My Woman From Tokyo ...

 ... and Made in Japan--one of the greatest albums of all time. Let's make a pleasant non-political music pause. Seeing Ian Paice, Ian Gillan and Roger Glover (of legendary Deep Purple Mk.2), sadly without Ritchie and with John playing keyboards in Heaven, it is so gratifying seeing these legends being treated with such reverence by Japan's Prime minister. 

Not taking anything away from Led Zeppelin, but technically they were not even in the same universe as Deep Purple. John Bonham's stupid untimely death solidified his myth as the greatest drummer. The problem for him, of course, is the fact that Paicy did it as good if not better, including bringing into Purple's hard rock almost a jazzy, swinging virtuoso element. And yes, in the USSR Deep Purple were so much bigger than LZ. 

It is so gratifying to see legends being recognized for what they are on the highest state level--legends. Ah yes, 

Enjoy, if you will. 

They Begin To Suspect ...

 ... something. 

Paper Oil Blinks While Physical Supply Tightens. 

So do military paper tigers of economy of derivatives and financial legerdemain. Again, what is "market", anybody believes this BS anymore?

Oil market volatility is easing as traders adjust to geopolitical headlines, though prices still spike on major developments like failed U.S.–Iran talks and the Hormuz blockade.

Despite calmer futures trading, the physical oil market remains extremely tight, with up to 10 million bpd trapped and spot prices surging far above futures.

Ongoing blockades and supply disruptions are prolonging the crisis, pushing energy prices higher and delaying any meaningful market normalization.

The way economic system exists today it is unworkable due to both systemic crisis of the financial capitalism (euphemism for 21st century imperialism) and a financial "noise" of derivatives which have nothing to do with actual economy which provides livelihood for humanity. It is utterly broken and is unfixable. Just one example, the Speaker of Czech Parliament Tomio Okamura (he has Japanese roots):

The gist: without Russian resources we (Czechia) wouldn't be able to turn on lights, be that gas, oil or nuclear fuel for NPP in Dukovany. You see, reality is a bitch--in REAL war, in REAL economy, in REAL governance. Here is how it is reported in the news: 

The leader of coalition party Freedom and Direct Democracy, Tomio Okamura, says one solution to high energy and fuel costs would be to take gas and oil from Russia. Speaking to TV Nova, Mr. Okamura – who is also speaker of the lower house – said this would allow Czechia to diversify its sources once again and to guarantee its energy security. This call has been rejected by members of the previous government, who ended Czech dependency on imports from Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ex-PM Petr Fiala called on current government head Andrej Babiš to disown talk of such “collaborationist” cooperation with Moscow.

No, no, no, Russia doesn't care if Czechs will have lights tomorrow or not, if they have enough to eat or not. It is too late to do anything about it. If Czechia (same as the rest of Europe) wants to maintain the standard of living somewhere around the level of 1960s--premiums for all those goodies from Russia could be made available if someone decides that staying warm in winter is more important than "democracy" and will prostrate itself in a front of Russia's energy giants, then maybe Russians will consider selling it all. If not--call Brussels and stay on the line, your call is very important to them. 

The Guy Lets It Rip))

And I can only agree, many do. 

This clusterfuck is so over the top, that I don't even know how to measure it. In related news and down the memory lane when the map of the US Navy's CBGs popped up on TG channels. 

None of the three are in any position (or station) to do much. And here is from quarter of a century ago by two distinguished US carrier aviators. Just enjoy:

Which group of technologies is progressing faster? One day soon, in a cultural battle, someone will no longer wish to put up with arrogant Western overflights. Some nation or group will buy a few “sons of SA-10”that can be fired by connectivity between cell phones, laptops, and a department-store telescope. The United States will launch a few F/A-18E aircraft (remarkably procured on time, on budget, and underweight),with their(equally remarkable)joint standoff weapon or joint direct-attack munitions, to blow up a bridge, probably, and not one of them will come back. U.S. air forces of every service have already conceded air superiority to certain SAM systems. Who do we think will get better faster? The United States is making a few well-armored knights, and they will face a forest full of peasants with longbows. Cruise missiles will replace manned aircraft and sink the ships that carry them. This is both good and bad news for the DD21crowd.Yes,theadvocatesofthat advanced new destroyer program will probably see the strike role migrate to their platform, because foreign adversaries will have SAM systems that manned aircraft cannot approach(after some “Pearl Harbor” event for manned aircraft).Unfortunately, those adversaries will probably also invest in surface-to-surface missiles as capable as the air variety; those big floating pieces of metal, no matter how high-tech, snazzy, or expensive, will be in dangerous waters.

It has been foreseen by many. Now the moment of reckoning is here. And yes, this is not shit-talking, it is the moment when the shit, pardon my French, got real. 

Play Stupid Games, Win ...

 ... stupid prizes. West's economies are paraded for what they are--low industry, high speculation ... well, Ponzi schemes. 

The legendary derivatives trading team at Vitol Group, the world’s largest oil trader, has reportedly lost hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars on oil bets that went very wrong as the war in the Middle East roiled global markets and trapped physical supply at the Strait of Hormuz. Vitol’s star trader Yaoyao Liu found himself on the wrong side of bets on crude and fuel prices at the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran, as prices soared in the worst disruption of global oil supply in history, the Wall Street Journal reports, quoting sources with knowledge of the matter. Liu’s trades are reportedly a closely-guarded secret not only on the market but also within Vitol itself.

Derivatives, a euphemism for speculation, which modern West's capital is and real economy are as removed from each-other as Milky Way is removed from Andromeda. As American Way of War is removed from actual war. Now they are doing betting, instead of studying markets and real conditions and outputs. The result is predictable. E.g. 

That's Urals in ... futures. Hm. Physical oil, of course, is much more expensive. The "model" is collapsing. 

Blockading Common Sense ...

 ... and morality. 

Will They Try?

 You can bet on it. 

MOSCOW, April 13 — RIA Novosti. Deputy Secretary of the Security Council Alexander Maslennikov did not rule out attempts to undermine Russia's food security due to the conflict in the Middle East. According to him, Moscow is in a strong enough position to increase the supply of products to this region, as well as to the Asia, Africa and Latin America. "At the same time, against the backdrop of the further development of the conflict on the Middle East attempts to artificially undermine Russia's internal food security by destructive external forces cannot be ruled out," the press service of the Security Council quoted Maslennikov as saying.

It has to be understood that the whole narrative about Russia collapsed in the West. Russia now lives better, eats better, feels better and is developing better than the combined West. Meanwhile, Europe is getting poorer, colder or hotter, depending on the season, and there are all kinds of other issues. It is not just Africa and Asia which will be affected, Europe is not going to avoid a food shock which is coming. It is all a domino effect and one things leads to another. 

Now to people who still delude themselves with the last straw of hope that this clusterfuck was somehow Trump's "plan". There IS NO plan, what passed for it was a harebrained scheme developed by BiBi and Mossad and executed by their slap-bitch and asset, who is blackmailed into sheer madness and a destruction of his own country for the benefit of a corpse of the Israeli state, whose time is up and will dissolve. It is already being abandoned. 

Here are some realists from Israel: Yitzhak Brick, General in the Zionist Regime’s Army: Trump’s decisions are a catastrophe; ultimately, he capitulated to Iran! We did not defeat Hamas, we did not defeat Hezbollah, and we were unable to defeat the Iranians either! Damn right! The machine is broken, it has been for a while now. 

In related news, which will not be reported in the West. 

MOSCOW, April 13 — RIA Novosti. The first patient received the peptide vaccine Onkopept for the treatment of colorectal cancer, the press service of the FMBA told RIA Novosti. "The first patient was injected with the drug on March 31, 2026. Now he has already received the third injection of the vaccine. The tolerability of the vaccine is good. For the next patient, the Onkopept vaccine is already ready, the first administration is scheduled for April 20, 2026," they said. ... At the end of November, the Ministry of Health issued permits for the use in clinical practice of the personalized therapeutic cancer vaccine Onkopept for the treatment of colorectal cancer. It was created by the Y.M. Lopukhin Center for Physico-Chemical Medicine FMBA.In early April, the first patient received another personalized vaccine for the treatment of melanoma. He was a 60-year-old resident of the Kursk region. As noted by the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko, the man feels good.

I'll just leave it here. 

At This Stage It Is Not ...

 ... the US anymore.

A very sad ending for a country with so much potential and resources. So much promise. All of it stolen from the majority of Americans by corrupt and incompetent "elites", who never had any loyalty to the US. Just the marriage of convenience--exclusive golf clubs, private jets and diversified portfolio and, of course, loyalty to Mossad (and Israel) with them knowing every sexual deviancy and crime these "elites" committed. They have now their biggest asset ever:

No, this is not AI, this is reported by most US media. The US had a good run, now it is Israel 2.0. It will remain under the control no matter who comes to the White House because no POTUS will have trusted, courageous, patriotic military-intel elite, because the US doesn't have any left and no courageous and patriotic people can become POTUS, period. 

Meanwhile ...

These are futures, speculation that is--physical oil is much more expensive. And if anyone still believe that Saudi ports (terminals for East-West pipeline) are going to be pumping oil, look (again) at this map:

Yes, this place where Houthis live and who hate Israeli and Saudi guts. Well, you all know what I mean, right?