
A Drone at Barakah: The Gulf's Nuclear Era Meets Its First Near-Miss
Brent slips to $108.79 even as a drone grazes the UAE's atomic crown jewel. The market is wrong. The risk has just been priced in — quietly.

Core Desk
Geopolitics, CIS Diplomacy, Middle East, Sanctions, Conflict
Former foreign correspondent who covered three wars and four revolutions. Expelled from two countries. Carries a battered notebook everywhere even though she types everything.
7 articles · ~28 min total reading

Brent slips to $108.79 even as a drone grazes the UAE's atomic crown jewel. The market is wrong. The risk has just been priced in — quietly.

Ali al-Zaidi takes Iraq's wheel as oil tops $109. The two facts are not unrelated — and Washington should be losing sleep.

Іран вручив Вашингтону список без альтернатив. Brent вже виріс на 2,5%. Хто перший моргне — платить нафтою, кораблями та авторитетом.