Say It Ain't So!

Or "no shit" moment of clarity from morons. 

Oil prices dropped sharply after the ceasefire, but supply chains remain constrained and slow to recover.

A widening gap between futures and physical markets reflects ongoing operational and logistical risks.

Asian buyers face continued shortages as Gulf supply routes remain unreliable and alternatives uneconomic.

In related news. US GDP is much-much smaller than stated, Wall Street has nothing to do with real economy, using profits and "capitalization" as the only metric for economic viability is for morons only, and I can continue with this list for a long time. The depth of the damage to "global economy" is still not grasped by many, but despite optimistic declarations from corrupt Gulfies that it may take 4 months to come back "to normal" once "the war is over", reality is catastrophic for these despicable glitzy satrapies, because they cannot wrap their brains around the fact that Iran (and Houthis) de facto control access to Saudi terminals of its East-West pipeline in the Red Sea. 

For Israel the situation is terminal. It is a pariah criminal state whose Zionist cancer poisoned the United States and who knows where it leaves the US in spiritual terms. If that is true:

The Vatican has cancelled a papal visit to the U.S. for the 250th anniversary celebration after Pentagon officials appeared to threaten the leader of the Catholic Church for speaking out against Trump's foreign policy. Pope Leo XIV—the first American Pope in history—strongly condemned U.S. actions in Iran though not by name in his Easter message, stating that God "does not listen" to world leaders who wage war. 

Here are some details: 

Leo had already criticized Trump's actions on Venezuela and his threats against Greenland and Canada in a speech on January 9th stating, "a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force." In response, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre—the Vatican ambassador to the U.S.—to a meeting. In diplomatic parlance, an ambassador being summoned to meet with government officials for a lecture is the first stage in disciplinary action that can lead to a break off of diplomatic ties. It is being reported by The Free Press that in the meeting Colby told Pierre, "The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side." Someone in the meeting then reportedly mentioned the Avignon Papacy to Pierre. This refers to a 14th century attack on the Vatican by the French king, in which Pope Boniface VIII was murdered by assassins and the Vatican was forced to relocate to Avignon where it could be controlled by the French crown for the next 67 years. 

Well, if Pentagon thinks (which you would expect from a lawyer and NS bureaucrat like Colby) that "it can do whatever it wants", I can tell Mr. Colby who wouldn't understand anything about REAL military operations, that the only thing the US has succeeded in doing is having its ass handed to it on every single theater of operations. If that's what the US "military power wants to do" then it certainly succeeded, including now with Iran where it was militarily humiliated. But then again, Colby hails from a bloodline (grandson) of former CIA Director William Colby, who was a staunch Catholic. So, his grandson now threatens Pope ... great! Insanity ... But then again, CIA's "strategic analysis" and "understanding" of the enemy was always, how to put it ... subpar.