by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

You may have noticed  gas prices at the pump beginning to spike upwards due to the Israeli-American aerial bombardment of Iran. After all, it’s difficult to ship oil when the oil fields, the pumping stations, and refineries are being blown up, and when one or another party to the conflict shuts down the Straits of Hormuz through which those tankers must pass, or sinks ships at sea having anything to due with that regime. And higher energy costs means higher everything-else costs. One can only imagine what it is doing to the economy of China (or Japan), but at least the former has Russia to fall back on.   From the geopolitical standpoint, the action appears to have been coldly calculated, no so much by Mr. Trump, but by the deep state faction controlling him, that faction which, I (and many others) believe, gave him the “phone call/intervention session” after the abortive assassination plot against him in Butler, Pennsylvania. We can imagine the substance: we will let you be president, but you must push the surveillance state, a “sovereign wealth fund” to include a klepto-currency component, you’ll start to phase out cash (like the penny, nickel, and dime), and you’ll let us run foreign policy.”