It’s been a bad week for Iran. The U.S. Treasury on Thursday rolled out a new round of sanctions against 18 Iranian financial institutions and major banks, with the goal of squeezing Iran’s ability to fund operations abroad. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said this latest move in America’s maximum pressure campaign would deprive […]
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Russia plays power broker. A meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization began on...
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Of all the major geopolitical players on the planet, Mother Nature may be the toughest adversary. Nature has neither imperatives nor constraints to guide...
The Geopolitics of the American President