🇺🇲⚡- The 3rd largest oil refinery in the United States - The Marathon Oil Refinery of Garyville, Louisiana - has caught fire.

According to officials at the scene, "The fire is currently under control and has remained within the common containment-dike area of two tanks on the refinery’s property."

This incident is not at all uncommon: there has been a noticeable trend involving US industrial facilities and infrastructure breaking down. Although these issues have been occuring for years the rate at which they occur has seemingly accelerated since the infamous East Palestine disaster earlier this year.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian airstrikes underway against Kiev.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Russian cruise missile strikes across Ukraine.

🇺🇸⚡️ - A 14th Amendment challenge against President Trump's right to run for reelection has been filed.

🇨🇳☪️ - "The Sinofication of Islam should be deepened" - Xi Jingping.

🇸🇦🇨🇳⚡️- Saudi Arabia has officially commissioned a nuclear power plant to be constructed by Chinese contractors.

jews argue in the street with Christians about how they should be killing Christians. greatest ally btw!

🇷🇺🇺🇸⚡️- Russia Today's Editor in Chief has announced that Tucker Carlson will be interviewing Vladimir Putin

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has raised $7.1 million in funds since the mugshot was released.

🇸🇾 - In Syria, 500 Daeshis have banded together and are reportedly attempting to capture territory, whilst Arab and Kurd oppositionists have begun fighting with each other.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 - U.S. Navy Vice Admiral and Commander of the Seventh Fleet, Karl Thomas, has pledged to push back against China’s “aggressive behaviour.”

These comments come three weeks after the Chinese Coast Guard used water cannons against Philippine vessels which attempted to resupply a warship grounded on a contested South China Sea shoal in 1999.

The Vice Admiral said, “My forces are out here for a reason”, and also cited the “shared challenges” faced by the U.S. and its ally, the Philippines.

Chinese officials responded to Vice Admiral Thomas’s comments by warning that the choice of the Philippines to cooperate more closely with the U.S. would tie the country to “the chariot of geopolitical strife” that China claims is threatening its national security.

🇳🇪🇫🇷⚡️ - Following the French ambassador's refusal to leave, Nigerien authorities cut off the embassy's electricity and water supply.

🇺🇸⚡️- The FOX News hosted GOP primary debate in Milwaukee had a decline of 50% viewership from 2016, due to the absence of President Trump.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Israeli airstrikes against Syrian government forces in Aleppo. An airport runway was damaged.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Ukraine has captured the village of Robotyne in Zaporozhia. This is the second village they have captured since the commencement of their "counteroffensive" over two months ago.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️- The United States Air Force released a statement saying that Ukrainian fighter pilots will acquire the necessary experience to use F-16 fighter jets in 5 months.