Trump Says US Will ‘Take Care of Things’ If Ansar Allah Blockades Bab al-Mandab Strait

What A Taiwan Invasion Would Cost China Authored by Antonio Graceffo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Shortly after meeting with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping in late October, President Donald Trump said China would never attack Taiwan while he is president because Chinese officials “know the consequences.” While support from the United States is welcome news for Taiwan, Trump’s words raise a real question: Does Xi actually know the cost of invading Taiwan? A U.S.-made F-16V fighter jet taxis on the runway at an airforce base during the annual...

Russia Bans Diesel Exports, Assuring Even Higher Prices As was widely speculated in recent days, Russia banned exports of diesel in order to avoid domestic shortages after a flurry of attacks by Ukrainian drones on the nation’s refineries. “Today we introduced ban on exports of diesel,” Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said at the government’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin. The decision will further squeeze global fuel markets, which are already under pressure due to the supply disruption caused by the Iran war. Russia's decision means that the recent surge in the...

Putin Rips NATO Aggression At Scaled-Down Victory Day Parade As Ceasefire Holds By many accounts Russia's Saturday Victory Day parade and memorial observances in Moscow's Red Square were once again muted and somewhat scaled down compared to the immense pageantry which marked the pre-Ukraine war years. President Putin used the occasion while speaking in front of thousands of military personnel and flanked by a handful of world leaders to take swipes at NATO and the West, saying he's fighting "just" war and called Ukraine an "aggressive force" that is being "armed...