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[ad_1] Photo by Thiébaud Faix As stakeholders navigate the catastrophic war launched by the United States and Israel on 28 February 2026, it is difficult to project how it will end.  It is, however, safe to say that West Asia will not be the same.  Also, it is most likely that the Islamic Republic of Iran has it in its power to reshape the politics of the region.   For more than 70 years, the United States has used its alliance with Israel to project power and control the geopolitical landscape of the region.  And since the 1979 Revolution, Iran, unlike its Arab…

[ad_1] The United States loves to remember the Second World War and the Gulf War, because they resulted in the United States smashing the huge conventional armies of diabolical adversaries such as Adolf Hitler, the Imperial Japanese, and the former American ally Saddam Hussein. Yet most recent U.S. wars haven’t gone all that well. Although the outcome of the Korean War against countries using conventional armies—North Korea and China—didn’t provide the expected decisive victory over adversaries, the real trouble started in Vietnam, when such opponents began to realize that the center of gravity when fighting the United States abroad was…

[ad_1] Last week, Republican senators grilled Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” created by President Donald Trump’s settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS. About 45 senators attended the meeting, and “at least half of them were blasting the attorney general,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) reported. “They were pissed.” It is not hard to see why. The lawsuit that provided the pretext for using taxpayer money to compensate purported victims of “lawfare and weaponization” was legally dubious, the fund has nothing to do with Trump’s claims against the IRS, and the main beneficiaries are apt to…

[ad_1] President Donald Trump has always said he’d rather make a deal than a war with Iran, but that he wouldn’t hesitate to do the latter if needed. Sure enough, when he failed to get a nuclear deal last year, Trump bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities. And when a grand bargain still wasn’t forthcoming in late February, he and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a joint, large-scale war against Iran that swiftly degenerated into a geopolitical and global economic catastrophe. The war stayed hot until a ceasefire began this April. For better or worse, Trump’s back in dealmaking mode, but…

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[ad_1] This summer, the United States celebrates its 250th birthday. In 1776, few people believed this new version of self-government would last. After the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what kind of government the Founding Fathers had created. “A republic,” he replied, “if you can keep it.” If. It’s rare that a new form of government lasts dozens of years, let alone 250. How did America do it? In my new video, people give reasons: “In the U.S. Constitution, you see a lot of phrases like ‘Congress shall not’ or ‘No law shall be passed,'” Rob Henderson, the author…

[ad_1] In the weeks after the 2023 ‘Chinese spy balloon‘ news event, in which the US tracked and eventually shot down an object floating across North America, a number of other ‘unidentified flying objects’ (in the true sense of those words) were also shot down. With the government not releasing further details of what was shot down, a mythology quickly grew in UFO conspiracy circles that these objects may have been extraterrestrial craft. But the release of the second tranche of UFO files from the Pentagon may have popped the hype on at least one of those shootdowns: A video…

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[ad_1] New Fed Chair Kevin Warsh may be boxed in as Powell and Biden-era allies reportedly hold enough votes to force rate hikes during an oil-price shock. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] How a president elected to end endless wars found himself selling diplomacy as victory after stepping into a crisis he did not have to own. When Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that any agreement with Iran must be “great and meaningful,” or there would be no agreement at all, he appeared to be drawing a wall between himself and Barack Obama’s nuclear deal. He wanted to make clear that even if negotiations were underway, they would be Trumpian negotiations: tougher, more forceful, and the “exact opposite” of an agreement he had spent years denouncing as a symbol of…