All's Not So Quiet on Any Front

https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | May 04, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

[little jeremiah]

"CENTCOM confirms Iran has NOT successfully struck ANY Navy ships this morning, despite claiming they’ve done so." —Eric Daugherty on X

Project Freedom. Cute move! Notice that it’s not Operation Freedom. That would frame it as a military move. The President is tactically framing this as a humanitarian action. Mr. Trump has advised Congress as of May 1 that hostilities with Iran (Operation Epic Fury) are terminated, at the 60-day limit of the War Powers Resolution. Commercial ships from countries not involved in the Iran / US dispute will now get escorted safely through the Strait of Hormuz by US naval vessels. (Later amended by CENTCOM, around 9a.m. Monday as being protected by US Navy vessels “in the vicinity.”)

Any attack on these ships by Iran would prompt a forceful response and trigger a re-wind of the clock on the War Powers Resolution (WPR), meaning, another sixty days to conduct military operations, such as the destruction of key bridges and electric power plants promised earlier. Iran’s leadership — whoever that is — thought it could juke Mr. Trump on the 60-day deadline by stalling negotiations while it reorganized its remaining missile launchers. Tactical fail. Incidentally, the Supreme Court has never directly ruled on the WPR’s constitutionality or enforced the 60-day limit.

Also, by the way, the “neutral and innocent bystanders” designation means that oil tankers from Kuwait, the Emirate states, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia will be given safe escorts out of the Persian Gulf. That will have two effects: 1) avert the “shutting-in” of their productive oil wells (and the prospective geological damage to the oil fields); and 2) alleviate the price pressure on oil generally with new supply reentering the global oil market.

You can conclude that this “project” will bring new pressure on the “whoevers” running Iran to stop shucking and jiving about how this thing ends — which is them surrendering the 1000-pounds of 60-percent enriched uranium stashed somewhere on their premises. Of course, coming to terms on the nuclear bomb-making issue would allow Iran the possibility of becoming, once more, a normal advanced industrial modern nation, should it also decide to eschew the rule of the mullahs and their psychotic minions in the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC). But that remains to be seen.

The other major project underway is on the domestic US scene: the much-needed severe beat-down of the so-called Democratic Party that has become captive to seditionists, overt communists, racketeers, and jihadis. DOJ prosecutions of color revolutionaries accelerate under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. James Comey finally has to account for his “86 / 47” seashell prank in a Carolina federal court while a long-dormant case was revived in the Eastern District of Virginia of Comey having used Columbia prof Daniel Richman as a cut-out to leak classified information to the press at the inception of RussiaGate, 2017.

Nobody knows exactly what’s going down in the Southern District of Florida these days (no leaks) where a grand Jury was convened in January to hear evidence in the RussiaGate matter including the years’ long train of organized seditions aimed at bum-rushing Mr. Trump out of the Oval Office in his first term, plus the mounting of various other operations (2020 election-rigging, the J-6 “Fedsurrection,” and maliciously fake serial prosecutions) aimed at stuffing him in prison at the end of that term.

All this is being treated as a “grand conspiracy” involving scores of agency officials and lawfare ninjas operating in the penumbra at the edge of government. Do not be surprised when rafts of indictments come out of the Fort Pierce, Florida, grand jury, probably in bunches, each bunch dedicated to a particular phase or operation.

Characters such as former President Barack Obama, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Senator Adam Schiff (D-CS), CIA-agent Eric Ciaramella, legal tacticians Norm Eisen, Marc Elias, and Mary McCord, Andrew Weissmann, crooked member of the Senate Intel Committee Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), and former CIA Directors Brennan with former DNI James Clapper, were involved in multiple seditions and possible treasons. Supporting actors such as the tag-team of Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, former Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, former AG Merrick Garland, former Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, former Sec’y of State Hillary Clinton, “Joe Biden” autopen operators Jake Sullivan, Mike Donlon, Steve Richetti, Anita Dunn, Neera Tanden, former Sec’y of State Antony Blinken, and Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, are probably in the mix somewhere, too.

The trials that come out of all this action will be mighty interesting shows. What they will show is what an absolutely criminal organization the Democratic Party became sometime during Barack Obama’s second term, and how each criminal act since then has provoked further criminal acts in the attempt to cover-up the train of crime.

On top of that, you see the first glimmers of action against the villains behind the Covid-19 operation, which was used as an additional instrument of sedition to eject President Trump from office with mail-in ballot fraud. That was the eventual outcome anyway, though it appears that Anthony Fauci’s NIAID agency was subcontracting out the development of this disease at least a decade earlier. And now, Dr. Fauci’s chief advisor, David Morens, is indicted on extremely serious charges including conspiracy against the United States, destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations (multiple counts), and concealment, removal, or mutilation of records (multiple counts).

This is serious business. It is likely to lead to Dr. Fauci, Dr. Deborah Birx, and other public health officials who ran a dastardly number on the citizens of this land. Be advised: the autopen pardons of “Joe Biden” will be tested in court.

While all this goes on in the months ahead, don’t underestimate what is liable to emerge from the ongoing FBI investigations into massive social service and health service fraud by the Democratic Party in its Blue State strongholds. It is going to get very ugly. A governor or two (or three, or more) could be slammed with indictments for colluding to conceal vast episodes of organized grift.

All that. . . and then the SCOTUS decision striking down Congressional redistricting along racial lines — probably leading to the loss of up to ten Democratic seats in the House later this year. Ouch! That one is really going to sting.

So, if you happen to believe that the concluding scenes of Operation Epic Fury in Iran will somehow work to advantage the Democratic party to sweep the midterm elections, better rethink your strategery (as George W. Bush liked to style the art of political warfare).

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Iran
KEYWORDS: iran; kunstler

[little jeremiah]

Excellent Kunstler as usual, covers a lot of ground.

[Sirius Lee]

In before “I filled my truck up today and now my butt hurts.”

[Alberta's Child]

Also, by the way, the “neutral and innocent bystanders” designation means that oil tankers from Kuwait, the Emirate states, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia will be given safe escorts out of the Persian Gulf. That will have two effects: 1) avert the “shutting-in” of their productive oil wells (and the prospective geological damage to the oil fields); and 2) alleviate the price pressure on oil generally with new supply reentering the global oil market.

I don’t think this guy even knows what he’s talking about. All the information presented about this “Project Freedom” indicates that these vessels would only be given a one-time escort to get them out of the Persian Gulf indefinitely until hostilities in the region cease. It’s not going to be a long-term commitment to enable two-way traffic for these vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz repeatedly.

And the reports posted here say that exactly TWO vessels were successfully escorted through the strait by the U.S. Navy — and they were both American-flagged ships, not “neutral” vessels.

[Track9]

Good stuff!

[hotsteppa]

Good summary. As usual the creepers who are invested in the Iran operation failure will jump on and tell us how this is all wrong and Iran has the upper hand. So delusional.

[little jeremiah]

Nit picking... time will tell.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/05/breaking-us-sinks-seven-iranian-small-boats-harassing/

BREAKING: US Sinks Seven Iranian Small Boats Harassing Cargo Ships in the Strait of Hormuz – Trump Threatens To ‘Blow Mullahs Regime off the Face of the Earth’
As US President Donald J. Trump has repeatedly reminded the world, the Iranian Navy has been obliterated, and their ships are all at the bottom of the sea.

But the Iranians now count on the so-called ‘mosquito fleet’ of small boats (or fast boats) that they use to harass cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

Today (4), US forces reportedly sank six or seven of these small boats deployed, right before Trump warned that the Islamic Republic would be ‘blown off the face of the Earth’ if it interferes with efforts to reopen the waterway.

[Fledermaus]

🖕

[Alberta's Child]

I hope I’m not giving you any breaking news when I tell you that no foreign vessel owner is going to sail its ship through the Strait of Hormuz just because Trump says it’s safe to do so.

[central_va]

As of today, three tankers have transited the Strait of Hormuz. This represents approximately 3.3% of the normal daily throughput for the strait.

It’s a start.

[Magnum44]

LOL

[ridesthemiles]

THERE ARE NO “RATION COUPONS” SO JUST LIVE WITH IT.

[PGalt]

Good article. thanks for posting.

[PGalt]

LOL!