Nick van der Leek

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The raw power of a lightning strike is absolutely terrifying. A single bolt is 5x hotter than the sun and packs enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread. Nature is on a different level! ⚡️

“We are manufacturing a whole new generation of terrorists in the Middle East,” former U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel tells me, saying the Trump administration's conduct of its war in Iran appears to him unprecedented.

📽️ There have been many scary, unnerving days in this latest Gulf war. But the past 24 hours was particularly bad. Why? Because both sides are now causing lasting damage to the world economy's life support system. Our latest primer on the econ consequences of this war👇

"We are currently experiencing what is the largest oil supply disruption in history," said Gregory Brew, a senior analyst at the Eurasia Group. to.pbs.org/4snVNY7

Wow.

BREAKING: Iran's strike on Qatar gas facility will take up to 5 years of repairs and cut production by 17%

The silver lining to all this is that if need an incentive to get off fossil fuels sooner than later, well, we've found one. Whether we choose to keep using them or not, fossil fuels will eventually run out.

I’m currently in Viet Nam and rumours on the street is they have almost run out of fuel. 40% increase in price overnight. They asked China to lend them jet fuel and they’ve said no.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever. This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18…) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (energyintel.com/0000017b-a7be-…). What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself). Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there). Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up. From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.

Is this the beginning of TACO?

‘Armageddon scenario’ for gas markets as Qatar hit by missiles ft.trib.al/yyjEaUr

BREAKING: Iran strikes Israel’s Haifa refinery.

And it's just Day 19 of the "short term pain" war.

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BOMBSHELL: Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway. The US didn't want peace, they wanted war.

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Exclusive from @oliver_wright Airlines have been warned that they will face jet fuel shortages as soon as next month, risking flight cancellations to long-haul destinations at the end of the busy Easter holiday period Oil traders expect to see shortages of jet fuel from the continued closure of the Strait of Hormuz within the coming weeks as reserve supplies are run down and not replaced This week, Vietnam became the first country to warn of possible flight cancellations from April after China and Thailand announced they were halting exports of fuel to maintain their own supplies Other countries are expected to follow suit in the coming days with industry experts warning that airlines could be forced to stop serving some long-haul destinations because they may not be able to get the fuel for the return journey Britain is also vulnerable to potential disruption if the conflict continues as the majority of the country’s imported jet fuel comes from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates thetimes.com/uk/transport/a…

Targeted Personal Grievance? #nancyguthrie youtu.be/9tLVFM7pL6g?si…

Basically - like his supporters - he just does not think. Maybe he doesn't know how to.