

Mafia, piracy, bribing, extortion: talk about a flexible Empire at work
Trump’s war on Iran backfired – and now the Houthis are sinking his midterms.
The U.S. may blockade Iran on the seas. But it cannot blockade Iran’s geography
Trump’s pivot to economic pressure as the key to Iranian capitulation is not a credible strategy.
Relish the ambiguity. And the deliberate opaqueness.
NATO’s terrorism has thrown everything at Russia, short of nuclear weapons, and yet it finds itself wasted and in a wilderness, strategically.
The key variable to watch in these extremely troubled waters: what is contained in the MoU is strategically aligned with Beijing – all the way.
The best Trump can do is to stop the conflicts agglutinating into one global war.