Escalation: Iran, Russia, China To Hold Naval Drill In Flashpoint Strait Of Hormuz

Midterm Palpitations Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness, Recent regional special elections have seen Democratic candidates win a number of special election races. Now energized left-wing politicos remind the nation daily that every incumbent president, except three over the last century, has suffered substantial midterm losses in Congress. Polls show Trump suffering an average 11-point negative unfavorability rating. So Democrats promise to soon stop all new legislation and end Trump and his counterrevolution itself. But the left will never offer any alternative agenda on the economy, the border, crime, or foreign policy. Instead, the...

IPO Market For AI Freezes Up While The Nuclear SPAC Market Runs Hot  While it looks like OpenAI's IPO has been put on ice as they try to paint SpaceX as the scapegoat, there's still one sector that simply can't launch the IPOs and SPACs fast enough.  After an announcement earlier this year that saw nuclear industrial company Holtec file privately for an IPO, one of the leading reactor developers X-energy debuted on the public market at an almost $10 billion valuation. Since then, microreactor developer Hadron Energy has completed their SPAC...

Iraq Formally Requests Syria Act As 'Hormuz Bypass' Route For Its Crude Syria's geography has long given the country huge economic opportunities as a major energy transfer hub connecting Middle East states to the Mediterranean. But as the last decade plus of proxy war which resulted in the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad demonstrated, Syria has also long been target of foreign machinations bent on seeing a puppet state installed in Damascus. The US-Gulf allies broadly waged war against the so-called 'Shia crescent' represented in the old Baghdad-Damascus-Hezbollah axis. Henry Kissinger famously stated of...