Carlos Williams

It’s almost like CENTCOM is burning through munitions and interceptors faster than CENTCOM planned for.

Erdoğan is going to love this (He won’t)

🛢Brent Could Hit $100 if Hormuz Flows Stay Flat Five Weeks, Risking Demand Destruction: Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs raised its Q2 2026 average price forecast for Brent crude by $10 to $76 per barrel and for WTI by $9 to $71, citing expected declines in OECD inventories and

Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War They were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

Welp—Kash Patel Fired Entire Team of Iran Experts Right Before Trump’s War. They were let go during a purge of people who investigated Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents. 🤦🏻‍♂️

newrepublic.com/post/207263/kash-patel-fired-iran-experts-donald-trump-war

Now add 30 cents to the price of gas.

This week's YouGov survey gives Trump his worst approval rating (-21) since November 2017.

In our tracker, he's down to -19, lower than any point in his first term: www.economist.com/interactive/...

I’m not a loggie but I found the math and assumptions on Patriot interceptor sustainment interesting and a little worrying. If the numbers are any where near correct we could run though 15-20% of the interceptor stockpiles in 30 days.

SHEFFIELD: “.. It’ll just give them extra cash flow. They can reduce debt. They can do buybacks. They can pay dividends ..

“.. I do not anticipate anybody adding any rigs.”

@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/7af0...

How Trump Decided to Go to War

The New York Times, with supporting testimony today from the Secretary of State himself, reports that Israel dragged the United States into war with Iran. This is … not great. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

I now see by "TOC" pete meant logistics ops center at Shuaiba and by "fortified" pete meant "trailer"

man people should be getting fired over this one, absolutely no reason any of those soldiers should have been there

🛳️ At least five vessels have been struck in retaliation for U.S./Israeli strikes on Iran, - @detresfa.bsky.social

CAINE

HEGSETH

WHERE IS THE FUCKING AIRSPACE DECONFLICTION

What the fuck are we doing????

GASOIL RISES OVER 19%, EXTENDING GAIN AFTER RAS TANURA STRIKE

JUST IN 🚨: Stocks getting dumped 📉📉

Look Out Belowwwwwwww 👀

from a military perspective this is about what I think everyone expected to happen (up through CENTCOM/etc)

that said there's probably a disconnect here between military reality and popular expectations, that the admin has made no effort to address besides "yeah people are gonna die oh well"

I don’t think we have weeks worth of PAC-3 interceptors in our inventory to continue whatever the goal of the campaign is.

Pentagon offers no evidence to support claim it attacked Iran in defense The Trump administration’s effort to construct a case for war after shots started flying has few historical parallels.

Flagrantly illegal in other words

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Your kid gets killed fighting for this asshole and he responds with, "that's just the way it is"

The thing about kicking off an operation with a decapitation strike is that you preclude any ability to negotiate and off-ramp. Coercion theory is out the window when you create a leadership vacuum in one of the parties.

“.. In an extreme scenario of the Strait of Hormuz being blocked, Bloomberg @economics estimates oil prices could spike to $108/barrel.”

(via Schwab) #OOTT

“It’s not his job.”

Sometimes the absurdity of American life just makes me laugh. Millions of people have decided that instead of listening to doctors or healthcare professionals, they’ll listen to a guy who used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.

"Bomb stuff until they give up or we run out of useful targets" is the theory of victory here, and no one has thought about what happens if they don't give up

Hooo boy. There we go. It was about domestic surveillance after all.

FEDSPEAK: “.. To some degree, the Strait is experiencing ‘self-closure.’ .. No oil shipments have passed since morning, according to local reports; 22% of global supply is effectively ‘frozen’ .. indicating that the warnings by the IRGC are heeded.”