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SAUDI ARABIA'S NATIONAL SHIPPING COMPANY CONFIRMS ONE OF ITS VESSELS 'AMZAN' HAS BEEN ATTACKED IN RED SEA - STATEMENT
Buffalo airport is out of jet fuel
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/...tional-airportLast night around 10:30, the FAA issued a Notice to Airmen stating that Buffalo Niagara International Airport had no fuel. None. Planes could land, planes could leave if they had gas in the tank, but if you needed to fill up in Buffalo, you were out of luck. Airlines started telling pilots to carry enough fuel to get to Buffalo AND to their next stop, which is a thing you normally hear about airports in countries mid-collapse, not a five-million-passenger American hub an hour from Toronto.
SAUDI ARABIA'S NATIONAL SHIPPING COMPANY CONFIRMS ONE OF ITS VESSELS 'AMZAN' HAS BEEN ATTACKED IN RED SEA - STATEMENT
reut.rs/4xc4Q0uReuters/Ipsos has Trump at 33% with support for the war at 31%. Sixty nine percent of Republicans now support the war, down from 77% when it began.
quagmire talk
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. is not ruling out using military force against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz or anywhere else. - Reuters
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) confirmed that the issue was not a fuel shortage but a faulty circuit board in the airport’s fuel farm system.
lol whinehole
thanks for the topical follow-up
how do you feel about Trump losing to Iran?
Obama never attacked Iran
Trump did -- not skilled!
Trump was a stupid asshole for attacking Iran
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
https://www.ft.com/content/acb64e29-...0-6b7b5dd4f63eFarmers in America’s Corn Belt say they are facing their worst crisis in 40 years, as an explosion in diesel and fertiliser costs triggered by Donald Trump’s Iran war pushes grain producers to the brink.
The growing strains are the latest sign of how the conflict in the Middle East, now in its sixth month, is reverberating through the US’s heartland ahead of crucial midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.
“Inputs are way out of whack,” said Matt Bailey, who grows corn and soyabeans in eastern Nebraska. He said 11-52-0, a phosphorus-rich fertiliser used at planting time that was priced at $470 a ton 10 years ago, now costs more than $900. “Where do you start with that? How do you budget for that?”
The huge uptick in prices for fuel and crop nutrients since the US launched its attack on Iran in February came with American farmers already struggling after years of low grain prices and falling incomes.
Trump has TACO'd big time on China before and he's much weaker today than Liberation Day
https://www.ft.com/content/aa7ba671-...syn-25a6b1a6=1Any serious increase in US sanctions on China, which buys 90 per cent of Iran’s oil, would risk exploding the relationship only a month before presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet in Washington.
The summit is seen as crucial to the world economy, with the leaders expected to discuss extending a one-year truce in their trade war that they agreed in October and which was cemented by a cordial visit to Beijing by Trump in May.
“China will take all necessary measures to firmly safeguard its rights and interests,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Tuesday in response to questions about US secondary sanctions on Iran.
“China has made clear on many occasions its firm opposition to illicit unilateral sanctions that have no basis in international law or the authorisation of the UN Security Council,” they said…
While China’s large state-owned refiners largely comply with sanctions on Iranian crude, Beijing allows private sector refiners known as “teapots” to import and process oil from the country….
China has set up an increasingly strident anti-sanctions regime that includes countermeasures against foreign individuals and organisations that assist with foreign restrictions on Chinese companies and supply chains.
Any attempt by the US to aggressively expand a secondary sanctions regime on Iran to Chinese companies would risk retaliation from Beijing, which last year showed that it could bring American manufacturing to a standstill through its control of critical minerals essential to high-tech production.
“We have to wait and see whether this is just bluffing or [the US is] seriously thinking about putting secondary sanctions on China,” said Wang Dong, a senior scholar at Peking University.
boiled down, sanctions and secondary sanctions will fail because Trump doesn't have the stomach to take on China, Russia, India, Turkey, Pakistan and the UAE all at once
also, Trump lacks patience and will probably end up in a hot war again either to distract from something else or to punish Iran
Trump's Iran sanctions regime is a reversion to the status quo ante (in which sanctions did not work) and are window dressing for having lost the war
Russia tells Trump to off, China threatens retaliation if Trump accelerates economic pressure
Looks like Operation Economic Outcast is dead on the starting line
Is this the job of the CIA director? I guess Rubio or Kushner (CROFL) didn't want the embarrassment.
Lol "Operation Economic Outcast"
I don't think Trump understands who the outcast will end up being.
war prizes
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...“Our national security interests may require the United States military to seize vessels or cargo supporting the enemy during military conflict,” Reitz said in a statement. “If that happens, our federal courts must be ready to adjudicate the disposition of these captured vessels and cargo.”
Ship owners and Iranian terrorism victims are among the potential litigants expected to challenge the prize court’s use, maritime lawyers and former prosecutors said. DOJ, the US Navy, and the judiciary would also face operational hurdles carrying out a court process with which they have zero experience.
“This really is a historical area of law that is not tested in modern times,” said Allison Luzwick, a Holland & Knight attorney specializing in the maritime industry. “Great strides have been made in international law and the law of war since the late 1800s, and all of that is going to come into play when we’re actually looking at proceedings involving a vessel that is potentially seized under Prize Act authority.”
Once a regular feature of 18th and 19th century naval combat, prize courts have gone largely unused since the Spanish-American War of 1898 and lain entirely dormant since World War II.
open to legal challenges and, turnabout is fair play
“It helps offset the price of the war,” said Eugene Kontorovich, an international law professor at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia School of Law. “It also shows Iran that America is really treating this as a serious international blockade and is willing to use all the tools at its disposal.”
If established, however, the approach would invite legal challenges as to whether the US is engaged in hostilities that give rise to the Prize Act and whether the lack of congressional authorization of the conflict renders captures unlawful.
Jill Goldenziel, a law professor who trains US military leaders at the National Defense University, warned of potential blowback in an April Forbes column.
Although it would “send a strong message to non-sanctioned, neutral merchant ships bound for Iranian ports not to violate the U.S. blockade,” Goldenziel wrote, it “could also open the door for China to apply prize law against the United States — a dangerous proposition for U.S. and neutral merchants in any war with China.”
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