How the U.S. Treasury engineered a dollar squeeze in Iran
And what it suggests about how financial pressure could be turned on China and Europe.
Why Ukraine won’t stop attacking American-owned oil infrastructure in Russia
Ukrainian drones struck some corporate offices in Novorossiysk on the Russian Black Sea coastline in September, 2025. The Russia-based oil company targeted claimed this was “an all-out attack” where “the obvious target was to murder as many people as possible.” They have good reason to complain: much of the company’s infrastructure, and many of the ships using […]