US Military Commanders Make Surprise Visit to Venezuela

Xi Says "Global Order Crumbling Into Disarray" As Trump Turns Up Pressure Campaign On China President Trump's four-and-a-half-month crusade across the Western Hemisphere, and now into the Middle East, increasingly looks like a massive blitz to acquire - or control - energy assets and maritime chokepoints as part of a broader economic pressure campaign against China, which depends heavily on the Gulf and Venezuelan crude.  "Chokepoint after chokepoint: the administration is methodically building a portfolio of assets that they are stacking against China: the Panama Canal, which is the only exit...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said that the flare-ups in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday show there’s no “military solution” to the crisis and warned the US and the UAE against being drawn into a “quagmire” in the region. “Events in Hormuz make clear that there’s no military solution to a political crisis,” […]

Adm. Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, visited the White House on Thursday to brief President Trump on military options for attacking Iran, The Wall Street Journal has reported. The meeting marks a rare in-person briefing between Trump and the CENTCOM chief, who is known to be supportive of restarting the bombing campaign. Reporting from Axios […]