🇦🇺 Australia is preparing a fuel rationing scheme

- 90% of Australia’s fuel comes from Asia, which gets it from the Middle East
- 42 stations have no fuel at all
- 107 have run out of diesel

Meanwhile, the war is escalating... this is quickly getting out of control.

🔗 Lukas Ekwueme (@ekwufinance)

🇺🇸🌽 About 50% of the nitrogen applied to U.S. corn goes in during spring planting.

A vessel loaded in the Persian Gulf today takes 30 days to reach a U.S. port

And another 3 to 4 weeks to reach interior farm markets.

The American Farm Bureau Federation sent an urgent letter to the White House on March 9th.

And their message was direct: fertilizer is stranded in the Middle East during the most critical window of the agricultural calendar.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins confirmed publicly that roughly 25% of American farmers have not yet secured their fertilizer for this spring.

The choice facing those farmers is ugly.

They can reduce nitrogen application, switch from corn (which needs heavy nitrogen) to soybeans.

Or, absorb the cost and bet on crop prices recovering.

None of those options are good.

One Iowa corn grower put the math in plain terms. Anhydrous ammonia cost him $492 a ton in 2021.

By January 2025, it was $745. Corn prices barely moved. Now add the current shock on top of that.

At current levels, it takes roughly 133 bushels of corn to buy one ton of urea, the highest ratio since the 2022 spike.

🔗 Katusa Research

🇶🇦🇹🇷 1 Turkish soldier and 2 ASELSAN technicians died in a Qatar military helicopter crash, Turkish MoD statement says.

The helicopter reportedly went down at sea due to technical failure during joint training operations. Investigation ongoing

6 people were on board the helicopter that crashed and all 6 are confirmed dead.

🔗 Levant Kemal

🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸 After publishing an article calling for the colonisation of Southern Lebanon, the Jerusalem Post, published an article calling on American Jews to stop supporting a two-states solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict and support the annexation of the West Bank because "Judea and Samaria is called the heartland of the Jewish homeland. Any survey of the Tanach demonstrates that most of the Jewish people’s history in the land of Israel took place in the region the world erroneously calls the “West Bank.”.

🔗 https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-890507

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Moment a drone was shot down in Bushehr, Iran.

Iranian sources claim it was an U.S. MQ-9 drone.

🔗 Clash Report (@clashreport)

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 General Atomics closed down the MQ-9 Reaper production line in 2025 after delivering the last batch ordered by the USAF in 2020. — WSJ

General Atomics built 575 MQ-9 Reaper drones since 2007 and won't be building any others. The drones are due to be replaced after 2030 with a new generation of medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles.

As of May 2021, the USAF had over 300 MQ-9 Reapers in service but its likely that the number has grown since. The U.S. exported these drones to the Royal Air Force, the Italian Air Force (Italy is known to have lost one MQ-9 Reaper in this war during one of the Iranian attacks on Kuwait), the French, Belgian, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Indian, Japanese and Danish Air Forces. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection service also has an unknown number of Reapers in service.

Every time Iran shots down an MQ-9 Reaper, the fleet of Reapers is getting smaller as these drones won't start being replaced until 2030 assuming there are no delays with the production of the new generation of UAVs.

On March 11th, the Air & Space Forces Magazine posted an article claiming that since the Houthis got involved into the Gaza War, including the 12 Day War and the current 3rd Gulf War, the U.S. lost 10% of its MQ-9 Reaper fleet which is at least 30 drones and the USAF has continued to lose Reapers over Iran since March 11th.

🔗 https://archive.ph/MhXGk

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Fox's Trey Yingst: What does victory look like in this campaign?

Netanyahu: We've defined two clear goals. One is to break completely their nuclear program, missile program, and their capacity to produce the components for both of these programs.

We've also set a goal of creating conditions for the Iranian people to overthrow this tyranny that has tormented them and made life miserable and is making life miserable for the entire world.