⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷BREAKING: IRGC announces shooting down a U.S F-35 fighter Jet.
IRGC Public Relations: An American advanced F-35 fighter jet was destroyed in the central sky of Iran by the IRGC's advanced aerospace defense system.
The fighter jet belongs to the Lakenheath squadron.
This fighter jet has been completely destroyed and has crashed; due to the disintegration of the fighter jet, there is no information about the fate of the pilot.
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Who depends most on the Strait of Hormuz?
Asia dominates demand for oil moving through the Strait of Hormuz, with China alone accounting for 38% of all crude exports passing through the waterway
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The Chinese Navy has “dramatically increased” submarine production and could soon deploy a new vessel that’s able to hit “large portions” of the US with nuclear missiles from Chinese waters, according to the US Navy https://t.co/16idD1yC64
BREAKING: France President Emmanuel Macron has announced that his country will increase the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal for the first time in decades.
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⚠️CLOSING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WILL CHOKE CHINA
Iran’s top ally and weapons supplier, China, could lose 40–45% of its crude oil imports if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Nearly half of Beijing’s imported oil flows through that narrow corridor.
If Tehran truly shuts it down, it is not just targeting the West. It is applying enormous pressure on China itself.
The real question now: does the Trump administration move immediately to reopen the strait militarily to defend global navigation, or does it let the economic pressure build on Beijing first?
Either way, this is no longer just a regional issue. It is a global chess move.
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Costly having a US🇺🇸 base! Qatar🇶🇦Energy will stop all natural gas production following Iranian drone attacks on its facilities. This company is responsible for ~20% of global LNG exports. One more reason for European gas prices to rise! Latest Euro🇪🇺 market price up 51% today!
BREAKING: Europe just got its first real taste of what an LNG shock looks like.
Dutch TTF natural gas just ripped more than 50% higher after Qatar halted production at Ras Laffan, the largest LNG complex on Earth, following drone attacks and damage assessments.
This is not “a supply issue.”
This is the global energy stack being stress tested in public.
Qatar is roughly 18 to 20% of global LNG. When that volume goes uncertain, the market does not negotiate. It gaps, because LNG is not like oil. You cannot just “turn a valve” and replace it. Cargoes are scheduled, ships are finite, terminals are constrained, and the marginal molecule sets the price for everyone.
Europe is uniquely exposed because it rebuilt its energy system around seaborne flexibility after pipeline flows were cut. Flexibility works until the ocean becomes a risk premium. Then flexibility becomes fragility.
Here is the mechanism that makes this explosive:
- A major supplier pauses output.
- Every buyer scrambles for the same spare cargoes.
- TTF spikes, because Europe is the bid that clears.
- Power prices follow, then industrial costs, then headline inflation.
- Central banks lose room, rate cuts get delayed, growth slows.
- Governments start whispering the word nobody wants to say out loud: rationing.
This is why the price move matters more than the headline.
Markets are repricing reliability itself.
Old world: energy was a commodity.
New world: energy is a security product, priced like insurance.
Watch the falsifier. If Qatar visibly restarts and loadings normalize fast, this becomes a violent shakeout. If the halt persists, or shipping risk stays elevated, Europe and Asia enter a bidding war that turns gas into the macro driver again.
One question to settle it...
If the most critical LNG plant on Earth can pause overnight, what exactly is your definition of “energy certainty” now?
Qatar is the world’s second largest LNG exporter after the US.
Spike in LNG proces shows that Iran doesn’t need to directly hit the US or Israel to inflict pain; it’s enough if they can just damage the global energy flow.
Europeans depend on third countries for gas and oil and if the prices remain high, they’ll likely to pressure the Trump admin to come back to the negotiation table.
If the US wants this operation to succeed, it should strengthen its protection over its bases in the gulf countries and important energy centers.
Qatar Energy has stopped all liquefied natural gas production after Iran attacked Ras Laffan and Mesaieed
Qatar is the world's largest liquefied natural gas producer, with nearly 20% share of global production.
🇪🇺The gas price on the European exchange exceeded $500 amid the halt of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production by Qatar.