RT The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter)BREAKING: Europe is "pushing back" on some US military operations with multiple countries now prohibiting the US and Israel from using their airspace for missions in the Iran War, per Reuters.Details include:1. France, Italy, and Spain denied US military support or airspace for Iran operations, sources say2. Israel wanted to use France's airspace to ​transport US weapons to be used in the Iran War but the request was denied3. Italy told the US they need "special permi ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@stamatiosebas That's why, as long as the U.S. remains insanely antagonistic to geographical winner Iran, it's a win/win for Iran and China to require payments be in yuan as a condition of transiting Hormuz.If the U.S. allied with Iran, payments would continue in dollars. ...

China spent years building ties in Latin America. Can Trump make room for the US? https://t.co/3nWMePurkr ...

♦️ Donald Trump says America will probably not need to send ground troops to Iran.♦️ US embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait close.♦️ The DoJ abandons attempts to go after law firms which refused to capitulate to the president.Follow the latest news https://t.co/L6d3jznZCj ...

There is a school of thought that China has no strong desire to fully control Taiwan, because(a) it already gets most of what it wants from Taiwan (for example, smuggled chips and chip designs),(b) they are increasing this influence a little bit every year, and(c) Chinese are patient.Perhaps.But it is also true that neither the U.S. population nor its elites have any strong desire to protect Taiwan. Nor do we any longer have an easy ability to do so with 21st century warfare, where naval assets have increas ...

For decades, A 1946 US offer to acquire Greenland from Denmark was a state secret. The exact offer is unknown, but US diplomats had previously floated a price of $100 million in gold. But it was a non-starter.Greenland was not for sale. Sound familiar. We need Greenland for national security.One way or the other, we're going to get it. President Trump plans to buy Greenland. Is that how this ends.It wasn't. But even if it had. How does one price an island that you think secures a hemisphere.What is, for exa ...

Geopolitical Concerns - Allies from Warsaw to Seoul are questioning the reliability of U S protection against aggression [1] Source - The Wall Street Journal opinion piece discusses these concerns [1]

From @WSJopinion: From Warsaw to Seoul, allies are asking if they can rely on the U.S. to protect them against aggression, writes @cjcmichelhttps://t.co/zQLV7cuC0H ...

Ukraine's allies voice concerns over US plan to end war https://t.co/LdAcu4KeyH ...

From @WSJopinion: From China and Israel to Yemen and Iran, there’s much the Saudis can do for America. For what Trump is offering them, though, he ought to make sure he isn’t asking too little.https://t.co/f3yOtOc5cO ...