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2026-01-09 • Russia’s January 9 strike used drones, missiles, and a hypersonic missile, killing four
Evening Analysis – The Gist Russia’s overnight barrage on January 9—hundreds of Shahed drones, 36 missiles and, critically, the second recorded launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik hypersonic missile—killed four in Kyiv and struck infrastructure near Lviv, 70 km from NATO territory. Ukrainia…
Read More2026-01-09 • Washington seizes control of Venezuela’s oil, aiming to triple output. Oil becomes a geopolitical tool.
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington’s decision to seize de facto command of Venezuela’s oil—50 m barrels on day one, with plans to triple output—recasts crude as a geopolitical lever rather than a mere commodity. Brent rose 0.7 % to $62.39, defence stocks hit records, and a bipartisan U…
Read More2026-01-08 • US shock-therapy in Venezuela: 100 dead, Maduro in NYC court, oil earmarked for
Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington’s Venezuelan shock-therapy has entered its second week. 100 people lie dead after a 150-aircraft U.S. raid that whisked Nicolás Maduro to a Manhattan courtroom; crude from Caracas—up to 50 million barrels—is now earmarked for sale through U.S-controlled a…
Read More2026-01-08 • Washington exits 66 multilateral bodies, seizes Venezuela-linked tankers, risking global peacekeeping funding
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington’s overnight edict yanks the U.S. out of 66 multilateral bodies—35 non-UN groups plus 31 UN entities, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and UN Women(reuters.com). A companion move hours later seized two Venezuela-linked oil tanker…
Read More2026-01-07 • Washington’s oil diplomacy sparks chaos: Maduro ousted, oil seized, markets jolted. Risks echo
Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington has just rewritten the Monroe Doctrine with special-forces ink. By snatching Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and forcing a “voluntary” transfer of 30–50 million barrels of crude to the U.S., Trump weaponizes oil diplomacy while Caracas and Havana count their de…
Read More2026-01-07 • U.S. uses seized Venezuelan oil to lower gas prices, shifting sanctions strategy. This could unset
Morning Intelligence – The Gist The overnight Washington-Caracas bargain to rush 50 million barrels of seized Venezuelan crude—worth roughly $2 billion—into U.S. refineries is far more than a headline dip in Brent below $61. It rewrites two decades of “maximum-pressure” sanctions doctrine: the…
Read More2026-01-06 • Paris’ summit shifts focus from battle to finance, with binding security guarantees. NATO boosts defense spending amid
Evening Analysis – The Gist Paris’ “Coalition of the Willing” summit moved the war’s centre of gravity from the battlefield to the balance-sheet. A leaked draft pledges “politically and legally binding” guarantees—up to and including military intervention—should Russia strike again (reuters.co…
Read More2026-01-06 • U.S. ousts Maduro, installs Delcy Rodríguez. Europe aligns with U.S. Oil market
Morning Intelligence – The Gist The overnight ouster of Nicolás Maduro by a U.S.–led “law-enforcement” raid has up-ended hemispheric politics. Caracas has installed oil czar Delcy Rodríguez as interim president, while the Swiss cabinet hurriedly froze every asset linked to Maduro worldwide, si…
Read More2026-01-05 • Washington’s swift seizure of Nicolás Maduro disrupts global energy, freezes Venezuela’s crude exports, and challenges
Evening Analysis – The Gist Washington’s lightning seizure of Nicolás Maduro—completed in 148 minutes and now before a Manhattan judge—upends not only Caracas but the global energy chessboard. Venezuela’s 770 kb/d of crude exports are effectively frozen, nudging Brent 1.2 % higher to $87.60 an…
Read More2026-01-05 • U.S. seizes Maduro, breaking post-1945 norms. UN warns of precedent. Markets
Morning Intelligence – The Gist Washington’s pre-dawn seizure of Nicolás Maduro—executed by more than 150 U.S. aircraft and Delta Force commandos—shatters the post-1945 norm against forcibly toppling a sitting head of state. UN chief António Guterres warns the raid “sets a dangerous precedent,…
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