America built its hegemony over the last 250 years through exploitation and intimidation. There, I fixed the the first sentence for you - you're welcome.
Thank you for the rewrite, Steve. You are correct, of course but I'm pointing to the post-WWII new world order, which aimed for trade and cooperation rather than aggression. It didn't work all the time, but it produced the most peaceful period in human history, made the world vasty richer, and improved the lives of billions.
Western analysts still make the fatal mistake of treating the Houthis like an ordinary Iranian proxy.
They aren't. They’re a 350,000-strong hybrid syndicate that operates almost identically to a transnational drug cartel:
• Co-opting state telecom for digital surveillance and money laundering
• Running billion-dollar fuel smuggling networks
• Shaking down commercial shipping for up to $180M/month in "safe passage"
By burning through 86% of Saudi Arabia's Patriot interceptors in 38 days and shuttering Riyadh’s airport, they are systematically choking the life out of Vision 2030. The House of Saud isn't facing a conventional military threat—it's bleeding out against an asymmetric war machine that conventional strikes cannot dismantle.
Our latest deep dive breaks down the cartel mechanics and the structural defense failure in the Gulf:
The mainstream consensus thinks Washington is pausing for peace. The logistical math says otherwise.
While media desks recycle diplomatic rumors, our Subscriber Intelligence Desk tracked the actual fundamentals:
• 86% depletion of Saudi interceptor stockpiles
• Lloyd’s war-risk premiums pulling the plug on commercial transit
• A 4-week matrix return of +$1,116 across our tracked Polymarket and Kalshi setups—paying for a full annual subscription almost 10x over in 30 days.
We just released our full operational breakdown and the updated Q4 prediction market matrix covering crude breakouts, interceptor burn rates, and the Hormuz deadlock:
Way, thank you so much for writing this article, you made a concise, summation of the consequences, with valid identification of what it modelled and how gross corruption of the political, the minds of the electorate, institutions and corporate entities undid 80 years of civilizations progress.
The bulwark always leaked, but the rot and corrosion kept getting patched over after each pattern of abuse pushed the norms too far. However the patches were laid bare and weakened as soon as people forgot the pain. Like a glacial lake, the melt was hidden until the dam burst. The logarithm of self destruction was seeded long ago, it only felt sudden by those, who cared not to notice. The flood of consequences is only beginning to be felt, and it will only get worse, for the US and the world, from here. Can the damage be arrested? Perhaps, but it will not be easy, but it will never return to what was possible before. America broke it but no longer has the resources to fix it. We are no where near the bottom, the structural failure is ongoing, the water is still rising and has a long way to get to the sea.
Steve Ryan was correct in a general, long arc of history, way, yet he is not being fair to the correct focus of the article and to the progress that was made, largely through American leadership in the post Second World War period. America did many bad things—others did much much worse—but America was not all bad. It has risen to the occasion, many times, to provide leadership and resources in ways few-to-none have have been able to do before. However, in the end, it failed too many times in the ways that matter most, that is, to turn away from systemic corruption and greed. It is not that others are and have been worse, it is that it’s leadership on the global stage is gone. Right now the only leadership it provides is a race to the bottom. Saying, “sir do you have no shame?” It worked once, twice if you include Nixon, but without addressing the fundamental flaws in the system it served less as a cautionary tail than as a quick blueprint for the corrupt, who have no shame, to take and hold power and dismantle the great American experiment. I would argue that the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution were the pinnacle of human achievement in founding and guiding a country. However these where not backed up by the legal structure to fill the gaps where decency and competence were assumed. Nature may hate a vacuum, but corruption creeps in through the shadows and holes of a legislative vacuum.
One Last Thing:
Way Yuh, one last thing, please correct the bullet point:
America built its hegemony over the last 250 years through exploitation and intimidation. There, I fixed the the first sentence for you - you're welcome.
Thank you for the rewrite, Steve. You are correct, of course but I'm pointing to the post-WWII new world order, which aimed for trade and cooperation rather than aggression. It didn't work all the time, but it produced the most peaceful period in human history, made the world vasty richer, and improved the lives of billions.
Western analysts still make the fatal mistake of treating the Houthis like an ordinary Iranian proxy.
They aren't. They’re a 350,000-strong hybrid syndicate that operates almost identically to a transnational drug cartel:
• Co-opting state telecom for digital surveillance and money laundering
• Running billion-dollar fuel smuggling networks
• Shaking down commercial shipping for up to $180M/month in "safe passage"
By burning through 86% of Saudi Arabia's Patriot interceptors in 38 days and shuttering Riyadh’s airport, they are systematically choking the life out of Vision 2030. The House of Saud isn't facing a conventional military threat—it's bleeding out against an asymmetric war machine that conventional strikes cannot dismantle.
Our latest deep dive breaks down the cartel mechanics and the structural defense failure in the Gulf:
https://triggledger.substack.com/p/the-cartel-on-the-red-sea-how-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8gc1qf
The mainstream consensus thinks Washington is pausing for peace. The logistical math says otherwise.
While media desks recycle diplomatic rumors, our Subscriber Intelligence Desk tracked the actual fundamentals:
• 86% depletion of Saudi interceptor stockpiles
• Lloyd’s war-risk premiums pulling the plug on commercial transit
• A 4-week matrix return of +$1,116 across our tracked Polymarket and Kalshi setups—paying for a full annual subscription almost 10x over in 30 days.
We just released our full operational breakdown and the updated Q4 prediction market matrix covering crude breakouts, interceptor burn rates, and the Hormuz deadlock:
https://triggledger.substack.com/p/the-cartel-on-the-red-sea-how-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=8gc1qf
Way, thank you so much for writing this article, you made a concise, summation of the consequences, with valid identification of what it modelled and how gross corruption of the political, the minds of the electorate, institutions and corporate entities undid 80 years of civilizations progress.
The bulwark always leaked, but the rot and corrosion kept getting patched over after each pattern of abuse pushed the norms too far. However the patches were laid bare and weakened as soon as people forgot the pain. Like a glacial lake, the melt was hidden until the dam burst. The logarithm of self destruction was seeded long ago, it only felt sudden by those, who cared not to notice. The flood of consequences is only beginning to be felt, and it will only get worse, for the US and the world, from here. Can the damage be arrested? Perhaps, but it will not be easy, but it will never return to what was possible before. America broke it but no longer has the resources to fix it. We are no where near the bottom, the structural failure is ongoing, the water is still rising and has a long way to get to the sea.
Steve Ryan was correct in a general, long arc of history, way, yet he is not being fair to the correct focus of the article and to the progress that was made, largely through American leadership in the post Second World War period. America did many bad things—others did much much worse—but America was not all bad. It has risen to the occasion, many times, to provide leadership and resources in ways few-to-none have have been able to do before. However, in the end, it failed too many times in the ways that matter most, that is, to turn away from systemic corruption and greed. It is not that others are and have been worse, it is that it’s leadership on the global stage is gone. Right now the only leadership it provides is a race to the bottom. Saying, “sir do you have no shame?” It worked once, twice if you include Nixon, but without addressing the fundamental flaws in the system it served less as a cautionary tail than as a quick blueprint for the corrupt, who have no shame, to take and hold power and dismantle the great American experiment. I would argue that the United States Declaration of Independence and Constitution were the pinnacle of human achievement in founding and guiding a country. However these where not backed up by the legal structure to fill the gaps where decency and competence were assumed. Nature may hate a vacuum, but corruption creeps in through the shadows and holes of a legislative vacuum.
One Last Thing:
Way Yuh, one last thing, please correct the bullet point:
• becomes dimplocially isolated
I think you meant to say:
• becomes dimplocially isolated