You Will Anyway: The threatener in chief has spoken

Sunday, March 22, 2026

The threatener in chief has spoken

Is Bibi still alive?

UPDATE 03/23/2026:

From Zeteo newsletter:

Donald Trump initially said Iran had until Monday evening to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, or he would “obliterate” power plants – an act generally considered a war crime itself. He said this morning he was postponing any strikes on Iran’s power plants for five days.

You knew he wouldn't carry it out.

He manipulates the market with his pronouncements.

From the newsletter:

In multiple scenarios, if Donald Trump were to invade and try to occupy Kharg Island for an extended period of time, American casualties would very likely be “considerable,” one of the people familiar with the matter says. Some estimates, the first two sources tell us, are easily in the dozens for an initial phase of occupation, with numbers likely to rise sharply if President Trump wished to hold the island for an extended duration.

Trump has long been fascinated with Kharg Island, which holds the bulk of Iran’s oil exports. During his Art of the Deal book tour in 1988, Trump said he would “go in and take it.”

Harrison Mann, a former US intelligence analyst, has written for Zeteo about why a Kharg Island invasion is a bad idea. He writes further for the Quincy Institute’s Responsible Statecraft blog: “For the troops unlucky enough to receive orders to take Kharg, the operation would land somewhere between a suicide mission and a self-imposed hostage crisis.”

As he explains, it’s not clear what the point of the Kharg mission would be, because securing Iran’s oil infrastructure might not necessarily create much leverage for Trump. “The opportunity to inflict a mass casualty event that could sap limited US public support for the war, or to hold entire battalions as de facto hostages, may well appear more valuable to Tehran than oil revenue,” Mann adds.

Joe Kent, Trump’s former director of counterterrorism, who just resigned over Trump’s Iran war, told the Washington Post that a Kharg invasion “would be a disaster.”

“It would essentially be giving Iran a bunch of hostages on an island that they could barrage with drones and missiles,” he said.

Trump is every blowhard rooster you've ever met. Manipulating the market into movement that enriches him personally is the reward for his bluster and bloviating. He has no sense of shame or embarrassment, so the fact that we call him TACO Trump doesn't really concern him. He just counts his coins and continues.