Just call me Nostradamus

[John Clark]

Today the number of ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz each day averages about 12, compared with 130 before the war. The average price of gas in the United States is about $4.09 a gallon, or $1.10 higher than before the war, and the price of diesel fuel is $5.65 a gallon, an increase of $3.80 a gallon. So far the Iran war has cost the Pentagon about $113 billion, and it has cost consumers $90 billion more for fuel. 16 U.S. military facilities across the Persian Gulf have sustained so much damage from Iranian drones that they are no longer capable of supporting military missions making operations in that area exponentially more costly and difficult.  And the estimated number of Patriot interceptors left in the U.S. arsenal is down from 2,330 before the war to only 759 now. 

Nevertheless our Dear Leader King Donald posted a heroic image of himself declaring "Mission Accomplished". But that's not surprising because he had declared on March 7 only a week into the war that “We won everything; we have all the cards” and  on April 25 he  said “We’ve already won ” and he said on May 4. “I don’t know if you heard, but we ended the war with Iran today” 

Another thing that's not surprising is that the new leader of Iran is an even bigger religious fanatic and hater of the USA than the old leader was, it's not surprising because the US attacks had disfigured him and killed his father.

On May 21 of this year I made the following prediction, and today I think my prediction is looking like it's in pretty good shape. 

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"1) Iran will make a vague statement that someday somehow it will start thinking about maybe not having a nuclear weapon, but there would be no inspections and no penalty for noncompliance because there will be nothing specific that Iran is required to do. 

2) The US and Iran will agree to become pirate nations. Henceforth any ship that wishes to pass through The Strait of Hormuz without being attacked must hand over protection money, the extorted payments being split between the US and Iran. 

3) He Who Must Not Be Named will try to spin this devastating defeat into "the greatest victory of all time". 

4) His spin will be successful, at least among his hard-core followers, because they are hardwired to always believe anything he says." 

 John K Clark    See what's on my list at  Extropolis

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