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Trump doesn't know what surrendering by Iran would mean in this context. Surrender how? To whom? Are they just gonna tweet "we surrender" then we stop bombing them?
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Trump doesn't know what surrendering by Iran would mean in this context. Surrender how? To whom? Are they just gonna tweet "we surrender" then we stop bombing them?
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I think it's like Michael Scott and bankruptcy, you have to declare it.
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Trump would certainly know about that.
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1h ago13.33 GMT
Daniel Boffey
Oil tankers carrying Russian oil immediately rerouted to India when the US lifted sanctions, according to a senior risk analyst at Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the London-based shipping intelligence publisher.
“We instantaneously saw ships, shadow fleet tankers, sanctioned ones, nonsanctioned ones, making U turns, diverting course,” said senior risk analyst Bridget Diakun. “They were initially going towards Malaysia or to China, and they completely turned around and started heading for India. So India is at this point, able to outbid the buyers in China.”
Diakun said the lifting of sanctions is “a godsend for Russia’s shadow fleet”.
“They’re in a position where now Russia can make a lot of money because it’s given a pass,” Diakun said.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that the decision to lift sanctions against Russia was not going to help end the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year, Reuters reports.
“This single easing by the US could provide Russia with around $10 billion for the war. It certainly does not help (to achieve) peace,” Zelenskyy, who is visiting Paris, said during a joint press conference with French president Emmanuel Macron.
Daniel Boffey
Oil tankers carrying Russian oil immediately rerouted to India when the US lifted sanctions, according to a senior risk analyst at Lloyd’s List Intelligence, the London-based shipping intelligence publisher.
“We instantaneously saw ships, shadow fleet tankers, sanctioned ones, nonsanctioned ones, making U turns, diverting course,” said senior risk analyst Bridget Diakun. “They were initially going towards Malaysia or to China, and they completely turned around and started heading for India. So India is at this point, able to outbid the buyers in China.”
Diakun said the lifting of sanctions is “a godsend for Russia’s shadow fleet”.
“They’re in a position where now Russia can make a lot of money because it’s given a pass,” Diakun said.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday that the decision to lift sanctions against Russia was not going to help end the war in Ukraine, now in its fourth year, Reuters reports.
“This single easing by the US could provide Russia with around $10 billion for the war. It certainly does not help (to achieve) peace,” Zelenskyy, who is visiting Paris, said during a joint press conference with French president Emmanuel Macron.
Truer words have never been spoken.
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Hegseth’s Claim About Killing a Would-Be Assassin Creates a Mystery
The defense secretary said the leader of an Iranian unit that had planned to assassinate President Trump had been killed. But U.S. officials privately acknowledge the story is not that simple.
[It is not clear that Makdam was killed] “… And officials say Mr. Hegseth’s statement that Mr. Makdam led the unit that plotted the assassination is somewhat overstated.
Mr. Makdam has overseen that unit as part of his broader responsibilities, and has been involved in other repressive acts in Iran from his job inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps special operations division. But officials said there was not intelligence placing him in a direct role of plotting to kill Mr. Trump.
A representative for Mr. Hegseth declined to comment.…”