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Moscow has already been forced to acknowledge “certain problems” caused by Ukrainian strikes, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Vladimir Putin, and a series of other officials now routinely talking about the damage and how to mitigate it.
Bahrain holds the Fifth Fleet headquarters, Qatar and Kuwait the major air and ground facilities. Hundreds of American structures have been damaged since February. Defending them burns interceptors Washington is already short of.
Abu Dhabi spent years shielding its commercial relationship with Tehran while keeping a close security partnership with Washington. Dubai's re-export and finance trade was how Iranian firms reached the global economy around sanctions. That route is now closed.
Last week, Aramco, the state-owned Saudi oil firm, resumed oil loadings from terminals in the Strait of Hormuz. It had previously halted operations due to attacks on its tankers.
Trump told a rally he would never apologize for high gas prices. His own Speaker concedes the war drove them up. A Republican strategist describes the position as a balancing act on the thinnest of wires.
The big question now is how the United States intends to ensure traffic continues to flow through the Strait of Hormuz as Iran’s newly reshuffled military leadership promises to escalate.
Donald Trump was elected in 2024 by a unique coalition of groups that seemed unlikely to stay together long-term. Trump earned the support of podcast bros and also the Christian Right. He did better than usual with pro-Israel Jews and also with Muslim-Americans in Michigan, as well as a half-dozen other similar dynamics. In 2024, […]
Even more worrying for Trump, with the status of the Strait of Hormuz still uncertain, he doesn’t have any easy way out of the Iran conflict.
A crowdsourced tracker found fuel at fewer than three in ten Russian stations on August 16, down from about four in ten a week earlier. One driver leaving northeastern Moscow said he passed no station with gasoline at all.
Jack Buckby reports from a turbulent day in Kyiv: Zelensky fired deputy office chief Iryna Mudra hours after anti-corruption raids, investigators unveiled 'Operation Forrest Gump,' the ousted Fedorov pressed his public challenge, and parliament confirmed a new defense minister amid ongoing protests.
