This walks through the Iran trade scandal the way you'd walk through an architecture review: inputs, outputs, dependencies, and what happens when monitoring goes dark. DOJ Public Integrity reduced to 2 people, CFTC investigation closed, SEC enforcement director forced out, then six fresh Polymarket wallets cash out $1.2M on a classified military operation and someone loads $580M in oil futures right before a market-moving Truth Social post.
defrost•1h ago
This was clearly on the horizon 12+ months past when the safeguards were being gutted.
Timothy D. Snyder and that circle of American historians were calling it out even before, on the basis of close reading the Project 2025 document and other signs.
harperlee•1h ago
Warning, AI slop.
phoronixrly•1h ago
@mstrslv, has this blog post been AI-generated?
DetroitThrow•1h ago
Obviously? Can you not recognize the style and weasel words at this point?
If you can't you should use Pangram, which marks this as 100% AI generated. This would fail most middle school English classes nowadays.
harperlee•52m ago
Listen, I’m not a zealot, AI can help a lot, but the default LLM style is unbearable to read.
netsharc•1h ago
The strange stuff about the whole scam (pushing the world towards WW3 to make a few bucks) is that the markets are still buying the shit that comes out of Trump's orifices. Why does it still go up when he lies about the end of the war coming soon? Is it because the market participants think "Oh, everyone else will do X, so I better do that too!"?
mstrslv•2h ago
defrost•1h ago
Timothy D. Snyder and that circle of American historians were calling it out even before, on the basis of close reading the Project 2025 document and other signs.