"The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history.

Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil.

Iraq’s production of oil is down to less than one-third what it was before Trump started this war."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/18

"Wars are not decided by social media posts or gut feelings. They are decided by logistics, strategy, alliances, and political resolve. Right now, the world is watching a conflict expand across multiple regions while the person in charge of the United States is posting fantasies about imaginary naval coalitions and claiming total victory over an enemy that is clearly still fighting."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #strongman
/16

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/important-saturday-news-updates-31425

"In Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain, major energy companies have declared force majeure—which basically means they’re saying, hey, act of God, outside our control.

We can no longer be held to any contracts we previously signed.

As they all radically scale down their oil and gas production.

And it’s not only fuel—it’s also food."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/19

"Huge amounts of fertilizer pass through the Strait of Hormuz—fertilizer bound for ports all over the world, for crops all over the world, for foodstuffs all over the world.

Raw materials related to the petroleum industry are also being choked off."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/20

"Whole regions in the Philippines—including the capital city of Manila—just forced employers to institute a four-day workweek instead of a five-day workweek specifically to try to save energy.

Gas stations in Vietnam have started to run out of fuel. …

What was all this for?

'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'

I’m sure they’re delighted with that."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/23

"Whole regions in the Philippines—including the capital city of Manila—just forced employers to institute a four-day workweek instead of a five-day workweek specifically to try to save energy.

Gas stations in Vietnam have started to run out of fuel. …

What was all this for?

'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'

I’m sure they’re delighted with that."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/23

"The nation of Bangladesh just closed its universities because they need to conserve energy—they need to conserve electricity used by the universities—and they need to reduce the need for people to drive anywhere."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/22

"A plastics plant north of Tokyo started to scale down production on Friday because they can’t get the raw materials they use in that production process—because they’re petroleum-based products.

It’s also aluminum and other commodities like that as facilities like smelters shut down for lack of fuel."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/21

"Huge amounts of fertilizer pass through the Strait of Hormuz—fertilizer bound for ports all over the world, for crops all over the world, for foodstuffs all over the world.

Raw materials related to the petroleum industry are also being choked off."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/20

"In Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain, major energy companies have declared force majeure—which basically means they’re saying, hey, act of God, outside our control.

We can no longer be held to any contracts we previously signed.

As they all radically scale down their oil and gas production.

And it’s not only fuel—it’s also food."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/19

"The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.

CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history.

Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil.

Iraq’s production of oil is down to less than one-third what it was before Trump started this war."

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/18

"The president did unveil a new purported justification for the war today in his rambling press conference at his golf thing.

He said, quote:

'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.”

We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'

It’s actually hard to argue with that one. That one might actually be true."

~ Rachel Maddow

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/17

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/03/10/maddow_russia_giving_iran_advanced_targeting_information_trump_giving_russia_sanctions_relief.html

"Wars are not decided by social media posts or gut feelings. They are decided by logistics, strategy, alliances, and political resolve. Right now, the world is watching a conflict expand across multiple regions while the person in charge of the United States is posting fantasies about imaginary naval coalitions and claiming total victory over an enemy that is clearly still fighting."

~ Ben Meiselas

#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #strongman
/16

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/important-saturday-news-updates-31425