Posted on 10/14/2026 6:58:33 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
Two container ships near the strait of Hormuz have sunk after being struck by missiles, amid the sharpest rise in Iranian attacks on shipping since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran. The increase in attacks suggests Iran is trying to fully close the strategic waterway in an attempt to frustrate Donald Trump’s efforts to bring down fuel prices before the US midterm elections on 3 November. The Trump administration has been attempting to deflect attention from the economic impact of the war on Iran by blaming Ukraine’s attacks on Russian refineries for increased fuel prices.
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And yes: Two big cargos sunk by Iran again today at Hormuz, WHILE Russia bombs American companies in Ukraine.
Also: Saudi Arabia feels betrayed as America secretly negotiated (and failed) directly with the Houthis terrorist movement WITHOUT telling Saudi Arabia about it... And remember about happened a month ago... Trump insulted the Saudi Prince calling him an a$$-licker... So now lets be prepared for what Saudi Arabia is preparing... they will hike up their prices as a vengeance. America has now lost all leverage it once had against Saudi-Arabia.
So... Everyone feels it now... the perfect storm is about to hit before the midterms.
Baril: Price of oil yesterday $107.29 Price of oil 1 year ago $62.54
Sidenote: And now that America seems to have abandoned the Ukrainian people; The Ukrainian army is finally free to do what it wants. It its preparing a new wave of MASSIVE attacks against Russian Oil REFINERIES. Jackpot soon to come!
The best part: Ukraine’s new missiles don't need US satellite systems to hit their targets!
Only problem : the price of oil will go UP...
Somebody call the Waaambulance, USA-FRANCE is butthurt again.
CC
You sound a bit desperate
Well just look at the oil price very closely in coming days... and will see who will be desperate...
What I stated earlier are verifiable true facts.
Two cargos sunk yet again today at Hormuz. Facts are facts. Nothing that you and I can do about it.
“Blaming Ukraine for the massive oil price hikes was a pointless desperate dishonest move.”
It’s you and your bullshit again. You ever get headaches with you TDS?
You could call it an October surprise. Except nobody is surprised.
“Everyone sees and knows that Hormuz is the main issue.”
Deflection
* The Issue is 40+Trillion Big Global Government Debt Treasury Manipulation.
Delusional. Iran is on its third set of leaders because the first two have been killed. It is going thru hyperinflation, Its navy and air force have been destroyed. The only reason the country has not been completely leveled is there is a good chance the people themselves will force regime change. This all started with a revolt and Mosques being burned down.
President Trump and Secretary Hegseth have been overpromising and underperforming for months. Managing public expectations is essential in a war waged on behalf of a democracy, and they’ve done a poor job of doing so. It is hard counting all the times victory has been declared and the 150 or so sunken Iranian hulls have been cited. Yet every other day we have empirical proof that the outcome of the war is undecided.
It’s doubtful that the administration will be launching any major attacks going forward. It would be political suicide with the midterm weeks away. As it stands, the House is lost but there’s a 50-50 chance the Senate can be held. A drastic escalation would contradict the oft-repeated message that the Strait of Hormuz is ours (even though clearly it isn’t) and would sink the GOP’s chances in the Senate.
My expectation is that we’ll come up with some face-saving resolution to the conflict soon after November 3, and at that time crude and product prices should begin easing.
Meanwhile, I’ll stay way overweighted in energy stocks, partnerships, and ETFs. (In addition, I’ve begun buying bonds based on my belief that rates are topping. A war settlement should ease inflation concerns, and it looks like the AI funding balloon is deflating rapidly, thus relieving supply pressure on issuances.)
If Iran gets nukes they’ll use them on us and on Israel. Millions of people would die. That puts losing two cargo ships in a proper perspective.
Harvard Kennedy Center
April 7, 2026
The war in Iran costs America two billion dollars PER DAY and will end up costing at minimum......at least one trillion tax dollars.
On February 28, the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, killing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. By early April, the United States had more than 56,000 troops in the war zone (including some 50,000 on ships, military bases, and other installations, as well as 4,500 Marines and 2,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne), and the United States was considering deploying 10,000 additional ground troops.
Professor Linda Bilmes, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and a leading expert on public finance, talks about the financial cost of the war in Iran as of April 6, 2026.
Q. How expensive is the war in Iran for American taxpayers?
A. Wars always cost more than expected. Throughout history, those who get into wars tend to be optimistic about the cost and about the length of time it will take. For example, Russia thought it could take control of Ukraine in a few weeks. President George W. Bush fired his economic advisor, Larry Lindsey, for predicting that the Iraq War might cost $200 billion (it ended up costing $5 trillion).
We see the same pattern with Iran. The Trump administration expected that this war would be over quickly and would be relatively inexpensive. According to the Pentagon, it cost $11.3 billion in the first three to five days—but that is an underestimate. According to my calculations, those first few days cost at least $16 billion. We are spending down munitions at an extraordinarily fast pace—to put it in perspective, we fired more Patriot missiles in the first four days of the Iran war than we have given to Ukraine over the past four years.
pic-—U.S. Southern Command Commander Gen. Francis Donovan speaks at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Washington, DC, seated beside U.S. Northern Command and NORAD Commander Gen. Gregory Guillot, with other military officials lined up behind a long table
pic-—U.S. Southern Command Commander Marine General Francis Donovan (R), accompanied by U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command Commander Gen. Gregory Guillot (L), speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on March 19, 2026 in Washington, D.C.
It is hard to measure the exact cost. But based on what we know now, it is costing about two billion dollars a day in short-term, upfront costs......which is just the tip of the iceberg.
Q. What are some short-term costs of the war in Iran?
A. Short-term costs include things like the munitions, which are the missiles, bombs, and interceptors we are firing; the cost of maintaining two or three carrier strike groups in the region with aircraft, submarines, destroyers, supply ships, etc.; and the cost of maintaining personnel, combat pay, extended deployment pay, as well as the cost of unexpected things like the fact that we lost three F-15 fighter jets to friendly fire from Kuwait. And now Iran has already shot down U.S. aircraft, including an F-15 fighter, an A-10 attack plane, and multiple drones. So we are losing high-cost assets.
But the short-term costs are even higher than they appear. The Pentagon reports costs based on the historical value of inventory, instead of the actual cost it takes to replace what we are using. And those replacement costs are far higher.
For example, the Tomahawk missiles being used are valued at around $2 million each in inventory, but replacing them today costs $3 to $3.5 million. Patriot missiles in the inventory were valued at $1 to $2 million, but newer versions cost $4 to $5 million each. The same is true for fuel and other supplies, where we are drawing down inventory purchased at lower prices and replacing it at much higher current prices.
We are not accounting for the full cost of repair and maintenance, or for what it costs to keep forces deployed months beyond their planned rotations.
Q. Can you share examples of those additional costs?
A. Take the USS Gerald R. Ford, an exceedingly high-tech $13 billion aircraft carrier which just limped off after a massive fire in the laundry exposed 600 sailors to serious smoke inhalation. It was deployed six months longer than planned, with about 5,000 personnel on board, and the sewage system failed, so it cost $400,000 to flush the toilets with chemicals every day. The carrier now requires 14 months or more of repairs. None of those costs are reflected in the initial operational estimates.
These gaps are one reason why the reported $11.3 billion is closer to $16 billion, and they reflect a persistent gap between what the Pentagon reports in real time and what the war actually costs.
You can see that gap clearly in the Trump administration’s request for roughly $200 billion in emergency funding, much of it to cover repairs, maintenance, and replacement costs that were never included in the upfront costs that get announced.
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“The Issue is 40+Trillion Big Global Government Debt Treasury Manipulation.”
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Yes, a record now...
And the DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) was supposed to bring in 2 trillion dollars... (in unicorn land).
National debt of the United States:
Two big hikes are seen in this graph... Politically, interesting to see WHEN it happened...
Proportionally speaking, France has been mismanaged nearly the same way.
“Two big cargos[hips] sunk by Iran again today at Hormuz”
IRGC has targeted those before?
“ Sidenote: And now that America seems to have abandoned the Ukrainian people; The Ukrainian army is finally free to do what it wants. It its preparing a new wave of MASSIVE attacks against Russian Oil REFINERIES. Jackpot soon to come!”
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With effective Starlink satellite communications help no longer available to their drones? Good luck in achieving your fantasized “Jackpot”. Frenchie you seem to be in a hyperactive frenzy lately… even more so than your usual TDS driven jihad.
God bless Elon Musk.
If you drive or consume your pocket book will be much lighter as well. This time it won’t be “just a few weeks”.
Wonder boy has stepped into it up to his mullet.
I disagree. I think Hegseth would have had this over in March or April.
The Guardian/USA-France -TDS BS and trash.
Let’s see, on the morning of June 22/23, 2025 Iran had no nuclear weapons and no access to their enriched uranium or the facilities to make more.
Then, on February 28, 2026 Iran still had no nuclear weapons and no access to their enriched uranium or the facilities to make more.
Now, a little over a year later, Iran still has no nuclear weapons or the facilities to make more. However, we have spent billions upon billions to... what? Close the Straits, end up with a bunch of Iranian destroyed petrochemical facilities, 21 dead service people, lots of our weapons lost or destroyed. What else have I missed? Oh yea, the price of oil has approached double what it was at the start of this year. A year ago the Straits were open, Iran had missiles and drones and they still do.
What next? Where’s that copy of “Art of the Deal”?
Is this what they call a Fluster Cluck in Queens?
Like so many things it started so good and will end so badly. What a shame for all of us.
“If Iran gets nukes they’ll use them on us and on Israel. Millions of people would die. That puts losing two cargo ships in a proper perspective.”
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As you may have seen in my months long posts. I’m a big supporter of America’s war against Iran. America must win this.
What is not good though, is when the US administration says : “Hormuz is 100% open, no problems what so ever!”
That is utterly false. Proved today once again, with two sunken ships.
Hormuz is a war zone.
I prefer honsest statements.
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