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President Donald Trump’s economic D-Day is already hurting the Iranian regime’s revenues, but unilateral U.S. sanctions can only do so much. If the president wants Iran to fold, he’ll have to play a much better card — cutting it off from China by enforcing tough U.N. embargoes. Despite its name, Trump’s Operation Economic Outcast does […]
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump predicted that the Iran war would end “immediately after” the November election. On Monday, Iran and Gulf states are due to meet in Oman over passage through the Strait of Hormuz, while the Houthis have pushed to the edge of another maritime chokepoint at Bab al-Mandeb. The calendar is backward. […]
Trade tensions heated up this week between the United States and Canada, with Canada issuing retaliatory tariffs against American goods. The tariffs, which took effect Sept. 8, target about $20 billion and 700 types of American goods, in retaliation for the 50% tariffs the U.S. applied on approximately C$27.6 billion in Canadian goods in August. Sure, […]
President Donald Trump does not need another demonstration that the United States can destroy Iranian assets. He needs a strategy that restores reliable passage through the Strait of Hormuz without making Americans pay for every new round of escalation. After Iran targeted a U.S. warship and an American base in Jordan, U.S. Central Command said […]