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A classified-marked document on a polished cabinet-room table at the White House, the empty Resolute leather chair pushed back at the head of the table, a wall-mounted news monitor in soft focus showing a disabled tanker dead in the water in the Gulf of Oman, photojournalistic available light
May 7, 2026 • 15 min read

Iran Outlasted Carter 444 Days. CIA Gives Trump 90.

A confidential CIA assessment delivered to the White House this week says Iran can outlast the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months and still holds 70% of its missile stockpile. The last time Iran sat on a U.S. president's clock, the regime ran out the calendar and timed the release for the next administration's inaugural. The math is in the leak.

#Iran war#CIA#Strait of Hormuz
A figure in white religious robes lays a glowing hand on the cracked rusted hull of a supertanker leaking crude oil, Renaissance golden light, a Navy officer and nurse in the background, mine-warning buoys and a distant Arleigh Burke destroyer visible through hazy windows behind, satirical editorial photography meets religious painting composition
Apr 13, 2026 • 10 min read

Blessed Are the Warmakers, for They Shall Inherit the Strait

On April 13, Trump posted himself as AI Jesus, attacked the first American Pope, and ordered a naval blockade of the strait his war closed. Pope Leo XIV called it a 'delusion of omnipotence.' The Navy's mine-clearing capability proves him right: zero minesweepers in the Gulf, 5,000 Iranian mines, and a defense budget that nearly tripled while the tools to do the job were scrapped.

#Iran war#Strait of Hormuz#blockade