Dollars and Sense
Brandon Weichert argues Washington has China backwards: in two wars, Beijing has played stabilizer — quietly draining its 1.4-billion-barrel oil reserve to hold down...
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The Treaty
Hours after Trump announced Iran had asked to continue talks, a source close to Tehran's negotiating team told the state-linked Fars agency that reports...
Dollars and Sense
Trump agreed to resume talks after Tehran asked — revealing the 90-target strike wave was meant to force Iran back to the table, not...
Dollars and Sense
The U.S. and its Gulf partners are racing to bypass the Strait of Hormuz — the UAE doubling its pipeline capacity, Saudi Arabia expanding...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Unclaimed airstrikes rocked southern Iran hours after CENTCOM declared its 90-target operation complete — and no country has stepped forward, with one Iranian lawmaker...
The Treaty
Israeli intelligence has shared indications of a fresh Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump, per the Wall Street Journal — a warning that came...
The Treaty
The U.S. struck roughly 90 Iranian military targets on a second consecutive day as the ceasefire collapsed, hitting missile batteries, drone sites, and naval...
Dollars and Sense
Oman has formally told the United Nations it opposes transit fees in the Strait of Hormuz, breaking with neighboring Iran and aligning with Washington....
The Treaty
Analysts warn Iran may be dragging the U.S. into a drawn-out conflict it never wanted — wagering that a war-weary Washington walks away at...