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1/ Oil just surged past $100 a barrel.
Everyone is watching the price.
Few people understand the system behind it.
To understand why oil markets panic so quickly…
you have to understand the Middle East.
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انضم Mart 2026
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@Reuters Fertilizer is upstream of food production.
Restrictions here don’t just affect agriculture.
They affect political stability months later.
Food inflation has historically been one of the fastest paths to social pressure
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China restricts fertiliser exports, further crimping war-tightened supply reut.rs/3NPQVvA reut.rs/3NPQVvA
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This highlights the real risk of critical supply chain dependence.
Fertilizers are not just an agriculture issue.
They are food security infrastructure.
When a country controls essential inputs, it gains leverage without sanctions.
The geopolitics of fertilizers is only beginning.
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JUST IN:
China has stopped exporting fertilizers, and concerning developments have finally begun. This time it involves compound fertilizers made of nitrogen and potassium. However, Japan relies on imports from China to secure about 75% of its ammonium phosphate needs and 25% of its urea needs.
If this source is cut off, Japanese agriculture will suffer a severe blow, and the population may find it difficult to meet its basic needs.
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@JeffereyJaxen This isn’t just supply tightening.
It’s strategic insulation.
Countries start hoarding critical inputs when they expect volatility.
Fertilizer sits upstream of food.
Food sits upstream of political stability.
This is how commodity shocks become geopolitical shocks.
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In an already tight market from the Iran conflict, China further cuts global fertilizer flow:
"This pattern is consistent: China restricts supplies rather than coming to the rescue during global tightness," said Matthew Biggin, a senior commodities analyst at BMI.
“The export restrictions exist because of their tight domestic balance - they're prioritising food security and insulating their domestic market from price shocks."
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China restricting fertiliser exports is also a policy signal.
Countries usually restrict strategic inputs when they expect domestic price pressure.
Fertiliser tends to be an early indicator because it sits upstream of food production.
Energy shocks → fertiliser → food inflation months later.
Markets may be underestimating this transmission chain
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China has restricted fertiliser exports, per Reuters
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🇨🇳 China just restricted fertilizer exports.
This isn’t just agriculture.
It’s food geopolitics.
China is one of the world’s largest suppliers. When it restricts exports, it means one thing: protecting its domestic market before global shocks hit.
The chain that matters:
Energy → fertilizers → food → inflation.
Fertilizers depend on natural gas.
Energy disruptions raise their cost.
That raises food prices — months later.
It happened in 2022.
It’s happening again. Urea prices up 40% since the war began.
The signal:
China blocked fertilizers and refined fuel exports in the same week. The pattern is clear.
Modern wars don’t just affect the battlefield.
They hit the invisible supply chains that hold the global economy together.
Source: Reuters, Bloomberg
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The second-order effect matters more.
Disruptions in Gulf supply don’t just raise prices.
They reshuffle market share.
Russia doesn’t need to win the war.
It just needs Middle East instability to persist.
Higher prices + alternative supply demand = revenue leverage.
Energy wars rarely have direct winners.
But they always create indirect ones.
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Russia is capitalizing on the Iran War:
Last week, Russian seaborne crude oil shipments rose to 4.11 million barrels per day, the 3rd-highest weekly reading since April 2023.
This brings the 4-week average to 3.44 million barrels per day, up +90,000 barrels per day from the prior week.
This comes as soaring oil prices and a 30-day US sanctions waiver on Russian crude sitting on tankers have fueled the surge in exports.
Meanwhile, prices for Russian crude delivered to India hit an all-time high.
Combined with rising export volumes, this drove Russia's largest weekly revenue increase since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Russia is emerging as one of the biggest beneficiaries of the Iran War.
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The real impact may not be the $20B loss.
It’s the capacity destruction.
LNG infrastructure takes years to build and even longer to replace under conflict conditions.
~12.8 mtpa potentially offline for 3–5 years isn’t just a financial hit.
It’s structural supply loss.
Full breakdown below
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Qatar Gas CEO :
We incurred a $20 billion loss at the facility we built for $26 billion two years ago.
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Beyond the immediate geopolitical escalation, the real long-term impact may be energy infrastructure damage.
Losing ~12.8 mtpa of LNG capacity for potentially 3–5 years could reshape global gas supply balances far beyond this conflict.
Wars escalate fast.
Energy capacity takes years to rebuild.
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Qatar’s prime minister has said Iran’s claims that it is targeting US bases is “unacceptable and unjustified”, after it attacked Ras Laffan gas plant yesterday and called on Iran to stop expanding the conflict in the region.
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@sardesairajdeep The key issue may not just be the 17% loss.
It’s the duration.
LNG facilities are complex industrial infrastructure. Losing ~12.8 mtpa for 3–5 years affects global energy balances well beyond the immediate conflict.
Wars move prices.
Infrastructure damage reshapes markets.
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Big: Iran's attack has wiped out 17% of Qatar's LNG capacity for up to 5 yrs, says QatarEnergy CEO. Terrible news for us in India and the world . Just one more reason why this crazy war must STOP! #SayNOtoWar
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The key issue may not just be the lost volume.
It’s the repair timeline.
LNG trains aren’t easily replaceable infrastructure. If ~12.8 mtpa remains offline for 3–5 years, this shifts global LNG balances structurally.
Short disruptions move prices.
Multi-year capacity losses reshape markets.
Full breakdown below
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🚨🚨🚨 IRAN JUST HIT THE WORLD'S LNG HUB. HERE IS EVERY COUNTRY THAT IS NOW SCREWED.
One missile hit Ras Laffan, Qatar last night.
12.8 million tons of LNG per year just disappeared from the global supply chain for 3 to 5 years.
Here's who gets hit hardest:
🇶🇦 Qatar — lost 17% of all LNG export capacity overnight. $20 billion in annual revenue gone.
🇩🇪 Germany — 14% of Europe's LNG comes from Qatar. Already paid the price after Russia. Now this.
🇫🇷 France — TTF gas futures up 35% today. Heating bills going up before next winter.
🇬🇧 UK — European gas prices surged 35% in one day. Energy inflation is back.
🇮🇳 India — 60% of LNG imports came from Qatar and UAE in 2025. Can only replace about half.
🇯🇵 Japan — one of Qatar's biggest LNG buyers. Now competing against Europe for whatever's left.
🇰🇷 South Korea — same situation as Japan. Emergency diversification in progress.
🇨🇳 China — gets a third of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz. Now EFFECTIVELY CLOSED.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia — Iran hit a Saudi refinery the same night. Their own energy infrastructure under attack.
🇦🇪 UAE — shut down their own gas facilities pre-emptively after Iran's threats. Self-imposed disruption.
🇰🇼 Kuwait — two refineries on fire after Iranian strikes.
🇺🇸 USA — its companies are the ONLY winners. US LNG exports are now the last alternative for the entire world.
🇷🇺 Russia — Power of Siberia 2 pipeline to China just became 10x more critical. Putin is watching and smiling.
12 countries. One missile. Three to five years of pain.
RT before this gets buried by the algorithm.
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@Tradewith_kd The real story may be capital destruction, not just supply disruption.
~$26B infrastructure built over years damaged in days.
And ~12.8 mtpa potentially offline for 3–5 years.
Energy wars don’t just move prices.
They destroy capacity.
Full breakdown below
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🚨#BREAKING
Qatar Gas CEO :
We incurred a $20 billion loss at the facility we built for $26 billion two years ago.🤯
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Exactly.
What may be underappreciated is how infrastructure damage changes timelines.
17% of Qatar LNG capacity (~12.8 mtpa) potentially offline for 3–5 years isn’t a price spike story.
It’s a structural supply constraint.
Markets can price volatility.
Multi-year capacity loss is much harder to price.
Full breakdown below
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Markets are reacting to a risk of a global LNG crisis, which is much worse than an oil shock.
An oil shock is quickly solved by non-OPEC supply, alternatives, and flexible systems. LNG is only 15% of the total gas market but very tight in supply and much more challenging to solve, adding to the problems of regasification and storage.
via Bloomberg
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