https://freerepublic.com/tag/fragitators/ en-us Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:06:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374320/posts President Donald Trump warned Iran on Thursday against charging fees on tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, writing on Truth Social: “There are reports that Iran is charging fees to tankers going through the Hormuz Strait — They better not be and, if they are, they better stop now!” Breitbart https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374320/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:06:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374270/posts A fragile ceasefire agreement in the war began with bombs continuing to explode in Lebanon and contradictory statements about whether Iran will continue to control the critical Strait of Hormuz energy choke point.But the most likely scenarios moving forward involve either Iran exerting more control over global energy markets than it did before the fighting started in March, or the current tenuous agreement merely delaying another military escalation by days or weeks, geopolitical and energy experts said. Fortune via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374270/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2026 19:58:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374218/posts Days after Pope Leo XIV delivered his State of the World speech, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican’s U.S. representative, to a closed-door Pentagon meeting for a bitter lecture. “The United States,” Colby said, according to a blistering new report by The Free Press, “has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.” One U.S. official present at the meeting brought up the Avignon papacy, a period in the 14th century in which the French monarchy bent the Catholic Church into submission,... Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374218/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2026 13:23:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374239/posts President Donald J. Trump laid out clear objectives in Operation Epic Fury — and in just 38 days, the greatest fighting force the world has ever known has met those objectives with overwhelming strength and lethal precision. Iran has now agreed to a ceasefire and reopening the Strait of Hormuz as the Trump Administration negotiates a broader peace agreement — once more proving Peace Through Strength victorious.Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: “From the strike that took out Qasem Soleimani to tearing up the disastrous Obama Iran deal, to the precision campaign that obliterated Iran’s nuclear sites in Operation Midnight Hammer... Whitehouse.gov https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4374239/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2026 16:12:43 GMT