Rerum Novarum // Intel, Breaking News, and Alerts 🇺🇸

🇦🇪🇮🇶⚡️- "Iraq’s oil marketing company said Abu Dhabi’s main energy company was among firms buying its crude and sending cargoes out through the Strait of Hormuz. 'Adnoc is one of the buyers SOMO deals with,' along with other companies, Ali Nizar, director-general of SOMO, said in a text message. He added that the company has been selling to whoever can load oil onto ships and exit the Strait of Hormuz." - Bloomberg.

🇮🇶⚡️- "Totsa, the trading arm of TotalEnergies [French energy and petroleum company], is offering ​Iraqi crude for loading ‌outside the Strait of Hormuz, three traders said on Thursday, as ​continued disruption to shipping through ​the waterway deters buyers from ⁠lifting cargoes at Iraq's ​Basrah terminals. Totsa offered Basrah Medium crude ​at a premium of close to $10 a barrel to Dubai quotes, two ​of the traders said." - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇰🇭⚡️- The United States and Cambodia will resume joint military exercises in 2027 after a decade-long pause that started when Cambodia began its yearly joint "Golden Dragon" exercises with China in 2017.

🇬🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The United Kingdom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Lebanon’s Ministry of Interior and Municipalities and Ministry of Defence, reaffirming its long-standing partnership with Lebanon’s security institutions. The UK’s Integrated Security Fund will support a 31-month Internal Security Assistance Programme for the Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the Lebanese Army totalling up to £16.3 million." - National News Agency, Lebanese state media.

🇷🇺🇦🇲⚡️- "Armenian banks must identify and block transactions that may be intended to circumvent international sanctions against Russia under new rules that took effect on Aug. 12. The requirements are set out in regulations on banks’ minimum internal control standards approved by the Armenian Central Bank. The measures, which could further restrict Russians’ access to Armenia’s banking system and disrupt payment routes used to transfer money from Russia to other countries, come as Armenia pursues closer ties with the European Union amid a deterioration in relations with Moscow." - Moscow Times.

🇺🇳🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- "The past two weeks have seen a marked increase in Israeli military activity in south Lebanon. Between 5 and 16 August, UNIFIL recorded an average of 137 projectiles per day, including 208 on Saturday and 185 on Sunday." - United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.

🇺🇸 - James Fishback. Tomorrow.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡️- Turkey has reportedly offered to mediate between the US and Iran, following the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan.

🇺🇸🇰🇷🇰🇵⚡- "Based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un, of North Korea, I am not happy with the fact that the United States has, long ago, agreed to participate in Joint Military Exercises with South Korea. These exercises are not only costly, with much of these costs paid for by the United States of America (as usual!), but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful. Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises! While somewhat unrelated (?), I recently asked the President of South Korea if they would like to join us in the Denuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and they said, “No thanks!” Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump on Truth Social.

🇮🇱⚡️- A new Likud campaign poster in Israel was shared by Netanyahu on social medias. The poster says "They want Netanyahu to lose, don't let them win" with images of Zohran Mamdani, Mojtaba Khamenei, Erdogan and Naim Qassem.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — U.S. servicemen in one of the Gulf states have scribbled protest messages on the dust of an aircraft flap: "BiBi's CUCKS" "Be a good goy and do what Israel tells you to!!!" "Operation Epstein Fury" "Peace Deal #64 Incoming" "ALL THIS FOR THE HOLY LAND" "I LOVE ISRAEL I AM A Good Goyim"