Trump warned countries against reneging on their deals with the US, and even if he can’t legally reimpose his threatened 25% punitive tariff on India if it defiantly reverses its trend of reducing Russian oil imports, he might still resume the US’ containment of it through Pakistan and Bangladesh. CNBC …

The goal is to obtain proxy control over Iran’s enormous oil and gas reserves so that they can be weaponized as leverage against China for coercing it into a lopsided trade deal that would derail its superpower rise and therefore restore US-led unipolarity. Trump claimed that the US’ military campaign …

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute are publishing two updates daily to provide analysis on the war with Iran. The morning update will focus on US and Israeli strikes on Iran and the Axis of Resistance’s response …