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—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ NEW: Iran is completely burying the newly built concrete sarcophagus at the Taleqan-2 site with soil to protect it from strikes
The site is suspected to be a hardened structure used for high-explosive testing and was active in this capacity during the 'AMAD' program, Iran's nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s.
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The site is suspected to be a hardened structure used for high-explosive testing and was active in this capacity during the 'AMAD' program, Iran's nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s.
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🇲🇽 Drone strikes by Mexican Cartels.
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/02/16/mexican-cartel-drone-attacks-report/
📎 Robert Young Pelton
https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/02/16/mexican-cartel-drone-attacks-report/
📎 Robert Young Pelton
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🇲🇽 🏭 🇺🇸 Mexico now imports 75% of its natural gas from the US about 6.4 Bcf/d, generating $9B per year in direct dollar demand.
Now the twist.
Mexico is building LNG export terminals using… US pipeline gas.
1 molecule.
2 dollar transactions.
US → Mexico (pipeline, dollars)
Mexico → Asia/Europe (LNG, dollars)
That is a structural dollar multiplier.
📊 US energy infrastructure enforces dollar dominance
I just published a deep dive connecting:
• Geopolitical energy control
• The Mexico double-dollar effect
• Why key midstream assets are mispriced
It’s about who controls the pipes
and the currency flows.
👇 Full thesis here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themerchantsnews/p/china-cant-escape-the-usd
📎 Jack Prandelli
Now the twist.
Mexico is building LNG export terminals using… US pipeline gas.
1 molecule.
2 dollar transactions.
US → Mexico (pipeline, dollars)
Mexico → Asia/Europe (LNG, dollars)
That is a structural dollar multiplier.
📊 US energy infrastructure enforces dollar dominance
I just published a deep dive connecting:
• Geopolitical energy control
• The Mexico double-dollar effect
• Why key midstream assets are mispriced
It’s about who controls the pipes
and the currency flows.
👇 Full thesis here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themerchantsnews/p/china-cant-escape-the-usd
📎 Jack Prandelli
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Because of Sacramento’s self-inflicted refinery closures, refusal to expand in-state capacity, hostility to interstate pipelines, and rigid regulatory regime, fuel that could move efficiently within California is instead being routed to a foreign port, transferred to a foreign-flagged vessel, and then shipped all the way around Mexico to California.
More than 40% of imported gasoline in November came via the Bahamas.
We are:
🚢 Adding thousands of unnecessary shipping miles (and emissions)
💸 Layering transportation costs onto already record-high pump prices
🏭 Driving domestic refining capacity out of the state
📉 Weakening energy reliability in the world’s 5th largest economy
📝 Gregory Smith: Accurate but worth a mention that refineries don't just produce gasoline but also diesel (industrial and transport), kerosene (jet fuel), asphalt (roads), and other compounds lighter (e.g. propane) and heavier (e.g. bunker fuel for ships). Losing local refineries means that ALL of these refined products have to be shipped into CA. Which can certainly be done but at higher prices. CA is choosing to not just pay more for gasoline but also losing the foundations of an industrial economy. Which might be the goal.
📝 TheIntelFrog: Our entire defense apparatus is petroleum based, and that's not changing anytime soon. In case of war in the Pacific, we will need much more fuel on the west coast than we presently have the capacity for.
📎 Mike Netter
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California is sourcing 40 percent of its gasoline from the Bahamas due to a combination of disappearing oil refineries, lack of storage facilities and interstate pipelines, and a loophole in a 106-year-old maritime law, known as the Jones Act.
https://gcaptain.com/gasoline-starved-california-is-turning-to-fuel-from-the-bahamas/
📎 What's Going on With Shipping?
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Gasoline Starved California Is Turning To Fuel From the Bahamas
By Will Kubzansky and Lucia Kassai Feb 15, 2026 (Bloomberg) –US supplies of gasoline are being shipped out of the country to travel thousands of miles via the Bahamas before finally ending...
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#BREAKING | 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 — U.S. President Donald Trump announces launch of 'massive' trade deal with Japan, involving $550 billion in Japanese investments in the U.S.
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Our MASSIVE Trade Deal with Japan has just launched!
Japan is now officially, and financially, moving forward with the FIRST set of Investments under its $550 BILLION Dollar Commitment to invest in the United States of America — part of our Historic Trade Deal to REVITALIZE the American Industrial Base, create HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of GREAT American Jobs, and strengthen our National and Economic Security like never before.
Today, I am pleased to announce three TREMENDOUS Projects in the Strategic Areas of Oil & Gas in the Great State of Texas, Power Generation in the Great State of Ohio, and Critical Minerals in the Great State of Georgia.
The scale of these projects are so large, and could not be done without one very special word, TARIFFS. The Gas Power Plant in Ohio (A State I won THREE TIMES!) will be the largest in History, the LNG Facility in the Gulf of America will drive Exports, and further our Country's Energy DOMINANCE, and our Critical Minerals Facility will end our FOOLISH dependance on Foreign Sources.
America is building again. America is producing again. And America is WINNING again.
This is a very exciting and HISTORIC time for the United States of America and Japan. Congratulations to all!
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🇵🇪 — URGENT: Peru's Congress dismisses internal president José Jeri. All seven motions of censure against the current former president were approved by Congress.
Tupi Report 🇧🇷 • #FreeVenezuela
🇵🇪 — URGENT: Peru's Congress dismisses internal president José Jeri. All seven motions of censure against the current former president were approved by Congress.
— In other news, the very stable nation of Peru removed its 8th President in 8 years.
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📢 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Ivanka Trump on X:
Today, a new lunar cycle begins.
The Year of the Fire Horse calls us to courage, to energy, to intention, and to fearless creation. It is a year for bold ideas, decisive action, and turning vision into something enduring.
I am stepping into it with clarity and conviction, ready to bring forward projects I have been quietly nurturing, ideas nearly ready to meet the light. I cannot wait to share them with you.
Forward, with strength.
With gratitude.
With purpose.
Excited for what is ahead.
Happy Lunar New Year 新年快乐 ✨🐎🔥
📎 Ivanka Trump
Today, a new lunar cycle begins.
The Year of the Fire Horse calls us to courage, to energy, to intention, and to fearless creation. It is a year for bold ideas, decisive action, and turning vision into something enduring.
I am stepping into it with clarity and conviction, ready to bring forward projects I have been quietly nurturing, ideas nearly ready to meet the light. I cannot wait to share them with you.
Forward, with strength.
With gratitude.
With purpose.
Excited for what is ahead.
Happy Lunar New Year 新年快乐 ✨🐎🔥
📎 Ivanka Trump
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📢 🇺🇸 🤖 James Fishback on X:
As Governor, I would ban Palantir from doing business with state and local government. My full statement.
📎 James Fishback
As Governor, I would ban Palantir from doing business with state and local government. My full statement.
📎 James Fishback
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Contrary to some reports, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier has not reached the Straits of Gibraltar.
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🇷🇺🇮🇷 - Russian and Iranian navies will hold joint exercises tomorrow in the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The Trump administration is preparing for a war with Iran that will last weeks. The war may start very soon.
According to Israeli sources, the Israeli government is preparing for the possibility of war within days.
American sources estimate that the decision may take weeks, but emphasize that patience at the White House is 'running out'.
- Axios | @thewarreporterr
According to Israeli sources, the Israeli government is preparing for the possibility of war within days.
American sources estimate that the decision may take weeks, but emphasize that patience at the White House is 'running out'.
- Axios | @thewarreporterr
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Leaving the European Union has never been on our agenda.
The EU has weakened dramatically — it is no longer a decisive global actor. The war is in Europe, but the EU is not even at the negotiating table.
We say no to war, migration, and gender ideology — and that puts us in direct conflict with Brussels.
Europe’s interest in Hungary’s elections is unusually intense. If we lose, Brussels’ political program will be implemented in Hungary.
A change of government would mean sending Hungarian taxpayers’ money to Ukraine. Hungary would be dragged into war, accept migrants, and support Ukraine’s EU membership.
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The likely US-Israeli campaign against Iran will likely be major and weeks-long, sources say
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