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Brandon Weichert
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About 43 ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on the day of recording — only 20–30% of the pre-war baseline of 120–140 ships.
China held 1.4 billion barrels in its Strategic Petroleum Reserve and voluntarily withdrew from global energy markets when the Strait of Hormuz was closed.
Approximately 50% of US Patriot ballistic missile interceptors and up to 80% of THAAD interceptors were used up during the Iran war.
Over 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles — roughly a third of the entire US stockpile — were expended, and won't be replaced for 5 years.
Both THAAD and Patriot missile interceptors, the US's most critical defensive systems, won't be fully replenished until approximately 2030.
The IDF may have lost as many as 60 Merkava main battle tanks in southern Lebanon due to outdated urban assault tactics.
Although the official US Strategic Petroleum Reserve count is 340 million barrels, an oil expert told Weichert that only about 100 million barrels are actually usable due to salt cavern contamination.
Weichert corrected Tucker's claim, clarifying that Israel had taken approximately 25% of Lebanon — not half the country.
Israel sent a cruise missile to Doha during peace negotiations, killing a Qatari security agent but missing the Hamas leadership it targeted — the first Israeli strike on a GCC country.
Weichert predicts a post-American Middle East will be defined by 5 powers: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey.
One-third of the world's agricultural base supplies pass through the Strait of Hormuz, meaning its closure threatens global food security.
Vance told the world that Trump is the only head of state sympathetic to Israel, running the world's only superpower, and Israeli cabinet officials are attacking him anyway. The response from Israel's American agents? Call Vance an antisemite. One analyst suggested the US 'maybe needs another 9/11.'
Tom Cotton is pushing mandatory intelligence sharing with Israel and trying to eliminate the Office of the Director of National Intelligence — not because it's bad policy, but to prevent another Tulsi Gabbard from ever uncovering what the intelligence community has been doing on Israel's behalf.
Over 4,000 Lebanese — mostly civilians — were killed by Israel since the US-Israel war against Iran began, more than the ~3,664 Iranians killed. The math reveals Israel used America's war as cover to fight its own completely separate war next door.
About 50% of Patriot interceptors and up to 80% of THAADs are gone. Over a thousand Tomahawk cruise missiles — a third of the stockpile — were expended. THAAD and Patriot stocks won't be fully replenished until 2030. This isn't a temporary setback; it's a generation-defining military hollowing.
Israeli defense analyst Ben Sabti — at a government-linked think tank — tweeted that America 'maybe needs another Pearl Harbor or 9/11' to remember who its friends are. This isn't a fringe view; it's a window into an elite that has come to see American suffering as a tool for its own ends.
Qatar was funneling money to Hamas not out of sympathy for terrorism, but at Israel's explicit request — part of an arrangement that benefited Netanyahu personally. Then Israel's propagandists spun Qatar into a terror sponsor. Then Israel bombed them. The self-destruction is almost too organized to be accidental.
A former US Army intelligence officer told Weichert that Mossad was operating in the Sunni Triangle in 2004-05, interfering with American counter-al-Qaeda operations. Weichert suspects this connects to the chain of events that eventually produced ISIS, al-Nusra Front, and the ultimately successful push to topple Assad.
After 9/11, the only person punished was Richard Clarke, who actually warned it was coming. After the Iraq invasion, the generals resigned on the day Baghdad fell to avoid accountability for the coming insurgency. The Iran war won't be different unless Congress demands real after-action hearings.
China voluntarily withdrew from global energy markets and relied on its 1.4-billion-barrel SPR the moment the Strait of Hormuz closed. Weichert argues Beijing was running a proof-of-concept for surviving a future US attempt to cut off the Strait of Malacca. America accelerated China's rise instead of constraining it.
The Abraham Accords are dead. In their place, five regional powers will define the new Middle East: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey. The US-Israel axis that once anchored the region has been replaced by a bloc hostile or indifferent to Israel — and the transition has already begun.
Sean Hannity and John Fetterman looked into the camera and told America that any criticism of Israel means you hate capitalism, America, and Western civilization. Tucker's analysis: this is what national decline looks like on television. Israel is a socialist country founded by socialists, so the capitalism argument doesn't even make sense.
Israel sent a cruise missile into a building in Doha during peace talks — under diplomatic cover — killing a Qatari security agent, missing Hamas leadership, and becoming the first Israeli state to strike a GCC country. In that moment, the Arab states stopped seeing Iran as the bigger threat and started seeing Israel.
One-third of global agricultural base supplies flow through the Strait of Hormuz. America is in planting season. The urea fertilizer shortage won't hit grocery shelves this year — but next year's food prices could be catastrophic. Add the screwworm parasite re-emerging in Texas cattle, and the food security picture is grim.
You go to help your friend fight off home invaders, and while you're in the fight, he slips out the back and shoots his neighbor to steal his house. That's what Israel did to the United States — used American military power to fight Iran, then immediately launched a separate war on Lebanon.
A US Navy destroyer veteran told Weichert he'd never experienced anything like the hell the Houthis delivered in the Red Sea — and America never returned after 2024. If the Houthis could chase the US Navy from the Red Sea, the Iranian military could absolutely keep them out of the Strait of Hormuz.
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