Busy desk today. The dinar conversation keeps shifting shape — now it's a redesign of the note rather than deleting zeros — while the political blocs are done with patch jobs and saying out loud they want a financial system that doesn't answer to anyone else. Disarmament talk got harder on both ends, the sovereign debt problem got another honest write-up, and the energy board moved in three places at once. Here's the drop.
Iraq & the Dinar
- Sadiqoon: resuming dollar shipments should be the start of a real fix for the currency file, not the end of it — Baghdad Today
- Asa'ib bloc: enough temporary painkillers — we want a financial system that isn't dependent and that guarantees sovereignty — 964 Media
- The new Iraqi dinar: changing the shape of the currency without deleting the zeros — Independent Press Agency
- Al-Zaidi: the government will work to disarm every non-Iraqi armed group — Shafaq News
- Security Media: carrying weapons outside the state is not allowed, full stop — Iraqi News Agency
Money & Markets
- Central banks cannot fix the sovereign debt bubble — Daniel Lacalle
Oil, Energy & the Wider Board
- US warns Europe: release emergency diesel supplies or face an export ban — ZeroHedge
- "Zero Hormuz": Abu Dhabi readies tens of billions to turn Fujairah into a bypass around the strait — ZeroHedge
- Ukraine hit by severe power cuts after Russia pounds the grid ahead of freezing temperatures — ZeroHedge
Home Front
- Hegseth lays out a new autonomous warfare command and other directives in his Quantico address — The Epoch Times
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