Brett Meiselas
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And the price relates to things that are happening, not just in the United States, but across the board.
Also, we've been talking about the futures price, $120 a barrel, $122 a barrel.
That's the futures price.
The spot price, like the current price is like in the mid 200s per barrel.
And we're seeing record breaking prices now or very high prices across the entire country.
So you have Donald Trump doing meetings with the oil executives, Trump, you know, apparently meeting with CENTCOM.
And now they're saying, oh, actually, we're going to do some additional strike.
And then you have like Israel been parroting that.
And amid reports that the U.S.
is renewing new military action, Israel's defense minister says it's possible that soon we will need to act again in Iran to ensure the regime cannot threaten Israel for years to come.
And then we learned on Tuesday that Donald Trump and Putin had a call for like 90 minutes.
We didn't learn about it from Iran.
US media or Trump or the White House.
Normally, when you do phone calls with foreign leaders, you publish the readout, right?
That's what happens.
Putin published his readout with Donald Trump on TASS, T-A-S-S, which is the Russian media company, where he said, Donald and I talked about economic cooperation between the United States and Russia, and Putin warned Donald Trump of catastrophic consequences if there's a further invasion
or further attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel.
Russia pushed that out and Trump confirmed it.
Just think about it.
You've got Putin calling Trump.