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5 min readThe Houthis struck another Saudi tanker in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, this one near the Yemeni port of Mokha. Iran hit yet another tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on the Oman route, which CENTCOM had been calling safe. The UK Maritime Trade Operations, which Ben says used to be reliable, is now "a total tool of CENTCOM," reporting incidents days late — including an August 15 tanker strike that the UKMTO only acknowledged today. Iran, through the Houthis, now has functional control over both the Red Sea and the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi tankers are being forced to reroute around Africa, but the Houthis strike them anyway. "The world is on fire right now," Ben says, "in a bad way."
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- 1 (00:06) **Houthi Strike on Saudi Tanker in Red Sea** - A Saudi tanker is hit by Iranian-backed Houthis near Al-Mokha, Yemen, continuing a pattern of attacks that force Saudi Arabia to reroute shipments around Africa.
- 2 (03:21) **Israel Strikes Syrian Air Base, Escalates Rhetoric** - Netanyahu's government bombs the Abu Al-Duhir air base in Syria, a key project of President Al-Shara, while Israeli officials threaten to treat Syria "like Gaza on steroids."
- 3 (06:19) **U.S. Sanctions ICC President to Protect Netanyahu** - The Trump administration imposes the "harshest sanctions imaginable" on ICC President Tomoko Wakani of Japan, freezing her U.S. assets in a move to shield Netanyahu from prosecution.
- 4 (08:37) **China Ascends as Global Leader as U.S. Retreats** - Xi Jinping plans a brief one-day visit to the U.S., a stark contrast to his six-day visit with Obama, signaling China's dominance while the U.S. removes its last aircraft carrier from the Pacific.
- 5 (11:04) **U.S. Navy Ships in Crisis: Troops Starving, Feces on Floors** - Family members report that sailors on destroyers accompanying the USS Abraham Lincoln are suffering from lack of food and basic sanitation, with working toilets broken for nearly a week.
- 6 (14:41) **Economic Collapse: Record Gas Prices, Soaring Treasury Yields** - The U.S. faces the highest gas prices in history for August, a 10-year Treasury yield at 4.7%, and a 30-year yield at 5.3%, while strategic petroleum reserves are at "tank bottom."
- 7 (16:55) **Trump's Deranged Social Media Posts** - Trump posts a bizarre map that excludes Qatar and implies making the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, alongside a morbid photo of the late Lindsey Graham holding a Trump Wikipedia page.
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