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The 3 is a traditionally moored mine, like you see in most movies.

The 7 is a little different.

It's a limpent mine that rests on the sea floor and is built in a way to make it harder to detect underwater.

Think of it like a stealth mine.

These mines can be deployed by just about anything, to include just being dropped from a helicopter.

When we talk about Navy analysts joking about Hegseth, saying they were removing the ability for Iran to deploy mines, this mine is one of the reasons why.

Back to the negotiations.

When asked about the negotiations, the White House press secretary said, quote,

This is a fluid situation, and speculation about meetings should not be deemed as final until they are formally announced by the White House.

I'm not even sure what that means.

I guess what Trump says isn't official.

He needs to clear it with his handlers.

What this looks like is that there weren't any real negotiations underway, much less bigly successful ones.

It looks like somebody mentioned a back channel conversation to Trump and Trump didn't understand what he was told.

Well, howdy there, Internet people.

It's Belle again.

So today, we're going to talk about Trump's oil shock.

Before that, he was with OPEC.

He has a pretty clear picture of the energy world.

The head of the IEA put forth quite a statement while talking to the National Press Club of Australia.