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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇪🇺🇦🇷🇺 Germany's FM claims funding Ukraine war is UNQUESTIONABLE, in order to prevent Russia from shooting, torturing, raping, and abducting kids...

"It is simply true that this is costing us a lot of money, and it is also true that we are short of money overall.

Nevertheless, it is right to stand by Ukraine, because you always have to consider what would happen if we didn’t, if Ukraine lost.

That would mean that an aggressor like Russia could simply conquer territory again, shoot people, torture people, rape people, and abduct children."

Might he be exaggerating, just a tad? 🤔

Writer: Michael

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳🇻🇪🇺🇸 Chinese Foreign Ministry Spox.:

"China-Venezuela cooperation is protected by international law and the laws of both countries.

The cooperation does not target any third party and should not be subjected to interference by any third party.

China's lawful rights and interests in Venezuela must be protected."

Before the U.S.-Venezuela oil agreement, Chinese and Russian state companies HEAVILY managed and relied on Venezuelan oil fields...

Now, the U.S. essentially "runs" Venezuela's oil market, undercutting China's energy security (again).

Writer: Michael

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇰🇺🇸 Denmark’s liberal leader says Europe should spend more on defense, but Washington should stop pressuring Copenhagen.

Vanopslagh agrees with Trump that Europe needs to carry more of the burden. But he says threatening Denmark crosses a line, especially after Denmark fought alongside the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Burden sharing is fair. Turning it into pressure on an ally is another matter.

Allies keep score, and Denmark has a ledger.

Writer: Lucas

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

IRAN SAYS OIL EXPORTS CONTINUE

Iran’s Oil Minister says oil sales have not stopped, despite a decline in volumes.

Tehran continues delivering crude to customers in distant markets.

The minister declined to provide further details, citing concerns that operational information could be used by adversaries.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 If you want to know how fked U.S politics are, listen to this guy

He's in favor of socialism, but his entire business is based on free market capitalism

It's like turkeys voting for Thanksgiving

Writer: Ian

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇦🇮🇷 Zelensky accuses Iran of ATTACKING Ukraine

"Iran, from the first year of the war, gave new technology to Russia.

It was Shahed drones; they gave thousands of these drones.

Did they attack us? I think yes."

According to that logic, the U.S, EU, and every country that has supplied Ukraine with weapons has attacked Russia.

Writer: Ian

[Crypto Crib @Crypto_Crib_]

🇬🇧 The UK military says a SECOND ship was hit in the Strait of Hormuz. 💥

🇮🇷 Just HOURS after a tanker caught fire in an earlier attack. 👀

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Pizza Hut has been sold for $2.7 BILLION.

Yum Brands is spinning off the popular brand, split between Yum China Holdings and private equity firm LongRange Capital.

The Hut’s been struggling for years and this is a classic case of a legacy brand getting carved up.

Will this save it or accelerate the decline? Private equity loves cost-cutting.

Hopefully this doesn't stop their plans to open new retro-style locations. I think many are looking forward to that taste of nostalgia.

Writer: Jamie

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇳🇷🇺 Xi Jinping just hosted Trump. Now Putin walks through the same door.

Beijing barely had time to clear the ceremonial trappings it laid out for Trump before Putin arrived.

On the agenda: Ukraine, Iran, energy, and a joint declaration on building a "multipolar world."

The diplomatic language for dismantling U.S. dominance.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷 Tehran's stock exchange reopened today after an 80-day closure, and the market's verdict on the war was immediate.

Only 28% of stocks traded in positive territory. More than 40 tickers for companies damaged during the war remain suspended entirely.

Meanwhile, Iran's president said the government is "working to overcome the economic fallout from the war."

80 days closed, and this is the welcome back.

Source: Roya News, Arab News

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says the U.S. has responded to its 14-point proposal. Tehran is reviewing Washington's reply.

- Iran's FM spokesperson says the proposal is focused solely on ending the war
- Nuclear talks are not part of the 14-point plan, contrary to earlier reports
- The U.S. response was delivered via Pakistan
- Iran also denies reports that the proposal includes mine clearance commitments in the Strait of Hormuz

This contradicts what Al Arabiya reported earlier today. The picture is murkier than it looked an hour ago.

Source: CNN

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Trump says it's highly unlikely that there will be a ceasefire extension if no deal is reached. And the Strait stays blocked until Iran signs something.

The ceasefire expires tomorrow. Iran is charging tolls, the IRGC is in the crosshairs with their own government, and the Strait is running at 3% of normal traffic.

The next 24 hours are the most consequential since the war started.

Source: Bloomberg

[ahaha @Abrudnw]

RT @MarioNawfal: 🇺🇸🇮🇱I ran controlling the Strait of Hormuz creates a new reality where a single nation holds more leverage than the entire…

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump's blockade is reportedly bleeding Iran $400 million a day.

$13 billion a month.

They can only store oil for two weeks before they start shutting off wells.

The Strait of Hormuz leverage play might work exactly as designed.

[ahaha @Abrudnw]

RT @MarioNawfal: 🇮🇱🇱🇧 IDF aided a Hezbollah site in southern Lebanon and walked out with a cache of FPV drones, a sniper rifle, RPGs and ot…

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇬🇧🇮🇷 UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper just slammed Iran for recklessly blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

She’s now chairing a meeting of nations trying to get the shipping lane reopened safely.

Really? A meeting will re-open it?

[Ash Crypto @AshCrypto]

🩸CRASH:

₩202,000,000,000,000 wiped out from the Korean stock market today.

This happened as Trump said that the US will continue to strike Iran for 2-3 weeks.

And if that happens, Strait of Hormuz will remain mostly closed, affecting oil supply in Asian countries.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇮🇷 4 B-2 bombers finished striking targets in Iran.

They’re all safe and currently crossing the Atlantic on their way back home.

That's the U.S. commanding the skies like no country in the world can.

Source: RN Intel

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸🇳🇬 Nigerian attorney:

“7 out of 10 persecuted Christians anywhere in the world are in Nigeria.

It is a systematic deliberate plan to obliterate Christians from that part of the world.”

The forgotten ones in all these world-wide conflicts.
https://t.co/vpyLrhmHHp

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran's FM Araghchi:

"Iran is under an illegal war imposed by the U.S. and Israel, two nuclear-armed aggressor regimes.

This war is unjustified and brutally ruthless."