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Russia didn't just buy its war machine. It staffed it, in plain sight, from an Irish estuary to the Iskander production line. The Technicians: our deep dive on how the people who keep the missiles coming move through the open world.

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The Houthis declared a maritime embargo on Saudi-linked shipping and did not say what 'Saudi-linked' means or how it would be enforced. So far it is a press release. Fault Line Brief, Issue 086.

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The Gulf war now runs off a rule both sides published: every US strike inside Iran, a Kuwaiti power plant goes dark by the next evening. Free, every source linked.

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One Treasury office opened Iran's dollar oil channel and closed it. No vote was taken at any step. The licence lapsed Friday with no successor. Fault Line Extra 001: one thread, pulled to the end. Free.

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The war has bombed everything inside Iran but the power plants. Hitting those is the one thing Iran needs to pull the Houthis in and close a second sea. Today's Digest, free, every source linked.

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Washington's 20% toll on the Strait of Hormuz lasted about a day. Gulf kings phoned Trump offering to invest billions instead, and it vanished. The blockade nobody thought to buy off stayed. Free, every source linked.

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Iran says the Strait of Hormuz is shut. Washington answered with a 20% toll on every cargo and a blockade it starts enforcing Tuesday. Two toll booths on a strait neither one controls.

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@boardyai no

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@rezoundous if they would fix the CONSTANT flagging of legitimate work, yes

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@claudeai fix the constant flagging for legitimate work please...

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The US built tankers a safe lane through Hormuz. Iran turned it into the target list. The map changed. The danger didn't. Free, every source linked.

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Strikes hit four countries in a day and oil fell. The US-Iran war ran through Khamenei's burial, 170+ targets in two days and Iran hitting a US base in Jordan, while the market priced a contained shock: crude still moving at about half of pre-war on the bypass pipelines.

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The US hit 80 targets across Iran and left every tool that could close Hormuz untouched. Iran shot at Kuwait and Bahrain, not the carriers. Congress passed a war-powers vote the Supreme Court killed in 1983. Free, every source linked.

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Ukraine stopped 363 of 419 things Russia threw at Kyiv. It stopped none of the 23 ballistic missiles. The PAC-3 layer is dry. Iran held a funeral and not one major power sent its leader. NATO meets tomorrow to ask for interceptors and warships nobody has. Free, every source

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Iran claimed the Strait of Hormuz for the fourth time since March. For the fourth time the ships sailed straight through. Iran issues permits for water it cannot police. Free, every source linked.

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Russia sold India its crude in spring. Now it's buying the petrol back by ship, because Ukraine's drones burned the refineries in between. Free, every source linked.

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For decades, ships crossed the Strait of Hormuz for free. Reporting indicates Oman, the country mediating the US-Iran talks, has proposed a fee to pass, with Iran on board and Washington objecting. Freedom of navigation, now with an invoice.

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Russia is one of the biggest oil producers on the planet. Reporting indicates Ukrainian drones have now hit 8 of its 10 largest refineries, and Moscow just floated a ban on exporting its own diesel. A major fuel exporter, now keeping its own at home.

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Iran fired missiles at two US allies, claimed it destroyed 8 bases, and hit one apartment block. Then it asked for a meeting. Oil got cheaper through all of it. Today's Digest, free, every source linked.