IwpostMar 10
Boots-on-the-ground talk as Trump says Iran to ‘be hit very hard’. #AsiaTimes #Block3 #bootsontheground #DonaldTrump #IranWar #IranArabstates #MiddleEast
https://iwpost.com/boots-on-the-ground-talk-as-trump-says-iran-to-be-hit-very-hard/?fsp_sid=3792
Boots-on-the-ground talk as Trump says Iran to ‘be hit very hard’

A report that US President Donald Trump is more bullish in private about putting American soldiers on the ground in Iran than he has been

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IwpostMar 9
Breaking: Khamenei son reportedly named Iran’s new supreme leader. #AsiaTimes #Block1 #Iran #IranWar #Iraniansupremeleader #MiddleEast #MojtabaKhamenei #TheConversation
https://iwpost.com/breaking-khamenei-son-reportedly-named-irans-new-supreme-leader/?fsp_sid=3709
Breaking: Khamenei son reportedly named Iran’s new supreme leader

Opposition channel IranIntl reports that the Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei to be the next Supreme Leader. Mojtaba is the eldest son of

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Anomalous HumanDec 8

>>I would never have imagined that a document normally as portentous as a new US National Security Strategy (NSS) would be describable as “slop.” But in truth that is a kind word for a document equally deserving of another four-letter word beginning with s.<<

Edited: added USPol tag, apologies

https://asiatimes.com/2025/12/the-trump-vance-national-security-strategy-declares-political-war/

#USNews #Racism #ForeignRelations #Europe #Russia #AsiaTimes #Slop #USPol

The Trump-Vance National Security Strategy declares political war - Asia Times

The Economist’s word of the year, published on December 5, could not have been more apt for the document that emanated from the White House on that same

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Olivier Jul 3, 2024
A long article (in English 🇬🇧) on the rise of the USD 💵 (since the World War II), the incredible debt of the USA today since the loss of parity with gold in 1971 (and the reason why); the possible deepening of that loss (this time from China 🇨🇳); the consolidation of the BRICS grouping and mBridge (an alternative to the SWIFT financial system); the UAE no longer selling barrels of oil in dollars, and potentially a new parity on gold and oil. 👍🏼
https://asiatimes.com/2024/07/cryptos-gold-and-the-end-of-the-dollar/ #asia #asiatimes #longread
Cryptos, gold and the end of the dollar

A growing number of macroeconomists and financial analysts are sounding the alarm about the exploding US national debt, now approaching US$35 trillion or

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