Global endless war updates: Trump TACO's again or is it another trick?

This child bid farewell to his father, who was killed by the occupation in 2019. Yesterday, the boy joined his father after he was killed by Zionist settlers in the West Bank. 

• Washington Post: Trump extends ceasefire indefinitely as Iran says it won’t join talks now. The announcement came as negotiations scheduled to take place between U.S. and Iranian delegations in the Pakistani capital were postponed amid uncertainty about the broad strokes of a deal. US operations against Iran expand to Indian Ocean with tanker capture.
• Iran’s Armed Forces to the US: In light of the repeated threats by Trump & its invading terrorist commanders we warn them. Our capable & powerful forces have long been at a state of 100% readiness, with their fingers on the trigger so that in the event of aggression or any action against Iran, we will immediately and forcefully strike pre-designated targets and deliver another lesson, harsher than before, to the US aggressor & the child-killing Zionist regime.
• Iran’s Tasnim News: Continuing the naval blockade amounts to continued hostility. As long as the blockade persists, Iran will at the very least not re-open the Strait of Hormuz, and if it deems necessary, it will break the blockade by force.
• Iran just drew the line in the sand for its southern neighbours. The IRGC delivered a crystal clear warning: if any Gulf state aids or abets attacks on Iranian territory, they can wave goodbye to their oil production. 

• The Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz have taken Qatari energy supplies completely off the market.
• Russian natural gas fields were shut out of Europe beginning in 2022, and energy companies there invested massively into new pipelines to Asia. China was a ready buyer for Russian oil and natural gas, and also invested heavily into huge strategic stockpiles of crude and natural gas storage. With Russian energy production flowing East,  China is now well-supplied. Liquefied Natural Gas of Russian origin is offered at 40% discount to spot, to induce long-term supply relationships. As a result, Asian economies are shifting their supply chains from the Persian Gulf to Russia-China. Meanwhile, EU countries have cut themselves off from Russian oil and natural gas and are in a bind.

• Iran’s Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf says Iran won't let Trump turn the negotiating table "into a table of surrender.” He also warned that Iran will reveal new fighting capabilities when war breaks out again.
• The US military intercepted a crude oil laden China-bound ship, ‘TIFANI’ in the Indian ocean. It's piracy. This could have severe consequences. Already China has sold off about half of their US Treasury bonds and bought gold. 
• Kremlin reacts to report that France and Poland plan to hold joint nuclear exercises. This once again demonstrates Europe’s aspirations for further militarization and war in hopes of grabbing Russia's vast resource base. This is something that does not contribute to stability on European continent.

• Japan makes major shift in arms export rules under PM Takaichi, expands weapons sales abroad. Tokyo opens door to missiles, jets and warships, broadens defense reach overseas; parliament only notified after approval as the opposition warns of weaker oversight and risk of fueling arms races.
• Russia just sent Israel a message that’s impossible to misread. 40 Israeli citizens stepping off a Tel Aviv flight to Moscow were pulled aside by security, held for five hours, questioned about their links to Israel’s war on Iran, and told point-blank: Iran is our ally — its enemies are ours too. No charges filed. No drama in the Russian headlines. Just a quiet, methodical reminder that in 2026 the rules have changed. This wasn’t random harassment. It was deliberate. Moscow doesn’t waste time or resources on routine airport checks unless it wants the world to notice. And the world has noticed. Israel’s “blue passport” is finding more closed doors than open ones. Now it’s triggering extra scrutiny in countries that once rolled out the red carpet. The era when Tel Aviv could bomb, invade, and destabilize without blowback is over. 

• The terrorist Abu Muhammad al-Julani (so-called new leader of Syria) has arrived in Saudi Arabia, the country that supports the largest and most powerful terrorist cells around the world. 

• Russia will likely cut oil production in April by about 300,000–400,000 barrels per day, marking its sharpest monthly drop in six years. The decline is mainly due to Ukrainian terrorist drone attacks on key refineries, ports in the Baltic and Black Seas, and pipeline infrastructure, including the still-shut Druzhba route to Europe.
• Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul: 'We consider sanctions against Israel a thing inappropriate'.

• Israel’s latest land grab is dashing Lebanon’s hope of tapping offshore gas to solve its persistent energy shortage. Maritime energy prospects were the focus of a 2022 deal on a disputed border between the two nations. In 2022, US-mediated talks between Israel and Lebanon ended a long-time row over their maritime border, driven to a large degree by the potential presence of offshore natural gas fields in the disputed area. Unlike Israel, Lebanon is yet to tap into those riches. However, the IDF’s move makes prospecting by a Euro-Qatari conglomerate, announced in January, highly unlikely. 

• Systematic destruction in Mis al-Jabal, southern Lebanon. The Zionist occupation is erasing the entire eastern neighborhood under the cover of a ceasefire and official silence. History, heritage, and livelihoods are being destroyed. 

• British Foreign Secretary: The use of our military bases by the US is for defensive purposes only.  We have confirmed with the US that they will not strike civilian infrastructure in Iran with their war planes. (Total BS from London.) A B-52 bomber at RAF Fairford earlier Tuesday, loaded with ammunition for offensive ops.

• Russia and North Korea have linked a new bridge across the Tumen River, connecting the two countries by land for vehicle traffic for the first time. ‏The bridge (opening around mid-2026) will enhance trade, transport, and cooperation, adding to the existing rail link between them.
• A severe jet fuel crisis is gripping European airports. In the coming weeks, airports could begin experiencing fuel shortages, with London among the most vulnerable. European airlines are expected to start rationing fuel and prioritizing long-haul transatlantic flights over shorter domestic routes. Costs of travel will rise dramatically. Lufthansa will cancel 20,000 flights due to a shortage of aviation fuel as prices soar.

• Two Americans killed in a crash in Mexico were CIA members. They died returning from an anti-drug operation targeting meth labs. The incident raises questions about U.S. intelligence involvement in Mexico’s cartel war. The president of Mexico is furious about CIA operating inside their country.
• Israeli army soldiers drew numbers on the hands of displaced Palestinian women from Jenin in the West Bank. 

• Senior Pentagon officials have held preliminary talks with executives from GM, Ford, GE Aerospace, and Oshkosh about using their factories, equipment, and workforce to increase output of missiles, drones, and other tactical military systems. The idea is to let commercial manufacturers complement or back up traditional weapons contractors, especially as endless war in Ukraine and Iran have drawn down US stockpiles.

 

• Artificial intelligence is now running the battlefield. Palantir's Maven smart system has become an officially registered program at the Pentagon—a central digital backbone for modern warfare. It combines classified and commercial data, runs AI-powered computer vision models on it, and delivers real-time targeting solutions for military assets.  It appears that AI has been used for the tracking of Russian assets in Ukraine from the very get-go of 2-24-2022. It confirms that the US and the West have been pouring all their resources, particularly of the AI-variety, into destroying Russia from the opening moments of the Ukrainian conflict. As such, Russia’s weariness of the West’s provocations, seen boiling over now with the latest Finland & Baltics-related incidents, becomes clearly justified.