France Seizes Another Russia-Linked Oil Tanker as Ukrainian Drones Hit Russian Oil Depots

Could The War In Ukraine Go Nuclear? Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Too many influential voices are contemplating how to ‘win’ a nuclear war... With all eyes on the U.S. military buildup around Iran right now, the Russia-Ukraine War has been temporarily upstaged.  It will not play second fiddle for long.  The recent trilateral talks in Geneva involving the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the United States have been unable to resolve a principal issue of disagreement: Ukraine’s martial-law-president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s refusal to cede any land and Russia’s insistence that the Donbas region — specifically the four eastern territories that have...

Burning Container Ship Sinks In Strait Of Hormuz, As IRGC Proclaims '5 Or 6' Vessels Targeted Nightly Iran has quite obviously been surging its attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz in an attempt to wreak uncertainty and economic havoc for the Trump administration ahead of the November midterm elections, undermining a recent recovery in Persian Gulf oil shipments. The attacks are now coming so frequently it is difficult to deep track. One source tallies of recent days, "Twelve vessels were attacked between October 5 and 11, including six on...

Korean Officials Are "Paying Close Attention" As Foreign Outflows Trigger Bond/Won Collapse Unless you have been living under a rock, you'll know that South Korea's stock market has been rocketing higher on the back of the AI/Semi speculation as SK Hynix and Samsung have dominated (accounting for over 40% of the KOSPI market cap)... But, as the following chart from Goldman Sachs shows, this surge in Korean stocks has been driven by domestic Retail investors as Foreign investors have fled that market en masse... These outflows have sparked a collapse in the...