IRAN COULD START “EXPLODING FROM WITHIN” AS IT’S OIL CAPACITY IS STRETCHED TO THE MAX

IRAN COULD START “EXPLODING FROM WITHIN” AS IT’S OIL CAPACITY IS STRETCHED TO THE MAX

Joe Hoft

Trump said Iran could start “exploding from within” in a few days if its oil gets “clogged.”

It sounds exaggerated, but there’s truth to it.

Iran produces roughly 2 to 3.5 million barrels of oil every day, and that oil has to keep moving through ports, tankers, and export terminals like Kharg Island.

A large share of the government’s budget depends on that flow, so when exports are blocked and there’s NO EXIT ROUTE, the system doesn’t just pause, it starts backing up.

Storage tanks fill quickly, and while Iran does have capacity, somewhere in the range of 40 to 90 million barrels, that space can get used up surprisingly fast under full production.

Once those tanks hit their STORAGE LIMIT, there’s no room left to absorb anything, and that’s where the real pressure begins.

At that point, Iran is forced into a difficult position. They can either cut production and immediately lose massive daily revenue, easily over $100 million, or keep pumping oil into a system that has nowhere to send it.

That tradeoff is brutal: LOSE REVENUE OR DAMAGE INFRASTRUCTURE.

If production continues, PRESSURE BUILDUP starts inside pipelines and wells, and the crude itself begins to create problems.

Oil isn’t uniform, it contains heavier components like waxes and asphaltenes that start separating and sticking when flow slows down. This leads to clogging inside tubing and pipelines, reduced efficiency, and in some cases damage to the reservoir itself, which can make future extraction harder and more expensive.

As pressure builds, the risks expand beyond just clogging:

⚪️ Equipment is put under stress
⚪️ Safety systems get pushed
⚪️ In more extreme cases, you can see ruptures
⚪️ Longer-term infrastructure damage

It’s not about everything literally exploding at once, but the system starts degrading internally in ways that are costly and sometimes irreversible.

When Trump talks about “exploding from within,” he’s compressing all of that into a simple phrase. If you trap oil inside a system that depends on constant flow, you create physical strain that spreads quickly through the entire operation.

At the same time, this isn’t just about engineering, it’s part of a broader strategy.

This approach builds on the idea of MAXIMUM PRESSURE by going beyond financial sanctions and directly targeting Iran’s ability to export oil.

The goal is:

⚪️ Cut off revenue
⚪️ Weaken the state’s ability to fund itself
⚪️ Create internal economic stress that forces a decision

For Iran, this is exactly the situation they want to avoid.

Shutting down wells risks LONG-TERM DAMAGE to fields, while continuing production under blocked conditions risks harming infrastructure.

On top of that, losing oil revenue puts pressure on the budget, the currency, and internal stability.

So the message behind the rhetoric is fairly straightforward. If exports stay blocked, Iran is pushed into choosing between immediate financial loss and potential long-term damage to its most important industry.

That combination of physical and economic pressure is what’s meant to force movement without direct military escalation.

As expected, this means Iran’s storage capacity is full, and they have nowhere left to put their oil. The problem for them is that turning off their rigs is a nightmare as it’s not only a problem getting them to produce again (it could take months and mountains of $$), but even if they do, the damage to the fields means most are likely to never produce again at capacity, if at all. Meanwhile, they’re missing half a billion dollars a day in revenue they can’t afford to lose. Oil exports are their primary source of income.

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The Media Would Like To Dismiss It But End Times Beliefs Have Gone Mainstream

The Media Would Like To Dismiss It But End Times Beliefs Have Gone Mainstream

PNW STAFF

The New York times recently ran a column called "The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream" asking why so many adults believe we are living in the "End Times". They tried to be polite in examining the issue but essentially suggested that those who hold to such beliefs have been brainwashed by books such as "The Late Great Planet Earth" by Hal Lindsey for the older generation and The Left Behind Series for the more recent generation. 

About 40 percent of American adults believe that we are living in the "end times," according to polling. The New York Times wants to know where did that idea come from?

Despite beliefs to the contrary explored in the article, belief in the end times did not begin with modern paperbacks or 20th-century theology. It began with Scripture itself--anchored in the words of Jesus, the prophets, and the apostles. What we are witnessing today is not the rise of a fringe idea, but the reawakening of an ancient one.

1. The Words of Jesus Demand Watchfulness, Not Dismissal

In the Gospels, Jesus did not speak vaguely about the future--He gave detailed warnings about the conditions preceding His return: global conflict, deception, moral decay, and widespread fear. He described a world marked by "wars and rumors of wars," lawlessness increasing, and truth growing cold.

These are not abstract ideas--they are observable realities.

To suggest that modern believers are simply projecting meaning onto current events ignores the fact that Jesus explicitly instructed His followers to watch. Not speculate wildly--but remain alert. If millions today see alignment between His warnings and our present moment, that is not irrational--it is obedience.

2. Biblical Prophecy Has a Track Record of Accuracy

Skeptics often treat prophecy as vague or symbolic guesswork. But history tells a different story. The Bible contains hundreds of fulfilled prophecies--many of them precise, specific, and historically verifiable.

From the rise and fall of empires described in the Book of Daniel to the detailed prophecies surrounding the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, Scripture has demonstrated a level of predictive consistency unmatched by any other religious text.

If past prophecies have been fulfilled with such clarity, why should future ones suddenly be dismissed as fantasy?

That's not skepticism--that's selective reasoning.

3. The Modern World Uniquely Mirrors Prophetic Conditions

For most of human history, certain biblical prophecies seemed impossible. A global economy? Instant worldwide communication? The ability to control buying and selling on a massive scale?

Today, those are not just possible--they are actively being built.

Digital currencies, biometric identification, artificial intelligence, and centralized global systems are no longer theoretical. They are here. What once sounded symbolic now reads like a literal blueprint of emerging reality.

This is not about fear--it's about recognition. The infrastructure described in prophecy is no longer distant. It is forming in real time.

4. Israel's Central Role Cannot Be Ignored

One of the most compelling pieces of prophetic evidence is the nation of Israel itself. Scattered for nearly 2,000 years and then reestablished in 1948, Israel stands at the center of global attention--politically, militarily, and spiritually.

Biblical prophecy repeatedly places Israel at the heart of end-times events. The fact that this small nation dominates international headlines, shapes foreign policy debates, and remains the focal point of global tension is not coincidence.

It is consistency--with Scripture.

To argue for a purely "rational" foreign policy detached from Israel's prophetic significance is to ignore the very forces shaping geopolitical reality. Whether one believes in prophecy or not, leaders across the world clearly recognize that Israel is not just another nation.

5. The Moral and Cultural Landscape Matches Prophetic Warnings

The Bible describes a time when truth would be inverted, when good would be called evil and evil good. A time when society would reject foundational truths and embrace confusion as virtue.

Look around.

The erosion of moral clarity, the celebration of what was once universally condemned, and the hostility toward faith--especially Christianity--are not isolated trends. They are defining characteristics of our age.

This isn't about nostalgia or cultural preference. It's about alignment with a prophetic description written thousands of years ago.

Rebutting the Critics

The claim that beliefs about the end times are rooted primarily in modern teachings like premillennial dispensationalism is historically incomplete. While theological frameworks have developed over time--as all fields of study do--the core concepts of Christ's return, judgment, and the culmination of history are deeply embedded in Scripture and early Christian teaching.

Early church fathers wrote extensively about the return of Christ and the final judgment. The expectation of His coming was not a fringe doctrine--it was central to the faith.

As for the idea that prophecy "re-enchants the news in a dangerous way," this argument misunderstands the role of belief. For millions, prophecy does not distort reality--it provides a framework for understanding it. It encourages vigilance, moral responsibility, and hope--not chaos.

The real danger is not that people see meaning in world events.

The real danger is a culture so committed to materialism that it refuses to see meaning at all.

A Call to Confidence, Not Apology

To those who feel dismissed, labeled, or ridiculed for believing in biblical prophecy--this moment should not weaken your faith. It should strengthen it.

Scripture itself warned that in the last days, there would be scoffers. That belief in Christ's return would be mocked. That watchfulness would be ridiculed as ignorance.

And yet, here we are.

Not deceived. Not uninformed. Not clinging to fantasy--but standing on a foundation that has endured for thousands of years.

The question is no longer whether people believe in the end times.

The question is why so many are beginning to see it now.

And perhaps the answer is simpler than critics would like to admit:

Because the signs are no longer subtle.

Propagandists For Globalism Depend On Censorship:

Propagandists For Globalism Depend On Censorship: Fewer People Are Buying Into The Hardcore Cult Propaganda That Marxist-Globalists Rain Down On The World

J.B. Shurk

Perhaps I’m being too optimistic, but I think fewer people are buying into the hardcore cult propaganda that Marxist-globalists rain down on the world every day.  

I see a few more rolled eyes around me when someone blames a thunderstorm on “climate change.”  The last few stragglers of committed COVID-hyperventilators have taken off their paper masks when out in public (and have pleasantly discovered that abnormally rapid breathing disappears once dirty rags are removed from one’s face).  I’ve heard more “trans”-enablers stating clearly that biological boys should not be in girls’ locker rooms or competing in their sports.  More celebrities and academics (many of whom have proudly identified as atheists in the recent past) have begun to read the Bible and openly discuss the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Is the world healing?  Has the ideological pendulum begun to swing back toward sanity?  Have the Marxist-globalists dosed the world with so much propaganda over the years that the effectiveness of their lies is starting to fade?  Does that mean the last century of Marxist-globalist sociological conditioning is beginning to wear off?

I think the lies that Marxist-globalists regularly tell have become too preposterous for the average person to swallow anymore.  

Last week, the apocalypse-whisperer Al Gore was at a Hollywood “climate change” event honoring how wonderfully stupid all his celebrity friends are.  Joined by The West Wing alum Bradley Whitford, both men discussed the likelihood that Earth will descend into another ice age in ten to twenty-five years.  They referenced Roland Emmerich’s 2004 wintry disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, in describing what we should expect.  Prepare for snowdrifts!

Listening to this kind of doomsaying-lunacy the average person says to himself, “I thought you told us that ‘global warming’ was going to incinerate us?  Now you’re predicting snow?”  Gore’s wildly inaccurate, scaremongering, anti-science, fever dream, An Inconvenient Truth, predicted that the Arctic Ocean’s summer ice would be gone by 2013 (wrong!) and that Mt. Kilimanjaro would have no snow by 2015 (also wrong!).  The snake oil salesman who became filthy rich by selling disaster porn to the world promised that rising temperatures would soon (as in at least a decade ago!) leave Manhattan and Miami under twenty feet of water.  Now, in 2026, apparently “global warming” is so last decade’s fashion, and we’re back to “global cooling” again!  We already did “global cooling” during the 1970s!  Does that mean bell-bottoms, disco, “blaxploitation” films, and kung fu will be making comebacks, too?

A century of the “little boy who cried wolf” telling us that using hydrocarbon fuels (or what the oh-so-educated “elites” among us call “fossil fuels” in order to pretend that everything runs on dinosaurs) would cause the planet to freeze…or perhaps burn…or maybe change our climate (Duh, the climate is always naturally changing, you idiots!)…or produce a tornado somewhere in the Midwest…has forced a lot of people to ask, “Why should we trust ‘The Science’ when ‘The Science’ sounds a lot like propaganda?”  When Marxist-globalists doubled down by turning a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, into the world’s leading authority on “climate science,” people capable of thinking beyond the limits of government programming finally had enough. 

People are now waking up to a rather startling set of propositions: Marxist-globalist governments lie to them regularly.  Those lies cause harm to citizens.  When citizens complain, Marxist-globalist governments tell more lies and try to redirect blame (It’s Trump’s fault; It’s Putin’s fault; It’s that blasted ‘global warming’!).  When citizens see through those lies, too, Marxist-globalist governments turn to the same blunt instrument that all totalitarian governments choose: censorship.

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Europe pushes global military spending to record high

Europe pushes global military spending to record high

RT

European military spending helped to propel global defense expenditure to a record high of almost $3 trillion in 2025 despite the US decreasing its outlay, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released on Monday.

Worldwide military expenditure rose 2.9% in real terms last year to reach $2.887 trillion, marking the 11th consecutive annual increase and lifting the global military burden to 2.5% of GDP, the report said. SIRPI experts explained the trend by citing several ongoing conflicts and persisting geopolitical tensions.

The entire European continent accounted for the largest regional increase, with spending rising 14% to $864 billion. SIPRI linked the surge to the Ukraine conflict, a standoff with Russia, and “the ongoing pursuit of European self-reliance alongside increasing pressure from the United States to strengthen burden sharing within the alliance.”

In total, European NATO members spent a combined $559 billion in 2025, with Germany’s outlays rising 24% to $114 billion and Spain’s jumping 50% to $40.2 billion.

US military expenditure fell 7.5% to $954 billion, with SIPRI linking a surprise decline to the Trump administration’s refusal to approve new assistance packages to Ukraine, in contrast to previous years when $127 billion in direct military support had been authorized.

The US, however, has continued deliveries via the NATO-coordinated PURL program, with other Western countries footing the bill.

Last week, Pentagon officials also said that US President Donald Trump was advocating a military budget of $1.5 trillion to provide funds for the new Golden Dome missile system, AI capabilities, and a new class of battleships.

SIPRI noted Russia’s defense expenditure grew 5.9% to $190 billion, while Ukraine increased spending by 20% to $84.1 billion, equivalent to 40% of GDP, becoming the seventh-largest military spender in the world.

Elsewhere, China increased military spending by 7.4% to $336 billion, while Japan’s expenditure rose 9.7% to $62.2 billion, and Taiwan’s by 14% to $18.2 billion.

Moscow has repeatedly condemned what it described as reckless militarization by the EU, adding that it is aimed at Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has also suggested that European propaganda seeks to turn Russia into a “model external enemy” to divert attention from internal crises.

Terry James: Sudden Destruction

Sudden Destruction

Terry James

For years I’ve had Jesus’ prophecy of Luke 17:28–30 at the center of the message I believe our Lord wants delivered at this late hour of the Church Age:

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. (Luke 17:28–30)

Well, that message hasn’t changed. It still resonates as the one prophecy I believe is most directly meant for this sin-darkening planet that’s on the cusp of receiving God’s wrath because of humankind’s rebellion against Him.

Jesus said when He next intervenes into the evil affairs of earth’s inhabitants, the “righteous” will be removed. In the “days of Lot” in Jesus’ prophecy, it was Lot and his family who were removed because Lot was considered the only one in Sodom who was righteous. In the case of Christ’s next intervention, He indicated that another righteous entity will be removed to safety. This, of course, will be all who believe in Jesus for salvation–collectively called the Church.

I always preface what I say about that moment of Rapture with Jesus’ statement that, at the time, people of earth will, as in Sodom of Lot’s day, be buying, selling, planting, building, and marrying—in other words, going about business as usual.

Even with all the evil going on now–and it’s probably worse than it was in ancient Sodom and Gomorrah—it is still business as usual, as I view it. Despite the evil–the wars and rumors of war, the deception, the ethnic upheaval all over the planet—there isn’t yet catastrophic disruption of life on earth.

So, in this sense, our time is exactly like Jesus predicted in Luke 17:28–30.

As we know, the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. And the destruction apparently came immediately following Lot’s removal. The cities were decimated; for millennia, scientists and archaeologists thought the Bible’s account of the destruction to be myth. But in most previous decades, there is evidence that indeed these cities were destroyed, and even sulfur residue of the region at the south end of the Dead Sea proves that something devastatingly powerful blasted the area. Pottery shards and other evidence that humans once inhabited the region are still being extracted from beneath the earth’s surface there.

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