🇫🇷 President Emmanuel #Macron said on Monday that #France and its partners were preparing a "purely defensive" mission to reopen the Strait of #Hormuz.
His comments followed a meeting with #Cypriot and #Greek leaders.
Read more ➡️ https://go.france24.com/Bka
Threading some stuff about oil & oil markets, just basic but hope it helps:
1/ oil markets are what you call “finely balanced”. Supply is usually very very close to demand/consumption. Demand is hard to shift *quickly* in response to supply hiccups.
So even small supply changes = big price effects
The solar revolution is driven not by green ambitions but by falling prices, says Simon Kuper: ft.trib.al/XkyPVXR
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said lengthy hostilities in the Middle East would risk hitting markets and economies, while throwing up unexpected challenges that require policymakers to prepare for a “new normal.” @bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
NEW: Iran’s Assembly of Experts selected Mojtaba Khamenei as the next Supreme Leader on March 8. Mojtaba’s selection as the Supreme Leader represents a victory for hardline factions over more pragmatic figures within the regime. (1/4)
Read the full update: isw.pub/IranUpdate03...
23/ Read this for military balance that determines Hormuz closure duration
They are very safe inside. They are under tens of feet of hard rock,” said Uzi Rubin,a former director of Israel’s missile defence programme
“But launching them brings an immediate risk of death”
www.ft.com/content/b2b3...
Just sent out this post. Having started much of the discussion about the US having no strategic aims in Iran, I think now that this is missing something. Trump personally has a very consistent and openly stated goal. There is a Donroe Doctrine he wants to impose. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The strategic error of slowing a transformation necessary for security and independence is bad enough. It adds insult to injury to do so in the name of European “competitiveness”
Decarbonising Europe’s energy system is both more necessary and more achievable than previously thought
"Europa no puede pretender quedarse al margen de lo que está ocurriendo. Debiéramos tener una posición moral y política clara, y utilizar todo nuestro capital diplomático para buscar una solución negociada", la tribuna de Josep Borrell en @elperiodico.com
Oh, good. "this is now starting to look like a potential combination of the 1973 post-Yom Kippur War oil shock, the 2022 Russia-Ukraine War commodity shock, and the 2020-21 Covid supply chain shock."
Muy interesante este artículo de @pbustinduy.bsky.social sobre cómo responder a la guerra de Trump y Netanyahu.
Qué hacer tras el “No a la guerra”, por Pablo Bustinduy www.eldiario.es/129_c725a9?u...
El barril de petróleo a 100 dólares por el capricho de un viejo senil y la obsesión de la extrema derecha americana por cumplir los objetivos del Estado genocida de Israel. El régimen fósil es caos, inestabilidad y violencia.
Contra la guerra, transición ecológica
En algunas regiones de Europa hay partidos de derecha tradicional que, teniendo mayoría con la ultraderecha, prefieren pactar con.. ¡los Verdes!, e investir a un presidente de origen inmigrante. La diferencia con el PP en ESP es insultante y vergonzante: allí esa derecha es demócrata y antifascista.
European Green Deal 2 when.
Polls have closed in the first of this year's five German state elections, in prosperous Baden-Württemberg. It's looking like a remarkable win-from-behind by the Greens under @oezdemir.de. Full results over the course of the evening.
Los NOES a las guerras, por Antonio Maestre www.eldiario.es/129_c71e7d?u...
Once again, the “sovereigntists” suffer from being strapped to the foreign policy of not one but two other powers.
Hungarian opposition leader Magyar accuses Orban of bringing in Russian military intel to rig the upcoming election. GRU operatives arrived weeks ago, same playbook as Moldova, he says. Magyar demands they be expelled and urges Hungarians to vote on April 12.
Once again, there’s promotion of the *idea* that it’s all about seizing oil assets even when there’s not much of a case for it
NEW | NEW | Ballistic missile attacks from Iran have declined by roughly 90% since the strikes began, according to a statement made by CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper on March 5. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...
Two people confirmed that Moscow had provided Tehran with intelligence on the location of US military assets in the region, including planes and warships. ft.trib.al/cZbGDEU
Por un Pacto de Estado frente a la emergencia climática
De Luis Morales
elpais.com/clima-y-medi...
El calentamiento global exige planificación anticipatoria, inversión sostenida y una gobernanza capaz de articular al Estado, las comunidades y los ayuntamientos en un mismo marco estratégico
Que la fuerza te acompañe
de @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu
Son necesarias medidas específicas que amortigüen el impacto sobre determinadas regiones y hogares vulnerables mientras la transición limpia gana escala y reduce estructuralmente los costes
elpais.com/economia/202...
Confirmo. Impresionante tanto en voz como contenido.
Que gusto da leer a nuestros ministros: frente a la guerra y los chantajes del fascismo fósil, renovables por la soberanía, por el clima, por la prosperidad y por la democracia. Frente a la decadencia del mundo de los motores de combustión, la libertad de los electrones que nos regala el sol.
NEW: The combined force has targeted the Iranian internal security infrastructure on March 6 to degrade the regime’s ability to maintain domestic control. 🧵(1/5)
Iran Update Morning Special Report, March 6, 2026: isw.pub/IranUpdate03...
Other Key Takeaways:
Participo en este reportaje de @climatica.coop sobre la importancia de las renovables y la electrificación en este mundo de conflictos geopolíticos continuos.
climatica.coop/ucrania-iran...
NEW COMMENTARY | A Sprawling Middle East War Explodes
Crisis Group experts offer a 360-degree view of the new war’s initial reverberations in the region.
www.crisisgroup.org/cmt/middle-e...
