The US May Have Shot Down a Small Hobby Balloon With a Sidewinder Missile

New Details: US Pilot Suffered Shrapnel Wounds After 'Unkillable' F-35 Was Struck By Iran Very little is known about last week's incident which forced an 'unkillable' F-35 fighter jet to make an emergency landing at an airbase in the Middle East last week, amid reports it took on Iranian fire. Iranian state media said it was shot and successfully downed. Al Jazeera observed that "If true, this would be the first time during the war that an F-35, the cornerstone of Washington’s aerial firepower, has been struck by Iran." US CENTCOM file image US Central Command...

Trump's Venezuela Oil Plan Runs Into Hard Reality Authored by Andrew Topf via oilprice.com, Last week US President Donald Trump announced that Venezuela’s interim authorities will turn over up to 50 million barrels of oil to the United States, before later declaring his administration will control Venezuela's oil sales “indefinitely”. Decrying the state of Venezuela’s oil sector, including that the South American country now pumps a fraction of what it used to, Trump said, “We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies — the biggest anywhere in the world — go...

Why The Fertilizer Crisis May Spark Record Inflows Into Agri ETFs Goldman Now Anticipates Record Inflows For AGRI ETFs Second- and third-order effects from a three-week - and potentially longer - disruption at the Strait of Hormuz are extending well beyond energy markets. Even as some vessel transits resume through the narrow waterway, the shipping backlog continues to build across the Gulf region and could take weeks, if not longer, to clear. At the same time, Qatar's LNG export capacity may take years to fully recover after IRGC drone or missile strikes...