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Vance Seeks To Assure Trump Base Iran War Entering "Much Different Phase" Vice President JD Vance - who was said to have opposed launching Operation Epic Fury from the beginning - has issued some fresh statements on the future of the Iran conflict which sound a bit off-rampy. He could just be voicing his own wishful thinking, however, in proclaiming the conflict will soon enter "a much different phase" in the coming months. He still conceded that ultimately it's the Commander-in-Chief who decides when it will end (though it would be...

Germany's Merz Says US 'Humiliated' By Iranians & Trump Lacks Strategy, Exit Plan German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in a rare moment torched US foreign policy and the Trump administration's Iran war gambit. There's been plenty of criticism out of Europe since Operation Epic Fury kicked off on February 28, but Merz's Monday words are especially direct and scathing. He proclaimed that Iran's leadership was embarrassing the US, claiming it was prompting US officials to travel to Pakistan and then return without achieving any outcome. "The Iranians are obviously very skilled ⁠at...

Watch: Bessent Teases 'Series Of Announcements' To Stabilize Oil; Says Trump's 15% Tariff Will Kick In This Week Authored by Andrew Moran via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), President Donald Trump’s 15 percent global tariff will take effect sometime this week, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Following the Supreme Court’s rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy last month, Trump imposed a 10 percent global tariff, invoking Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974. A day later, Trump pledged to raise the rate to 15 percent. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before...