Brent crude has broken past $113 a barrel for the first time in five months, clearly indicating that Trump has lost the tanker war in the Strait of Hormuz, after Iran drastically increased its targeting of oil tankers over the last few weeks

بيان مهم للقوات المسلحة اليمنية للإعلان عن عدد من العمليات العسكرية النوعية داخل العمق السعودي، مع إعلان موقف من تهديد العدو السعودي للقبائل اليمنية، في تمام الساعة الثالثة عصراً.

The president of Cameroon is 93 years old, and he's spent more than four years of his presidency on private trips abroad, mostly in one five-star hotel in Geneva. The hotel bill for him and his crew runs about $40,000 a day. A team of investigative reporters at OCCRP added it all up back in 2018. Since taking office in 1982, Paul Biya had logged 1,645 days on what his office calls "brief private visits," and that's before you count another year or so of official travel. In 2006 and 2009 he was out of the country for about a third of the year. They put the hotel tab at around $65 million, with the private flights costing at least $117 million on top of that. And he's still doing it. This summer he flew to Geneva on June 7 and didn't come home until August 20. That's 73 days, the longest he's ever been gone. Jeune Afrique reported he'd been admitted to a private clinic, which the government flatly denied. Then last week a fake report that he'd died went viral on X, and the proof his office offered that he was alive was a decree with his signature on it, dated October 15. Which gets a lot more unsettling when you look at what happened back in April. Cameroon's parliament voted 205 to 16 to bring back the vice presidency, a job the country got rid of in 1972. If the president dies or can't do the job anymore, the VP serves out the rest of his term, which runs until 2032. Only Biya gets to pick that person, and the law doesn't give him a deadline. Six months later, he still hasn't picked anyone. Half the country is under 18, and most Cameroonians have never known any other president. If he ever does fill that seat, whoever runs Cameroon until 2032 will have been chosen by an electorate of one.

Yemeni missiles strike the Saudi Shaybah oil field, one of the largest oil facilities in the world. Saudi Arabia admits to the killing of two employees

The next phase will be titled: The Saudi Enemy Army, Not Just Its Mercenaries. Footage of strikes targeting the Saudi enemy army in Jizan and Asir.

⚓️‼️ The US Navy Cannot Sustain A Significant Naval Presence in the Arabian Sea Many observers are worked up today about the old news that CSG-9 (USS Theodore Roosevelt CVN-71) is headed to the Arabian Sea. What most people are failing to understand is that the US Navy simply does not have the capability to sustain even a 2-carrier fleet in the Arabian Sea, let alone a 3-carrier fleet including 2 amphibious ready groups, 2 cruisers, and 10 destroyers. As best I can ascertain, the US warship count in the region (counting the not-yet-arrived CSG-9) would be: 3 aircraft carriers: ~15,000 mouths 2 amphibious ready groups: ~8000 2 cruisers: ~700 10 destroyers: ~3250 That makes a total of ~27,000 mouths that need to be fed 3x/day. The closest bases are thousands of miles away. The recent disastrous extended deployments of the USS Gerald R. Ford and the USS Abraham Lincoln underscore what happens on these big ships after extended deployments. Things go to hell in a handbasket, and sailors start jumping off the decks to escape the madness. I consider it not only unlikely, but very likely physically impossible for the US to sustain 3 carrier strike groups for more than just a few weeks near Iran — not now, nor at any time in the foreseeable future. Could they briefly station a 3-carrier fleet in the region with the intent to launch a week or two of attacks against Iranian targets? Sure. It could be done for a short period of time. But if they attempt to do this, I predict we will finally see the Iranians make a determined effort to strike US warships, and they will succeed. The US Navy will be exposed as a 20th century relic incapable of fighting a 21st century war.

Not a single gram of enriched uranium will be removed from Iran. There will be no negotiations until the United States takes steps to build trust. That process must begin with the full fulfillment of all Iran’s conditions.

ANOTHER PREDICTION JUST PLAYED OUT TODAY... Back on 8 May (see below), I told my readers the United Kingdom, France, Egypt and Pakistan were entering this war... At the time there were ZERO headlines on ANY of the four in the kinetic operations of the Existential War of the Middle East. Today the UK announced it. RAF Typhoon jets on "defensive" air patrols over Saudi Arabia against the Ansarallah Houthis. This is my scorecard becoming reality after 5 months, all happening inside a single week. 1. France has started deploying troops and air defences to protect Saudi Arabia's Red Sea oil port at Yanbu. 2. Pakistan has troops on Saudi soil under the Mecca pact. 3. The UK, as of today, in the skies. 4. And Egypt is at the door. Sisi has asked parliament to authorise forces to defend Saudi Arabia, with the vote expected this week. Three of the four I named are already in. The fourth is voting its way in but it is inevitable... Every one of them walked through the same door. No leader in London, Paris, Cairo or Islamabad can sell standing beside Trump, Netanyahu or Israel to their own people. The "defence" of Saudi Arabia is THE DOOR almost no one at home will argue with, so that is the one they used... And "defensive" is only the opening move. The way I see things playing out is like this, first the patrols come first, then the intelligence sharing, the refuelling, the fuel tankers, the support missions, and MISSION CREEP pulls in more assets as the next phase escalates after the US November elections. It is announced as "defensive" first. It ends with these countries dragged in, by "necessity" or by "tragedy". That is the PSYOP. Enter quietly to defend an ally, get pulled openly into the war. I called all four on 8 May. More to come. If you are not already following me, this should be YOUR confirmation as to my accuracy. 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗦𝗘!!

BREAKING: Americans are angry two weeks to the midterms, turn their backs on Trump whose approval rating has gone from plus 6 in January 2025 to minus 35 now because of a destroyed economy, a reckless war, mounting corruption, and cruelty.

NOW: Iran has just published video of a SECOND vessel ablaze in the Strait of Hormuz today. It’s not just the volume of strikes by Iran, but the SEVERITY of the strikes. Of course, this is not reported to UKMTO because we’re living in fantasy land until the midterms. x.com/MenchOsint/status/2112…

🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️– A rogue supertanker carrying more than 2 million barrels of crude oil exploded in the souther part of the strait of Hormuz after hiiting a sea mine, as it was attempting to transit the strait without the approval of IRGC Navy.

🇾🇪🇸🇦⚡️– Yemen's Ansarullah have released a long video of around 10 minutes, targeting the Saudi military personnel in Jizan and Asir border region of Saudi Arabia using their domestically produced Rajum UAVs.

Saudi and Qatari Salafi and Wahhabi takfiri bots and cyber armies cannot change reality.

US envoy Tom Barrack has questioned Washington’s history of military interventions in the Middle East, saying attempts to change governments have repeatedly failed. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/6cfe4w?update=50647…

BREAKING: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's IRGC Just SHOT DOWN Their 54th U.S. MQ-9 DRONE Over the Strait of Hormuz Thats another $30 Million GONE, Total $1.62 Billion GONE IRGC Public Relations: The 54th MQ-9 drone of the terrorist U.S. army was intercepted and destroyed in the skies over the Strait of Hormuz early this morning by fire from a new advanced air defense system of the IRGC Aerospace Force, under the control of the country's Integrated Air Defense Network.

It’s actually the other way round Mr. President. There is a reason the right to life and the fundamental freedoms come first in the Bill of Rights. More than anything else we want to live in a free and democratic country because in the dark of the grave where you put Rex Maasai and Albert Ojwang, you can’t see shiny things.

We have no hostility toward Turkey or the Turkish people. We have no hostility toward Egypt or the Egyptian people. We have no hostility toward Pakistan or the Pakistani people. We are all brothers in faith and humanity, and we are striving to unite in defense of the Islamic nation and all the oppressed people on this earth. We took the initiative to defend Gaza and asked everyone to help us, but the governments refused for political reasons. Some of them showed intense and unjustified hostility toward us and toward our brothers in Gaza. This was Saudi Arabia’s clear position, evident to everyone. It is those same political reasons that have led the governments of those countries to try to appease Saudi Arabia today and send troops to protect it. But the question is: protect it from whom? From Yemen, which has been subjected to Saudi aggression since 2015, with clear and widely known American and Israeli cooperation? From Yemen, which supported Gaza, only to have Saudi Arabia confront it and intercept Sanaa’s missiles that were headed toward Tel Aviv? From Saudi Arabia, which built an overland route to break the naval blockade Yemen imposed on Israel? These are the questions that the peoples of those brotherly nations are asking today. These questions expose everything and reveal the falsity of Saudi Arabia’s claims, as well as those of the parties that arm it and support it politically and through intelligence cooperation. These questions will make clear to you the real objective behind forming these alliances: No force in the region capable of threatening Israel’s security must be allowed to remain.

The End of the Shia-Sunni Wedge An important development that seens to have gone unnoticed and unremarked upon is the end of the Shia-Sunni wedge. What do I mean by that? Ever since the Islamic Revolution, the Gulf Arabs have used the Shia-Sunni divide to isolate Iran. Since the Shia are a minority in the Islamic world, this suited their purposes very well. They milked it whenever and wherever they found it useful. The entire political order dominated by the Al Khalifa in Bahrain was built on Shia exclusion. Oman was at the opposite end of the spectrum from Bahrain. The others were in between. Even though Shia Iraqis had fought for him against Iran, Saddam crushed the Shia Intifida in southern Iraq with great brutality, under the watchful gaze of General Schwarzkopf and in full knowledge of the Bush Administration, using West German chemical weapons to boot. The greatest threat to Saudi Arabia was posed by the inconvenient fact that all the oil sits under the Shia-majority region in the east. Here the repression was severe but not by the standards of the Al Khalifa or Sadddam. Into this regional context, the US invaded and dismantled Saddam's regime. That unleashed the first great wave of sectarian war. The ensuring violence destroyed any chance of what the US hoped to build in Iraq. It took years of counterinsurgency and the Anbar Awakening to get the violence somewhat under control. A second great wave of sectarian violence began with the Syrian civil war. Sectarian polarization intensified as the civil war evolved into a proxy war between Iran and Hezbollah on one side, and the Sunni states on the other. It is hard to overstate the degree of sectarian bloodletting. Millions were slaughtered by both sides. What has happened this year is a great twist in the tale. The US and Israel attacked Iran after Bibi gave Trump a bully boner. This naked act of aggression, and Iran's heroic resistance to it, neutralized the great Shia-Sunni wedge that the Gulf Arabs had been working all these decades. As it pummeled US bases and Gulf states, Iran became the hero of the Islamic world across the Shia-Sunni divide, including in the Gulf states that came under Iranian fire. The defeat of the United States cemented Iran's status. Iran's heroic war against the empire dissolved the sectarian divide. And then came the Houthis. They had already won great respect and admiration for being the only power to have dared to attack Israel for the genocide. Their confessional identity, never really coded as Shia to begin with, became totally irrelevant. The Arab street and the Islamic world simply feel in love with them. They are being described as 'the only real Muslims in the world'. This is a world historic development in its own right. It is part and parcel of the end of Iranian isolation, undercutting a central component of the Gulf Arabs' strategy to contain Iran. In Yemen, it undermined the Saudi-led coalition's strategy to contain the Houthis. Central to this historical turn was the genocide in Gaza. It was Gaza that exposed the hypocrisy of the authoritarian Sunni states allied with Washington. This development is right now playing an important role constraining the Sunni states intervention in Yemen. For the Pakistanis, the Egyptians and the Turks, going after the Houthis to protect the Saudis threatens the stability of their own regimes. There is no doubt that it will have wider ramifications still. A very big development that almost no one is talking about.

Macron says the protests are fallout from Trump's war on Iran. The fuel spike is real. But the schools were empty before the war. The hospitals were underfunded before the war. The €63 billion defence budget was doubling before the war. The war is not the cause. It is the alibi. The cause is the fiscal architecture that prioritises the arsenal over the classroom. "France is not part of the war"—but France arms it, finances it, and positions itself at the core of the European military pillar. Do not let the external shock displace the internal contradiction. x.com/Megatron_ron/status/21…