Regional shuffles and ruling elite poker faces – Iran, Russia, China, Israel, US, Saudi deals. With Fiorella Isabel

With Trump dancing around his belligerence towards Iran and Israeli expansionism, Saudi Arabia in Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister meeting with Putin in Moscow, the Emir of Qatar also in Moscow, continuing negotiations on Ukraine “peace” deal, Imam Khamenei’s letter delivered to Putin, Israeli and Turkish rivalry in Syria and beyond, Jolani’s terrorists perhaps being sent…

USA is the central battlefield in the global total war

There can be little doubt that we are at war, except it’s not quite like in the movies. This war is unlike any others about which we learned in school where two opposed forces meet in a battlefield and fight it out until one side prevails. That kind of war is happening in Ukraine, but that’s only a part of the conflict that’s engulfed nearly all the rest of the world. It manifests in different and seemingly unrelated ways, but it is part of the same conflict.

EU’s ‘Ukraine Derangement’ blights the entire Middle East

The initial western financial thrust to collapse the Russian economy backfired by driving up energy prices for the benefit of western rivals. However, it is Russia’s next step ​–​ if implemented ​–​ that threatens to drive up commodity prices, undermine western financial markets​,​ and ultimately collapse their currencies.