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🚨 SAUDI ARABIA JUST BECAME THE BIGGEST WAR PROFITEER IN HISTORY
Saudi Arabia is America's closest ally. And they are getting rich from a war America is fighting. Here is the proof.
💀 Saudi exports BEFORE the war: 6,660,000 barrels per day. 💀 Saudi exports NOW: 3,330,000 barrels per day. 💀 That is a 50% DROP.
💀 Oil price BEFORE the war: $67 per barrel. 💀 Oil price NOW: $130 per barrel. 💀 Saudi added $19.50 per barrel premium on Asian buyers. 💀 That is the HIGHEST premium in history.
⚠️ They are selling HALF the oil at DOUBLE the price with a RECORD fee on top. ⚠️ The math says they are making MORE money than before the war.
⚠️ The IEA called this the largest supply disruption in global oil market history. ⚠️ The supply loss is 10,000,000 barrels per day. OPEC+ fixed 206,000 of it. On purpose.
Let that sink in.
Now the part nobody will say out loud.
Saudi bypassed the Strait of Hormuz entirely. Their East-West pipeline now carries 7,000,000 barrels per day to the Red Sea.
Korean and Indian refiners are rerouting to Saudi's Yanbu port for the first time ever.
Saudi does not need Hormuz open. Saudi was NEVER going to suffer from Hormuz closing.
And Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, and Bahrain are PRIVATELY urging Trump to keep fighting Iran. They want Iran weakened further before any ceasefire deal happens.
Because every week of war is another week of record oil prices. Every week of record prices is another week of record Saudi revenue.
If Saudi wanted Hormuz reopened, why did they spend billions on a pipeline to avoid it?
If Saudi was suffering, why are they charging the highest markup in history right now?
If Saudi is a loyal ally, why are they privately pushing for more bombing of a country America is already bombing?
Complete silence.
This is not an oil story. This is not a US-Iran story. This is a war profiteering story.
And the profiteer is the country hosting American military bases.
i lose followers every time i post the hard truth.. and i post it anyway.
15. 🇹🇿 Tanzania — 60 t 15. 🇨🇴 Colombia — 60 t 15. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso — 60 t 13. 🇲🇱 Mali — 70 t 13. 🇧🇷 Brazil — 70 t 10. 🇿🇦 South Africa — 100 t 10. 🇵🇪 Peru — 100 t 10. 🇮🇩 Indonesia — 100 t 9. 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan — 120 t 6. 🇲🇽 Mexico — 130 t 6. 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan — 130 t 6. 🇬🇭 Ghana — 130 t 5. 🇺🇸 United States — 160 t 4. 🇨🇦 Canada — 200 t 3. 🇦🇺 Australia — 290 t 2. 🇷🇺 Russia — 310 t 1. 🇨🇳 China — 380 t
(Note: Data estimated for 2024; latest available in early 2026. Top 17 account for ~76% of global production. Remaining 780 t distributed among other countries, each with less than 60 t.)
Source: U.S. Geological Survey – Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025
The same signal that triggered the 2017 bull run is here.
ISM PMI came in at 52.7 today, crossing back above 51 for the 4th consecutive month.
The last two times this happened were January 2017 and September 2020. Both preceded multi month altcoin rallies of historic scale.
ISM is a US manufacturing data point that measures economic expansion. When ISM crosses 51, it signals that the broader economy is expanding, liquidity conditions are improving, and risk appetite is returning.
Historically that environment pushes money into higher beta assets and altcoins are the highest beta asset class on the planet.
Now the level to watch is 55. Every time ISM has sustained above 55, altcoins have gone parabolic.
We are not there yet.
But the last two times the chart looked exactly like this, altseason followed within months. $B $LAB $UB
SEMANA HISTÓRICA: LA FED, EL BOJ Y EL BCE ACABAN DE SEÑALAR LO MISMO
💥Los tres bancos centrales más importantes del mundo apuntando hacia SUBIDAS de tasas al mismo tiempo. Esto no pasaba desde 2022. Y ya sabemos cómo terminó aquello.
¿Sabés lo que significa cuando la FED, el Banco de Japón y el Banco Central Europeo señalan TODOS que las tasas pueden SUBIR⁉️ Significa menos liquidez, crédito más caro y mercados bajo presión a NIVEL GLOBAL
🎯FED: FIN DE ERA POWELL. CAMBIO DE CICLO:
👉La última rueda de prensa de Jerome Powell como presidente de la FED acaba de terminar. Después de 8 años al frente del banco central más poderoso del mundo, Powell deja el cargo. ▪️Pero lo que dejó HOY es más importante que su despedida: ▪️La FED mantuvo la tasa. Pero CAMBIÓ el lenguaje oficial. Durante meses, el documento decía que la inflación estaba "ALGO elevada." ▪️Hoy lo modificaron: la inflación "ESTÁ ELEVADA". ▪️Parece un detalle menor. NO lo es. En el lenguaje de la FED, cada palabra está medida al milímetro. Ese cambio señala que la FED está LEJOS de recortar. ▪️Powell declaró que el número de miembros de la FED que ven subidas de tasa tan probables como recortes "HA AUMENTADO." ▪️Dijo textualmente: "Un cambio respecto de la flexibilización monetaria podría llegar YA EN LA PRÓXIMA REUNIÓN." ▪️Powell va a SEGUIR en la FED como Gobernador con DERECHO A VOTO en las decisiones de tasa. No se va del todo. ▪️El mercado de futuros para diciembre 2026 ya refleja el giro: 👉Probabilidad de SUBA: 12,4%. Probabilidad de BAJA: apenas 5%. Probabilidad de que quede igual: 82,6%. 👉Hay MÁS del doble de probabilidad de que la tasa SUBA a que BAJE. Los recortes que el mercado venía preciando durante todo el año se EVAPORARON.
🎯BOJ: LOS DISIDENTES SE MULTIPLICAN:
👉El Banco de Japón mantuvo la tasa en 0,75%. Pero la GRAN particularidad fue la votación: ▪️Reunión anterior: 8 votaron por mantener, 1 $B $LAB $UB
- The Strait of Hormuz remains fully blocked amid stalled ceasefire talks.
- Iran’s army stays in full “war situation” mode .
- Trump greenlights new U.S. strike plans on the regime.
They’re pricing in a full-blown global energy crisis with trillions at stake, even though the pre-war flow through Hormuz powered 21% of the world’s daily oil supply.
Massive geopolitical risk premium, heavy institutional hedging into commodities, supply chain breakdowns across Asia, and potential safe-haven flows into Bitcoin and crypto
🚨 Do you understand what happened in the last 72 hours..
> the UAE quietly opened a sovereign dollar swap line with the US Treasury.. days before any cartel news broke.. nobody on Bloomberg connected the timing..
> Abu Dhabi formally announced it is leaving OPEC after 58 years.. the first major Gulf producer to walk out since the cartel was founded in 1960..
> the UAE was sitting on $93,000,000,000 of spare oil capacity it was never allowed to pump because Saudi-driven OPEC quotas kept getting in the way..
> Saudi Arabia issued a 90-word statement saying the cartel "remains strong" and never mentioned the UAE by name.. silence speaks louder..
> the trigger nobody is talking about: Iranian missiles hit UAE cities and Saudi Arabia stayed publicly silent.. Abu Dhabi remembered..
> Russia loses its only multilateral lever over oil prices at exactly the moment it is bankrolling Iran's war and bleeding petrodollars on Ukraine..
> Trump's administration has been openly courting Gulf producers one by one.. cheap oil before the midterms is now official US policy..
> Qatar walked in 2019.. Ecuador walked in 2020.. Angola walked in 2024.. UAE walked in 2026.. four major exits in seven years.. zero new members..
every single move on this list points the same direction.. Washington just dismantled the cartel that quadrupled oil prices in 1973.. and didn't fire a single shot..
all of this.. one week..
OPEC didn't collapse.. it got bought one Gulf state at a time..
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..
The U.S. sits on 46 billion barrels of proved crude oil reserves, with 60% of that locked in dense underground rock.
The Permian Basin, which stretches across West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, pumps out 6.6 million barrels a day on its own, more than every OPEC country except Saudi Arabia.
The U.S. is the single largest oil producer on the planet at 13.6 million barrels a day, out-producing both Russia (9.1M) and Saudi Arabia (9.3M).
On natural gas, it isn't close:
America produced a record 43.2 trillion cubic feet in 2025, roughly a quarter of the world's supply and more than Russia and Iran combined.
The U.S. sits on world-class reserves and out-produces every petrostate. $B $UB $BR
🚨JUST IN: BRAZIL BANS CRYPTO IN REGULATED CROSS-BORDER PAYMENTS
Central Bank of Brazil has prohibited the use of cryptocurrencies in regulated international payments, forcing transfers through traditional FX channels instead.
The move targets rising stablecoin usage in Latin America’s largest crypto market, where roughly 90% of crypto flows are reportedly linked to stablecoins.