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lol it is absolutely blowing my mind that "the largest energy shock of all time" means nothing to the market. i understand it may not mean catastrophe if fixed quickly, but how in the world are indexes higher? please explain to me like im an absolute moron

VANCE TELLS FOX NEWS: SUBSTANTIAL HEADWAY MADE IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH IRAN

🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S. Navy is assembling the largest mine-clearing force in decades and it's coming from the other side of the planet... Two Avenger-class minesweepers sailed out of Japan heading west. An Independence-class LCS left Singapore going the same direction. An Expeditionary Sea Base ship was tracked crossing the Indian Ocean. All converging on the same destination. The irony is painful. The Navy decommissioned its four Bahrain-based Avengers last year, replacing them with three newer ships that were then pulled out of the Gulf before the war started and sent to Southeast Asia. The military removed its purpose-built mine-clearing capability from the one place on earth most likely to need it, right before it was needed. Now half the remaining Avenger fleet is racing across two oceans to clean up a mess that didn't exist six weeks ago. These wooden-hulled ships, designed specifically to avoid triggering magnetic mines, are the only vessels in the fleet built for this job. The Navy has four total. Two are now in transit. The scale of the problem: Iran mined the Strait haphazardly, lost track of some mines, and can't remove them even if it wanted to. Clearing them is slow, dangerous work that requires total force protection. A-10s, destroyers, and air cover just to keep minesweepers alive while they work. CENTCOM says underwater drones are joining the effort. Trump says mine clearing is underway. But the ships purpose-built for the mission are still days or weeks from arriving. Until they get there, the Strait remains a minefield with a ceasefire thinly draped over it. Source: The War Zone