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Europe's one objective in New York is air defenses for Ukraine — Bloomberg Podcasts
11 arguments: Why the Saudi crown prince has been turned down twice on strikes, what the EU has stopped being able to do, and the energy alert Europe is…
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US Energy Secretary: the Saudi pipeline outage will be measured in days
4 takeaways: Where the barrels go while it is down, why refining is now the tighter constraint than crude, and his answer to Gavin Newsom's post about…
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Former Secretary of State: the goal in Iran is normal shipping, not the nuclear program
14 arguments: Why he says there is no military way out of the war, what he wants on the table when Trump meets Xi, and the deal he thinks could be done…
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Scott Modell: Iran and its proxies can hit just about anything they want at will
6 calls: How long the Saudi East-West pipeline stays shut, why 52 days of US bombing left the Houthis standing, and what he says Trump now believes…
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Marc Champion: Russia's winter plan is to freeze Ukrainians into fleeing to Europe
8 takeaways: Why Ukraine has run out of Patriots, what a $20K decoy drone does to Article 5, and the only two countries with stocks left to give
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Mia Bennett: the US can already build more bases in Greenland without owning it
14 takeaways: Why she says Arctic exceptionalism died with the invasion of Ukraine, what the US science cuts are costing, and who is left able to move…
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Yaroslav Azhnyuk: in 5 to 10 yrs it will be unethical to use weapons without AI
15 takeaways: the arithmetic that turns a $500 drone into a $5M problem, why 4 of 20 over Poland was a disaster, and what he thinks China could park off…
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Robert Mendelsohn and Eric Olszewski: Actinide rebuilt a Manhattan Project machine to enrich uranium in Dallas | TBPN
The Actinide co-founders on why America buys reactor fuel from Russia, what superconducting magnets changed about an eighty-year-old separator, and the…
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Paul Sankey: the Venezuela deal is a sideshow, and the diesel price is the colossal problem | Bloomberg Surveillance
Why he wanted Trump on a plane to see Xi, what Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries did to global diesel, and why a lower oil price would be bad for…
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Michael O'Hanlon: this G20 cannot touch the two wars driving it, and China will not use its leverage on Putin | Closing Bell Overtime
What Iran is playing for as strategic reserves draw down this fall, why the Black Sea shipping threat now reaches food as well as oil, and the tolls he…
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Raja Krishnamoorthi: China is counting our magazine depth, and Venezuela will boomerang on us | Bloomberg This Weekend
The Illinois Democrat on tariffs as taxes at $4 gas, his bill to bar American money from Venezuelan oil, turning Starlink on for Ukraine, and the…
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