‘Victory’ In Iran Will Look Nothing Like 1945 Authored by James Howard Kunstler, You probably wonder what the end of this war will look like. It won’t look like V-J Day in Times Square, 1945, with sailors kissing girls they met five seconds ago. Our country is way too divided and disturbed with politically-inflected mental illness for love to bloom in the streets like it did then. If you happen to catch the glum crew on CNN you will detect that they really want this operation to fail because, you know, Trump. Terminally Depressed on CNN The war will be over when Iran loses the ability to spray missiles and drones all over the place — and notice how they are pouring it on the Emirate states, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, and even Azerbaijan, for Gawdsake, turning would-be bystanders into pissed-off additional enemies they need like a hole in the head. At some point they will run out of ordnance, or the will to roll them out of the supposed 10,000 bat caves their weapons are stashed in. Our side apparently has an uncanny knack for seeing the launchers creep into daylight and efficiently blowing them up. Creates a disincentive to even think about launching. Of course, Iran might have some spectacular last-ditch thingie they can unleash to horrify the world — perhaps a “dirty” bomb that uses the 460 kilos of 60-percent enriched uranium they bragged about at one of the last negotiation sessions before the war with Witkoff and Kushner. Standing by on that. But, at some point a week or so hence, a stillness will fall upon the earth and sky above Iran, and that will be all she wrote for sheer havoc. Victory will not look much like anything. Just that stillness. The body politic in

Image by Christophe Licoppe Please Follow us on Truth Social, X , Youtube , Minds, Telegram, Rumble, GETTR, Gab One byproduct of the current conflict with Iran is a spike in energy costs, especially for Europe, which has intentionally destroyed its domestic energy supply over the last two decades. European economies are on the ropes as oil approaches $100 a barrel for WTI crude, spiking over $10 today alone. The pressure on governments will become immense, as populist movements across The Continent increase their share of political support. This pressure could bring down globalist leaders in capitals like Paris, London, or Berlin. The fall of certain leaders could also lead to the beginning of the end of the Ukraine war, as it is Europe that has pushed for, and enabled continued conflict in the east. Treasury Secretary Bessent now says the U.S. will remove certain sanctions on Russian energy, in an attempt to reduce the upward pressure on oil. We still believe the Trump administration desires closer economic ties with Moscow, and sees globalist Europe as an instigator of the Ukraine conflict. President Trump’s energy agenda has resulted in oil and gas production reaching the highest levels ever recorded. To enable oil to keep flowing into the global market, the Treasury Department is issuing a temporary 30-day waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil.… — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) March 6, 2026 The legacy media is pushing the narrative that Russia is helping to target American troops, while leaving out the fact NATO has been targeting Russian troops for years on the Ukraine front, and infrastructure deep inside Russia. The faster the Iran war is concluded, the better off humanity will be. It is obvious there are no impediments from the U.S. War Department to achieving this outcome. JUST

Bessent Says US May “Unsanction” More Russian Oil Amid Energy Crisis Yesterday, when discussing the stunning development that Russia would be granted a one-month license to sell (formerly) sanctioned oil to india while the Straits of Hormuz are blocked, we said that this step is just the start, and precited “unlimited extensions” in the future. We had to wait less than 24 hours for this to come true. Speaking to Fox Business, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US may lift sanctions on further Russian oil supply after a move Thursday to give Indian refiners the green light to purchase crude from the nation. “Treasury agreed to let our allies in India start buying Russian oil that was already on the water,” Bessent said, explaining that “to ease the temporary gap of oil around the world, we have given them permission to accept the Russian oil. We may unsanction other Russian oil.” NEW: U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: Due to the temporary global oil gap, we may also unsanction other Russian oil. pic.twitter.com/dvP6IIsLoQ — Clash Report (@clashreport) March 6, 2026 Bessent said there’s “hundreds of millions of sanctioned barrels of crude on the water now and in essence, by unsanctioning them, Treasury can create supply,” he said, quoting verbatim what we said on February 19. Cushing drained at fastest pace since June while hundreds of millions of barrels are stuck at sea. Vitol will make a trillion $ this year. — zerohedge (@zerohedge) February 19, 2026 He was referring to this chart: Crude prices surged past $90 a barrel on Friday, rising to the highest level since 2023, as fighting in the region kept tankers away from the Strait of Hormuz, with some traders and energy executives warning that prices could climb to more than $100 per barrel if the conflict continues and local producers