What the president has intuited but can’t admit is that America, and by extension Trump, has suffered defeat. Not on the battlefield, but on the bigger map of strategy.
This is the transcript of 'Cut The Clutter' Episode 1817, explaining how the UAE has been not just a collateral, but a primary target of Iran in the war in West Asia.
Governments from India to Philippines are negotiating with Iran for the safe passage of vessels, while forming small circles to seek a diplomatic solution and even bartering deals.
US president in address to nation says ‘core objectives’ of war ‘nearing completion’, calls on other countries to help open Strait of Hormuz as US ‘imports almost no oil through it’.
Mohammad Marandi, who has accompanied Iranian nuclear negotiating teams in the past, says time for talks has not come—it will arrive only once US is seen to have been defeated.
Trump said Ukraine was not Washington’s problem but the US has stepped in automatically. ‘I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were paper tiger’.
According to report in The Guardian, cable signed by Marco Rubio directs missions to leverage Elon Musk's platform to counter disinfo from Tehran, Beijing & Moscow.
Investigators found that the captain and MP Joani Reid exchanged ‘flirtatious messages’. The probe was necessary from a due diligence perspective, they said.
The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.
INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.
It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
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