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Iran, Iraq, Syria sign $10B gas pipeline deal

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Iran, Iraq, and Syria have signed a deal for the construction of the Middle East’s largest gas pipeline, which would carry gas from Iran’s South Pars gas field to Europe via Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and beneath the Mediterranean Sea. Iraq has said that it needs 10 to 15 million cubic meters of Iranian gas per day.

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Puzzling Out the Drone War Over Ukraine

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These include the Eleron-3SV and the Orlan-10 drones, both of which have been used extensively in Syria and Ukraine. Various reports have put the cost of a TB2 at anywhere from $1 million to $10 million. The most common Russian drones are mid-sized ones used for surveillance and reconnaissance.

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Opinion: Saudi Oil Strategy: Brilliant Or Suicide?

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Each producer, therefore, is incentivized to undercut other producers directly (price per barrel) or indirectly (absorbing shipping cost or delivery risk) to win sales in Asia (or displace incumbent suppliers in other major markets). National oil producers can and are shifting the cost of the lowered prices to other sectors of the economy.

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Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare

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Greico, Stimson Center Back in 1981, Israel sent modest contraptions sporting surveillance cameras in its war against Syria, to some effect. The marginal cost of a shot would be low—once you’ve amortized the expense of developing, making, and deploying such weapons systems. In every arms race there is always another step to take.

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