Trump Underestimated Iran's Willingness to Close Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon Lashes Out at Media, Trump Says it is an "Honor" to Kill Iranians (Aaron Parnas/The Parnas Perspective)
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-underestimated-irans-willingness
http://www.memeorandum.com/260313/p52#a260313p52
After a volatile morning, European stock markets are still in the red – but off their earlier lows – after steep losses in Asia-Pacific markets overnight.
The oil price is still trading over the $100 mark, on track for its highest close since 2022.
Here’s the situation:
UK’s FTSE 100 share index: down 112 points or -1.1% at 10,172 points
Germany’s DAX share index: down 350 points or -1.5% at 23,241 points
France’s CAC share index: down 152 points or 1.9% at 7,840…
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UFL adding 4-point field goals from 60-plus yards, banning punts inside 50 and tush push https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7066567/2026/02/24/ufl-rule-changes-field-goals-punts/
Trump said the Navy will escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz, if necessary.
Per reports the Navy has no timeline for this hazardous maneuver
and Trump himself has just demanded convoys begin "as soon as possible"
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 301 points, or 0.6%.
The 30-stock index was down more than 1,200 points, or around 2.6%, at its low of the session.
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SOOLIN: What does that mean?
ORAC: A computer must, by definition, be logical. But it can also mirror the logic of its creator.
SOOLIN: You mean it's an extension of his mind.
ORAC: No, that is NOT what I mean.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/408/283
The neoconservatives,
who dominated the Pentagon and the White House after 9/11
believed the US could use force to remake the Middle East,
and their project left us with two enduring concepts that still shape American military power and politics today:
creative chaos and strategic deception.
These are the intellectual doctrines of neoconservatism,
an ideology that bears constant re-examination.
Legacy One: Creative chaos
The intellectual arch…