Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar are considering withdrawing from contracts with the U.S. and cancelling future investment commitments in the U.S. to ease some of the economic pressure caused by the Iran war.

Azerbaijan is moving artillery systems toward positions near the Iranian border as tensions between the two countries continue to rise.

The deployment comes as the Azerbaijani military has been placed on heightened alert and additional troops and air-defense units have been sent to the frontier.

U.S. fighter jet was shot down over Basra, Iraq and the pilot has been captured by local Iraqi security forces.

Oil at $200 isn't weeks away. It's DAYS.

Saudi Arabia just did something it has NEVER done during peacetime. They're rerouting millions of barrels away from the Persian Gulf because storage has literally HIT THE LIMIT.

Read that again. The biggest oil producer on earth CAN'T STORE any more oil on its own coast.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED:

→ Saudi Arabia is diverting oil from the Persian Gulf to Red Sea ports
→ Five supertankers already shipped 10 MILLION barrels from Yanbu — the emergency route
→ Gulf storage is FULL. There is nowhere left to put it.
→ The Strait of Hormuz is a WARZONE — tankers won't go through it
→ So the oil that feeds the world is stuck. Rerouted. Delayed. Or not moving at all.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS NOT SLOWING DOWN — IT'S COLLAPSING:

→ Iranian refineries — BOMBED. Production stopped.
→ Iranian ports — BOMBED. Ships can't load.
→ Mehrabad Airport — BOMBED. No air freight.
→ Kuwait tanker — ATTACKED. Oil leaking into the sea.
→ QatarEnergy — FORCE MAJEURE. Exports frozen.
→ China — SUSPENDED fuel exports. Hoarding everything.
→ Houthis — still controlling Bab el-Mandeb. Second chokepoint CLOSED.

Every alternative route is either full, bombed, or blocked.

WHY $200 OIL IS DAYS NOT WEEKS:

→ Global oil supply was ALREADY tight before the war
→ Now 20% of the world's oil transit is shut or under fire
→ Saudi rerouting proves the main route is UNUSABLE
→ Storage is MAXED — there's no buffer left
→ Iran threatened to hit "ALL economic centres in the region"
→ One strike on a desalination plant or Saudi terminal and it's over

WHEN OIL HITS $200:

→ Gas at the pump → $7-8 per gallon. Overnight.
→ Food prices → EXPLODE. Everything moves by truck. Trucks run on diesel.
→ Airlines → start cancelling flights. Tickets double.
→ Factories → shut down. Can't afford to operate.
→ Heating bills → triple. In the middle of people's budget crisis.
→ Global recession → not a question of IF. A question of how DEEP.

The last time oil hit $150 was 2008. The world economy collapsed.

This time it's going to $200. With a war on top.

Saudi Arabia doesn't reroute oil for fun. They reroute when the main road is ON FIRE.

The fire just started. And there's no one coming to put it out.

JUST IN: The United States quietly put its nuclear command aircraft in the air over the Gulf this week.

Most people do not know what that means. They should.

The E-6B Mercury is not a combat aircraft. It carries no weapons. It exists for one purpose and one purpose only: to ensure that if everything else fails, if ground command centers are destroyed, if satellites are blinded, if the president and the entire chain of command is gone, the order to launch the United States nuclear arsenal can still be transmitted to submarines hiding in the deep ocean.

Its callsign is Looking Glass. Named after the Lewis Carroll mirror where everything is reversed. The world where you need this aircraft to work is the world where everything normal has already ended.

On March 4, two E-6Bs launched simultaneously. One from Tinker Air Force Base toward the Gulf. One from Patuxent River toward the eastern Gulf coast.

The "Choe Hyon" test

2 days ago, on the 3rd of March 2026, the North Korean Navy conducted live-firing trials with their first truly modern warship, the destroyer "Choe Hyon".

During this exercise, it launched a number of cruise missiles, presumably of the Hwasal-2 type, which likely has a range of up to 2,000km.

The ship also seems to have been modified from when it was last seen. An additional 20 VLS cells have been added to the ship’s rear. In addition, the previously installed larger cells for launching ballistic missiles appear to have been replaced with smaller ones, probably meant for firing cruise missiles.

North Korea plans to put another ship of this class into service this year which brings the total number of ships up to three.

This morning I was informed that the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister called Baku requesting Azerbaijan's help to evacuate the employees of the Iranian Embassy who remained in Lebanon, because they do not have the capability.

I immediately gave instructions to provide assistance and send a plane. They even said they were ready to pay for it, but I said it was not necessary.

Yet in return for all this, striking Nakhchivan in such a dirty, cowardly and unmanly way, this stain will never be erased from their dirty and ugly face," - Ilham Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan.

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine reports Iranian ballistic missile launches are down by 86% since the start of the war on February 28th. Iranian one-way drone launches are down by 73%.

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