Day: October 9, 2026

🇮🇷 Drones hitting 800 km/h could slip past older air defenses and strike the region’s energy and transport hubs.

Jackson Hinkle says these battle-tested variants are fast and nimble enough to beat the mobile systems guarding critical sites, and requests for the technical blueprints point to someone preparing for a big surge in fighting.

At 800 km/h, defenders get only seconds to react… so how many get through?

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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Forward bases could soon appear at Iran’s southern ports of Chabahar and Konarak as the war heads for a major restart.

Jackson Hinkle warns the moves made so far haven’t followed any normal logic, which makes a big escalation MORE likely, and Iran’s southern coast is where the next phase could take shape.

Once the fighting moves onto Iran’s own coastline, there’s no quick way back out.

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  —  https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2108411931694416025

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 America is now the world’s last big gas station, and US refiners are headed for RECORD PROFITS while diesel sits at $6.53 a gallon

Middle East refineries crippled, about 15 Russian plants knocked out by Ukrainian drones, China holding back exports, and 12% of the world’s refining capacity offline…

That leaves US refiners selling into a starved market, and the gap between the crude Valero buys and the fuel it sells jumped from about 72 cents a gallon to $1.12 in a single quarter.

Trump already told the industry it’s “making too much money,” yet nobody is building new plants because they expect the boom to fade.

So who’s paying for that extra 40 cents?

Farmers, truckers and families are.

Source: The Wall Street Journal / Writer: Daniel

🇮🇷 Merchant sailors are being pushed through Hormuz for the cameras, and the strait is just as deadly as before.

Philip Pilkington calls it a gross bloodsport, with crews treated as expendable props in an information war so somebody can claim the waterway is open.

The headlines change, but the drones and missiles stay right where they were.

Good optics have never stopped a single drone.

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  Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal)🇸🇦 🇾🇪 Saudi Arabia is taking losses to the Houthis while leaning on outside military help, and its credibility is paying the price.

Philip Pilkington says Riyadh badly underestimated what the Houthis could do, and now every setback and every call for foreign firepower makes the kingdom look weaker at home and abroad, with no easy exit in sight.

The longer this drags on, the more the danger moves from the battlefield to the palace.

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  —  https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2108412678347661538