Iran’s shadow fleet survives through fake flags, corrupt ports, and complicit insurers. Washington must target the commercial infrastructure enabling it.
Browsing: Venezuela
The Venezuela Oil Deal raises constitutional and moral questions while offering little prospect of quickly lowering gas prices.
Washington’s War on ICC destroys the domestic accountability system that protected Americans from prosecution for twenty five years
Analysis reveals how Iran and Hezbollah convert Venezuelan gold and oil revenue into cryptocurrency to bypass global sanctions.
Eighteen months of aggressive unilateral operations leave Washington facing resilient adversaries in Iran and China, testing the limits of rapid victory.
Armed with parallel conflicts spanning the Strait of Hormuz to Latin America, Washington learns that heavy-handed threats spark immediate global defiance.
From Khamenei to Maduro, Trump has erased diplomatic red lines, arresting presidents and targeting supreme leaders without legal precedent.
Deconstructing the flaw in applying economic bargaining formulas to ideological regimes that derive their legitimacy from conflict rather than cooperation.
When local currencies collapse, people flock to the US dollar as the ultimate safe haven, revealing how monetary failure erodes trust in the state itself.
Russia revisionism helped Moscow defy global rules. But with the US now acting the same way, Russia revisionism is becoming a strategic liability.