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👋 Halito!* Welcome to Wednesday, where Hamas stops short of accepting a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal in Gaza, Iran halts cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog IAEA, and we promise there’s zero danger answering today’s quiz question about Squid Game. Meanwhile, Maxim Kireev in Die Zeit calls out German leaders’ ambivalent attitude toward Russia. [*Choctaw, Native American] […]
Israel bombed Iranian nuclear and military facilities last night, killing the head of the Revolutionary Guards and several Iranian scientists. It may appear as a strategic victory, but it also appears to be a choice to live with war across the region for years to come.
The West is insisting on reviving a nuclear pact with Iran. However, this will only postpone the inevitable moment when the regime declares it has a nuclear bomb. The only solution is regime change.
The Nord Stream 1 pipeline halted its gas flow into Europe Wednesday morning. Russian state energy giant Gazprom said this was part of a scheduled stoppage announced last week, and is expected to last through September 2. Still, the cut raises renewed concern over the power Russia wields with its energy supplies ahead of the […]
A timeline of a standoff that long seemed destined to continue, or worse.