Tuesday 15 September 2026

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Debrief

The Guarantee That Did Not Answer

Sep 15

The day's Debrief

The Guarantee That Did Not Answer

Saudi Arabia asked Washington twice for help against Ansar Allah and was turned down while its export pipeline burned; the analysts we track say the Gulf security bargain is finished, and disagree only on whether Riyadh can afford to admit it.

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Iran

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Ukraine & Russia

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The global economy

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Tuesday 15 September 2026

The Guarantee That Did Not Answer

The Guarantee That Did Not Answer

Iran

Desert clash footage: repelling “the largest advance”

Pezeshkian, on Washington cutting off “water and bread”

Merz on the Houthis: energy markets, and now Germany, feeling it

Ukraine & Russia

A woman on the Zaporizhzhia front pulls the battery on a downed FPV drone

A night strike lights up the sky over a Ukrainian city

The global economy

TradingView daily chart of NYMEX heating oil (diesel) futures, roughly flat around 90 to 110 through 2024 and early 2025, then stepping up through 2026 to close September 14 at 211.28, up 100 percent year over year; a hand-drawn arrow projects a further climb toward 250.

Also that day

UK First Secretary of State Louise Haigh: “we will no longer stand by”