Now is our downhill phase.  You saw what happened just last night in Tel Aviv.  Meaning, because we hit the radars and the infrastructure, today, truly, Mr. Trump and Netanyahu are trapped in a slaughterhouse in the Persian Gulf. … The big mistake they made was that they came and designed a short-term war, but they didn’t realize this might turn into a long-term one. … They didn’t think for example the price of oil

…the 2nd Oil Crisis could be worked through, slowly, but the international financial system could not survive a 3rd Oil Crisis – the inflation would make it impossible to recycle the petrodollars to the oil importing countries with any hope of repayment [FFTT: in real (oil) terms], trade would crumble, and the system would be brought to its knees.     -BIS Chair Jelle Zijlstra, 1980 Any intelligent enemy could easily manipulate the stock and commodities markets,

Act in haste, repent at leisure.     -Proverb Mr. X: “Iran doesn’t need to defeat the US military; just the UST market.”     -Title of 3/3/26 edition of FFTT There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.     -Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” (Chapter 2) You know what they’re calling this bond drive? The Mighty Seventh. They might’ve called it the “We’re Flat F*cking Broke And Can’t Even Afford Bullets So We’re Begging For