“All right, good evening folks. It’s Enforcer Matt and welcome back to another short war video. And today we have more major developments in Iran, Russia, and Ukraine. So, let’s jump right into it. This morning, US officials are planning to launch a short and powerful wave of military strikes on Iran in the hopes of breaking the ceasefire deadlock.
And it’s not currently known when this will actually take place, but it is believed to be imminent. And not surprisingly, Iran’s begun issuing threats of unprecedented military action on the United States as a response. Meanwhile, global oil prices are beginning to skyrocket yet again as US officials prepare for an indefinite blockade of the straight of Hormuz in one of the most high risk gambles in modern geopolitics.
Meanwhile, US lawmakers are now demanding that the US president provide details to Congress about his war plans as the 60-day War Powers Acted deadline is set to hit in just a few days. And it sounds like some allies are starting to get impatient. Meanwhile, we’ve also seen at least two more massive Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil sites, resulting in what are being called oil volcanoes.
And on a side note, Ukraine also destroyed a few more Russian helicopters to add insult to injury. So, it goes without saying that right now in the Middle East, it is crazy right now. And also, we are seeing some wild events. A very bad day for Russia as well. So, let’s jump right into our first article, which goes to none other than Fitex News.
And right now, this is our biggest story of the day. We are getting word that US Central Command has prepared a plan for a short and powerful wave of strikes on Iran in the hopes of breaking the negotiating deadlock according to sources close to the White House. So this is a very big deal because we had heard before that the US president was going to use this new US imposed blockade on the other side of the straight of war moves to try to [ __ ] the Iranian economy for the most part and appears to be that will likely still be in place. But on top of that, we’re expecting short and powerful strikes to be coming very soon as well to I guess make them negotiate, but that’s not going to make the Iranians negotiate necessarily. That’s going to make them retaliate. So, in in my opinion, they should probably simply just go in and finish the job and decapitate the Iranian regime instead of doing it, you know, halfway like this right here.
But, we’ll have to wait and see what this turns into. But, I have a feeling that once the missiles start flying yet again, we’ll probably see a fullscale resumption of the war and it’s probably going to be a free-for-all at that point. So, we’ll see when this is going to happen. Right now, we don’t have a timeline on it, but we are expecting this to happen imminently at any moment.
So, we will be watching out for that. But also moving into our next post here. This one goes to Fitex Network. We’ve also seen that the US president has made a true social post appearing to back up the reports that apparently strikes are coming soon on Iran. And here is what it says right here. It says:
“Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a non-nuclear deal and they better get smart soon. Sign the president.”
So, there’s a big distinction in here. I’m not sure if y’all caught this or not, but he said they don’t know how to sign a non-uclear deal. That’s kind of weird because I thought that the US was trying to force Iran to give up their nuclear program. So, what’s this talk about a non-uclear deal? That seems a little bit strange right there. I’m not sure if that was a typo or maybe a misspeak possibly, but if they’re trying to get Iran to sign a non-uclear deal, then what did we start this war for at this point? So, that’s kind of a weird thing. I’m waiting to see if they’re going to correct that or leave that standing. Because that’s a pretty big distinction to make right there. And also, I’m not going to comment on the picture. I think y’all can come up to your own conclusions about that, but there’s the picture right there with it. But anyways, so that’s what the president’s saying right now, appearing to back up the idea that strikes are coming soon.
And as you can see in the picture, I mean, it’s showing strikes happening all over. It appears to be a Middle Eastern environment for the most part. So, moving into our next post here, this one’s going to go to the Kopasai letter. Meanwhile, it looks like investors are not liking the idea of an indefinite hormu straight blockade by the United States. We are currently seeing that US oil prices, this is not Brent by the way, this is WTI crude, has extended gains to $105 a barrel as the president prepares an extended US blockade of the street form for potentially maybe even for months. So this was the worst case scenario by the way that everybody was worried about.
They were worried that Iran would impose a monthsl long blockade of the straight of moose. Now the United States is also imposing another blockade in the straight of moose. So, they’re essentially burning down the house to save the house. Essentially, it’s a little bit of a strange concept there with that. But as you can see right here, the oil prices are going crazy because people are not liking the idea of an indefinite straightforward blockade. And I can understand why people are freaked out about that because it’s really not a great idea to say the least. So, right now, investors are not feeling too good about the whole situation. But moving into our next one here, this one’s going to go to open source intel. And while the US is threatening to take action on Iran to get them to come to the talking table, we’re also seeing that Iran is not really wanting to talk.
Iran is now warning of unprecedented military action if the US continues seizing Iran linked vessels near the straight of Hormuz according to Iranian state TV. So we have seen multiple different vessels get seized by the United States due to the US blockade. We’ve also seen some boardings, but not necessarily ship seizures, but simply boarding and inspecting the vessels going through the area. So, it appears to be that Iran is now flexing their muscles and saying they’re going to do something about it. But that will have to be seen in the future whether or not they actually do something about that. But I would imagine that once the missiles start flying, that will force Iran to act at that point. So, we’re probably coming very close to that, I would imagine.
So, we’ll just have to see where this goes. But, as you can see, the threats are definitely flying as of this morning. But moving into our next post here, this one goes to Clash Report. We’ve also gotten some more information about how Iran’s government is currently functioning because that’s a big question mark right now is how Iran’s government is functioning. Is Mosaba Kimemeni in charge? Is the military in charge? I mean, who’s in charge of this place? Because right now, Machaba is like a ghost. Nobody even knows where he’s at. So right now we’re hearing that after Jame’s death, which was the father, Iran apparently moved to a collective wartime leadership centered on the military and a supreme national security council.
And Motabuku Kammeni is allegedly nominally supreme leader but largely symbolic. He mainly just endorses decisions rather than making them. While the hardline military figures now drive policy on war, security and foreign affairs. So I mean it’s up to you about what you believe on this right here. I would say that since Waba hasn’t even made a public appearance ever since he took charge, that’s a pretty bad sign for his leadership right there. So it would seem to be that the military is largely making decisions at this point. Which is not good for talks because if the US hopes to have a negotiation and a peace deal made out then how is that going to happen when the military’s in charge. It’s not going to happen. So it appears to be a pretty bad dampener for the possible peace talks.
But moving into our next post here, this one goes to open source intel yet again. In the meantime though, the US blockade is not completely bad. Like it’s it’s bad in one respect. I’ll get into that in just a minute. But it’s also kind of good on one respect because we are seeing that apparently in Iran the economic toll is starting to take effect and it’s actually getting quite bad inside of Iran. We’re hearing that more than a million Iranians are out of work. Food prices are surging and there’s been a prolonged internet shutdown crushing online businesses inside of Iran. And the question is how much more pain can Iran take before they try to negotiate their way out of it? But there’s a couple of problems with that though. It’s like a game of chicken.
And it’s a very dangerous game of chicken because the US is trying to destroy Iran’s economy and Iran is trying to destroy the entire global economy. So between the two, which one’s going to collapse first, the global economy or Iran’s economy? And that’s not very clear right now. I know some people are going to say, “Oh, well clearly Iran’s going to collapse first.” But we don’t know that. This is a very risky gamble right here. And it could be that both collapse. That’s also another option. And also, like I just mentioned, even if Iran wants to negotiate their way out of the situation, there is no guarantee that this loose government that’s currently in charge in Iran is actually going to be able to adhere to a situation right now.
There’s no way to know if they’re going to adhere to a deal, even if the US forces them into one because the military’s in charge. So, that’s another big problem. So, right now, it’s not very clear if this plan’s been thought out that well, as of right this minute. But moving into our next post though, we have another big story here from Burgess Everett. And this is a big one about the War Powers Act here in the United States. And many people have been asking about this. And we finally have some details. And also, it appears to be senators weighing in to the deadline that is coming up in just a few days that the president either has to withdraw the forces or he has to get approval from Congress to keep the war going.
And we can see right here in the post, it says, “A very big shift is occurring among Republicans on the Iran war as it hits the 60-day mark on this Friday, which is just a couple of days away.” There’s a ton of talk right now about whether to authorize it. And right now, it appears to be that they prefer that the admin simply wraps up the war. And here is some of the quotes from the senators right here.
It says: “It’s a big deal. There are a number of us having discussions about what that day means and what our response should be, and people cross some sort of threshold and start to be very uncomfortable with it,” said one GOP senator.
“I am sensing restlessness among many of my colleagues,” said another senator.
“60 days is a trigger that requires Congress to act,” another senator said.
“Rubio’s been very careful to comply with the statute. My hope is they’ll notify us that they’ve been drawing down offensive operations,” another senator responded.
To that she warned that if that does not happen: “You’ve got to talk to us,” and she warned that if that does not happen, you may see a change in the situation in Congress.
And they also said: “This is going to be weeks or months away from resolution and more likely the latter. So why not send a very clear signal to Iran and authorize the war for a year.”
So as you can see right here, the situation in the Senate about this War Powers Act is starting to get a little bit shaky. It was a little bit unclear where they were going to stand on it, but it appears to be they’re taking the position that Congress will have to act once that deadline hits and either the president will have to start withdrawing forces or they might just approve the war for a year possibly. That’s another option as well. So, we’re waiting to see how this is going to go down. Right now, today, the Secretary of War is testifying in Congress. And to be perfectly honest, it’s not going too well. From what I’ve seen so far, it seems to be he’s kind of getting being put on the hot seat for the most part.
So, it looks like things could be changing, but we’ll have to wait and see. But moving into our next one here, this one’s going to go to Open Source Intel yet again. And speaking of the Secretary of War testifying today, we’ve also heard some other officials within the administration testify about how much this war has costed so far. And get this, apparently the officials are telling Congress that the war so far, which has only lasted for like a month or two, has already costed an estimated $25 billion in just less than 2 months. So, I guess it really depends on who you ask.
Some people are going to say, “Well, that’s actually pretty cheap for the situation.”
And some people are going to be like, “That’s crazy. Like, $25 billion for less than 2 months. Are you out of your mind about that?”
And in my opinion, it really just depends on the results that we can show for it. Sadly, right now, we don’t have a whole bunch of results to show for it. The Iranian nuclear program is still intact, as far as we’re aware. It looks like Iran still has at least 50% of their missile and drone program. And also, they are now blockading the most important straight probably in the entire region, the straight of Hormuz. So, we’re kind of in a worse position than we started. And now we’re 25 billion in the hole. So not saying the war is a complete waste, but they need to switch the situation around quickly to start having something to show for it because right now they’re kind of stalling and they’re really not getting anything done like continuing the strikes to finish off the regime. They’re really kind of just stalling right now which is kind of a tricky place to be in.
But moving on from this post right here, moving into our next one, we also have another post here. And apparently it looks like the Secretary of War, like I said, is being put on the hot seat today. It looks like he was asked a question here about the Iranian nuclear facilities and he gave an answer that really wasn’t consistent with the administration’s narrative to a large degree and he got called out on it and the answer was a little bit interesting. Right here you can see that apparently Hex said Iran’s nuclear facilities have been obliterated. Which kind of defeats the narrative that we went to war to obliterate the nuclear facilities because if they were already destroyed then what are we going to war for?
But you can see right here that apparently one of the Congress people said back to Hexup: “You said we had start this war because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat and now you’re saying it was completely obliterated.”
Which is a really good point by the way because if it had been obliterated then I mean the war justification of stopping Iran from getting a nuke kind of goes out the window to a large degree. So maybe he misspoke possibly by saying they were obliterated. But I mean I will say I’ve heard multiple administration officials say that during Operation Midnight Hammer all the facilities were destroyed. So, you know, that’s a little bit of an inconsistency right there to say the least. So, we’ll have to wait and see where that goes. But moving into our next one. This one’s going to go to Osent Technical. And we are going to switch gears here from our Iran news for a second and move on to our Russia Ukraine news because right now we are seeing another large scale wave of attacks on Russia.
And we already see the TWAPS oil refinery on fire. And that is a crisis of magnitudes we have not seen probably since Chernobyl on that level of crisis. Right now, we’re seeing that apparently Ukraine’s conducted more strikes on different oil sites and they’re calling them oil volcanoes. That’s how bad this is. And right here in our first post, we can see that Ukrainian attack drones apparently went a thousand plus miles into Russian airspace overnight and they hit an oil pipeline pumping station in the city of Perm. And it is some pretty bad scenes right now out of Perm. And right here in the photo, you can see there is an image right here of the oil pipeline on fire in the city of Perm inside of Russia and it looks similar to Tuops. Now granted, Tuops is a completely different facility. It’s a different type of facility than what we’re seeing right here. This is a pipeline pumping station, but this is pretty ugly looking in Perm right here.
But we have another a view of this right here. Let’s move into our next post, which goes to Max 25. And apparently they’re calling this a portal to hell that’s been open in Perm. And it does look like it looks pretty ugly right here. So let’s take a look at our video and see the damage right now inside of the city. And look at that. That is the city of Perm right there. And that is the pipeline facility on fire. It looks like in multiple locations actually. I mean, look at that. More toxic smoke going into the air. I mean, Russia is having a bad couple of days. And today is way, way worse, and we’re about to get that in just a minute. This is not the only site that’s been hit right here in a very big way. And this is just the start of it.
So, that’s what’s happening right now in Perm. But, let’s move on to our next one here, which goes to war translated. We’ve also seen that Orsque has also been hit as well and it’s a big hit there as well. We’re seeing that apparently an oil refinery is on fire in that location and this one is over 1,400 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. So this is a pretty big one as well. And let’s take a look at this video and see the view of the Orsk fire apparently from this location. And let’s take a look at the video. And that right there you can see right there’s some smoke coming up from it. It is very far away and also is during the day.
As you can see, right, this dude right here, somebody says: “As you can see, right, this dude right here, somebody’s going to quit.”
So, I mean, this is pretty bad. I mean, these Russians are cussing up a storm to say the least. He said again, too. So, it’s not the first time it’s get gotten hit from the looks of it. But that’s pretty bad right there. But also, we have another view of Orch in our next post here, which goes to Tendar. In fact, we have the exact moment that Orsk was struck right here on camera. So, let’s take a look. We literally have the initial moments of the strike. So, let’s take a look at the video.
“Wow. There it is. Dang.”
This guy’s in shock right here. By the way, you could hear the major explosion in the beginning. You hear the guy screaming. There is the hit right there and it’s directly on that facility. So, like I said, Russia’s not having a good day. They’ve had two more major what they’re calling oil volcanoes here at this location and at the other one. So, not a good time. And also, they’re still dealing with crisis management into ops. And also not to mention all their export facilities getting hit left and right as well. So I mean Usluga I mean I I can’t even remember all the names of them at this point. Russia’s having a bad time. I think their oil industry is having a new type of sanctions. I would call these practical sanctions to a large degree.
But moving into our next one here, this one’s going to go to Ocean Technical. And do you think Russia’s day could get any worse at this point? And it actually can, believe it or not. We have seen the Ukrainian mid-range attack drone successfully hunted down a Russian helicopter field air strip deep behind enemy lines earlier today and we saw several losses. The Russians got caught lacking in every sense of the term. We’ve seen that a Russian MI7 and an MI28 was just hit literally on the ground as it was just sitting there completely defenseless. Ukraine destroyed both of them all in the same hit. So let’s take a look at this. This is wild footage right here and let’s take a peek at it.
So, there is no sound at all in this video, but there is that MI17 right here. They’re going there. There it is right there. Look at it just sitting there in the wide open in a green field. They couldn’t literally make this a juicier target. And there it is. It’s about to get hit. And look at that. It is destroyed. It is finished right there. An MI7. Perfectly fine one right there. A completely taken out. Look, they’re not done yet. There’s an MI28. Look at that. The Russians just discovered that the thing’s coming their way. Look at that. They’re trying to get out of the area before it hits. But, as you can see though, here it is going in. In fact, the Russian might not I know was coming in. There it is hitting right there. Look at that. It hit the MI28 and it is now also taken out on top of that MI7 that got taken out. So, I mean, crazy stuff right there. Crazy work. And now Russia’s had an even worse day as a result of this. So, what an embarrassing situation there.
But moving on to our next one. This one’s going to go to a representative here. And this one is quite interesting. It looks like apparently the spat between Israel and Ukraine over the alleged stolen grain purchases are apparently starting to get the attention of US lawmakers as well. And it’s getting a little bit crazy. So let’s take a look. We can see right here that this representative right here in Congress said:
“Zalinsky is absolutely right. And if the allegations are true, then Israel must stop buying stolen grain from Russia immediately and is a democratic country and ally that the government in Israel must stand with democracies around the world, especially Ukraine, which is defending itself from an illegal attack by dictator Vladimir Putin.”
So, it appears to be they’re saying they’re allegations. So, we’ll have to wait and see if Ukraine can prove it. I did see that apparently Ukraine put a formal complaint against Israel this morning and they lodged it with the Israeli government. So, they have formalized it and we’ll have to see where this goes because it looks like Ukraine is ready to sanction the hell out of Israel over the situation and we’ll have to see where this goes. But if it’s turned out to to be true and it gets proven that Israel is buying stolen grain, I mean, that’s a pretty serious thing and that’s something that Israel should have to answer for to a large degree. But once again, it has to be proven first and right now it’s simply an allegation by Ukraine.
But moving into our next one here, this one goes to Alex. And we’ve also gotten another big piece of news here out of the United States that apparently the United States has pledged $100 million to repair Chernobyl’s cracked shield after a Russian drone struck it a short while back. And the State Department warrants of the spectre of radioactive leak in Europe as it calls on G7 allies to help fund the $500 million emergency restoration of the nuclear containment arch. Now, one thing I want to point out right here is that it’s really good the US is pitching in, by the way, because this is something that is in everybody’s interest to make sure that Chernobyl doesn’t leak radiation. But at the same time though, I never really heard any of the top US officials mention the fact that Russia was the one that hit this.
They kind of let that go under the rug and now they’re pledging 100 million to repair it. So, they’re acting like it simply had a piece of damage to it, but it’s it’s a lot more than damage. The Russians struck the facility and that’s what happened. So, you know, they’re trying to act like that’s not the case, but Russia is at fault here. We wouldn’t have to spend $500 million if Russia wouldn’t have struck that facility here at Chernobyl. So, it’s it’s their fault and the US simply won’t just say that.
But moving on from this one right here and moving into our next one, this one goes to open source intel yet again. And also, apparently North Korea wants in on the fun. North Korea is always doing something in the background. They’re always up to some shenanigans and they’re apparently up to it again. We have heard today that North Korea’s nuclear arsenal is approaching the threshold needed to overwhelm US missile defenses and the US has 44 groundbased interceptors capable of handling roughly 20 to 25 incoming missiles. And North Korea’s producing 12 to 15 warheads per year and fielding multiple ICBM types with solid fuel engines and decoy capabilities which like they mentioned could overwhelm US defenses if they chose to do so.
So that’s a little bit scary right there, I will admit. But at the same time though, I think that’s why they might be trying to build a more advanced missile system here in the United States. That might be part of the reason right there. It might be a good call, but you know, it’s very expensive. It’s very costly. So, we’ll have to see if that turns out to be effective or not because of course, drones are the primary threat and missiles are kind of secondary these days. But once again, North Korea is up to the shenanigans as you can see right here.
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