Posted Mar 28, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |  

QUESTION: How is it possible that Trump was not briefed on the fact that Iran would attack the Gulf States when you pointed out Iran is Shia and the others are Sunni, and shutting down the Strait of Hormuz would not bring down the West without attacking the production as you yourself said they would do? Even Socrates warned of a Double Directional Change in Saudi Arabia in March. Are you sources far better than the CIA? Why do they not use you?

Sam

ANSWER: I cannot image that the CIA et al would not have anticipated that. Saudi Arabia has been the enemy of Iran, which was why they were cutting deals with Israel and UAE even held military exercises with Israel. You have to be completely ignorant of the Middle East not to have known this outcome. Since one tanker and that is just a rounding error. Attack the refineries and not you bring the world to its knees.

I knew that the Neocons were using Netanyahu to manipulate Trump for he assumed he was responding to a head of state when in fact he grew up in Philadelphia and hung out with the Neocons. I know of a private phone call in which Netanyahu manipulated Trump, stressing that he could “make history” by toppling the Ayatollah regime and taking revenge for Iranian efforts to assassinate him, which was central in Trump’s decision to strike when he did.

It appears that Trump was not fully briefed because the Neocons wanted this war. Yet, the intelligence community is now covering their ass claiming Trump was brief on the fact that Tehran would likely seek to close the economically vital Strait of Hormuz. That I can confirm. As Reuters reported that pre-war intelligence assessments did not say that Iran’s response was “a guarantee, but ‌it certainly was on the list of potential outcomes.” This is clearly a cover-your-ass position.

As far as claiming that the war was over “in the first hour” was a public declaration he made himself, not a claim derived from an official intelligence or military briefing. He appears to have come to that conclusion from video clips of blowing up things in Iran.

The computer has shown this war in everything from interest rates, holding of US debt, to all of the arrays on the Gulf States aside from the oil markets, commodities, and the war cycle. Our War Index targeted March last November with rising volatility from January into April ’26 where we do have Panic Cycles in many markets. The second array is the current one showing a Directional Change in March ’26 escalating into April with a Panic Cycle in July. As far as the CIA sources, they are informants. My are economic.