Brent's premium over WTI Crude is trading at its widest margin in 11+ years. And, it gets worse. Oman's oil prices are at $167, Dubai's at $137, and Brent [European market] at $113, while WTI Crude sits at $97, per Zerohedge.

US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower: US imports of crude oil from the Persian Gulf countries are down to ~500,000 barrels per day, near the lowest on record. Just 9 years ago, the US was receiving ~2.0 million barrels per day from the region.

Meanwhile, US crude oil production stands at ~13.7 million barrels a day near an all time high. US production is up +145% since 2003. In 2006, the US was net IMPORTING ~400 million barrels of oil per quarter. In 2025, the US net EXPORTED ~100 million barrels per quarter.

As long as the US maintains a high oil production and bans oil exports, gas prices should remain stable but that will destroy the economies of its allies in Europe and East Asia.

t.me/CIG_telegram

The IDF says the fire at Haifa's oil refinery complex was caused by "falling shrapnel."

Three weeks in and F-35s are getting hit.

The Israeli Broadcasting Authority says they received a notice from the military censorship not to publish documents about the impacts in Haifa, complains because telegram channels did not comply.

t.me/GeoPWatch

Sorry my holy book, the Talmukh, prohibits me from not sharing footage of blown up Israeli refineries. But only on Thursdays.

NEW:

🇺🇸🇯🇵Trump to Japanese PM:

“Who knows better about surprise than Japan?

Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

@Megatron_ron

how are people listening to Joe Kent and his still unapologetic pro-war stance (just not pro-this-particular-war, (supposedly)) and him claiming "Israel" somehow tricked President Trump (who Kent claims is a "fantastic deal maker," eerrr - like with Russia over Ukraine???) and not seeing the game being played here?

This doesn't prove "Israel controls the US."

Someone simply saying something you want to hear doesn't prove it - documented evidence proves it.

Kent even throws out transparent lies anyone could look up and disprove - like claiming think tanks like the FDD represent "pro-Israeli" power over the US administration.

The problem is the FDD and other think tanks/pro-Israeli lobbying like it operate on drastically smaller budgets than arms industry, big-oil, big-pharma-funded think tanks like Brookings, RAND, CSIS and others who actually shape US foreign and domestic policy regardless of who is president.

These are larger corporate-funded think tanks that laid out plans years ago that have since been implemented verbatim (Which Path to Persia - 2009) regardless of the fictions now being used to explain events today by people like Kent.

Kent also falsely claimed that the US was genuinely pursuing a deal with Iran - when I have warned for years any "deal" the US sought to make with Iran was meant to serve - not to prevent war - but as a pretext FOR war - which is literally what happened!

And again - this was laid out in excruciating detail in the 2009 Brookings "Which Path to Persia" paper.

If anything - this further proves the US is using Israel as a proxy - not just to catch Iranian ballistic missiles for 3 weeks in a row now along side America's other regional proxies - but also to be thrown under the bus politically to shift blame away from the US for a US war that is gradually destroying the ENTIRE world economy.

Beware of Kent and those like Tucker Carlson who give him a platform and help deflect blame for US policy while pretending to oppose it.

Anything this popular and highly-publicized is usually done on purpose - just like Trump and "MAGA" itself.

When will people learn?

There's a heretic in the heart of the EU and he wants to talk to Putin

Ideally, policy debates should serve to bring together the fullest information, the brightest minds, and the sharpest arguments in order to find solutions. That is, the optimum combination between what is best and what is feasible.

In the real world, shaped by ordinary human fallibility and the extraordinary egotism of professional politicians, that is usually not what happens. But the EU is still special in just how atrociously, hopelessly, for crying out loud bad it is at the solution game. Because it is not just playing it badly, it's not playing at all...

It has been a while since I've shared one of Tarik's articles. Not sure why. You can read it on RT. I don't want to attach links to websites outside of Telegram anymore.

Posters in DC reading “Operation Epstein Fury” near images of U.S. soldiers that were killed in a drone strike in Kuwait during the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran

@Slavyangrad

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth accuses Iran of investing in missiles and weapons instead of people, during a speech in which he's asking for $200 billion for weapons, instead of people.

@Megatron_ron