The Conspiracy of the Beirut Port Blast
- Fred
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
When I go to bed at night, I do not worry if someone will try to bomb my house in the morning.
I have American Worries, living in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Worries like if things are too expensive or if my kids will have opportunities for good jobs.
I do worry a little about safety, being outside Cleveland, instead of a nice metroplex like Madison, Wisconsin or Boise, Idaho, but not too much. Why? Many of the areas' criminals are related to my in-laws.
Editor's Note: Mostly kidding.
When it comes to world events, I try hard not to be Conspiracy Theory Guy. But things between the United States and Iran kind of have me rattled. Why? Because every time the United States and Iran declare a cease fire, Israel attacks....
Lebanon?
When I was young, I didn't know what I didn't know.
Now that I'm older, I try to be aware of what I don't know. What the hell do I mean by that? Back in the year 2020, there was an accident at the Beirut Port. The official story was that 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate was accidently set alight and exploded.
Not a minor explosion, mind you, but the 4th strongest non-nuclear explosion since WWII.
Side Note - According to AI, these are the 5 Strongest Non-Nuclear Explosions Since WWII:
Minor Scale (1985): While a planned explosion rather than a disaster, this was a massive, 4.8-kiloton test conducted by the US Defense Nuclear Agency to simulate a tactical nuclear weapon.
RAF Fauld Explosion (1944): Late in the war (often grouped with post-war impacts), this involved the accidental detonation of over 4,000 tonnes (about 3.6 kilotons) of conventional bombs in a storage depot.
Texas City Disaster (1947): A shipment of over 2,300 tonnes of ammonium nitrate on the SS Grandcamp exploded, triggering further explosions on other ships and in nearby oil storage, equivalent to roughly 1–2 kilotons.
Beirut Explosion (2020): Around 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in the port of Beirut detonated, with estimated yields ranging from 0.5 to 1.1 kilotons.
Soviet N-1 Launch Disaster (1969): A massive Soviet moon rocket exploded on the launchpad, resulting in a blast that was one of the largest ever recorded, estimated in the low-kiloton range.
Do you know how much 2,750 tons is? It's 5.5 million pounds.
What was 5.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate doing in a port, next to an open flame?
It was obviously going SOMEWHERE.
It was not in a secure location in the Lebanese Countryside.
I don't know where it was going, but shouldn't something like that be secured? I don't know why it was there, but there were few non-nefarious reasons for its existence.
A year after the explosion, many parts of downtown Beirut were still destroyed.
For God's sake, there was still a crater in the Mediterranean Sea a year later.
Why wasn't the explosion on America's Radar? Because in the Summer of 2020, people were coming out of their Covid Fog, they didn't give a crap about what was happening in the Middle East. I remember seeing the raw video footage from that explosion and was convinced that someone had used a Dirty Bomb.
I am also still 100% convinced that Iran wants to make a catastrophic strike against Israel, while saying they didn't make a catastrophic strike against Israel. The Beirut Port Blast had all the fingerprints of a possible attack on Israel that went wrong in its developmental stages. If Israel keeps attacking Lebanon, there has to be a reason, right?
And I am going to say it again, Israel is about the size of New Jersey. In theory it could be destroyed. Iran is about the size about the size of Alaska, unless there is a catastrophic worldwide event, Iran will never be destroyed. They may change governments, but logistically, you couldn't destroy Iran.
A few well-placed strategic strikes around Tel Aviv would cripple Israel, and, six years later, I still speculate that's what Iran was trying to achieve.
My questions today are two-fold:
Was that ammonium nitrate that caught fire in Beirut in 2020 meant for Israel?
How do you live in Israel knowing every day someone wants to bomb your house?
You hate Israel and say they shouldn't exist?
I hate Iran, but I don't wish they didn't exist. I just wish the mullahs weren't in charge.
If you don't think Israel shouldn't exist, you are antisemitic, plain and simple.
I look forward to the United States and Iran playing a spirited game of soccer this summer.