Re: Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War
JUST IN: Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. invested $25 million in a drone company called Powerus. The Pentagon is now at war with Iran. The Pentagon needs drones. Powerus sells drones to the Pentagon.
In January 2026, the President signed an executive order banning Chinese drones and components from the US military. Chinese manufacturers held 70% of the Pentagon’s drone supply chain. That supply chain vanished overnight. The Replicator initiative needs 30,000 one-way attack drones. Domestic producers cannot fill the gap at scale. Powerus, a startup with approximately 50 employees founded to build autonomous AI-swarm systems, is now competing for those contracts.
The President created the demand by banning Chinese drones. The President created the urgency by starting a war. The President’s sons invested in the company positioned to fill both gaps.
Viral claims of a $620 million Pentagon contract awarded to Powerus circulated on X in early March. These remain unverified by any Tier 1 credible source as of 9th March. Senate Democrats have flagged the conflict of interest. Ethics probes are reportedly underway. What is verified is the $25 million family investment, the 70% supply chain elimination, the active war creating acute demand, and the company bidding for Replicator contracts while the President’s family holds equity.
Now look at the war this demand is feeding.
Iran launched nearly 3,000 missiles and drones in the first week. Gulf states intercepted over 1,700 drones. The UAE shot down 1,110 out of 1,184 launched at its territory. A 94% intercept rate that cost an estimated $4.4 billion in munitions to defeat $23 million worth of Shahed drones. Each Shahed costs $20,000 to $50,000. Each Patriot interceptor costs $3 to $4 million. Each THAAD missile costs $12.7 million. The cost ratio is 190 to 1 in favour of Iran.
THAAD production runs at 8 per month. Iran produces hundreds of Shaheds per month from dispersed facilities that US strikes have degraded 40 to 60% but cannot eliminate under the Mosaic doctrine’s 31 autonomous provincial commands. Iran can launch more drones in a single night than the US produces interceptors in a year.
The longer the war continues, the more interceptors are consumed. The more interceptors consumed, the more urgent the Pentagon’s drone gap becomes. The more urgent the gap, the more valuable Powerus becomes. The more valuable Powerus becomes, the more the Trump family’s $25 million investment appreciates.
The war feeds the depletion. The depletion feeds the demand. The demand feeds the company. The company feeds the family.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a supply chain. Every link is documented. The executive order is public. The investment is reported by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. The war is on live television. The intercept statistics are published by Gulf defence ministries. The Replicator programme is a Pentagon initiative with published procurement targets. The ethics probes are confirmed by Senate communications.
The only question is whether a sitting President’s family should hold equity in a defence contractor while the President wages a war that creates the contractor’s entire addressable market.
The market has priced the war. It has priced the oil. It has priced the drones.
It has not priced the answer to that question.
Full analysis here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/shanak...even-insurance
Posted by Ravenlocke (here)
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So, even that's fake as well? 
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