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TRUMP ADMIN CONSIDERING DEPLOYING THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL US TROOPS TO MIDDLE EAST AS TRUMP WEIGHS IRAN NEXT STEPS - RTRS

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UNITED STATES WEIGHS CRUDE EXPORT TARIFF — AND POSSIBLE BAN — TO CURB SURGING ENERGY PRICES AMID MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT. || POTENTIAL CURBS COULD WIDEN WTI CRUDE–BRENT CRUDE GAP, LOWER DOMESTIC FUEL COSTS BUT DISRUPT GLOBAL SUPPLY AND PUSH INTERNATIONAL PRICES HIGHER.

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🚨🚨🚨 ISRAEL JUST BOMBED IRAN'S GAS FIELD. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY JUST TRIGGERED. 🚨🚨🚨 South Pars is not just any gas field. It supplies 25% of the WORLD'S liquefied natural gas. A quarter of the planet's energy. Gone in one airstrike. Let that sink in. Here's what happens next — step by step: 💀 STEP 1 — Iran previously warned that if their energy infrastructure was targeted, they would FLATTEN Qatar's LNG complex — the LARGEST on Earth — into a parking lot. 💀 STEP 2 — If Qatar's LNG complex is hit, Europe loses 20% of its gas imports OVERNIGHT. Gas prices don't rise — they EXPLODE. 💀 STEP 3 — Oil shoots past $150/barrel. Every economy on Earth feels it within 48 hours. Inflation goes vertical. Markets BLEED. 💀 STEP 4 — The Strait of Hormuz gets shut down. 21% of the world's daily oil passes through there. That's 21 MILLION barrels PER DAY — GONE. 💀 STEP 5 — China, India, Japan, South Korea — ALL of them depend on that strait. This isn't a Middle East problem anymore. This is a GLOBAL energy collapse. ⚠️ The U.S. bombed Iraq for 20 years over oil. Iran just had its energy lifeline attacked — a nation of 90 million people who believe in martyrdom. ⚠️ Their response won't be proportional. It will be DISPROPORTIONATE. They're showing you "precision strikes" and "limited operations." They're NOT showing you the chain reaction that's about to unfold. Every single escalation this month has been met with a BIGGER escalation. Not smaller. BIGGER. This is not de-escalation. This is a countdown. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨 This post is being throttled. Like + RT to keep it alive. ⚠️

NEW | Evening Update: The United States and Israel are currently attempting to use force to prevent Iran from disrupting shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. A weakened regime that remains in power after this war would be able to disrupt shipping whenever and for however long it pleases with little effort if its current, relatively limited, strike campaign on shipping proves sufficient to cause the US and Israel to surrender. A failure to demonstrate the will and ability to deny Iran the ability to disrupt traffic will make it enormously harder to deter Iran from future disruptions. Stopping the war in current conditions would thus represent a major strategic challenge that the United States or Israel would need to contend with in future rounds of conflict with a regime that will continue to be a committed adversary. Other Key Takeaways + Full Update⬇️(1/3) The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it struck the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy headquarters in Tehran on March 16. It stated that commanders used the headquarters to direct IRGC Navy forces and plan operations against Israel and other regional countries. The IDF confirmed that it killed Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani, who was a long-time regime insider and had held many senior posts, in airstrikes in Tehran overnight on March 16 and 17. Larijani’s death likely weakens a key faction in competition with the Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei-IRGC nexus, but it will not end the ongoing competition. A long-time observer of drone operations in Ukraine suggested on March 17 that the drone footage posted by likely Iranian-backed Iraqi militia front group Saraya Awliya al Dam is consistent with a fiber optic first-person view (FPV) drone. The Iranian proxy group’s decision to advertise its possession of such a weapon would be an explicit threat aimed at the United States. The combined force has continued to strike Iranian ballistic missile infrastructure to degrade Iran’s missile capabilities. The combined force has continued to degrade Iranian air capabilities in order to maintain air superiority over parts of Iran. The combined force continued to strike Iranian defense industrial sites. The combined force struck a number of internal security targets.