The plane is the president’s emergency operations hub if nuclear war breaks out. Naval Air Systems Command

By Ross O’Keefe
March 11, 2026

The ominous “Doomsday” plane has been spotted flying over California — for the second time in two months.

The huge Boeing E-6B Mercury, which is the president’s emergency operations hub if nuclear war breaks out, coasted over Fresno over the weekend.

Airport bosses said it was conducting approaches at the site and spent two hours doing mock landings, leaving onlookers stunned.

The aircraft serves as a nuclear control platform and strategic command post. If the plane had to execute its mission, the US could be heading for a nuclear war.

The platform can control bombers, missiles and ballistic missile submarines. It can remain airborne for up to 12 hours without refueling and is capable of refueling mid-flight to extend missions even longer.

It is built to maintain global communications and operate even if ground command centers are disabled, essentially functioning as a mobile Pentagon in the sky.

“They can control the bombers, if the bombers are on alert, they can control the missiles, because the missiles are always on alert, and obviously they can control our ballistic missile submarines,” Major General Garrison told Fox 26. “It’s all combined into one.”

The plane caused panic at the beginning of the year when it was spotted at Los Angeles International Airport. But Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been using the plane for his his “arsenal of freedom” tour.

Also aboard the plane then was right-wing internet personality Laura Loomer. The “Doomsday” plane’s appearance comes amid the conflict in the Middle East between Iran and the US and Israel.

The war has been felt across the US. Gas prices have skyrocketed, drawing eyes to the Middle East in a war that has forever changed Iran.

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Via https://nypost.com/2026/03/11/us-news/doomsday-plane-seen-flying-low-over-california/

Dmitry Orlov

We’re coming up on the magic dozen-day mark in the Pedophile-Zionist Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Coalition’s war against Iran. As with Dozen-Day War 1.0, which lasted from 13 to 24 June 2025, the coalition is ready to sue for peace. Apparently, a dozen days is how long “the world’s best military” (in Donald Trump’s diseased imagination only) is capable of sustaining an air campaign before they run out of air defense rockets, very expensive radar installations (destroyed by some very cheap drones) and, last but not least, moist sanitary napkins (a must have, given the sorry state of the toilets aboard Battleship America or whatever they call that useless old tub).

Unlike the previous Dozen-Day War, this one was a stunning success — just not for the Pedo-Zionists, or for the Pedophiles’ European vassals (or are they just slaves now?), or for the bathrobe-and-towelhead contingent that supervises migrant workers who pump the oil and the gas, and do just about everything else, on the Arabian Peninsula. Nor was it a success for the Zionist segment of the Pedophile-Zionist Coalition: Israel, being 60 times smaller than Iran and 10 times less populous, should be expected to last between 1/60 and 1/10 times as long in a war against Iran — but perhaps just a bit longer because, unlike the Jews, the Persians are far less hell-bent on genocide.

Nevertheless, a success it most certainly is. The stated goal of DDW 2.0, as with DDW 1.0 of last June, was regime change in Tehran. And, indeed, regime change has been effected most efficaciously. The new Ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei, is the son of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was old, in poor health, and was turned into a martyr by a Pedophile air strike along with Mojtaba’s wife and child. Mojtaba is a renowned Shia theologian, just like his father, but he is also very tight with the Iranian military. Mojtaba has the right connections and the right mindset to properly avenge the murder of his father, wife and child, along with the 171 girls killed by a Pedophile-launched Tomahawk missile in Minab (a tourist town) and thousands of other gratuitous murders of Iranian civilians. Revenge is a sacred obligation among these people, mind you, and this should curb the enthusiasm of the Pedophile-Zionists for attempting to talk them down. Genuflecting and prostrating themselves in prayer would be more appropriate to the circumstances in which they now find themselves.

The new Iranian regime thus has a vigorous and relatively young new leader who was gladly accepted by jubilant crowds that flooded the streets and squares of Teheran. Iran’s power structure has been properly bomb-proofed, with new leaders ready to pop into place to replace those who are killed by air strikes.

Gone are those who thought it was a good idea to “negotiate” with the Pedophiles and who were, one must concede, exemplarily stupid in doing so. Just consider: the previous Dozen-Day War was launched in the midst of “negotiations” and the negotiators were killed in an air strike. And yet they came up with replacements who went right back to “negotiate” some more, resulting in an exact repeat? How is that even possible? Well, I very much doubt that it will be possible moving forward: the emotional abuse victims that enabled this travesty of diplomacy should by now be either dead or out of power in any case.

And so, the regime has been changed, the mission has been accomplished and the Pedophile-Zionist coalition can sail home and lick its wounds. The problem is that one doesn’t just walk away from a war one has started, especially if it is war against an ancient and populous nation that has a young, well-educated and passionate population, is ensconced in a natural mountainous fortress in the center of Eurasia, controls access to fully a third of both oil and natural gas that have flowed to the global energy markets and has two of the three great Eurasian powers (Russia and China) as its allies. The Iranians are not opposed to ending the conflict; they have just one perfectly reasonable condition: that any repeats of Dozen-Day War 2.0 should be made impossible.

To this end, it would be most helpful if the Pedophiles would most kindly liquidate all of their military bases in the Middle East, or, better yet, in all of Eurasia. This is actually a constructive suggestion, given that these military bases have become, given recent advancements in cheap drones and hypersonic missiles, easy targets — cheap to destroy, impossible to defend. In the course of Dozen-Day War 2.0, all of the Pedophile military bases on the Arabian Peninsula have sustained major damage and have been made largely inoperable. If this conflict continues well beyond a dozen days, they will be completely destroyed, first using Iran’s Shahed drones, then by similar but faster and even more accurate Russian Geranium 2’s (which are, essentially, Shahed airframes with more explosive power, more accurate targeting, fancy swarming abilities and a jet engine).

If the Pedophiles were to liquidate their Eurasian military presence, that would still leave open the question of what to do with the Zionists. An easy answer would be to defund them — but hard to implement politically given the power of the Zionist lobby among the Pedophiles. Without regular transfusions of weapons and money from the Pedophiles, the Zionists would shrivel up.

There is something that the Pedophiles can do to speed up the process, which is to make a separate peace with Iran and let the 60 to 1 or 10 to 1 weight ratio between the Zionists and the Iranians do its work. The Zionists could then decamp to Jew Jersey (Oops, typo! The N and the J buttons are so close together! Damn!) while the non-Zionist Israelis (there are some) would be welcome to move to the Jewish Autonomous Region in the Russian Federation, which is about the same size as Israel but has more natural resources and better neighbors.

How close are the Pedophiles from actually ending Dozen-Day War 2.0? They certainly appear to be in a panic and have reached the stage of grasping at straws. To this end, Donald Trump recently had a phone call with some Kurdish leaders, trying to coax them into launching a ground offensive against Tehran, with the idea that some Pedophile troops will then “help” them and… claim victory for themselves. And if it doesn’t work out, too bad: the Kurds will be abandoned to their enemies… again. There are two aspects of this conversation that are particularly notable.

First, here is Donald Duck, a supposed “leader of the free world” trying to secure the cooperation of some field commanders. The discrepancy of rank is rather glaring. Such tasks are properly assigned to the CIA station chief in Erbil, the self-styled Kurdish capital in Northern Iraq. The fact that it is the head of the whole Pedophile organization who saw it fit to personally attend to this matter shows that Trump’s bloated political corpse is floating on a sea of nothingness. His administration is staffed by headless chickens whose only job requirement is that they have pledged personal allegiance to Trump himself.

Second, the Kurds are perhaps the most politically incompetent ethnic group on the planet (in this they are neck and neck with the Karen people of southeastern Myanmar). This is why they are probably the largest ethnic group on the planet that lacks their own country, being spread out between Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Armenia. But nobody is stupid enough to first be abandoned by the Pedophiles in Syria to be massacred by the ISIS remnants now in power in Damascus and then immediately thereafter to be willing to start a hopeless ground war against Iran on behalf of these same treacherous Pedophiles.

This shows that the Trump organization is in too much disarray to troubleshoot the situation and guide Dozen-Day War 2.0 to anything resembling an acceptable conclusion. What seems far more likely is that the Iranians will continue their bombing of Pedophile and Zionist military and strategic assets until they become sufficiently degraded to not pose a high risk of being able to launch Dozen-Day War 3.0. The Iranians have enough rockets and drones packed away in tunnels under mountains to continue doing so for months. In the process, oil, gas, fertilizer and plastics production in the Persian Gulf states will be destroyed, along with water desalination plants without which life in these desert locations becomes impossible. The resulting humanitarian disaster will be a sight to behold!

The effects of this humanitarian disaster will spread far beyond the Persian Gulf. The Strait of Hormuz, through which flow a third of both oil and liquefied natural gas in the world, has been effectively inoperative for a little over a week now and the world energy markets are already in a very bad state. So far the damage has only been financial, but actual physical shortages of oil and gas are likely to materialize in another two weeks, resulting in industry and transportation shutdowns, electricity blackouts, food and water shortages and other such inconveniences.

Although the conflict is far from over, it is not too early to start naming the winners and the losers. Russia is a definite winner: higher oil and gas prices will result in large windfall profits for the Russian exporters, wiping out Russia’s rather modest budget deficit, allowing the Russian government to roll back some tax increases and providing ample funds for Gazprom to proceed with building two more gigantic skyscrapers depicted above to adorn the shore of the Gulf of Finland in a northern suburb of Saint Petersburg.

The European Union is a definite loser. It has progressively cut itself off from its only reasonably priced and reliable energy supplier — Russia, that is — and throwing in their lot with the resource-limited Norwegians, the far less reliable Pedophiles and the newly defunct Persian Gulf suppliers. Throw in the brain-damaged “Brown New Deal” (covered in detail in my last book) which requires every last solar panel and wind generator to be backed up by natural gas-based generating capacity, and what you have is an elaborately crafted prescription for disaster. Britain is perhaps the poster child for this continent-sized fiasco, with less than two days’ worth of natural gas in storage.

An additional twist of the knife by Putin has exacerbated Europe’s predicament. Putin has politely suggested that Russia look for new, more agreeable and more reliable customers for Russia’s natural gas. After all, the European Commission was itself planning to gradually cut off imports of Russian energy, begging the question: Why do so gradually? Soon thereafter, Deputy PM Alexander Novak announced that new customers for Russian natural gas have already been found. We should therefore expect that European deindustrialization and post-industrial decay will proceed as if on steroids.

Another definite loser will be the United States. Dozen-Day War 2.0 has been a powerful demonstration of the fact that Pedophile security guarantees are worse than worthless: Pedophile forces stationed on one’s territory are a liability, not an asset. In case of armed conflict, they become magnets that attract attacks by enemy drones and rockets which Pedophile air defense systems are powerless to stop. Equally worthless were the lavish investments made by the Gulf Arabs in Pedophile military hardware.

To sum it up, the ability of the Pedophiles to project force around the world is now history, and, consequently, the ability of the Pedophiles to extort money from countries around the world will be lost as well. In turn, the Pedophiles will lose their ability to continuously “borrow” approximately $4.5 billion per day.

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Add to this the Pedophile troops which will have to be repatriated — around 200,000 of them if you include the various contractors and service personnel. The problem is made worse by all of the hardware that has to be either flown or shipped back or destroyed. If left in place, plenty of these weapons will end up in the hands of Mexican narcocartels.

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Via https://boosty.to/cluborlov/posts/f2d6c2c1-d794-4516-a642-637e33ba129c

By Elizabeth Vos
Special to Consortium News

As the U.S. and Israel’s deeply unpopular war with Iran enters its second week, social media platform X is censoring the accounts of people providing information to military servicemembers on how they can refuse to serve. This is particularly relevant as fears have grown that U.S. ground troops may enter the conflict.

The Center on Conscience & War, an 80-year-old nonprofit that, according to its website, “advocates for the rights of conscience, opposes military conscription, and serves all conscientious objectors to war,” was banned on X for 12 hours. The center’s executive director, Mike Prysner, shared a notice that the center received from X which labeled their posts as having “violated X rules” against “illegal and regulated behaviors.”

Prysner wrote: “This is the post @CCW4COs was suspended for, informing service members of their legal right under DoDI 1332.14 to report “failure to adapt” within first 365 days of service and receive an entry-level discharge.”

It remains legal to conscientiously object to military service. The only conceivable way that the post could be framed as encouraging illegal or irregular behavior would be to recast such objections as mutiny, which is exactly what pro-Israeli voices on social media have been frantically doing in the last few days.

In response to conservative commentator Candace Owens also encouraging those in the U.S. military to conscientiously object to serving in Iran, pro-Israel journalist Emily Schrader wrote on X:

“This is illegal. She is literally advocating mutiny. Under 18 U.S.C. § 2387 (Advocating overthrow or disloyalty in the armed forces). It is a crime for any person, including civilians, to willfully advocate or attempt to cause:
• insubordination in the armed forces
• disloyalty among service members
• mutiny or refusal of duty
It also criminalizes distributing materials intended to encourage those outcomes.
The penalty can be up to 10 years in prison and fines.”

Other pro-Israel voices like Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge-fund manager, reposted Shrader’s sentiments.

The social media ban on the Center for Conscience and War came less than 24 hours after its executive director, Prysner, also wrote via social media regarding anecdotal evidence of troops being readied for combat:

“I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom they were going ‘boots on the ground’ tonight.”

As noted by The Cradle,

“Mike Prysner … said in posts on X that his office has been overwhelmed with requests for guidance from service members seeking to dodge deployment…. ‘Phone has been ringing off the hook,’ he wrote … adding that many troops had not been told the mission involved combat until the last moment and were initially informed they were heading to training.”

As veteran Greg Stoker said via X: “Service members knowing their rights is a direct threat to both the secular imperialists who own these apps and the rapturous evangelicals trying to bring about Armageddon.”

Some X users have also been anecdotally reporting the apparent mobilization of troops:

“Spoke to a family member tonight — a Marine stationed in California. He said half\ the troops on base have disappeared in the past couple days and that the situation is chaos with those still remaining.”

Despite official denials that troops on the ground are part of the current plan, President Donald Trump has not ruled out the possibility. Democrats expressed alarm over the possibility following a March 4 classified briefing.

Democracy Now! noted that Sen. Richard Blumenthal said, “I just want to say I am more fearful than ever, after this briefing, that we may be putting boots on the ground.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren also stated after the briefing:

“I just left a classified briefing on Iran, and here’s what I can say. It is so much worse than you thought. You are right to be worried. The Trump administration has no plan in Iran. This illegal war is based on lies, and it was launched without any imminent threat to our nation. Donald Trump still hasn’t given a single clear reason for this war, and he seems to have no plan for how to end it, either.”

The censorship of an account sharing information for troops regarding how to conscientiously object is particularly relevant now as thousands of U.S. troops are facing the potential for imminent deployment in the escalating conflict with Iran: a war largely unsupported on the home front.

According to The New York Times, support for U.S. intervention in Iran is incredibly low, having “ranged from 27 percent in a Reuters/Ipsos poll to 41 percent in a CNN survey, far below the level of public backing that Mr. Trump’s predecessors initially enjoyed when they used force overseas.”

Many see the intervention as a war waged overwhelmingly for Israel, especially in light of broad daylight comments from figures like U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said:

“The president made the very wise decision: We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action, we knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.”

Other veteran activists have also been speaking out against the war, and urging servicemembers to refuse to serve. As reported by Breakthrough News, at a Chicago rally on Saturday, veteran Daniel Lakemacher urged U.S. soldiers to “refuse this illegal and immoral war” on Iran.

This negative sentiment was also voiced by former U.S. Marine Sgt Brian McGinnis, a Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate for North Carolina, who was dragged out of a recent congressional hearing after shouting that “America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel.”

Sen. Tim Sheehy and police officers reportedly broke McGinnis’s arm as they struggled to remove him from the room. McGinnis was then charged with multiple counts of assault.

The violent repression of a former service member’s speech against U.S. intervention in Iran, like the social media suppression of information that might help military members use legal methods to refuse to serve in that war, demonstrates how desperate the government is to preserve its ability to force Americans to fight for Israel.

The president and his supporters seem increasingly confused when justifying the U.S. involvement to the press. When asked about U.S./Israeli strikes on Iran’s water desalination plants, Trump rambled about beheaded babies and referenced Oct. 7. This behavior is stoking public resistance to the war, including amongst members of the military.

At a time when a dangerous war of America’s own making is escalating dangerously out of control, it cannot be acceptable to censor or render it illegal for members of the U.S. military to have a conscience.

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Via https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/10/crushing-the-right-to-conscientiously-object/

© AP Photo / Vahid Salemi

Sputnik International

Iran has learned the 12-day war lessons well, Mikael Valtersson, former Swedish Armed Forces and air defense officer, tells Sputnik.

“The most important lesson from the 12-day war is that survivability is very important,” Valtersson says. “You must have both a command structure and weapons capability that can survive intense enemy bombardment.”

The expert argues that Iran has demonstrated such resilience: Its leadership and armed forces remain operational and capable of launching large-scale retaliation

Dismantling extensive Mossad networks last year and the removal of opposition leaders earlier this year have further consolidated Iran’s internal stability

It also seems that Iran has managed to turn the attempted American–Israeli blitzkrieg into what could become a prolonged war of attrition.

The American media admits that Iran has also drawn lessons from the United States’ expansion in the Middle East and conflict in Ukraine:

→ Iran has rolled out a “mosaic defense”—decentralized, cell-based military units capable of launching covert drone and missile strikes from across its vast territory, designed as a counter to US–Israeli decapitation strategies
→ It has also leaned heavily on massed drone warfare—swarms and coordinated drone and missile strikes designed to overwhelm enemy air defenses, while steadily depleting the missile stockpiles of the US and its allies

Iranian Retaliation Strikes

Iran has managed to inflict damage on US bases in the Gulf due to several factors, according to the expert:

Iran’s early destruction of the US AN/FPS-132 long-range radar curtailed the American ability to detect incoming missile launches.

“In general, Iran aims to exhaust the enemy air defense inventory, keep a strike capability when this happens, increase the economic cost for the US and of course survive the onslaught and force [the US] to abandon the war before the political and economic repercussions become too hard to handle,” Valtersson concludes.

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Via https://sputnikglobe.com/20260303/why-irans-resilience-and-asymmetric-tactics-caught-us-coalition-by-surprise-1123749243.html

Pepe Escobar

The IRGC is speaking for him. From the start, Mojtaba was the preferred candidate to succeed Ayatollah Khamenei, the man who planned in meticulous detail how to break the Empire’s back.

The IRGC is now showing to the whole planet, especially the Global South, what was lying behind the “restraint” advised by Khamenei for years.

In a matter of days, the IRGC blinded US radars across the West Asia spectrum; weaponized the Strait of Hormuz, sending the global economy into a tailspin; and handed to Washington what for all practical purposes amounts to an intimation to surrender.

These are only some of the most prominent conditions for a possible ceasefire – assuming Tehran will ever trust the United States to comply:

1. Removal of all sanctions against Iran and release of all of Iran’s frozen assets.

2. Recognition of Iran’s right to enrich uranium on its own soil.

3. Full compensation for the damages caused by the imposed war.

4. Extradition of Iranian 5th columnists abroad, and the end of orchestrated media campaigns against Tehran.

5. No attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon or Ansarallah in Yemen.

6. The dismantling of all US military bases in West Asia.

Let that slowly sink in. Here we have Iran telling the self-described, hyperbolic most powerful military in the history of the world to essentially surrender.

Now compound it with IRGC Aerospace Force Commander Majid Mousavi’s announcement yesterday

“After neutralizing US air defense layers in the region, Iran is transitioning to a new missile doctrine. From now on, no missiles carrying warheads lighter than 1 ton will be used. Waves of missile attacks will be more frequent and more widespread.”

That is already translating, in practice, as the IRGC launched more Kheibar Shekan solid-fuel medium-range ballistic missiles, as it happened earlier this week on Tel Aviv and on the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain.

The code for this first operation, significantly, was “Labbayk ya Khamenei”. That means “At Your Service, O Khamenei”. Read it as the first Iranian operation explicitly dedicated to the new Supreme Leader.

The Kheibar Shekan – range of 1,450 km – is road-mobile; ready to be launched from a truck in less than 30 minutes; flies under satellite-aided guidance with a maneuverable re-entry vehicle that executes terminal zigzag evasion at speeds the IRGC claims reach as much as Mach 10.

And yes: from now on it carries 1-ton warheads. That doubles the blast radius and the destructive power of each missile, as much as it doubles, or triples, or quadruples, the US-Israeli Interceptor Hell.

A Patriot PAC-3 interceptor costs $4 million. A THAAD interceptor costs $12.7 million. An Arrow-3 costs $3.5 million. They have all been methodically, serially destroyed by the IRGC.

In practice, from now the Epstein Syndicate needs to use more interceptors – that they don’t have – per each incoming missile to perhaps achieve the same probability of success.

And then there are the Khorramshahr-4 missiles: liquid-fueled, 2,000 to 3,000-kilometer range, carrying even heavier 1,500 to 1,800-kilogram warheads, with thruster-powered maneuverable re-entry vehicles.

We are talking about the heaviest conventional warheads in Iran’s arsenal, launched side by side with the upgraded Kheibar Shekans.

All in name of “Labbayk ya Khamenei”. The symbology speaks unmeasurable volumes.

Humiliation, Not Negotiation

These are the latest undeniable facts on the battlefield.

Assuming somebody in Washington with an IQ over room temperature bothered to explain them to the White House, it’s no wonder Trump is now bragging that the war is “very complete”. Incidentally, that happened after (italics mine) his 1-hour phone call to President Putin, requested by the White House.

Moscow’s read-out, delivered by the unflappable presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov, contains this jade pearl:

“The Russian president expressed a number of ideas aimed at achieving a prompt political and diplomatic resolution of the Iranian conflict, including taking into account the contacts he has held with the leaders of the Gulf states, with the president of Iran, and with leaders of several other countries.”

By: Marcus Alexander

In a potential seismic shift in Middle Eastern geopolitics, major Gulf economies are reportedly considering withdrawing from contracts with the United States and reviewing future investment commitments to alleviate economic strain from the ongoing war with Iran.

The claims, which originated in a post on X by user Sulaiman Ahmed, suggest that Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar are discussing measures to reduce their financial exposure to the U.S. economy. According to the post, which cites an anonymous official, the move is a direct response to “the economic strain imposed upon them by the Iran war.

These assertions are supported by a report published by Reuters on March 5, 2026, citing the Financial Times. The report confirms that Gulf states are indeed considering invoking force majeure clauses in current contracts and reviewing investment pledges made to the United States.

The decision appears to stem from a combination of reduced revenues and increased spending. The anonymous official cited in the original post noted that these countries face budget strains due to “reduced income from energy… the slowdown in output or the inability to ship,” as well as hits to the tourism and aviation sectors and a spike in defense spending.

This context is validated by broader economic analysis. JPMorgan recently trimmed its 2026 non-oil growth outlook for Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies, pointing to rising regional risks following the latest escalation between the U.S., Israel, and Iran.

Strategists noted that economic life slowed sharply in major hubs like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Doha, raising near-term downside risks for services and broader non-oil activity.

Similarly, Fitch Ratings warned that while Gulf sovereigns can weather a short conflict, prolonged fighting or damage to energy infrastructure could threaten credit ratings. The agency noted that the Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed due to security threats, impacting energy exports.

Force Majeure and the Legal Context

The mention of “force majeure” is significant. A force majeure clause is a contractual provision that allows parties to be released from their obligations when extraordinary events beyond their control occur.

According to legal analysis from Aqran Vijandran Advocates & Solicitors, recent developments in the Middle East have placed force majeure at the centre of commercial contracts again, much like during the COVID-19 pandemic. Companies like QatarEnergy and Aluminium Bahrain have reportedly already invoked force majeure in response to the conflict.

Impact on US Relations and Global Investments

The financial stakes are immense. The original post correctly notes that these nations manage some of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds and, following President Donald Trump’s visit to the region last year, pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. investments. A review of these commitments would likely catch the attention of the White House.

An adviser to a Gulf government, cited in the original text, confirmed that the prospect of such a review has already raised concerns in Washington. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace observed that the Gulf states are confronting the limits of their ability to spend their way to influence at the White House, noting that President Trump appears unwilling to reshape his war-forward outlook despite Gulf opposition.

The potential redirection of Gulf capital extends beyond the United States. According to Semafor, the Middle East crisis risks upending burgeoning Gulf-Africa ties. Gulf nations have invested over $100 billion in Africa across energy, ports, and tech sectors, serving as a counterweight to Western and Chinese influence. However, sovereign wealth funds that have been pouring money into African projects may now redirect their attention and capital toward immediate domestic priorities and defense.

While the initial X post by Sulaiman Ahmed brought attention to the matter, the narrative is now backed by reports from major financial news outlets. Gulf states find themselves in an increasingly untenable position, caught between Iran’s retaliatory strikes and their security alliance with the U.S.

As budget strains mount and civilian infrastructure comes under fire, the wealthy Gulf monarchies appear to be considering economic self-preservation measures that could fundamentally alter their relationship with the United States and the global economy

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