The US is sending F-35 fighters to the Middle East, reportedly to protect freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf. This announcement, like previous deployments of F-16s, F-22s, and A-10s, is clearly a message directed at Russia and Iran.

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The handshake between the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing represents a major win for China and another blow to American interests in the Middle East and Asia.

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Last week, China and Brazil agreed to settle payments for trade in yuan and real, bypassing the US dollar. This is the latest in a series of events pointing to the imminent end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

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Liberals in Israel celebrated China brokering the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, seeing it as a setback for Benjamin Netanyahu. But cooperation between the world’s main Sunni and Shia powers is nothing to cheer.Continue Reading

ONE OF THE LARGEST banks in America went belly-up Friday, leading to questions about how far this financial contagion will spread.Continue Reading

More secret documents were found at Joe Biden’s Delaware home, causing new headaches for the White House, which could (and should) have headed off this political problem by coming clean months ago

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