TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN—CONSEQUENCES?

NO PLANS FOR TRUMP SUCCESSION—NO PLANS FOR NO OIL

Yankees Can’t Think Ahead; Refuse to Communicate. On Monday, February 23, 2026, I called a series of high government officials, specifically those in line to become president should Donald J. Trump leave office. I got a variety of typically useless answers.

· Vice President J.D. Vance: not permitted to reach his office.

· Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House: no answer.

· Chuck Grassley, President pro Tempore of the Senate: referred to Press Secretary; no answer

Then I called the offices of Maryland Democratic Senator Chris van Hollen about his views on the planned illegal and unconstitutional war. I was told to email his press secretary. Later, I rang Senator Mrk R. Warner, Virginia Democrat. Again, I did not get an answer. (He had been castigated by The Young Turks on YouTube about his support for bombing Iran.)

Trump Out of Office? Well, there are a variety of possibilities that apparently are being ignored.

· A stroke from one too many bags of Cheetos; or from fury that the Iranians resisted his bluster and murder of the country’s citizens.

· Impeachment by a corrupt, incompetent Congress that fears the mid-term elections.

· Attempted military coup.

· Assassination by

i. Enraged family members whose sons died protecting the Apartheid Entity.

ii. US Zionist Sayanim (helpers) for permitting “Israel” to be destroyed.

iii. Ordinary citizens whose lifestyles he wrecked through runaway inflation, loss of jobs, and general economic collapse.

US Economic Collapse. Is, regrettably, very real. According to NewsTarget of February 2026, “The Strait of Hormuz as a Global Tinderbox. The Persian Gulf is a powder keg, and the United States under President Donald Trump is striking the match.” The Strait’s width varies from 30 miles (ca. 18 km) to a very narrow 2 miles (1.2 km) in the channels able to accommodate deep-draft tankers. Block it with mines, submarines, or sunken ships and gas prices would jump to $12 or more per gallon (3.8 liters). This would mean instantaneous hyperinflation in transportation and logistics costs worldwide. This would not be just a regional issue. Closure, temporarily or permanently, would result in failures across finance, geopolitics, and global supply chains, plunging the world into a crisis from which it may not recover.

Oil prices ranging from $150 to $300 a barrel would devastate transportation, food production, and home heating. Stock markets would drop; US Treasury securities would become unsellable. Maritime insurance premiums for vessels transiting the Middle East would become prohibitively expensive overnight. Shipping companies would be forced to reroute all traffic around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, adding weeks to delivery times and billions in additional fuel costs. Global supply chains, already fragile, would snap. European industrial powers like Germany, reliant on stable energy imports, would face immediate and severe manufacturing declines, leading to mass layoffs and social unrest.

Mass unemployment in the US, from closed factories (the few that are left) would be uncontainable and overwhelm the perilously thin “social safety net”. Social unrest/civil disorder could not then be controlled.

The Uniparty, i.e. the Republican branch would be voted out of existence for starting the conflict, and the other half, the Democrat portion, would suffer the same fate for allowing the war to happen.

Past Oil Shocks Were Nothing Compared to This One. According to The Burning Platform (February 2026), in 1973, about 5 million barrels were removed from the global oil market. Roughly 9% of the world’s supply vanished. In 1979, about 4 million barrels disappeared from the market—so about 6% of global supply was lost. Then, in 1990, during Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, about 4.3 million barrels were removed. That was a 7% supply loss.

Each time, oil prices then zoomed upward.

Now compare that to a Strait of Hormuz shutdown, which could instantly remove 20 million barrels from a global market producing about 100 million barrels per day—a staggering 20% of supply gone overnight.

This would be the largest supply shock in history. By far.

And it will be one that can’t be fixed by printing money. Central banks can’t create oil.

Which Country Will Be Hit Worse? In February 2026, Al Jazeera noted that China, India, Japan and South Korea accounted for a combined 69 percent intake of all crude oil and condensate flows through the Strait last year. Their factories, transport networks and power grids depend on uninterrupted Gulf energy. And just which countries supply the bulk of US imports?

COMMENT. The oligarchs, beholden to the Zionist Entity, are going to destroy us all. There is absolutely no reason to attack the Islamic Republic of Iran. The country has no nuclear weapons, and has renounced them, unlike “Israel” and the US. Iran is filled with patriotic, bright, educated people filled with great energy. They would be an asset to any state seeking advancement through trade and research. But the country’s destruction will mean its attackers’ destruction, by economics, weapons, and floods of refugees.

Israel et US delenda sunt.

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. Internationally recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.

Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.