part of the Arab-Islamic resistance that the Americans and their allies were forced to withdraw from the Green Zone in Baghdad and from the camps they were still jointly administering. Although Washington had signed some documents with the Baghdad government in January for a ‘phased withdrawal’, the departure two weeks ago was due to pressure from the resistance.

However, they try to portray the situation in Iraq, one thing is very clear. If the US and its Israeli partners are seeking a ground confrontation in the region, they already have an opponent eagerly awaiting them.

 

 

GEOFINANCIAL

EARTHQUAKE

Meanwhile, there seems to be no end in sight to the military hostilities. What are the current and future consequences for the global economy?

 

By Sidney Hey

The start of the war against Iran has a very calculated purpose – or does it not? Israel was the aggressor and the US followed suit, believing it would all be over in a couple of days. Donald Trump, far from using his own judgement and listening to those who really know, ended up believing he would secure a lightning victory. This is what the deputy head of the Mossad and Netanyahu himself assured him. As we can see, that did not happen, and beyond the destruction of civilian and military infrastructure and the human casualties being caused (including their own), Donald Trump’s blunder is already inflicting severe damage on the international financial system that could bring it down completely.

On this last point, and as a separate note, there is growing internal tension between the camp of Wall Street financiers and the supporters of technology companies in Silicon Valley –not to benefit US citizens-, let alone the world, but to bring down the current system and replace it with one in which AI and a digital currency (which would supplant the dollar) set the parameters for a new global financial economy.

Meanwhile, reality hits hard. The economist and professor Richard Wolff was blunt on the matter, stating that “this war could lead the country to a fiscal cliff”, and whilst he made it very clear that Trump is not solely responsible for these consequences, he has done much to make matters worse. Although he is not responsible for the enormous public debt, he is contributing to it causing the collapse of the state of the Union’s finances and, with that, the consequences for the economy. Likewise, it is already too late, and all he is trying to do is lick the wounds of his own arrogance. Trump continues to try to cover up his strategic blunder with false announcements in a bid to buy time, but Iran is not buying it and has already shown itself determined to drive his forces out of the entire region. Added to this, his arrogant proposals for a ceasefire are unacceptable (and even less desirable) to Tehran, especially as they are achieving their strategic objectives. Proof of this is the shift in the dynamics of the conflict, in which IRGC forces are gradually going on the offensive using the most sophisticated missiles and other weapons systems that have not yet been deployed.

Trump’s underestimation of Iran and its ability to manage the conflict has served him well enough to have his own words turned against him: “You’re fired”. It is precisely in the US where citizens have the opportunity to dismiss a clearly reckless leader who, in addition to betraying his voter base, has jeopardised not only global peace but also his own country’s political, economic and financial stability by supporting a war to satisfy the personal ambitions of a corrupt and criminal foreign politician like Benjamin Netanyahu.

Now the markets no longer pay attention to what Trump might say in the media, on his “Truth Social” network or through any of his spokespeople; they look to and get their information from independent sources about what is really happening on the ground. Even more so. They are surely paying closer attention to Iranian media than to the reality-shapers of Western media such as CNN, FOX NEWS, AXIOS and all their affiliates across the hemisphere, which merely tailor the facts to suit Washington’s whims and convenience. Even if they were to turn to reasonably credible Israeli media outlets such as HAARETZ, they could find useful pieces of information despite the military censorship imposed by the Tel Aviv regime.

All this brings to light a reality that is very hard for Trump and Netanyahu to swallow, revealing the failure of their expectations.

As of today, whilst the White House attempts to contain the damage caused by its occupant’s own nonsense, the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to the Americans and their allies in the aggression, shattering like glass the grandiose assertions about negotiations, surrenders or even victories uttered by a man accustomed to lying. The announcement that passage and oil transactions would be charged in Chinese currency is already a direct torpedo to the waterline of the US economy and a right-handed cross to Trump’s own jaw. Even more so. Tehran is already allowing passage to ships from nations that stand apart from the aggression and have no trade relations with either the US or Israel.

This reality, which neither Trump nor the media, let alone the intelligence agencies, can hide today, has begun to take effect. Just to mention the extent of the structural damage Tel Aviv has been enduring –and speaking only of urban infrastructure– it would require some 100 million dollars to rebuild, demolish and refurbish a large proportion of the buildings.

As for the economic damage already caused by the disruption to business resulting from the bombings and the serious threat posed by Iranian missiles, this has not yet been quantified, and the Israeli public is no longer buying the explanations offered by Netanyahu and his cabinet.

To the imminent and progressive rise in oil prices must be added the consequences for productive sectors that affect the global economy. One of these is industrial production, which, according to the Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), John Denton, “the war could become the worst industrial crisis in living memory”, he said. At the same time, as Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), stated, we are also on the brink of the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s, when the oil crisis left US petrol stations dry.

Let us not forget that just a few hours after the first attack on Tehran, the Iranian authorities set themselves the goal of using oil and gas as a deterrent against the aggressors’ criminal plans. If we compare the two positions and assess which is the most credible, we will see that the Iranian stance is the one that is being most effectively implemented, with the aim of pushing the price per barrel to over $200 something that, in the view of analysts and economists, would be a global disaster.

As you can see, ‘the emperor has no clothes’ (in reference to Trump), and although he believes otherwise and his sycophants such as Hegseth, Witkoff and Kushner fawn over him obsequiously, the markets do not share that view and can clearly see that he is left with his arse in the air; so one might well ask: what else is he prepared to sacrifice?