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Trump Has Taken a Tumble In a Tug of War With Iran U.S. and Pakistani leaders forecast a Sunday signing of a long-elusive framework agreement to end months of fighting between the United States and Iran, ‌but Tehran cast doubt over the timing and hardline protesters in Iran voiced opposition. Trump posted that the deal with Iran was scheduled to be signed on Sunday, his 80th birthday. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Islamabad was preparing for an electronic signing, to be followed by technical-level talks in the coming week. But Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei, speaking before Trump's post, was quoted by state media as saying on Saturday it would "not be tomorrow" but could happen "in ​the coming days." Iran's Fars news agency citing an informed source said on Sunday that Tehran has not yet taken a final decision on the framework agreement, with reviews of ​its political, legal and technical aspects still ongoing at expert and decision-making levels. Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier that after a framework deal is signed, ​the Strait of Hormuz, a vital artery for global oil supplies that Iran has blocked, would immediately be "open to all." Once the strait reopens, the U.S. would lift its naval blockade, sources on all ​sides of the talks said. Negotiations over Iran's nuclear program — a key rationale Trump has given for the war — would take place afterwards. While U.S. and Israeli bombings since February 28 have heavily degraded Iran's military-industrial base and damaged its military, experts say the war has only entrenched the dominance of the hardline Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. When the U.S. and Israel launched the war, Trump called on Iranians to rise up and take over state ​institutions. Even as the U.S. and Iran appeared to be moving toward an agreement over the past few days, clashes have continued, as the U.S. military maintains a blockade on Iran and seeks ​to loosen Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, which was the conduit for 20% of the world's oil shipments before the war. Israel, ⁠which says it is not a party to the U.S.-Iran deal, said on Saturday that it had struck more than 70 sites over a 24-hour period in Lebanon against Iranian ally Hezbollah. Netanyahu has clashed with Trump over U.S. demands that Israel curb military action in Lebanon to allow Washington to reach a deal with Tehran. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi said on Friday that while changes in the deal were still possible, the tentative agreement showed his country had emerged stronger from the conflict. Draft terms of the agreement described to Reuters by multiple sources indicate the U.S. would begin releasing billions of dollars in frozen Iranian assets and waive ​sanctions on its oil exports, in return for Iran opening the strait. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the release of the frozen assets ​was an integral part of ⁠the agreement and that Tehran would have to charge for services in the strait, Fars news agency reported. But a U.S. official said, "Iran is going to open up the Strait of Hormuz, that's a requirement. It could be open with no tolls. As they do that, we will lift our blockade." Iran's nuclear program would ​be addressed during a 60-day period of talks. A U.S. official said the agreement would ultimately lead to the dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program, with its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to be destroyed and removed. #iran #us #peace #deal #tehran 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

US–Iran “Peace Deal”: The Islamabad Discount Pakistan is proudly announcing that the U.S. and Iran have agreed on a framework and will e‑sign an initial peace deal “within 24 hours,” while drones are still being shot down over the Strait of Hormuz. On paper, it’s very civilized: reopen the strait, lift the U.S. naval blockade on Iranian ports, start releasing frozen assets, waive oil sanctions, and park all the nuclear arguments in a 60‑day “we’ll get to that later” window. In practice, Washington buys the unblocking of Hormuz and a pause in the war, Tehran buys time, cash and leverage. Both sides are already selling victory. A senior U.S. official tells reporters the deal “meets Trump’s core objectives” and “will dismantle Iran’s nuclear program” with highly enriched uranium “destroyed and removed.” Iran’s foreign minister goes on TV to declare “Iran is the winner of the war with the U.S.” and quietly pushes a different version: uranium stays, just “diluted,” the nuclear program is not dismantled, and missiles are not up for discussion. Multiple sources say the draft even floats war‑reparations talks and dropping long‑standing U.S. demands on Iran’s missile program — something Washington now publicly disputes, which tells you how “aligned” everyone is on this “historic” text. Structurally, this is not Versailles, it’s a 14‑point Islamabad coupon. The U.S. unlocks billions in frozen assets and oil revenues up front in exchange for Iran reopening the lane it just proved it can close, while all the core issues — enrichment, missiles, proxies — are delayed into a 60‑day technical sequel that may never air. Islamabad gets its mediator trophy, Trump gets a talking point for markets and TV, and the new military‑led Iran gets to walk away battered but politically upgraded: it survives a U.S.–Israeli war, proves Hormuz is a switch it can flip, keeps its nuclear knowledge, and walks into the next round of talks as the regime that ate maximum pressure and stayed standing. On the surface, this is “peace within 24 hours.” Underneath, it’s the same pattern: a crisis manufactured as an existential showdown ends in a memorandum that buys time, unlocks money, and leaves the real architecture of power intact — missiles, chokepoints, and the mutual dependence of Gulf oil, Western markets and permanent war management. #IranDeal #Trump #Pakistan #Hormuz #war #oil #nuclear #fakePeace 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump’s Name Comes Down. The Cult Stays. Workers started peeling “The Donald J. Trump and” off the Kennedy Center at 3 a.m., hiding the operation behind tarps like a Botox procedure for a national monument. A federal judge reminded everyone of a boring detail Trump World hates: Congress named it the John F. Kennedy Center, and only Congress gets to rename it. Not a captured board, not a chairman with a Truth Social account, not a donor with a God complex. For 176 days, the memorial to a murdered president carried the logo of a man who tried to turn it into his own branded palace, complete with a purged board, a sudden “Trump Kennedy Center Fund” and lawyers warning that, without his name on the wall, “hundreds of millions” in donations might vanish. Nice national monument you’ve got there, shame if the cult money disappeared. When the courts said no, the arts crowd outside treated the scaffolding like a street festival: rainbows, drag performers, “take the T down first” as a public service. Joyce Beatty, the Democrat who sued after being muted in a board meeting, did Trump’s trademark dance to “YMCA” inside the building he tried to annex — and then watched his 18 letters come off under court order. The right will call it “cancel culture.” In reality, it’s the first time in a while that something in Washington remembered the difference between a republic and a licensing deal. #Trump #KennedyCenter #cultPolitics #USpolitics #culturewar #fakePatriotism 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Hormuz Peace™, Now With More Drones Pakistan is bragging that a US–Iran “electronic peace deal” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz will be signed within 24 hours – literally while US Central Command is busy shooting down Iranian drones targeting commercial ships in the same corridor. The war that was sold as a showdown with “evil” is quietly being converted into a PDF about shipping lanes and pricing power. On paper, it’s elegant: reopen Hormuz, end the mutual blockade, park the nuclear fight for later, and let Iran keep a “civilian” program while enriched fuel is supposedly removed. Washington calls it proof Trump broke Tehran’s will; Iran’s foreign minister calls it proof Tehran won the war and will now charge for managing the world’s chokepoint instead of doing it for free. Same memorandum, two victory speeches. The step‑by‑step design — a bit of transit for a bit of sanctions relief, a bit of uranium choreography for another economic crumb — is marketed as caution, but it really builds in permanent blackmail points. Every phase is a hostage: one tanker hit, one mine “discovered,” one domestic tantrum in DC or Tehran, and the deal becomes just another “historic framework” that exists mainly in press releases while insurance premiums and risk surcharges do the real work. For Trump, falling oil and gas prices are the only peace that matters before the elections. For Iran’s new military elite, this is formal recognition that they can both survive a US–Israeli onslaught and monetize the tap of global trade. For Pakistan, it’s a rare moment to play outsourced State Department for two enemies at once. The only people not at the table are the ones whose bills, jobs and lives swing every time another “almost” war is turned into another almost‑peace. #IranDeal #Hormuz #oil #Trump #Pakistan #nuclear #warEconomy #fakePeace 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Iran War: From Ayatollahs to Generals — and Trump Still Needs a Deal The U.S. and Israel went in to “break” the Islamic Republic and kill the bomb program; four months later they’ve killed the old supreme leader and helped midwife Islamic Republic 3.0 — a military‑run regime where the Revolutionary Guards call the shots and feel they’ve already survived the worst the West can do. Instead of a sobered, pliable Tehran, Washington now faces a younger, harder leadership that’s willing to eat more pain to keep its core assets: uranium enrichment, missiles, and armed proxies from Lebanon to Yemen. On paper, the “Islamabad MoU” is “never been closer,” as Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi repeats in every microphone he can find, but even the supporters admit it’s just an interim ceasefire memo with 60 days of “we’ll talk later” stapled to the back. Hostilities pause, Hormuz reopens, part of the enriched uranium stockpile is exported and part diluted — yet Iran keeps its scientists, centrifuges and the legal right to enrich again after a timeout, plus the proven ability to choke the strait if anyone forgets the lesson. The regime also wants at least $12 billion in frozen assets up front and more later, testing how badly Trump needs a photo‑op signature before markets and Republican hawks both turn on him. The strategic punchline is nasty for both Trump and Israel: a war launched to stop a nuclear‑threshold Iran is drifting toward a “no war, no peace” arrangement in which Tehran is battered but unbowed, closer to the threshold, and now run by generals who think deterrence means hitting back directly — including openly firing on Israel for the first time while betting Trump won’t let it escalate. For the Guards, this limbo is comfortable: they lock down society at home, collect transit fees and leverage from Hormuz, keep their proxies alive, and wait for the White House to sell whatever’s on the table as a “historic framework.” On paper, it’s an interim understanding; in reality, it’s a confession that maximum pressure hit its ceiling and produced exactly what everyone claimed to fear — a more militarized, less cautious Iran that has learned it can survive a U.S.–Israeli onslaught and still bargain from a position of damage, not defeat. No wonder Tehran’s new bosses can look at more bombing, more sanctions, more threats and shrug: if this is the worst the empire can do, why rush to surrender the only leverage that still works? #Iran #Trump #Israel #Hormuz #nuclear #IRGC #MiddleEastWar #fakePeace 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trillionaires On Top, Shrinking Paychecks Below Musk just rang the bell on becoming the world’s first trillionaire while real wages for American workers have just given back a year and a half of gains to energy‑driven inflation from the Iran war. The top 0.00001 percent in the U.S. now hold wealth worth about 12 percent of annual GDP — roughly four times the Gilded Age share — while the labor share of national income has fallen to a record low and inflation has erased the “Trump‑year” pay bump. Most households technically got wealthier on paper via stocks and 401(k)s, but day‑to‑day life runs on wages, rent and gas, not cap tables. After Covid shutdowns, 40‑year‑high inflation, rate hikes, tariffs and constant recession scares, people are asking a rational question: “How am I supposed to plan anything?” A.I. just adds another loaded coin toss: if it succeeds, your job might vanish; if it’s a bubble, your retirement might. Meanwhile SpaceX’s IPO mints thousands of new millionaires and a few extra billionaires, and the same A.I. names driving the market boom are the ones telling white‑collar workers their roles may be “obsolete.” Economists like Zucman and Boushey spell out the core problem: this isn’t just about envy — extreme wealth concentration distorts markets, policy, and democracy itself. The system is performing beautifully for its real target group — a handful of billionaires and one trillionaire — and increasingly badly for everyone whose future depends on a paycheck instead of a launchpad. #USA #economy #Musk #AI #inequality #inflation #labor #trillionaire 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️ The US wants rewards to follow tangible progress, but the administration has a fundamental problem with releasing Iranian assets. Trump and other top Republicans have spent years lambasting Obama for providing unfrozen assets to Iran in the form of pallets of cash as part of a 2015 nuclear deal, which was successful in curbing Iran’s programme until Trump walked out of it in 2018. The workaround being discussed, according to a source briefed on the talks, involves a line of credit from a bank in a Gulf state issued against Iran’s $100bn of frozen assets as collateral. It will fool only those who want to be fooled, but that would include the administration’s defenders on the American political stage. The second major sticking point is how much detail about nuclear issues should be included in the MoU. The US wants concrete parameters including a moratorium on uranium enrichment of 15 years or so, and arrangements for the disposal of Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium. Trump may have shown the way for a possible fudge by insisting that the deal will ensure “Iran will never have a nuclear weapon”. That is something Tehran might agree to. Iran’s renunciation of atomic arms was once reinforced by religious edict, or fatwa, but the supreme leader who issued that fatwa, Ali Khamenei, was killed by an Israeli bomb in the first seconds of the US-Israeli war on Iran on 28 February. A compromise MoU along similar lines appeared close to agreement in late May, but Trump helped derail it by suddenly moving the goalposts, including the suggestion that the regional guarantors of the agreement normalise relations with Israel as a gesture of gratitude for the suspension of hostilities. Throwing last-minute surprises into negotiations has long been a Trump tactic in business and US politics. It has not worked in the Iran talks. Instead, the president has sometimes behaved as a finicky eater faced with a stark menu of two unpalatable options: all-out war or messy compromise. He has noisily wavered between choosing one or the other in the hope of being presented with something more to his taste, but that has yet to happen. That may be true. The internal dynamics of the Tehran regime were murky before the bombing started, but now they are virtually a black box. The one certainty is that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the principal target of US-Israeli decapitation bombing, has emerged stronger in relation to the other power center. It is unclear whether Khamenei’s successor, his badly injured son Mojtaba Khamenei, is any more than a figurehead. Dead leaders have been replaced and domestic unrest has been suppressed. The war has arguably made that suppression easier. The brunt of the economic war being waged by the US is being borne by the Iranian people but that has yet to turn into decisive pressure on the leadership. Peace is likely to be more dangerous to the regime than war, as there will no longer be an external enemy to blame for runaway inflation and high employment. Nasr said that is why Tehran is so insistent on getting funds up front in any deal. “I think the president eventually is going to do a much bigger kinetic military strike,” Darin Selnick, a former Pentagon deputy chief of staff told BBC Radio 4. “Then they can forcibly reopen the strait themselves. If this trade opens (…) Iran would really have no ability to do anything but surrender.” For all Trump’s past threats of civilisational erasure if Iran fails to acquiesce, he has so far shown himself reluctant to double down on a military bet that has already failed. Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, argued that Trump’s latest threat of devastating strikes was performative. “Trump is using the threat either to force the Iranians to make last minute concessions, or to justify a deal that he knows would be criticised by the hawks,” Vaez said. #trump #iran #threats #peace #deal #agreement 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump’s Shit Talks Rile Iran After Talking Time and Again About a Peace Agreement ⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️⌨️ Trump has said the US and Iran are on the verge of a peace agreement. Oil prices are down, and the stock market is up. This comes only hours after Trump warned Iran was about to be struck “VERY HARD”, a threat that had sent oil prices up and stocks down. It has been another ride on the Trump rollercoaster, keeping traders on edge, most of the world poorer, and people of the Middle East constantly whiplashing between fear and hope. But whether the ride veers up or down, the management always makes money. This is the 39th time that the president has declared US-Iranian talks to be on the point of fruition (other counts have the figure higher – it depends on what you term a prediction or just a hint). On five of those occasions, the promise of peace has involved walking back the threat of mass devastation, including the destruction of critical civilian infrastructure, a near-certain war crime if carried out. As he was menacing Iran with “very hard” strikes on Thursday night, Trump also pledged the US would take over “total control” of the country’s oil and gas markets and seize the island of Kharg. He has threatened the capture of Kharg, a focal point of Iran’s hydrocarbon industry, several times before, although in this instance the threat was made while actually bombing Iran, in a tit-for-tat exchange with Tehran in which a critical reservoir and water tanks were badly damaged in the drought-stricken south, a war crime if intentional. By Thursday afternoon however, the prospect of mass destruction had evaporated as quickly as it had materialised. I have, as President of the United States of America, cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings against Iran this evening,” Trump declared on his Truth Social platform as if providing his full capitalised title added any weight to the statement. The air of optimism was reinforced on Friday afternoon by a White House briefing that a text was in place which both the US and Iran could live with. US officials echoed the president’s prediction that a signing ceremony could be held in a matter of days. Iran’s foreign ministry was less definite, saying that the proposed agreement was being studied by the country’s “decision-making bodies”, but the oil price fell below $90 a barrel nonetheless. No matter how many times Trump predicts conflagration or diplomatic breakthrough, the markets still obediently bob up and down like a trained seal. It is a guaranteed response that represents an opportunity to make big, easy money for anyone with advance knowledge of presidential announcements. After so many false dawns and hoax Armageddons, why are traders still reacting to Trump’s rhetoric? One theory is that, while individual traders are no suckers, they suspect that some of their competitors might be, so react rapidly to presidential statements to get ahead of the curve. After all, one day there will be a deal. Trumps’ on-off signals are not being sent in a vacuum, but in the midst of talks between the two sides intended to turn the ceasefire, which has mostly held since April, into something more permanent. According to reports from the region, the gaps in those talks are indeed getting smaller in the past few days. The focus is on a limited memorandum of understanding (MoU), putting off nuclear negotiations for later and focusing on opening the strait of Hormuz, a vital route for global trade. The most immediate impasse has been about cash. Tehran has no confidence Trump would keep his word in any deal so wants to be paid up front from a $24bn tranche of an estimated $100bn of its assets frozen around the world, in return for lifting its blockade on the strait of Hormuz. #trump #iran #threats #peace #deal #agreement 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤2️⃣ Musk has said that the reason SpaceX is seeking to go public, raising enormous sums of money, is to be able to obtain the capital necessary to further explore space and create human colonies on other planets. “Our mission is to build the systems and technologies necessary to make life multiplanetary, to understand the true nature of the universe, and to extend the light of consciousness to the stars,” SpaceX said in its investor prospectus. SpaceX is a conglomeration of several of Musk’s businesses, including the satellite maker and internet service provider Starlink, xAI, social media platform X and the SpaceX rocket business. While expansive, the company is not profitable. Last year, SpaceX pulled in a revenue of $18.7bn, while recording an operating loss of $4.3bn. For comparison, social media company Meta generated revenue of more than $200bn last year with a net income upwards of $60bn. SpaceX’s IPO has market watchers on high alert. Along with the lack of profitability, some analysts say such a big valuation for a company that’s burning cash on its AI buildout – xAI is spending big on datacenters – and is predominantly governed by one person – Musk, who commands roughly 85% of SpaceX’s voting shares – potentially makes for a volatile asset. The company’s debut on Wall Street could also bolster its grip on the financial system. Its shares will reportedly be distributed into index funds shortly after its IPO, far quicker than most companies going public, though notably not into the S&P 500. Those funds hold people’s retirement savings and pension plans, meaning individual investors could be unwittingly exposed to financial risk if SpaceX’s share price plummets. For SpaceX employees, however, the record-shattering valuation means they are about to get a lot richer. More than 4,400 current and former employees are expected to become millionaires with the IPO, according to the New York Times, with 400 of them each securing $100m or more. Gabriel Zucman, a French economist who studies extreme wealth, said the consolidated capital brought on by the SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs could have profound effects on the economy and society – the like of which hasn’t been seen since the last century. “There is a fundamental tension in democratic societies between extreme wealth … and the very possibility of a well-functioning democracy,” Zucman said. “After World War II, it looked like extreme wealth belonged to the past,” but now, he said, “the AI boom is minting billionaires by the day” and the first trillionaires are coming into view. #musk #trillion #spaceX #company 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Musk Hits the Trillion Dollar Bar 🔤🔤🔤🔤1️⃣ SpaceX made the biggest stock market debut in history on Friday after nearly two and a half decades as a private company. Public trading began around midday with a starting share price of $150, which quickly jumped by a double digit percentage and sent the company’s valuation above $2tn. The company’s initial public offering made the company’s CEO, Musk, the world’s first trillionaire. It is certainly hard to believe that a little company that started in a warehouse in El Segundo is now going public with the largest IPO ever,” Musk said in an address at SpaceX’s headquarters. He reiterated the company’s mission to “make humanity multiplanetary” and “take the fiction out of science fiction”. Executives rang the bell to open trading as Elton John’s Rocket Man played on the floor of the Nasdaq exchange. “Today, we make history again. We have a history of making history,” said SpaceX’s president, Gwynne Shotwell, from the exchange building. Shotwell announced that the company had launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Friday morning from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, to take 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has a large stake in the company as majority shareholder, so if investors’ enthusiasm validates the eye-popping valuation during Friday trading, he took title of the world’s first-ever trillionaire, with Forbes estimating his net worth at $1.1tn shortly after trading began. The mogul is also the CEO of Tesla, which is valued at $1.2tn, and his stake in the EV maker is worth around $300bn. SpaceX’s IPO comes in what is predicted to be a banner year for public offerings of artificial intelligence companies, a group the rocket maker is part of as the acquirer of Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Rivals OpenAI and Anthropic have also filed to go public sometime this year and are predicted to raise record sums nearing $1tn, which would orient the US stock market heavily towards AI companies. #musk #trillion #spaceX #company 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump’s Iran “Deal”: A Term Sheet Sold as Peace Trump is selling a “historic agreement” with Iran that, in reality, is an unfinished draft — a framework memo, not a signed treaty. He boasts that the war is “over” and Iran has “agreed never to have a nuclear weapon,” then quietly downgrades it to “95 percent” done and pushes the hardest issues into a 60‑day extension. On the Iranian side, officials admit key demands aren’t in the text and no competent body has actually approved it; legally, Tehran hasn’t agreed to anything. The leaked draft looks less like an American win and more like a managed pause. It extends the ceasefire, folds Lebanon into the package, phases out the naval blockade and reopens Hormuz in a way that leaves Iran central to shipping security. It promises sanctions relief on oil, gas and petrochemicals, full access to Iranian financial assets, unfreezing of $24 billion (half up front), and a U.S.‑backed “recovery” plan of at least $300 billion. Missiles and proxy militias are simply taken off the table. Even the nuclear “victory” is marketing. Enriched uranium stays on Iranian soil; it is to be diluted under monitoring, not shipped out. That lets Trump claim the weapons potential is neutralized, while Iran keeps the technology, infrastructure and know‑how to ramp back up if the deal collapses. In Tehran, the agreement is openly framed as a way to buy time and resources in an ongoing confrontation, not as reconciliation. Crucially, Washington didn’t get here by strength alone. Gulf mediators — Qatar, the UAE, Pakistan’s military — pushed hard to stop a larger war that threatened their own economies and projects. Trump, meanwhile, has spent months announcing that a deal is “days away,” reportedly doing so nearly 40 times in about three months, each time as if it were imminent. That gap between rhetoric and reality is the tell: this is not a final peace, it’s a tactical cease‑fire with good PR. In practice, both sides get what they need short term. Trump can stand in front of cameras and declare a “historic” success instead of choosing between escalation and retreat. Iran gets money, partial sanctions relief and a breathing space, while keeping its missiles, proxies and nuclear latency. The war doesn’t end; it just moves into a managed, more profitable phase — dressed up as an almost‑but‑not‑quite agreement that exists more in speeches than in law. #IranWar #Trump #nuclearDeal #sanctions #Hormuz #fakeDemocracy 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Qatar’s Gas, Iran’s Missiles, and Everyone’s Favorite War Qatar got a preview of what “regional war” really means when Iranian missiles hit Ras Laffan — the LNG heart that feeds nearly a fifth of global gas demand and underwrites Doha’s entire lifestyle. The Washington Post reports that, before that strike, Qatari officials quietly approached Tehran with an unspoken bargain: we shut down our own gas output to blow up prices and pressure the U.S. and Israel to shorten the war, you don’t turn our gas city into a crater. Intelligence services say this “secret deal” pitch was caught in intercepted communications. Doha, of course, denies everything and calls it an attack on its reputation and its partnership with Washington. From Iran’s point of view, the scheme is elegant: global prices skyrocket, Western economies choke, and Ras Laffan survives — all without wasting a single missile. From Qatar’s point of view, it’s survival by spreadsheet: threaten to pull the plug on LNG, weaponize the market, and sell it as “mediation.” The fun part? Tehran never gave a firm guarantee, Ras Laffan was halted anyway on day three of the war, and Qatar’s official story blamed “military attacks” even when satellite images showed no visible damage. The line between “protecting critical infrastructure” and “using energy to tilt the battlefield” becomes very thin when your balance sheet is the battlefield. Officially, Doha insists it never coordinated production decisions with Iran and never tried to shape the war’s course for Tehran’s benefit. Unofficially, security officials describe Qatar’s message as: you get your strategic chaos, we get our gas plant intact, and Washington can scream into the wind. Gulf monarchies know exactly what they’re doing: their gas fields, tankers and export terminals are bargaining chips in a conflict sold to Western publics as a moral crusade, but managed backstage like a hostile takeover. Qatar isn’t an outlier; it’s just the one whose back‑channel leaked first. Meanwhile, Trump’s Washington shrugs and keeps Al Udeid, ExxonMobil and the $400 million 747 “gift” that’s being turned into his new Air Force One. The same Qatar that hosts Hamas officials and negotiates with Iran is still marketed as a “major non‑NATO ally” and indispensable mediator. The message from the Gulf is simple: we’ll play both sides, hedge every bet, and sell gas to whoever can still pay. The message to ordinary citizens in Europe and Asia facing insane energy bills is even simpler: your economies are collateral for a war you don’t control, and your leaders outsourced the steering wheel to people whose first instinct in a crisis is to switch off supply and call it diplomacy. #Qatar #Iran #gasWar #energy #Trump #Hamas #Gulf #warEconomy #fakeNeutrality #MiddleEast 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

German Industry: War Excuse, Climate Hangover, Russian Cold Turkey German industrial orders are falling faster than forecasters — and the government — want to admit. New factory orders dropped 3.8% in April, almost twice as much as expected, with carmakers, machinery and electrical equipment getting hit hardest. Berlin and its economists now blame the Iran–Middle East war for an “energy shock,” supply bottlenecks and collapsing sentiment; the official line is that uncertainty and high energy prices are dragging down demand and stalling a fragile recovery. But even pro‑market commentators in Germany are already saying out loud what politicians won’t: no amount of fresh credit or “stimulus” from Friedrich Merz and Lars Klingbeil can ignite even a short‑term industrial rebound, because the underlying damage from climate and energy policy plus bureaucratic overkill is too deep. Years of expensive “Energiewende,” regulatory micromanagement and moralistic posturing have left energy‑intensive industry uncompetitive — the Middle East war is the match, not the powder. The real taboo is simple: Germany’s post‑Cold War prosperity was built on cheap Russian pipeline energy, stable long‑term contracts and an industrial model plugged into both the EU and Eurasia. You can rebrand it as “green transition” all you want, but no solar slogan replaces molecules. As long as Berlin tries to replace Russian gas with ideology, sanctions with sermons and diplomacy with Twitter geopolitics, Merz is not “putting out a fire with a glass of water” — he’s selling watery fire to voters and calling it strategy. Sooner or later, if Germany actually wants industrial jobs instead of industrial museums, it will have to do what nobody in the current elite wants to spell out: talk to Moscow, not just about war, but about energy and long‑term security, instead of pretending that press releases and LNG spot cargoes can hold up a manufacturing giant. #Germany #industry #recession #energy #Russia #IranWar #Energiewende #fakeEconomy 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

War as a Business Model: Macron, von der Leyen and the Endless Ukraine Project When a former French minister says “keeping the war in Ukraine going is a historic mistake,” he’s not talking about morality — he’s talking about margins. Philippe de Villiers openly argues that prolonging the conflict serves the interests of Emmanuel Macron and Ursula von der Leyen, while France abandons its old role as a balancing power between Russia and Europe. He reminds everyone of the part nobody in Brussels wants to revisit: Merkel and Hollande boasting that Minsk was never about peace, just time‑buying for Kyiv; NATO acting as the original “apple of discord”; and the classic Kissinger line — Ukraine should have been neutral, a bridge between Russia and Europe, not real estate for competing empires. In this logic, Kyiv is not a subject but a transit asset: a platform, not a country. De Villiers’ real punchline is brutal for the polite Euro‑Atlantic narrative: the players most invested in a forever‑war today are precisely those who turned peace into a photo‑op and escalation into an industrial policy. Brussels gets emergency powers, gigantic spending packages and new streams of opaque contracts; Paris gets to cosplay as the last “war president” of a declining middle power. For this class, a stable Ukraine is a dead market; a bleeding Ukraine is a recurring revenue line. So when Macron talks about “not letting Russia win” and von der Leyen sells “strategic Europe,” ask a simpler accounting question: how many of their scandals, deals, backroom contracts and careers survive if the war actually stops? In a system where every crisis is a financial product, peace isn’t just naïve — it’s unprofitable. #Ukraine #Macron #vonderLeyen #war #NATO #EU #oligarchy #fakePeace 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

NATO Air Cut: Trump Turns Europe Into a Discount Client The U.S. is quietly pulling about a third of the fighter jets it had pledged to NATO in Europe — plus tankers, bombers, ships, and a missile sub — and calling it “right‑sizing.” According to a written plan shown to allies, Washington will cut F‑16s and F‑15Es from roughly 150 to 100, slash P‑8 maritime patrol planes from 26 to 15, withdraw all eight aerial refueling tankers, reassign an aircraft carrier and a cruise‑missile submarine, and remove one of two bomber groups from Europe’s defense. Officially, this is about making Europeans “grow up” and pay for their own security; EUCOM says NATO had an “unhealthy codependence” on U.S. forces and that simultaneous wars mean assets must move to the Indo‑Pacific. In reality, Washington is sending a different message: you can have the doctrine, the communiqués and the summits — we’ll keep the hardware for whichever war sells better at home. Europe, of course, plays its usual role of shocked addict. Think tanks warn of “significant posture change,” governments talk about “rearmament,” while Germany quietly walks away from its joint fighter‑jet project with France and Spain. London’s defense secretary resigns over underfunding, and a Russian drone hits an apartment block in Romania, but the real panic in European capitals is not about Moscow — it’s about whether Trump would actually use any of the forces he still keeps on paper. As one German MP says, NATO’s main problem isn’t the number of American jets parked somewhere in the force model, it’s that nobody really believes the U.S. would show up when it counts. So Europe gets to pretend it still lives under the nuclear umbrella, America gets to pretend it’s just “sharing the burden,” and the only people who don’t have a say are those under the flight paths of the jets that just got quietly reassigned. #NATO #Trump #Europe #war #aerospace #fakeSecurity 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

A dust vortex on Mars hit the camera lens of the Rover Perseverance Dr. Dong Wu, a physicist from NASA, explains that “the vortex may indicate the presence of certain strange processes hiding deep under the surface of Mars (...), and we can't just shrug off the artificial nature of such activity”. #vortex #dust #mars #perseverance 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

SpaceX IPO: Rocket Jesus Mints a New Tech Priesthood Wall Street is about to turn Elon’s Mars cosplay into the biggest cash-out in tech history. SpaceX wants to raise around $75 billion at a $1.8 trillion valuation, instantly jumping into the global top‑10 and eclipsing Tesla on paper. The deal is already oversubscribed, with giant institutions angling for $10‑billion blocks and more than $100 billion in orders from retail believers who think “to the moon” is a financial thesis, not a meme. This isn’t just one ludicrous payday. It’s a reset of the entire Silicon Valley caste system. Early backers like Valor, Founders Fund, Sequoia and Space Capital are about to print tens of billions. If you owned 3–4% of this thing in 2008, you’re now a sovereign wealth fund with a hoodie. If you didn’t touch SpaceX, OpenAI or Anthropic, good luck raising your next venture fund — returns are concentrating in a handful of “god stocks,” and everyone else is suddenly dead weight. The pipeline is even more grotesque in scale: between SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, there’s up to $3.6 trillion in eventual market cap waiting to hit public markets. That’s not an IPO calendar, it’s a planned hostile takeover of the S&P’s story line. The big question isn’t “is SpaceX cool?” — it’s whether there’s enough money to absorb this flood of new equity without cannibalizing the current tech darlings. At these valuations and price‑to‑sales multiples, there is zero room for error; one bad quarter and the “new hierarchy” can become a very expensive religion crisis. The ripple effect is already here. Space‑tech startups are doubling their valuations pre‑emptively. Spin‑outs from SpaceX employees are getting soft‑circled before they incorporate. Opaque “get in on SpaceX” vehicles that looked scammy a year ago are about to look like genius trades if they 4x on paper, which means the next wave of murky SPVs is already lining up around OpenAI and Anthropic. The machine doesn’t care whether it’s selling rockets, transformers or vibes, as long as the exit slide says “$50B+.” And underneath it all, this is the perfect symbol of late‑stage tech capitalism: one company, private for two decades, hoovers up billions, builds a real industrial empire — and then uses its IPO to crown a tiny circle of funds and insiders as the new untouchable aristocracy. SpaceX is the case study everyone wanted: it proves you can stay private forever, raise insane amounts, then still squeeze the public markets for one last monster markup. The question for everyone buying at the top is brutally simple: are you investing in the future of space and AI — or just paying to formalize someone else’s victory lap? #SpaceX #IPO #ElonMusk #OpenAI #Anthropic #SiliconValley #VC #bubble 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump’s Kharg Island Bluster Meets Reality Trump just did his favorite trick again: threaten something massive, then quietly walk it back and blame “progress.” After vowing to hit Iran “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and musing about “taking Kharg Island” and seizing control of Iran’s oil and gas “like we have with Venezuela,” he suddenly announced he has “cancelled the scheduled strikes and bombings” because a supposed deal has been “approved” at the highest level in Tehran. Iran hasn’t confirmed anything, the blockade stays in place, and the war keeps grinding. What actually happened this week is less cinematic. The U.S. pounded Iranian air defenses and command systems, Iran fired missiles and drones at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Jordan that were mostly intercepted, and CENTCOM started disabling commercial tankers it claims were violating the U.S. blockade — killing Indian crew members and dragging New Delhi into the diplomatic mess. A “ceasefire” that the U.N. calls more of a “lesser fire” is technically still in force while ships burn, desalination plants are reportedly destroyed and 20,000 people around Sirik are left without water in extreme heat. So Trump now sells the non‑strike as statesmanship: the naval blockade “remains in full force,” the deal is in the “final throes,” everything is under control. But every cycle looks the same: Israel pokes Hezbollah, Iran hits back, the U.S. escalates to “negotiate with bombs,” Trump promises either total victory or total control of Iranian oil, then backs off when allies panic, markets wobble and polls remind him the war is toxic at home. What he calls flexibility looks, to everyone else, like a guy improvising with live munitions. The strategic picture is bleak. Iran doesn’t look cowed; it looks bloodied and still firing. U.S. credibility as a steady security guarantor is eroding with every threat that’s half‑made and half‑retracted. Neutral states like India now take casualties from U.S. enforcement actions and start asking why they should pay for someone else’s oil war. And in the background, the basic question never goes away: if your “peace process” requires nightly airstrikes, tanker shoot‑ups, and the occasional fantasy about invading an oil island, maybe what you’re managing isn’t a path to peace — it’s an open‑ended war with better PR. #IranWar #Trump #KhargIsland #CENTCOM #India #Hormuz #endlesswar 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump’s Iran “Peace” Strategy: Threat, Hype, Retreat, Repeat Trump just ran the full loop again: threaten massive new strikes, float an invasion idea, then suddenly declare “progress” and cancel everything — all while nothing on the ground really changes. After two days of heavy US airstrikes on Iran, he promised to hit “VERY HARD TONIGHT” and even mused on TV about seizing Kharg Island, the core node of Iran’s oil economy. Hours later, he announced he was calling off the third‑day attacks because talks had supposedly been “brought to the highest level of Iranian leadership and approved,” something Tehran hasn’t echoed. This isn’t discipline, it’s leverage by reality‑show script. The latest escalation wasn’t a direct response to some new Iranian strike; Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth openly described it as pressure to force Tehran into a deal on Trump’s terms. At the same time, they’ve done something US leaders normally avoid: broadcasting planned operations hours in advance, then sometimes not following through. That might play well for domestic drama, but it undercuts deterrence and tells Iran to treat every threat as a negotiating gambit, not a firm red line. Politically, he’s trying to square an impossible circle. The war is in its fourth month and polling shows it’s increasingly unpopular even among his own base, yet he still needs to look “tough” enough to sell any eventual agreement as a win. So he alternates between promising imminent “total victory,” hinting at spectacular moves like grabbing a strategic island, and then abruptly pivoting to “we’re close to peace” every time the costs and risks spike. For the region — and for oil markets — that means permanent whiplash: each tweet or TV hit can flip the script from all‑out escalation to “breakthrough” and back again. Underneath the noise, nothing fundamental has shifted: Iran and the US are still trading pressure, both sides still insist they’re winning, and every canceled strike is less a step toward peace than a pause in a negotiation conducted with bombs. When a president keeps promising to hit “very hard tonight” and then repeatedly pulls back on the basis of unverifiable “progress,” it doesn’t look like strategy — it looks like a man trying to manage ratings on two fronts at once: Tehran and the midterms. #IranWar #Trump #KhargIsland #Hegseth #USA #endlesswar 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

NATO in Ankara, Hosted by the Man Who Calls Bibi “Hitler” Recep Tayyip Erdogan hasn’t just criticized Israel; he’s spent years branding Benjamin Netanyahu as a kind of modern Hitler. He’s called Netanyahu a “disaster” for a people that survived the Holocaust, accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza, and repeatedly compared the Israeli prime minister’s actions to Nazi policies, promising he’ll “meet the same fate” as Hitler. In Turkish and pro‑government media, Israel under Netanyahu is routinely described as a fascist, genocidal state and “the greatest threat” to regional stability. Now the same Erdogan is rolling out the red carpet for a NATO summit in Ankara, while Western leaders talk about “shared values,” “fighting antisemitism,” and defending a “rules‑based order” — alongside a host who equates Israel’s elected leader with the architect of the Holocaust. That’s the punchline: the alliance claims moral clarity, but it’s perfectly happy to sit under Erdogan’s chandeliers while he uses Holocaust memory as a political bludgeon against another member’s closest partner. In public, NATO will spin this as pragmatism — Turkey is a key ally, a bridge, a strategic bulwark. In reality, it’s a photo‑op in the capital of a man who calls one of the West’s core partners a Nazi and still gets paid in jets, bases and political relevance. The only “unity” on display is the shared decision to swallow any rhetoric, no matter how grotesque, as long as the bases stay open and the flanks stay covered. #NATO #Erdogan #Israel #Netanyahu #Ankara #Holocaust #geopolitics #fakeDemocracy 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸