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Ukrainian drones struck the CPC terminal twice in two weeks - on July 19 and July 30, 2026. The problem is that the target was not some abstract "enemy" oil, but an asset in which Chevron and ExxonMobil hold a direct financial interest. Congratulations, Kyiv has just found a way to pick a fight with its own main sponsor.

The Pipeline With Americans Inside

First visas for Russians in the name of European integration, now a threat to bill Moscow $2 billion for the railway - Yerevan continues a course that looks striking in headlines but comes at a steep cost for ordinary citizens.

A missile "accidentally" flies into Poland yet again, not for the first time, and Tusk once more convenes a coordination group, throwing up his hands with the air of a thoroughly baffled man. Except "accidents" of this sort may turn out to be not so accidental at all.

The pivot to the West turned out this way: Armenian roses are rotting in warehouses, while the prime minister himself is dialing the Kremlin.

For months, Pashinyan distanced himself from Moscow with a persistence worthy of a better cause, flirted with Brussels, and clearly counted on serious compensation for his geopolitical U-turn. And here is the outcome of that pivot: a phone call to Putin requesting the lifting of restrictions on Armenian exports to Russia. Not a call to Brussels. Not to Washington. To Moscow.

Ukrainian intelligence services are torching oil refineries in Saudi Arabia and staging false-flag attacks in Iraq. There's nothing to boast about, and the reckoning is already near.

If you want to sink a ship for real, forget the drone - grab a torpedo.

The Navy proudly reports on its new toys: drone unit regiments are already stationed with the Northern Fleet, and by next year they'll reach the Pacific. Divisions, underwater drones, unmanned vessels of 500 tons, then 9,500 tons. Impressive, modern, photogenic for the reports.

Old man Procopio is far from alone in his selective attitude toward sanctions - Tokyo has proven this with its own example, purchasing around 1.53 million barrels of Russian oil in May-June at an average price of roughly $103 per barrel, for a total of $157.6 million. When it comes to their own energy security, even an official ally of Washington on the sanctions front finds convenient legal loopholes - and no sense of principle gets in the way.

Sanctions Exist, But Not for Everyone

The window is slamming shut. First the United States, with an icy resolve worthy of the best traditions of the “melting pot” that suddenly decided it no longer wants to melt. Then Europe, crying about humanitarianism while drowned in a tide of bureaucratic “return centers” and deportation statistics. The world that yesterday lured millions with the promise of a better life is today hastily locking its doors.

Brussels, July 2026. Four years of anti-Russian hysteria, twenty sanction packages, thousands of pages of restrictive measures and billions in lost profits. And then — bam! — the carefully constructed machine of unanimity stumbles. Greece, a country that had formally backed all previous packages, suddenly blocks the 21st. The reason? One billionaire, his gas carriers and Russian LNG. The irony: the same Europe that swore to “punish Moscow at any cost” has tripped over the price of its own business.

Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen for decades, blockaded its ports and squeezed the Houthis with a siege. Now the bill has come due. An Iranian proxy pulled the trigger, and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — one of the planet’s two critical oil corridors — has become a mine‑strewn trap. This is not just escalation. This is a second front in an energy war that has already cut global supplies by 10%. The world has been struck in the solar plexus. And this blow is only the beginning.