Last Week on Planet Earth

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Across
  1. 2. What oil markets do whenever the Middle East sneezes
  2. 3. Iran's response to unconditional surrender
  3. 6. Word that appears in every breaking news banner
  4. 8. What Jimmy Kimmel is calling the Epstein Files
  5. 10. The moment when pundits pretend they predicted everything
  6. 14. Besides Fox, Trump's go-to intelligence source
  7. 16. The UN's favourite activity during global crises
  8. 18. what global leaders call a war when they want to sound optimistic
  9. 19. Hashtag used by people who learned geopolitics five minutes ago
  10. 21. Israeli PM who seems to treat "regional stability" like a speed bump
  11. 22. What Netanyahu uses to postpone court appearances
Down
  1. 1. Place where aides try to explain geopolitics using crayons
  2. 4. Cabinet meeting where everyone nods enthusiastically and Googles later
  3. 5. What every side claims it's about, right before another missile launch
  4. 7. Where foreign policy decisions apparently happen between rounds of golf.
  5. 9. The phrase Netanyahu uses before every dramatic map presentation
  6. 11. What Twitter/X turns every international crisis into
  7. 12. What diplomats claim to want while everyone bombs each other
  8. 13. Organization that holds emergency meetings nobody listens to
  9. 15. Military operation name that sounds like a Marvel movie
  10. 16. What oil prices do whenever a missile launches
  11. 17. Self-declared "peace president" who accidentally found the "bomb everything" button
  12. 20. Online reaction cycle: outrage - memes - conspiracy - cat video