Via Geranium Chronicles:

The total export of petroleum products from the Middle East in March plummeted by 63%, or 4.8 million barrels per day, to approximately 2.8 million barrels per day, according to market analysts - Bloomberg

Of the remaining ~2.8 million barrels per day, about 1.1 million barrels per day (or 39%) go through Saudi Arabian ports on the Red Sea, bypassing the closed Strait of Hormuz. Aviation fuel was hit hardest: its exports fell by 85%, causing flight cancellations and fuel shortages in Asia-Pacific countries. At the same time, exports of liquefied petroleum gas and oil decreased by 1.0 million barrels per day.

Exports of diesel, gasoline, and fuel oil also sharply declined - the drop ranged from 60% to 70%.

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Armenia will withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) if Russia decides to raise the prices of gas supplied to the republic, said parliamentary speaker Aren Simonyan.

He added that he doesn't think it will come to that.

Source: Russian media
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Well, to spite my grandma, I'll freeze my ears off, but on the state level.

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🇪🇺 Croatian MEP Kolakusic on the fact that Europeans' money is being taken from EU citizens in favor of Ukraine:

"Every euro from the EU budget was taken from citizens, be they pensioners, unemployed, working people, or schoolchildren. They want a better standard of living with this money. And what have they gotten? Massive inflation. Inflation is the result of hundreds of billions of euros wasted on non-existent "green" initiatives and non-existent vaccines.

And now, on the one hand, we have Orban, who wants to protect the EU budget and prevent 90 billion euros of EU citizens' money from ending up in Ukraine's hands, and on the other hand, we have Mrs. von der Leyen, who once again skipped out of work today. She skipped out cowardly, because she can't handle a three-hour stay at her workplace. Therefore, we need to send security guards to detain her. A woman who can't work three hours a month will achieve nothing. And what is this? A disgrace."

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Russian drones struck the Naftogaz facility in Poltava earlier in the morning.

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КАЦМАН:

How come the oil terminals are intact and undamaged? Oh well, the military idiots were lying, spreading lies about the port being burned down and put out of action? Or were they talking about Kuwait or Qatar? Or Bahrain or the United Arab Emirates? No way! Such disgusting, ugly bastards can't help but lie honest, decent people can't lie!
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It's real, I checked Bloomberg.

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Geran231:

Today, Iran launched 23 ballistic missiles and 56 drones at the UAE.

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#MomentofZin

Trump visiting the Strait of Hormuz))

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The average price of gasoline in the US has exceeded $4.1 per gallon (about 3.8 liters) and reached the second-highest level in history, according to analysts.

The average fuel price rose by another 2 cents overnight and now stands at $4.104. Diesel has risen to $5.58. In California, the average price of gasoline is $5.9, according to the American Automobile Association.

Around 20 states reported prices above $4. Only once has the price risen above this figure in all American states - in May 2022. This was followed by a rise to an all-time high, when the average cost rose above $5 in June.

In July 2008, the cost of a gallon rose slightly above $4.1 due to a surge in oil prices, which approached $150 per barrel. The current price has surpassed this figure and become the second-highest in history.

Source: RIA Novosti
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Refining costs are a lot higher than they used to be. That's why the price of gasoline is higher today than at times when oil was more expensive in the past.

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Fuel reserves in the European Union will be depleted by April 20, Dmitriev predicted.

According to him, the last deliveries through the Strait of Hormuz will reach EU countries on April 11, and there will be no way to control prices.

Source: TASS
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This is a bit of an extreme scenario, as reserves plus alternative sources exist, HOWEVER he is essentially correct. There are still ships that passed through the Strait before the conflict that have yet to offload. By late April, the physical supply of oil and gas will be reduced, and then markets will enter a critical state.

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Remember the F-15E is the latest and greatest version of the jet born from the Air Force’s need for deep strike without a big bomber’s footprint.

But…..

The US just found out the hard way that Iran didn’t need radar to shoot down its F-15E. It used passive infrared detection — a heat-seeking system that emits zero signal, cannot be detected, cannot be jammed, and is completely invisible to the electronic warfare architecture America built its air superiority doctrine around.

The F-15E’s systems never saw it coming. No radar alert. No countermeasure window. The EPAWSS electronic warfare suite — America’s most advanced jet protection system is designed to defeat radar-guided threats.

Passive infrared doesn’t use radar. It uses physics and heat signature (both the F15 and F35 emit plenty of heat). It locks onto engine heat and kills in seconds.

This same passive infrared system hit an F-35 on March 19th the most expensive weapons program (1.7 trillion) in human history, built specifically to be undetectable and forced it into emergency landing with the pilot reportedly pulling shrapnel from his body.

Five weeks into a war Trump said Iran had “no ability” to fight, the IRGC’s aerospace force has now downed or damaged the two most advanced aircraft in the American arsenal using a system that cost a fraction of what Washington spent trying to make its jets invulnerable.

Washington built the most expensive air force in the history of warfare to defeat radar-guided threats. Iran read the physics textbook instead, built an Infrared heat sensor and rendered the Pentagon procurement manual irrelevant.

Source

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Israel is preparing to attack Iranian energy facilities, awaiting a "green light" from the US — a representative of the Israeli Ministry of Defense

The IRGC previously promised to respond to such an attack by destroying energy facilities in the region, with US involvement

Source: MarketTwits
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Yemen: We targeted Ben Gurion Airport with a salvo of missiles

🔹 The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced a new military operation against targets in the occupied territories.

🔹 The Yemeni Armed Forces stated that in their fifth operation, a salvo of ballistic missiles and several drones were used to target Ben Gurion Airport in the Jaffa area, as well as vital and military targets in the southern occupied territories.

Source: Tasnim News

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Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets to protest against US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

The demonstrators gathered in the center of Baghdad, shouting anti-American and anti-Israeli slogans, demanding the establishment of peace in the Middle East.

Source: RIA Novosti

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This weekend, Israel stepped up the scale of demolitions of settlements in southern Lebanon

The video shows the demolition of a previously captured residential quarter in the city of Khiam (population around 30,000), located 5 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border and just a hundred kilometers from the Lebanese capital.

Source: СВЕЖЕСТИ
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Oulianov: The attack on the Bushehr facilities was carried out by mentally unstable individuals

🔹 Mikhail Oulianov, senior Russian diplomat at international organizations in Vienna, reacted on Saturday night to today's renewed attack on the Bushehr nuclear power plant, stating that mentally unstable people attacked the Bushehr plant.

🔹 He wrote on social media: Reckless and completely irresponsible attacks against the Bushehr nuclear power plant must stop. Apparently, those carrying out these attacks have very serious mental problems.

Source: Tasnim News

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The national demand of Iraqis from the Al-Sudani government (Iraq's current Prime Minister): Take back Iraq's airspace from the United States

▪️ Exclusive report by Tasnim reporter in Baghdad

🔹 The people of Iraq believe that the country's airspace has freely become a passageway for American and Zionist military fighter jets and drones, which, in addition to attacking Iran, bomb the centers and headquarters of the Islamic resistance forces in Iraq, especially the Popular Mobilization Forces (Al-Hashd Al-Shaabi).

🔹 "Sabah Zanganeh," head of the Center for Strategic Studies Experts in Iraq: This issue directly undermines the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq and clearly indicates the weakening of the Iraqi government's authority over the country's airspace.

🔹 The painful point of this situation for every Iraqi citizen is the feeling that in confronting this violation of the country's national sovereignty, they can do nothing but condemn and express disgust.

🔹 Perhaps this is why in recent weeks, pressure on Iraqi officials, especially the government of Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani, the Prime Minister of Iraq, to take practical measures to end this situation has increased.

🔹 At the same time, the Iraqi parliament, in addition to emphasizing the need to review the existing security agreement between Baghdad and Washington, has called for the purchase of powerful and efficient air defense systems from other countries such as Russia, China, and South Korea.

Source: Tasnim News

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