US military has intercepted 3 tankers in Asian waters according to sources.

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'Greatest threat' — as Russia arms for large-scale war, Germany unveils plan to build Europe's strongest army. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius unveiled a new national military strategy on April 22 in light of Russia's growing threat.

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Zelenskyy to CNN: Ukraine can't wait for the US-Iran war to end "Ukraine is already in such a big tragedy, we have to find a way to manage this in a parallel way." The same US team – Witkoff and Kushner – is running both files. He calls it a "challenge" https://
euromaidanpress.com/2026/04/22/one
-us-team-two-wars-zelenskyy-says-ukraine-cant-wait-for-iran-to-close/
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Foreign supply chains are keeping Russia's missile production alive.

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Sources: https://
ibtimes.com/citi-says-oil-
prices-could-surge-130-barrel-if-strait-hormuz-remains-closed-3801685
… https://
tradingkey.com/analysis/commo
dities/oil/261809016-us-iran-oil-usoil-wti-brent-130-hormuz-tradingkey
… https://
thedeepdive.ca/citi-warns-glo
bal-oil-inventories-could-drop-by-900-million-barrels-despite-ceasefire/
… https://
telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/
04/21/equities-are-priced-for-perfection-not-for-the-mother-of-al/
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22/ Neither of those gas spikes were the direct result of the presidents' policies. By contrast, Trump's decision to launch the Iran war is already clearly leading to polls finding that he and his party are being blamed directly for the latest gas spike. /end

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21/ The 2008 gas spike coincided almost exactly with George W. Bush's lowest ratings, when he reached just 20–22% in late 2008. Similarly, Joe Biden's lowest rating, at 38%, coincided with the 2022 spike in gas prices prompted by the invasion of Ukraine.

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20/ Studies consistently find that rising gas prices are associated with falling presidential approval — a rough rule of thumb is that a sustained $0.25/gallon increase costs a president around 1–2 percentage points in approval.

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