A senior adviser to President Donald Trump is urging Washington to seek a swift exit from the escalating conflict with Iran, warning that continued fighting could further destabilize the Middle East and continue to rattle the global market even worse than they already have.

David Sacks, the White House adviser overseeing artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency policy, said the United States has already achieved significant military objectives and should now consider stepping back before the conflict widens further.

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Trump and top aides blindsided by scale of Iran's retaliation as Gulf allies 'furious' 

President Donald Trump and some of his closest advisers were caught off guard by the scope of Iran’s military response to U.S. strikes, while key Gulf allies have privately expressed anger at the White House’s decision to escalate the conflict, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

The publication reported Friday that “the president and some aides were surprised at the breadth and scope of Iran’s retaliation,” which included missile and drone launches targeting regional countries from Azerbaijan to Oman, according to people familiar with the matter.”

(Trump consulted with Witkoff, Jushner and other non-military people before stating this war. He did not talk Gerneral Caine, DNI Gabbard and other pros.

Iran wants this war to last 244 more days. They are probably assembling nuclear weapons as Trump killed the man who opped atomic bombs.)

 https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2676102274/

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Iran War Exposes America's Unfixed Supply Chains

 Posted by Tyler Durden, Authored by David Dayen via The American Prospect,

One of the more fascinating sidelights of our war of choice in Iran is how it has reinforced the devastating consequences of our hollowed-out industrial base, consolidated commercial sector, and overreliance on long intermediated supply chains.

For example, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz carries implications for not only oil but also fertilizer, right at the height of the spring planting season. About one-third of the world’s fertilizer ships through the strait, and without access, prices have jumped and farmers are anxious. Yet there are enough natural resources in the United States—nitrogen, phosphate, potash—to serve all our fertilizer needs; in fact, in the 1930s and ’40s one of the largest fertilizer producers in the world was the Tennessee Valley Authority. This production was wound down in the 1970s; today the industry is dominated by two to four firms, and that may end up having existential implications for hungry people the world over.

A more comically shortsighted example concerns our depleted stock of munitions, one of the few industrial capacities America has retained but which still is imperiled by concentration and outsourcing. These are of course the basic materials necessary to prosecute a war, and you’d think it would be the one item countries would retain the ability to produce themselves. But our trillion-dollar military operates more like a welfare program to help underprivileged Northern Virginia contractors buy second homes and luxury yachts, not as a force that has what it needs when it needs it. Pacifists should rejoice; stupidity in military supply chains puts a binding limit on how many brown-skinned people we can kill.

In the 1990s, dozens of military contractors were reduced to five prime integrators, something demanded by Clinton Defense Secretary Les Aspin and his deputy (and future defense secretary) William Perry at a meeting known as the “Last Supper.”

Nearly all weapons and delivery systems now flow through Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and General Dynamics. Executives at these companies were called into the White House last Friday—less than a week after the war began—to discuss how to accelerate offensive and especially defensive weapons production amid a shortage that already was weighing on the military. This was after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the war was saved by shifting to smaller bombs rather than “exquisite” munitions for the campaign. If that was the case, why have the meeting?

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-war-exposes-americas-unfixed-supply-chains

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FCC Deciding Whether to Allow Startup to Launch Huge Mirror Satellite to Blast Sunlight on Cities at Nighttime

The US Federal Communication Commission is reviewing an application to launch and deploy a massive mirror satellite in space that would reflect beams of sunlight onto darkened portions of the Earth.

In theory, it could be used to power solar farms, light up a city that never sleeps, or provide lighting during emergency scenarios, argues the startup behind the idea, Reflect Orbital. And the prototype satellite, equipped with a 60-foot mirror, would just be the beginning.

https://citizenwatchreport.com/fcc-deciding-whether-to-allow-startup-to-launch-huge-mirror-satellite-to-blast-sunlight-on-cities-at-nighttime/

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Monster 6-inch hailstone likely to shatter Illinois state record

https://citizenwatchreport.com/monster-6-inch-hailstone-likely-to-shatter-illinois-state-record/

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Trump Claims "Many Countries" Will Send Warships As US "Bombing The Hell Out Of Shoreline" To Reopen Hormuz

"One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN"

(Delusional thinking. Iran has lots of 2,000 Km (1,240 mile) range missiles.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/risking-energy-assets-across-region-trump-crosses-iran-red-line-bombing-kharg-island

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Oil Could Test $200; Martin Armstrong Warns Attacking Iranian Water Supplies Could Bring Out Nukes

“Part of the protests (in Iran) were about water rationing.  The Islamic Republic Guard were called the ‘water mafia'...  They control the water.

(another bad idea. israel depends more on desalination than Iran does.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/oil-could-test-200-martin-armstrong-warns-attacking-iranian-water-supplies-could-bring

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Christian Teacher Fined $750,000 for Refusing to Agree That There Are More Than 2 Genders – Persecution in the First World

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/christian-teacher-fined-750000-refusing-agree-2-genders/

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Two Nicaraguan Illegal Aliens Who Entered US on Biden’s Open Border Invitation Arrested Following Machete Attack at Florida Laundromat

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/03/two-nicaraguan-illegal-aliens-who-entered-us-bidens/

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Major UAE Fujairah Port In Flames As Iran Vows Escalation For Kharg Island Attack

US Embassy Baghdad also struck by drone...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/major-uae-fujairah-port-flames-iran-vows-escalation-kharg-island-attack

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U.S. To Begin 86-Million-Barrel SPR Dump Next Week Via Exchange Program

"President Trump promised to protect America's energy security by managing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve responsibly, and this action demonstrates his commitment to that promise."

 https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/us-begin-86-million-barrel-spr-dump-next-week-exchange-program

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Drone strike hits Kurdish oil refinery in northern Iraq.| Middle east tensions rise. Erbiil US base has been unde missile and drone barage.