🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Israeli officials held security assessments Thursday that explicitly discussed a possible Iranian offensive; authorities will maintain heightened alert and readiness through the upcoming holiday period, Channel 13 reports.

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷🇱🇧 — BREAKING: Israel has raised its alert level amid concerns Iran or Hezbollah could retaliate over the planned demolition, according to IDF Radio, citing security officials.

🇸🇦⚡️ — Saudi Arabia’s oil production falls by 1.9 million barrels per day to 6.238 million in August, the lowest level since 1990 as the US-Iran war disrupts the kingdom’s oil exports.

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🇺🇸🇸🇦❌🇾🇪🇾🇪 — Over 100-200 U.S. military advisers are in Saudi Arabia providing intelligence and targeting support for operations against the Houthis in Yemen, according to CNN.

The U.S. is providing Saudi Arabia with a real-time battlefield targeting tool akin to the Pentagon’s Maven, plus geospatial support for strikes on the Houthis.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 — BREAKING: American and Israeli assessments say Iran may soon take military action amid internal and economic pressures, with Israeli officials urging heightened caution during the holiday period, Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) says.

🇾🇪🇮🇷❌🇸🇦 — A Saudi-backed Yemeni source tells Kan News the Houthis are acting in full coordination with Iran, tasked to tighten control of Bab al-Mandab alongside Tehran’s blocking of the Strait of Hormuz.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇾🇪⚡️ — Hundreds of IRGC officers are in Yemen working with the Houthis to shut the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, CNN says.

Iran views closing the waterway as an economic “nuclear option” if talks with US collapse.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇴🇲 — Two vessels were struck in the Strait of Hormuz, 4 nautical miles west of Oman.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: Vice President JD Vance contacted senior U.S. commanders in spring and summer for direct assessments on the Iran war before Pentagon consolidation, according to NYT.

➤ Commanders warned the conflict was severely depleting key U.S. munitions, especially Patriot interceptors and long-range missiles.
➤ One theater had fewer than 100 Patriot interceptors left by late spring.
➤ They assessed Iran was more resilient than expected and willing to absorb significant losses.
➤ Vance, an early opponent of the war, took these concerns to President Trump while pushing to end the conflict.

🇸🇦🇾🇪⚡️ — Aramco’s Jazan oil facility suffers extensive fire damage following a Houthi attack, with two storage tanks destroyed and two others damaged.

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🍔 🇺🇸 💵 Multipolarity: Super Size Me II - Malcom Kyeyune on The Burger Theory of History, Revisited:

The Burger Theory is the idea that, since the pandemic of 2020, the rising costs of basic necessities is feeding a malaise that is eating into our society. The sense not that we are in yet another cost of living crisis. But that the system itself is failing.

Much like it did in late-80s Russia, when Soviet citizens were confronted with the Big Mac, and knew that their Leninist world view simply could not stack up. A few years later, the economic Iron Curtain truly tumbled when Mikhail Gorbachev did an advert for Pizza Hut.

Now, as the Hormuz crisis after the Covid crisis after the Ukraine crisis once again strangulates the delicately balanced trading system of the West, he’s ordering a second helping – with fries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMG5DTXjGk

🇷🇺🇱🇹⚡️— Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says Lithuania would become a target for Russian nuclear weapons if it deploys nuclear weapons on its territory.

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