He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.——The Proverbs of Hell,1793.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Kaygıyla mücadele ediyorsan bu eseri dinle. Yaklaşık 30 saniye içinde nefes alışın değişmeye başlayacak. Bedeni sakinleştiren şey ise notaların arasındaki sessizlik.
L’un des symptômes de l’effondrement cognitif en France est qu’il y a de plus en plus de bruit. Les populations à faible QI expriment leur vacuité intérieure en parlant fort, en mettant de la musique à un volume élevé, en criant, etc. L’occupation sonore de l’espace leur permet de se sentir exister.
Les pays du tiers-monde se distinguent en étant particulièrement bruyants.
Giant sucking sound coming out of China: Chinese visible oil inventories fell 35MM Bbls last week...the fastest week-over-week pace on record (!), and are now at their lowest levels since May 2025.
Re: the ongoing debate about how much oil is getting through Hormuz and whether a particular WH claim is “True”, so so so much comes down to charity of the claim treatment and tone/framing of the assessment.
For example, a claim of 18 MMbbl over a given day can be an especially charitable clipped 24(ish) hour period—true in a tortured sense while misleading or cherry-picked.
Or a really high non-specific number can be charitably interpreted to mean the full broader middle east (with reroutes) rather than Hormuz, specifically.
Or a claim of 9 MMbpd when, say, only 6-7 MMbpd is confirmable can be both said to be “broadly” or “directionally” correct while at the same time being a “plausible exaggeration”. Or if that pace was only realized weeks after the claim it’s just “early.”
This is all fine! But given both the obvious fogginess of the data and the acute political undercurrent to the topic, best if folks are specific.
FWIW, I currently see Hormuz petroleum flows (crude + products) in the ballpark of 8 MMbpd**, with some of that representing re-displaced Saudi crude from the Red Sea.
And based on my tracking I have generally judged White House Hormuz transits numbers are directionally correct, plausible, but cherry-picked and often meant to mislead (like Trump’s 18 MMbbl claim).
**Chart below, highest I’ve confirmed thus far (with adjusted Kpler data) is just more than 8 MMbpd, with the current level lower but expected to be revised higher to roughly that same level.