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🇺🇸🇮🇷 The blockade hasn't even started yet and the damage is already happening.
Oil is above $100. Wall Street futures are down. Markets across Asia are falling.
The Energy Policy Research Foundation says the blockade alone could add $5-10 to the price of a barrel.
BNP Paribas says investors are already rotating into safe-haven trades.
The UN says 32 million people could be pushed into poverty by the war's economic fallout, with developing nations hit hardest.
Tehran or the global economy; one of them breaks first.
Source: FT, Guardian
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🇺🇸🇻🇪🇮🇷 Back in January, Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado gave Trump her Nobel Peace Prize medal because he thought he deserved it for ending "8 wars in just 8 months."
He claimed to be the "President of peace."
That was 3 months ago.
Since then, he sent Special Ops troops to snatch President Maduro, and started a war with Iran. Oh, and he's still got Colombia on his to-do list.
Something tells me he's not going to be in the running for this year's prize.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 If you thought Trump couldn't possibly wreck the global economy much more, think again.
He just doubled down on CENTCOM's announcement: Iranian ports will be blockaded starting today at 10am ET.
No doubt when this is all over, he'll take responsibility for fixing the economy.
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🇺🇸 This is what a naval blocakde actually looks like
One carrier strike group built around the USS Abraham Lincoln. 4 Arleigh Burke guided-missile destroyers. 3 Littoral Combat Ships. 5 amphibious assault vessels. An attack submarine. 3 fleet replenishment ships keeping all of it fueled and armed indefinitely.
That's a sustained siege posture, the kind of deployment you don't assemble to make a point and go home.
The timing says everything. Iran is sitting at a working dinner in Islamabad insisting it keeps control of Hormuz and charges tolls on passing vessels. Meanwhile Washington just par

🇪🇸🇨🇳 Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez just landed in China and straight-up asked Beijing to help end the wars in Iran and Ukraine.
He told them China has real influence and should use it to push international law and get these conflicts wrapped up.
This comes as Spain has pushed back hard on the U.S. strikes and even closed its airspace to American warplanes.
While Trump goes solo on the Hormuz blockade, Europe’s quietly turning to China for the diplomatic save.
Source: Bloomberg
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Strait of Hormuz shutdown: global shipping collapses as U.S. blockade begins
Normal daily traffic of 138 vessels before this conflict has collapsed to single digits in the last few days.
Now the U.S. blockade goes live at 10 AM ET, openly challenging the whole idea of Freedom of the Seas.
A blockade like this is a state of war, whether anyone formally declares it or not.
This means rewriting global supply chains and energy prices in real time.
Source: CENTCOM
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Talks have failed.
Vance announces the U.S. delegation is leaving Islamabad with no deal.
No second day of talks.
"The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement.
The Iranians chose not to accept our terms."
Vance says Iran must make an "affirmative commitment" that it won't seek a nuclear weapon or the tools to build one.
Tehran apparently wouldn't go that far.
over 9 hours of historic face-to-face talks.
The first direct engagement since 1979.
And it ended with one side walking out.
Source: NYT
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🇮🇷🇺🇸🇵🇰 U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad stretch past 9 hours, reaching 3:00 AM local time.
This is the longest round yet, and sources inside the room say we’re now in the critical phase.
Pakistan is pushing both sides hard for flexibility.
Multiple tracks on the table: security, economics, diplomacy, and prisoner swaps.
Iranians claim they’re willing to budge, but they’re calling America’s demands on the Strait of Hormuz “maximalist.”
Pakistanis sound hopeful that something real could drop.
Ceasefire extension, open Hormuz, or even nuclear steps.
Behind closed doors is where the real deal ge

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 Ghalibaf and Vance shook hands before trilateral talks with Pakistan's PM
Media is calling it a "rare moment."
The real story isn't the handshake.
It's what gets discussed after it.
The IRGC just landed.
Beirut has gone quiet.
Both sides are exchanging written proposals.
Source: NYT
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Bitcoin is the new safe-haven asset.
BTC is up 25% against gold since the US-Iran war started on February 28th.
Before this, BTC crashed -67% in 6 months against gold from Aug 2025 to Febr 2026 and surprisingly formed a bottom on February 28th, the first day of the war when U.S. launched strikes on Iran.
Historically, gold is the safe-haven asset and pumps during crises, but this time BTC is outperforming it.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 WEEKS OF BOMBING AND IRAN IS WALKING INTO TALKS WITH MORE LEVERAGE THAN BEFORE
The strikes were real. The damage was real. But Iran's system is still intact, its proxy network is still functioning, and roughly half its launchers remain operational. This can drag on for months if Tehran decides it needs to.
Then there's Hormuz. Iran didn't have that card at the start of this. Now it does, and it's walking into Pakistan with it on the table.
Trump is heading into negotiations with mounting economic pressure, a ceasefire he can't fully control, and an adversary that absorbed weeks of the

BREAKING: Paul Atkins says both SEC and CFTC are ready to implement CLARITY Act as soon as the US Congress approves it.
This is MASSIVE for crypto 🚀BREAKING: Paul Atkins says both SEC and CFTC are ready to implement CLARITY Act as soon as the US Congress approves it.
This is MASSIVE for crypto 🚀
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🇺🇸 White House aides just got an email that basically said:
"All White House employees are reminded that the misuse of nonpublic information by government employees for financial benefit is a very serious offense and will not be tolerated."
Nothing says “totally normal administration” like having to send a mass email that basically reads “please don’t commit insider trading, okay?”
Source: CBS
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING:
Trump:
"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!"
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🚨 THIS IS HUGE
Bitcoin Devs have built a prototype that will protect wallets from quantum attacks.
With this, if the Bitcoin network is ever forced to defend against quantum computing, normal spending could be paused, and users will be able to recover their funds.
Bitcoin Devs have started to take quantum threats seriously now, and this is a good sign.
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