The Treaty
Neither side can force the other to fold, and neither is talking directly anymore. Iran has survived two rounds of maximum pressure already. Meanwhile...
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Dollars and Sense
Diesel is above five dollars a gallon against $3.72 a year ago, prediction markets give better than even odds the blockade ends by September...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Reopening Hormuz was never one of the stated war aims. Preventing an Iranian bomb was. If the B-2 raid on Fordow already settled that...
The Treaty
Trump calls it a chess game and says he's only semi-negotiating. Meanwhile the demands Iran once reserved for nuclear talks are attached to the...
The Treaty
Withdraw the forces, lift the blockade, drop the sanctions, release the frozen assets, pay for the damage, and stop the threats. That's Tehran's price....
Dollars and Sense
Iran controls the inbound lane. Oman controls outbound. The nuclear question goes back to a table it never left. For a president who sorts...
Dollars and Sense
Exxon's Gulf plants ran at 95 percent last quarter, Chevron's at 97, Shell's above 102. Those numbers look like strength. They describe an industry...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The numbers behind the blowup: roughly 800 Patriot interceptors left of 2,330, THAAD stocks slashed, ATACMS nearly gone, Tomahawks at half of plan —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Somebody is wrong. The Pentagon insists the force is "locked and loaded." The inventory reports say America burned through more missiles in a month...