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Meanwhile, facing financial doom, “Trump” tried to send Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff -who don’t look like happy campers in this picture- to meet Iranian officials, but they were told they were not welcome. So, “Trump” said he wasn’t sending them anyway and that “we have all the cards.”
Iran responded by saying it has only used some of its “cards,” including shutting the Strait of Hormuz. It has other cards to play, like closing the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and blowing up key pipeline routes.
By contrast, the US has already burned through its easiest and most immediate measures, notably Strategic Petroleum Reserve releases. This means it will not have enough gasoline for the summer driving season.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/04/26/767601/%E2%80%98Don%E2%80%99t-brag-about-the-cards%E2%80%99–Qalibaf-warns-US-has-burned-its-oil-options
Even worse, Americans may not even have enough food this summer. About one-third of the vital fertilizer nitrogen and roughly 20% of global fuel flow through the Strait of Hormuz. This has been closed to the US, meaning farmers face huge cost increases just as spring planting season begins. To add insult to injury, the “Trump” administration’s tariffs and other countries’ retaliatory measures have gutted the export markets US farmers depend on.
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/25/nx-s1-5795674/farmers-tariffs-iran-trump-mississippi
It seems the only way the US can get the oil it needs is to smuggle it through Pakistan, as this video shows.
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Now, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy are calling for a maritime alliance and the protection of the Strait of Hormuz, along with 50 additional states, but excluding the United States and Israel. In other words, they are joining Iran and China in an alliance and will not pay for oil in dollars controlled by US banks.
This prompted “Trump” to post, “Spain has been terrible. I told Scott [Bessent, Treasury Secretary] to cut off all dealings with Spain,” Trump warned in March, threatening economic repercussions. “We’re going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to do with Spain.”
He also made threats against the United Kingdom, and suggested the U.S. would no longer support Britain’s claim to the Falkland Islands, as well as removing “difficult” allies from key NATO roles and positions.
In response, France, the UK, and Spain have refused to let the US use their bases to attack Iran. https://apnews.com/article/us-nato-spain-iran-war-suspend-punish-415da08554d8e882bdf881229d5d5d1ce
In a sign this is getting serious, a huge fire erupted at an airbase in Gloucestershire, England, where the US houses B52 and B1 planes used in the war on Iran. News reports say “no RAF aircraft have sustained damage, though the status of any US equipment remains unclear.”
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/raf-fairford-fire-us-bombers-37071436
https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2048302962758365575
It seems hardly a coincidence that two bases the US could have used for a nuclear attack on Iran were damaged in the same week.
France, meanwhile, is preparing an international arrest warrant for Elon Musk after he failed to show up at his trial for promoting child pornography on X.
In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney made a 9-minute address to Canadians where he said the United States is acting more like an economic foe than an ally under the presidency of Donald Trump.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/pm-carney-declares-us-ties-now-a-weakness-in-address-to-canadians/