PDB Afternoon Bulletin | June 16th, 2026: The Secret U.S. Operation That Kept Gulf Oil Flowing & B-52 Disaster
The U.S. reportedly adopted Iranian-style shadow fleet tactics to bypass a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, moving up to 90 million barrels of oil through covert ship-to-ship transfers, while a B-52 crash in California killed all eight crew members in the deadliest such incident in over
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