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Geopolitical Analyst | Thinking beyond narratives.

[Jack Prandelli @jackprandelli]

New US strikes on southern Iran.

The market's first question: "how much more oil goes offline?"

Wrong question.

Hormuz traffic is already down 90–95%. There's almost nothing left to lose.

What the strikes actually change is the clock.

🔸What was hit?

The targets weren't random missile launchers, radar, mine-laying boats, command nodes around Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island.
That's the exact infrastructure the IRGC uses to enforce the near-blockade of the strait.
CENTCOM frames it as self defence after the Apache shoot down.

💡Degrading Iran's grip on Hormuz doesn't reopen Hormuz.
It makes reopening HARDER.
Every strike shrinks the political space for the confidence-building both sides need to restart 5–10M bpd of flows.

Less control ≠ more oil

🛢️The inventory hole

Meanwhile the math compounds: OECD stocks heading toward ~2.3B bbl — multi-decade lows. Shell's CEO puts the cumulative deficit at 1.0–1.2B barrels, a year+ to rebuild even if things improve tomorrow.

Every week of escalation digs the hole deeper.

So the curve tells the real story: front-month supported, backwardation steepening but the long end stays capped.

Why? The market still believes in Fujairah 2027, Guyana, Brazil, US shale.

The stress window is 2026–27

These strikes don't price barrels offline. They price TIME how long the world runs on draining inventories.
Duration, not disruption, is the trade.
Watch the calendar, not the headlines.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🛢️ Shell CEO drops a bombshell on the oil market:

The world is short 1.2 billion barrels, that’s 12 full days of global consumption gone missing because of the Iran war.

Over 10% of global crude production is offline, and the deficit is deepening every day.

Inventories are crashing toward the lowest levels since 2003. Rebalancing could take “close to a year, if not longer.”

This is the biggest supply shock in oil market history. Brace yourselves.

Source: @jackprandelli / Writer: Lynn

[The Associated Press @AP]

Kuwait closes its airspace as Iran retaliates to U.S. airstrikes with attacks on Gulf States. Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation said flights were being diverted to other airports. https://t.co/tD4ngz5cMX

[hustlechowinMop @Progress4Afrika]

@Markosonke1 It’s the alphabet in full display, Another Bad Creation (ABC), right through to the Z!

[Bloomberg @business]

A growing number of foreigners are traveling to China for life-saving treatments, including for cancer, because it's often cheaper and more readily available https://t.co/2sHyXM29S2

[CNN @CNN]

Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. https://t.co/5zGM31qiYv

[Reuters @Reuters]

UK Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Hilary Benn condemned ‘masked thugs’ after a night of anti-immigrant violence in Belfast, in which families were burned out of their homes and vehicles were set alight https://t.co/e5wCImQ4Jo

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Migrants say they are living in fear after a campaign group gave people living illegally in South Africa until June 30 to leave. Nigeria’s diplomatic mission in South Africa says many of those returning no longer feel safe to continue living or working in the country.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇷 🇺🇸 Iran's military says it is on full alert, with the armed forces and IRGC declaring they have "what it takes" to defend the country, as footage circulates of Iranian jets sweeping over Tehran in a show of readiness.

The statement makes clear Tehran has been tracking every word from Trump and Hegseth today, the telegraphed buildup heard loud and clear.

The aircraft over the capital also likely explain the air defense activity reported in western Tehran earlier, Iran flexing its own aircraft rather than engaging incoming ones.

Source: Al Jazeera, Mehr News / Writers: Lynn, Daniel

[RT @RT_com]

Russian Jews and their descendants wield great power and great wealth in the United States, they continue to stir up hatred — Candace Owens

'They continue to shape their image of Russia'

'It’d be very interesting for many Americans to study this issue'

https://t.co/IeEioojw42

[The Associated Press @AP]

Somali referee denied entry by the U.S. says he hopes to be at the next World Cup after returning home to a hero's welcome. https://t.co/lB8krsGoDc

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Amnesty International has accused Israel’s government of carrying out a campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and annexing their territory.

🔴 LIVE updates: https://t.co/PfpDpSthUf

[Reuters @Reuters]

Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people, Lebanese security told Reuters, which showed footage of vehicles ablaze in the southern city of Sidon after an Israeli airstrike https://t.co/ZKHnDt6kWv

[Mary Kathomi @MaryK2022]

Every African needs to do this

[Sovereign Media @sov_media]

HOW THE WEST PUNISHED ZIMBABWE FOR TAKING BACK STOLEN LAND

In an explosive interview, former pastor and Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga broke down how the West economically strangled Zimbabwe after the nation reclaimed its stolen indigenous lands.

Zimbabwe’s independence was shaped by the 1979 Lancaster House Agreement, under which Britain was expected to fund the redistribution of land from white settlers to the country’s indigenous Black population.

But the former coloniser reneged on this promise in the 1990s, forcing President Robert Mugabe’s government to take the repossession of white-owned farms into the hands of the state and return land to Zimbabwe’s indigenous Black population.

As noted by the interviewer, Sovereign Media's Ahmed Kaballo, Western-dominated economic institutions sanctioned Zimbabwe “to the hilt,” with Maponga adding that investment in Zimbabwe “remains the big red flag.”

Maponga also confronted the deep-seated colonial trope used to justify the theft of African resources.

“The propaganda says, when a Black man takes the land away, he does not know how to use it,” he said.

Highlighting how Western media systematically attributes agricultural success exclusively to white ownership, Maponga added:

“The only time the land is useful, it is when it’s in the hands of the white people.”

And as Zimbabwe continues to be punished for daring to defy Western hegemony and reclaim its sovereignty, Maponga called for the dismantling of the myth that Africans are incapable of managing their own wealth.

[Zolani Newu @Neptus1]

This is a battle of divided majority vs with the united minority.

[Sahel Revolutionary Soldier @cecild84]

A Gun man went into a Shack in Johannesburg and slaughtered 11 poor South Africans. What a madness.

About 9 million South Africans live in shacks. The failure of the state to provide security to these settlements is worrisome.

[RT @RT_com]

‘The destruction of the Nord Stream pipeline has led to the deindustrialization of Europe’ — Richard Wolff, Professor Emeritus of Economics

WATCH FULL https://t.co/C4AO7iZf7n

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The U.S. military says it's striking "multiple targets" in Iran in the latest escalation of tensions. https://t.co/87bYjaXykH

[Reuters @Reuters]

Only 11% of Europeans view US as ally, survey shows https://t.co/atHNcHfv3G https://t.co/atHNcHfv3G