Russia has been working on ways to get around this obstacle Link In recent days, Ukrainian Armed Forces have damaged three key bridges at land entry points into Russian-occupied Crimea. In the early hours of June 11, Ukraine’s Defense Forces conducted an airstrike on the bridge spanning the Crimea Canal in Armyansk, currently under Russian […]
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Excerpts from an article at AZnews Interesting information- quite contrary to western media presentation Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks on relations with Azerbaijan, delivered on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, became one of Moscow’s most notable regional signals. The Russian leader not only offered an emphatically positive assessment of bilateral ties […]
The proposal was, in my opinion, a public relations stunt. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed deeper peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a combative open letter on Thursday Mr. Zelenskyy floated direct negotiations hosted by Switzerland, Turkey or “countries of the Arab world,” adding that talks could not take place in Moscow or […]
*America’s LNG Boom– China enters the crisis from a greater energy resilience position *Oil Prices fall on hope for US Iran Ceasefire We wonder why it is we are unhealthy? Our fertilizer is derived from gas (Thinking about Gary, here) The war in Iran has done more than disrupt global hydrocarbon markets—it has quietly set […]
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Ukraine/Russia- Iran/US
2 news stories of interest Washington Times- this feels like stock market manipulation But, who knows? The U.S. and Iran are expected to announce the finalization of a draft proposal of a peace deal to end the fighting on all fronts by Sunday afternoon, a source close to the negotiations told The Washington Times. A […]
There is so much going on, I’m just going to leave links to interesting news and view from various sources– There’s just too much happening. *Inflation risk for this year “Before the war, before we got the oil shock, I’ve been on the optimistic side of the rate — I believed rates could come down […]
And we ordinary people will be paying for it all. **Good read- War, Inflation, and the Hidden Costs of Closing the World’s Most Important Strait The article actually talks about 2 chokepoints, excerpts below, read entirely at link above I want to talk about the thing nobody in Washington seems willing to say out loud, […]
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Usrael Attack on Iran, Russia too
Before we get to the selected articles.. My opinion 1- Trump and Bibi are going to cause a global economic catastrophe. If they didn’t think through what their attack on Iran was going to lead to they should have. Thinking of order out of chaos and the make America great again has me entertaining the […]
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Ukraine Is Losing the War
Interesting piece from Foreign Affairs with a surprising title to boot! Some excerpts included below; Russia controls a large swath of Ukrainian territory, and Kyiv has little chance of dislodging it, as Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive in 2023 demonstrated. To be sure, recent Russian gains have come very slowly and at significant cost; over the last […]
That’s my opinion- Link to an interesting read from Unherd In his speech at the Munich Security Conference yesterday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio did not waste time mourning the end of the so-called “rules-based order” which has governed international relations for decades. (I question just how much the rules based order governed international […]