Mastodawn

⬆️ >> #US has lost control of the #StraitOfHormuz. It is NOT opening until we have "complete control of the skies" and #Iran's "Navy is sunk, literally and figuratively…" says #TreasurySecretary #ScottBessent, who also said that #UnitedStates had done "scenario analysis" and has known and planned "for months, for weeks" that we will NOT be able to win this war with #Iran WITHOUT an international coalition.

And NOW, #Trump is calling on other countries to send assistance

https://abcnews.com/video/131082428/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Video Trump calls on other countries to send assistance for Strait of Hormuz

Oil prices have increased since the start of the conflict as Iran continues to block oil tankers from passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

ABC News

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack Mar 14

⬆️ >> #TreasurySecretary #ScottBessent was suddenly called into the WH #SituationRoom.

Watch him choke, stammer, and freeze immediately after that 👀

Different video segment than above…

#Draft is coming back for non-rich American youth.

https://newsie.social/@ProgressivePower/116224592725574417

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Ramesh #NotGoingBack Mar 13

⬆️ >> #US has lost control of the #StraitOfHormuz. It is NOT opening until we have "complete control of the skies" and #Iran's "Navy is sunk, literally and figuratively…" says #TreasurySecretary #ScottBessent, who also said that #UnitedStates had done "scenario analysis" and has known and planned "for months, for weeks" [his words, not mine] that we will NOT be able to win this war with #Iran WITHOUT an international coalition.

https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/116223628613764441

Ramesh #NotGoingBack Mar 13

#TreasurySecretary #ScottBessent was suddenly called into the WH #SituationRoom.

Watch him choke, stammer, and freeze immediately after that 👀

#US has lost control of the #StraitOfHormuz. It is NOT opening until we have "complete control of the skies" and #Iran's "Navy is sunk, literally and figuratively…"

#Bessent stammers "That was ALWAYS in our planning that there's the chance that PERHAPS…an international coalition will be escorting #oil tankers…" [emphasis mine]

https://bsky.app/profile/paleofuture.bsky.social/post/3mgvyt3glhk26

Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social)

Here's a clip from the longer interview where Bessent is asked about oil prices and getting called to the Situation Room. "That was always in our planning, that there's the chance that U.S Navy or perhaps an international coalition will be escorting oil tankers through." youtu.be/zq_L011kMLs

Bluesky Social

Pseudonymous

Feb 6

There was a hearing where a congressman asked the #TreasurySecretary if he was going to want a #BitcoinBailout and all of the news coverage was of #MaxineWaters telling the #USSecretaryOfTreasury to "shut up." She does that all the time. #Bitcoin doesn't crash like this all the time. Trump turning out to have taken cryptocurrency lobbying support but rugpulling them and suppressing the news is one of the most #BTC things I've ever seen.