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19 February 2026 00:15

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 New from CBS News:

-- US Military ready for strike on Iran as soon as this weekend

-- No decision made by Trump: Discussions are fluid and ongoing

-- Pentagon moving personnel out of the Middle East

-- Rubio visiting Israel in around 2 weeks

🔗 Faytuks

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18 February 2026 21:27

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 - American citizen and journalist Tucker Carlson detained in Israel after interviewing our U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

We won’t tolerate this.
You just made it worse.

🔗 Marjorie Taylor Greene

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18 February 2026 21:22

— ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The Israeli government installed and maintained a security system at Jeffrey Epstein's New York City apartment, which was frequented by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak – Drop Site News

@Middle_East_Spectator

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18 February 2026 16:39

🇺🇸⚡- USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) to enter the Mediterranean waters in the next couple of hours.

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18 February 2026 16:05

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 20 USAF Tankers airborne, all en route to US Bases in Europe => Middle East.

This is the most significant airlift since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. A far bigger commitment and use of the US Air Force than during the preparations for the 12 Day War.

🔗 MenchOSINT

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18 February 2026 12:00

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Six Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft from the U.S. Air Force are now expected to deploy to the Middle East, not just four!

SHUCK86 and SHUCK87 are set to depart later today for Ramstein AB, joining SHUCK84 and SHUCK85, which arrived there yesterday.

Two more E-3s touched down at RAF Mildenhall, pushing the total number of Sentries in Europe preparing for the Middle East mission to six.

🔗 Egypt's Intel Observer

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18 February 2026 06:02

🇫🇷 Nine people have been arrested in Lyon over the fatal beating of 23-year-old student Quentin Deranque, who died two days after being attacked by masked assailants.

Among those detained is Jacques-Elie Favrot, a parliamentary assistant to an MP from La France Insoumise (LFI), the party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Prosecutors say Deranque was punched and kicked in the head by at least six individuals, suffering fatal skull and brain injuries. Suspects are linked to the banned far-left group La Jeune Garde.

📎 Europa

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17 February 2026 22:44

🇺🇸⚓️ USNI Fleet and Marine Tracker, Feb. 17 2026

Contrary to some reports, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier has not reached the Straits of Gibraltar.

🔗 USNI

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17 February 2026 20:44

📢 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Ivanka Trump on X:

Today, a new lunar cycle begins.

The Year of the Fire Horse calls us to courage, to energy, to intention, and to fearless creation. It is a year for bold ideas, decisive action, and turning vision into something enduring.

I am stepping into it with clarity and conviction, ready to bring forward projects I have been quietly nurturing, ideas nearly ready to meet the light. I cannot wait to share them with you.

Forward, with strength.
With gratitude.
With purpose.

Excited for what is ahead.
Happy Lunar New Year 新年快乐 ✨🐎🔥

📎 Ivanka Trump

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17 February 2026 20:39

🇵🇪 — URGENT: Peru's Congress dismisses internal president José Jeri. All seven motions of censure against the current former president were approved by Congress.

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17 February 2026 19:33

🇺🇸 ⛽️ 🇧🇸 California is now importing gasoline on a 4,000+ mile detour through the Bahamas before it reaches Los Angeles.

Because of Sacramento’s self-inflicted refinery closures, refusal to expand in-state capacity, hostility to interstate pipelines, and rigid regulatory regime, fuel that could move efficiently within California is instead being routed to a foreign port, transferred to a foreign-flagged vessel, and then shipped all the way around Mexico to California.

More than 40% of imported gasoline in November came via the Bahamas.

We are:
🚢 Adding thousands of unnecessary shipping miles (and emissions)
💸 Layering transportation costs onto already record-high pump prices
🏭 Driving domestic refining capacity out of the state
📉 Weakening energy reliability in the world’s 5th largest economy

📝 Gregory Smith: Accurate but worth a mention that refineries don't just produce gasoline but also diesel (industrial and transport), kerosene (jet fuel), asphalt (roads), and other compounds lighter (e.g. propane) and heavier (e.g. bunker fuel for ships). Losing local refineries means that ALL of these refined products have to be shipped into CA. Which can certainly be done but at higher prices. CA is choosing to not just pay more for gasoline but also losing the foundations of an industrial economy. Which might be the goal.

📝 TheIntelFrog: Our entire defense apparatus is petroleum based, and that's not changing anytime soon. In case of war in the Pacific, we will need much more fuel on the west coast than we presently have the capacity for.

📎 Mike Netter

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17 February 2026 19:33

🇲🇽 Drone strikes by Mexican Cartels.

https://smallwarsjournal.com/2026/02/16/mexican-cartel-drone-attacks-report/

📎 Robert Young Pelton

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17 February 2026 18:14

Iran is negotiating, yes.

But everything Iran is actually doing behind the scenes, signals they know a U.S. (or Israeli) attack is definitely coming.

> Burying the Esfahan tunnel entrances
> Burying Taleqan-2
> Transfering large amounts of anti-ship missiles to the Persian Gulf coast and Abu Musa & Tunb islands
> Conducting missile tests and AD tests on an almost daily basis
> Hardening ballistic missile base entrances & transfering some to the Eastern bases
> Canceling most pre-planned appearances of Ayatollah Khamenei

It's obvious for any serious observer.

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17 February 2026 17:14

— 🇮🇱 NEW: An Israeli immigration lawyer on an ILTV podcast revealed that, for the first time in more than two decades, more settlers are leaving Israel than arriving, resulting in a net annual outflow of approximately 20,000

@Middle_East_Spectator

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17 February 2026 16:53

🇩🇿 🏭 🇪🇺 Algeria confirmed that work on the 4,100 km Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline will resume soon.

The project would move 30 bcm per year from Nigeria → Niger → Algeria → Mediterranean → Europe.

Why this matters:

• 30 bcm = ~6–7% of pre-war EU gas demand
• Direct sub-Saharan route into Europe
• Strategic diversification away from Russian flows

If completed, this is not just infrastructure.

It’s a geopolitical corridor.

Europe wants supply security.
Algeria wants transit leverage.
Nigeria wants monetisation of stranded gas.

Execution risk remains high, security in the Sahel is fragile, and financing is complex.

But structurally, Europe is still short molecules.

And Africa is sitting on them.

📎 Jack Prandelli

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18 February 2026 21:34

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, a GOP insider warns that Tucker Carlson has “control of Americans under 30” and says “It’s frightening”

“My kids’ highschools, they love him”

🔗 WS News

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18 February 2026 21:24

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Tucker Carlson told the Daily Mail that he and his staff had been detained in Israel following their interview of U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee.

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18 February 2026 19:15

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. is much more pessimistic about the talks in Geneva than previously reported in the media, and has issued Iran an ultimatum to 'fully dismantle' its nuclear program or face 'other options' – Fox News

@Middle_East_Spectator

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18 February 2026 16:09

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Sending 6 E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft to Iran may seem insane, but note that Iran is a vast country.

For coverage of the south coast & west border, US needs at least 4 E-3s which I have roughly shown by four 120,000 sq mile circles (per NATO description of E-3 coverage area).

The USAF has 16 Boeing E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft and 6 of them, more than a 3rd of the fleet, will be surveilling Iran's coastline.

🔗 Mehdi H.

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18 February 2026 13:58

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 The Israeli government is preparing for a scenario of war to break out with Iran within days, according to two Israeli officials. - Axios

The likely US-Israeli campaign against Iran will likely be major and weeks-long, sources say

🔗 Faytuks

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18 February 2026 11:59

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Watching 36 USAF aircraft - 22 tankers, 13 transports and an E-3 AWACS over CONUS and Europe over the last 4 hours.

🔗 Evergreen Intel

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18 February 2026 04:52

📍 🌍 🇸🇩 The location of Armed Clashes (and airstrikes in purple) across parts of North Africa and the Sudan Region so far in 2026.

📎 Nathan Ruser

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17 February 2026 22:40

📢 🇺🇸 🤖 James Fishback on X:

As Governor, I would ban Palantir from doing business with state and local government. My full statement.

📎 James Fishback

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17 February 2026 20:39

— In other news, the very stable nation of Peru removed its 8th President in 8 years.

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17 February 2026 19:33

🇺🇸 🏭 🇧🇸 Fuel Starved California is Getting Gas from the Bahamas | Refineries, Pipelines & the Jones Act

California is sourcing 40 percent of its gasoline from the Bahamas due to a combination of disappearing oil refineries, lack of storage facilities and interstate pipelines, and a loophole in a 106-year-old maritime law, known as the Jones Act.

https://gcaptain.com/gasoline-starved-california-is-turning-to-fuel-from-the-bahamas/

📎 What's Going on With Shipping?

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17 February 2026 19:33

🇲🇽 🏭 🇺🇸 Mexico now imports 75% of its natural gas from the US about 6.4 Bcf/d, generating $9B per year in direct dollar demand.

Now the twist.

Mexico is building LNG export terminals using… US pipeline gas.

1 molecule.
2 dollar transactions.

US → Mexico (pipeline, dollars)
Mexico → Asia/Europe (LNG, dollars)

That is a structural dollar multiplier.

📊 US energy infrastructure enforces dollar dominance

I just published a deep dive connecting:

• Geopolitical energy control
• The Mexico double-dollar effect
• Why key midstream assets are mispriced

It’s about who controls the pipes
and the currency flows.

👇 Full thesis here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themerchantsnews/p/china-cant-escape-the-usd

📎 Jack Prandelli

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17 February 2026 18:16

🇺🇸✡️❌🇧🇪 Belgium summoned US Ambassador Bill White after he accused the country of antisemitism for intervening in a case involving three Jewish religious figures suspected of performing traditional Jewish circumcisions without the legally required medical qualifications.

Belgium regulates circumcisions so that non-licensed rabbis cannot perform the act. In orthodox Judaism, circumcisions are performed by a mohel who sucks the blood from a baby’s genitals.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/belgium-summons-us-ambassador-bill-white-antisemitism-accusations/

📎 AF Post

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17 February 2026 18:14

—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ NEW: Iran is completely burying the newly built concrete sarcophagus at the Taleqan-2 site with soil to protect it from strikes

The site is suspected to be a hardened structure used for high-explosive testing and was active in this capacity during the 'AMAD' program, Iran's nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s.

@Middle_East_Spectator

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17 February 2026 17:13

🇺🇸 ❌️ 🏴‍☠️ Late on Feb. 16, at the direction of SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted three lethal kinetic strikes on three vessels operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessels were transiting along known narco-trafficking routes and were engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Eleven male narco-terrorists were killed during these actions, 4 on the first vessel in the Eastern Pacific, 4 on the second vessel in the Eastern Pacific, and 3 on the third vessel in the Caribbean. No U.S. military forces were harmed.

📎 SOUTHCOM

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17 February 2026 13:41

⚡️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - This is simultaneous to the deployment of another 12 "F-22 Raptor" Stealth Fighter Jets from the "Langley" Airbase, enroute to the United Kingdom's "RAF Lakenheath" Airbase and inevitably to the CENTCOM, supported by 1 "KC-46A" Tanker.