Trump Defends Iran War in Series of Posts on Truth Social

In America, French-style violence was simply unnecessary for the revolutionaries to win, and we will never know if the Americans might have resorted to greater violence in different circumstances.

After Putin's Guarded Iran War Comments, Medvedev Enters The Chat Earlier this week President Putin weighed in on America's Iran operations, and as we detailed his comments were predictably a bit guarded. He had compared the war and the Hormuz Strait closure - and subsequent impact on global energy - to the massive widescale impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. But fundamentally he highlighted the "unpredictable" nature of the conflict in terms of where it's headed, as Washington appears to be searching for an offramp on its terms. On Friday Dmitry Medvedev weighed...

Continuing Jobless Claims At 3-Month-Highs, Initial Claims Tumble Back To 2021 Levels The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time fell last week to 215k (after hitting four month highs last week), well below the 225k expectations and back to the same levels it was at in 2021... At the same time, continuing jobless claims picked up to 1.821 million Americans - the highest in 3 months... The bottom line is that initial claims remain low by historical standards and continue to run below year-ago levels, reinforcing the...