On Wednesday July 29, 2026, at roughly 3:20 pm CET, a drone struck the Energos Winter — a Marshall Islands-flagged floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) owned by US company New Fortress Energy — on its starboard side at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta, in the northern Nile Delta.
Is US Foreign Policy becoming a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”?
The record influx overwhelmed the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, leaving at least 18 dead and prompting Italy to threaten the return of border controls.
In August 2026 Icelanders will vote in a referendum whether Iceland should open accession talks with a view to joining the European Union.
The Caspian Sea forms a strategically vital direct supply route between Russia and Iran (Source: BBC)
Royal Navy Commodore Steve Jermy commanded warships in the 5th Destroyer Squadron and Britain’s Fleet Air Arm. He served in the Falklands War and in the Adriatic for the Bosnian and Kosovo campaigns. Then retired after an operational tour, in 2007, as Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan. He is the author of the book: “Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century”.
Last Wednesday all the signs were pointing to a desperate action by the Trump administration to launch a ground operation inside Iran ostensibly to seize enriched nuclear material from an Iranian nuclear research facility.
The question ahead of the latest summit with Netanyahu on Tuesday is what the U.S. president will lose — either a war, on the one hand, or on the other, the global economy and the American electorate.
