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BREAKING: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reportedly threatened to drive oil prices near zero by pumping at full capacity unless Russia stops sending Iran weapons that end up with the Houthis.
🇺🇦🇷🇺🔥 PUTIN WANTED TO SELL DIESEL TO AMERICA. UKRAINE HAD OTHER PLANS FOR HIS OIL EMPIRE.
Moscow spent days presenting a potential energy deal with Washington as a diplomatic and economic breakthrough.
Then reality intervened.
A Russian tanker carrying approximately 300,000 barrels of diesel turned away roughly 400 nautical miles from New York. No American delivery materialised, and the vessel was left awaiting further instructions.
Sergey Lavrov continued describing Russia as a reliable energy supplier.
But reliability becomes a rather difficult argument when your shipments cannot find buyers.
And Ukraine was not waiting for Moscow and Washington to finish their discussions.
Ukrainian drones struck Ust-Luga, one of Russia's most important Baltic export terminals, setting parts of the port complex ablaze. The fire was reportedly visible from across the Gulf of Finland.
The same night brought further disruption around St. Petersburg, with airport closures, diverted flights and NATO aircraft scrambling amid the drone activity.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian strikes against Russian refining infrastructure have been putting additional pressure on fuel production and distribution.
There is an important geopolitical dimension here.
Washington and Moscow can discuss energy markets, commercial arrangements and the future of sanctions. But Ukraine retains its own military capabilities and its own decisions about defending itself.
It was not a party to the proposed American-Russian diesel arrangement, and it has not agreed to suspend its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure.
Moscow is discovering that an agreement negotiated over Ukraine's head does not give it control over Ukraine's actions.
And that is perhaps the most revealing part of this entire episode: Russia can negotiate access to markets, but it cannot negotiate away the consequences of its invasion.
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BREAKING: Masked Islamists are now making their way Rockefeller Christmas Tree and St Patrick's Cathedral.
Many have already been arrested for assaulting police.
NVIDIA's Market Cap vs. Countries' GDP
NVIDIA: $4.193 trillion
Countries with a larger GDP than NVIDIA's valuation:
🇺🇸 United States — $32.64T
🇨🇳 China — $21.55T
🇩🇪 Germany — $5.47T
🇯🇵 Japan — $4.34T
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — $4.27T
🇮🇳 India — $4.06T
NVIDIA is worth more than the annual economic output of almost every country in the world.
Source: CompaniesMarketCap (Nov 11, 2026); IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026).
BLINKEN AND POMPEO FIND COMMON GROUND ON ISRAEL AND HAMAS
A rare moment of bipartisan unity as former Secretaries of State Antony Blinken and Mike Pompeo defend Israel’s right to respond to Hamas after October 7.
🇺🇸 Blinken: “The target was Hamas”
🇺🇸 Pompeo: “When you are so fundamentally in the right, and evil is so one-sided and so clear…”
Despite disagreements over Gaza and Iran, both rejected equating Israel’s military campaign with Hamas’s October 7 atrocities.
Two administrations.
Two political parties.
A shared defense of Israel’s sovereignty.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 BUDANOV’S WARNING TO PUTIN: RUSSIA WILL NOT ENJOY PEACE WHILE OCCUPYING UKRAINE!
Kyrylo Budanov has made Ukraine’s position clear: operations inside Russia will continue as long as Moscow occupies Ukrainian territory, with their reach depending on the resources available.
His message challenges a fundamental assumption behind Russia’s invasion.
Moscow cannot expect to wage war across Ukraine while remaining insulated from its consequences at home.
And as Ukraine develops greater long-range capabilities, the distance between the front line and Russian military infrastructure becomes increasingly less reassuring.
For the Kremlin, occupying Ukrainian territory comes with a cost that cannot simply be confined to the battlefield.
Budanov’s warning is ultimately about leverage: until Ukraine’s territorial integrity is restored, Russia should not assume the consequences of its invasion will remain outside its own borders.
There is absolutely no evidence of genocide by Israel. Accusations are part of a political warfare campaign intended to lead to the annihilation of Israel. If you support that campaign you have genocidal intent.
Egypt has designated 35 entities as terrorist organizations for 5 years, including major Muslim organizations across Europe.
The decision follows Egypt’s permanent designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, replacing its previous system of renewable 3-year listings.
An interesting contradiction in Egypt’s regional policy: Cairo supports Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF), which have ties to Muslim Brotherhood aligned factions and militias.
While Egypt views the Muslim Brotherhood as a national security threat, its support for the SAF reflects broader strategic interests in Sudan, despite the Islamist factions operating alongside it.
College student:
“Jews are refugees. They have no right to self-determination. Israel has no sovereignty.”
The response that shut the room down:
“Millions of Jews left Auschwitz with nowhere to go.
Not one country on Earth took them in.
A million and a half Jews fought in World War II…
and still couldn’t bomb the tracks to the gas chambers.
Because they had no army.
No country.
No power.
The day Jews could finally defend themselves…
is the day Jews stopped dying.”
Hamas has said it out loud for two years:
They will keep going until every last Jew is dead.
You’re telling Israelis to dismantle their self-defense “for peace.”
Hamas is telling them: “Do it and we’ll slaughter you.”
And somehow… Hamas is winning the argument inside your head.
Go learn the actual history.
Then come back and talk. 🇮🇱