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The renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran could disrupt the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) forecast of a significant oil market surplus next year, it said on Friday.

The IEA recently forecast that global oil markets will shift from a major deficit in 2026 to a massive supply surplus in 2027, driven by a recovery in production in the Middle East.

President Donald J. Trump signs executive orders, Friday, May 9, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

Global supply is projected to surge by 8 million barrels per day (bpd) to 110.3 million bpd.

The US Army Contracting Command – Redstone has awarded Gentex a five-year contract to provide rotary-wing helmet systems.

Uplift360 has entered into a multi-year framework agreement with the Directorate of Defence (DOD) of Luxembourg to strengthen Europe’s supply of high-performance materials for defence and aerospace applications.

The July 1944 bombing that nearly took the life of Nazi Germany’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, was the last of some 40 attempts to eliminate him.

What kept any of those plots from succeeding was a set of practices that made his movements unpredictable – last-minute changes in schedules and destinations – and an ever-increasing army of protective services that were always around him.

Putin with a Rifle. Image Credit: Russian State Media.

These lessons have not been lost on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Marine Corps’ last serving amphibious assault vehicles, beastly machines affectionately known to Marines as “tracks,” recently completed a final field exercise ahead of their planned retirement, Corps officials said this week.
The 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion, the last Marine unit still operating the officially retired vehicles, took part in Exercise Sea Breeze 26 last month in Romania. The event marked the final Marine Corps operations with the vehicle, which is often referred to by its acronym, AAV,  a Marine Corps news release says.

The Wall Street Journal posted that Israeli intelligence has shared with the U.S. indications of a fresh Iranian plan to kill President Trump, people familiar with the matter said.

Iran, for years, has vowed openly to retaliate against Trump for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, who was the commander of the Quds forces in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), in January of 2020.

Donald Trump Pointing in Speech. Image Credit: White House.

The president stated that he was a target as he was leaving the NATO meetings in Ankara, Turkey, earlier this week.

As Ukraine’s massive force of one-way attack drones strikes further into the interior of Russia, Moscow finds its already inadequate number of air defense assets even more lacking than before.

In the most recent attack by Ukraine on Russia’s largest refinery in the Siberian city of Omsk, the facility was embarrassingly almost completely undefended.

Putin in 2023. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Putin in 2022. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

As these unmanned attack aircraft were exploding on impact with the refinery facility, there was one huge fireball after another.

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At an emergency meeting this week with his ministers and several governors, Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed an escalating program of Ukrainian drone strikes.

These attacks are reaching progressively deeper into the country, but the former KGB Lt. Col. believes the massive volcanic explosions at Russian refineries and the skies full of black smoke have minimal impact on the situation within the country.

As Ukraine intensifies its strikes deep into Russia, Washington sees a potential opening to revisit stalled peace negotiations, seemingly hopeful that pressure on Moscow will convince the Russian leader to make concessions.

During the recently concluded NATO summit held in Ankara, Turkey, American President Donald Trump sounded optimistic, saying that Ukrainian strikes are “an escalation, but it’s also an escalation that can help lead to an end.”

President Donald J. Trump and President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office. White House Photo.