🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Interesting analysis I found: Okay, an unpopular view over Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the possibility of it spreading into a regional war:
— Israel would be performing far better on the informational and diplomatic war if all European Governments were Right-wing right now
The Netanyahu-Ben Gvir-Smotrich Government not only had the bad luck of the conflict happening at the same moment of a War in Europe, but also:
It was elected during a Democratic administration in US, with Biden's Cabinet is filled with Secular Jews and Reformed Jews (who are outspoken against Netanyahu and his Kahanist allies), whom historically a Social-Liberal leaning on its policies, but also are Pro 2 States solution and has a known distaste for Israeli policy in the West Bank
Most of the European Governments at the moment are Social-Democrats or simply Social-Liberals, whose the population is somewhat tired of war due to the War in Ukraine
Latin American political administrations, perhaps one of the few small diplomatic allies that Netanyahu had during the mid-2010s, are now mostly Left-wing and sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, mainly due to the anti-Zionist indoctrination and pro-Palestinian leanings that LatAm's democratic socialist and far-left groups have historically
Israel is in diplomatic trouble with Moscow - whether Western analysts like it or not - had a special sympathy for past Netanyahu-Lieberman governments, but are now openly shaking hands with Hamas and hardcore anti-Zionist Palestinian factions, partially due to the fault of Lapid and Bennet, who during their government, which preceded the current one, made Israel move closer to Ukraine against Russia in the current conflict (mainly because some moderate Orthodox groups and secular Jews in Israel have Ukrainian origins)
Neoconservatives and Evangelical Christians in US Congress and Senate, the most Pro-Israel Demographic in American politics, very well-represented over the past 40 years inside the Republican party, are now being both replaced by Isolationists America First/Trumpist guys, often from a Secular and not-so-religious backgrounds
For these reasons, I believe, Israel is capitalizing on its war propaganda in the wrong way.
The population in the West, especially now that ISIS has lost its lands in Iraq and Syria, no longer cares about the War on Terror Narrative.
Islamic Radicalism is no longer a problem for the average liberal Joe in the EU and USA and try to appeal to redditor-like sentimentality is a failure as agitprop
Western liberals in general only tend to care about issues far from their homelands when the "problem" arrives in their lands (see 9/11 and the wave of brutal terrorist attacks on European soil in the mid-2010s when the international Coalition intervened in Iraq)
If Israel wants to be perceived as a "Bastion of Western Civilization" in the Middle East, as the pro-Zionist media and national-conservative actors around here on social medias so much falsely love to portray it, nothing is fairer than for it to dance to the music, just as Bibi did in 2010s during the 2014 Gaza War.
Waiting for liberal Governments to support the Colonization of the West Bank or, more importantly, accepting the normalization of the institutionalization of racial policies by the Israeli Authorities is like waiting for milk to come out of a rock in the desert.
Instead of expecting support from European liberal governments exponentially disinterested in foreign issues (and even disinterested in domestic issues) it is foolish.
If Israel wants Europeans and a good part of the so-called Western World to support its policies perhaps this is a good time when they will start openly supporting "extreme right" candidates (not just making them release vague statements of "We stand with Israel 🇮🇱🤝🇪🇺🇺🇸 , but literally financing and promoting them) in a kind of Quid Pro Quo between the Jews and them on certain topics.
🇺🇸 #Oklahoma high school principal (Kirk Moore) seen charging at and disarming a school shooter.
The suspect, identified as 20-year-old Victor Hawkins, was a former student who said he wanted to shoot up the school “like the Columbine shooters did.” While taking down the shooter, Moore was shot in the leg. He is expected to recover.
When the Principal woke up that day, he never thought he would be tackling a gunman.
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🇨🇳🛢 How much strategic oil does the world actually have in reserve?
Global strategic crude oil inventories stood at ~2.5 BILLION barrels as of December 2025, according to the US Energy Information Administration.
China holds by far the largest stockpile at 1,397 million barrels, more than 3 times the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve of 413 million barrels, which itself sits at only 58% of its full storage capacity of 714 million barrels.
China added an average of 1.1 million barrels per day to its strategic inventories throughout 2025, with preliminary data suggesting it continued building stockpiles in early 2026 ahead of the Iran War.
Japan holds the 3rd-largest reserve at 263 million barrels, followed by OECD European countries at 179 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the US is releasing 172 million barrels from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve to suppress oil prices, part of a broader 400 million barrel coordinated release agreed by 32 IEA member nations in March.
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🛢 JP Morgan Warns Oil Market Out of Balance, Prices Must Rise
🔸The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly 20% of the world’s oil flows, has removed 13.7 million barrels per day from global supply in April alone. A JP Morgan research note warns the market has no good way to replace it.
🔸Normally, spare production capacity in Saudi Arabia and the UAE acts as the market’s shock absorber. But that buffer has effectively been removed, eliminating the system’s first line of defense.
🔸With spare capacity unavailable, markets turned to inventories
➤ Global stockpiles are now being drained at ~7.1 mbd in April, an extraordinary pace, according to the note.
🔸Meanwhile, demand is collapsing because supply simply isn’t reaching users — “forced demand destruction.”The hardest hit sectors include:
▪️ Petrochemical plants across Asia are shutting down or slashing output as LPG, ethane, and naphtha flows from the Gulf collapse
▪️ Airline jet fuel ...
🛢⛽️ Global oil inventories are heading toward RECORD LOWS:
Global visible oil inventories have fallen -255 million barrels since the start of the conflict on February 27, to 7,864 million barrels.
Total estimated oil draws, including non-OECD refined products storage, have accelerated to 10.9 million barrels per day in April, the largest monthly draws on record since 2017.
Cumulative estimated draws since the start of the war now stand at 474 million barrels, with Hormuz flows holding at ~10% of normal, or 2.0 million barrels per day.
Meanwhile, even in an optimistic scenario where Strait of Hormuz flows begin recovering by late April, it is unlikely to prevent global visible inventories from reaching all-time lows, according to Goldman Sachs.
As inventories keep falling, physical oil markets are likely to require sharply higher prices for immediate delivery, since buyers cannot wait months for cheaper futures delivery when stocks are running critically low.
Goldman also warns...