LIVE: USA vs IRAN is NOT Ending.. - OIL is being manipulated? - When will Bitcoin breakout!?
Speakers
Thread Guy — Host
— crypto podcast host (aka Red / The Red Guy)
Summary
- The Strait of Hormuz closure has blocked approximately 20 million barrels of daily oil flow, creating a severe global supply deficit.
- The IEA's 400 million barrel reserve release is physically constrained to a 2 million barrel per day drawdown, making it mathematically insufficient to offset the daily losses.
- The global economy is transitioning into a HALO (Heavy Asset, Low Obsolescence) regime, favoring physical commodities and hard assets over asset-light technology.
- Emerging markets are recycling commodity windfalls into gold and Bitcoin rather than US Treasuries to avoid the risk of US asset freezes and sanctions.
Trade Ideas
Every day that passes, we're in the whole 18 million barrels every single day. And so even though you agree to release the oil, you can't just like throw 400 million into the atmosphere... you can only release like two a day. The market is underestimating the physical bottleneck of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Even with a massive 400 million barrel release authorized, the daily flow rate cannot offset the 18 to 20 million barrels lost from the Strait of Hormuz closure, guaranteeing a structural supply deficit. LONG USO as the physical shortage of oil will force prices higher until demand destruction occurs. The US government could implement price controls or aggressively intervene in futures markets to cap prices for political reasons.
Ever since 2022, commodity prices spike, these emerging markets get money. What do they buy? They buy gold. They buy anything but dollar denominated assets. Because the US and Europe froze Russian central bank assets, other commodity-producing nations no longer trust US Treasuries as a safe haven. As oil prices rise, these nations will recycle their excess capital into gold instead of US debt. LONG GLD as geopolitical fragmentation and sanctions risk drive structural sovereign demand for non-dollar reserve assets. A sudden de-escalation of global conflicts or a change in US foreign policy that restores trust in the dollar system.
Are you going to buy more US assets after what just happened? The US just got you into this cross war that nobody asked for. Are you going to fire into US assets or are you going to just like long gold and Bitcoin? Similar to gold, sovereign nations and large pools of capital in emerging markets will seek out decentralized, censorship-resistant assets to protect their wealth from US foreign policy decisions and fiat debasement. LONG BTC as a geopolitical hedge and alternative store of value for nations looking to bypass the US dollar system. Coordinated global regulatory crackdowns on digital assets or a sharp rise in real yields making non-yielding assets less attractive.
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