FPI / September 25, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct By Richard Fisher Following a process that took “several months to finalize,” on Sept. 17, 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed a “Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement” (SMDA) that extends Pakistan’s nuclear deterrent to Saudi Arabia. This pact […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, May 21, 2025 With the staging and showmanship of a Cecil B. De Mille saga, President Donald Trump’s State visit to three Arabian Kingdoms was uniquely paired with pomp and joint business incentives which focused in transforming the narrative from conflict to commerce and cooperation. The visits were […]
FPI / May 15, 2025 Geostrategy-Direct U.S. President Donald Trump’s multi-day visit to the Middle East, which began on May 13, was the subject of headlines in Iranian state media amid growing optimism in Teheran about a series of indirect talks with an American leader who appears to be changing the strategic landscape in the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 13, 2025 Real World News Soon after landing and being given the purple carpet treatment by his Saudi Arabia hosts, President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced a massive Saudi investment deal, warned Iran to “make peace or else,” and said he would be lifting all sanctions on Syria. In a statement […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 27, 2024 Contract With Our Readers After nearly four years of frustration with the Biden Administration, Saudi Arabia sent a delegation of top officials to Beijing on Tuesday to discuss stronger relations and increased military coordination with communist China, reports say. Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman traveled to Beijing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, April 15, 2024 Of Iran’s more than 300 drones and missiles launched in Saturday’s attack on Israel, 99 percent were intercepted by Israeli and U.S. forces. They were able to crush Iran’s attack in large part “because Arab countries quietly passed along intelligence about Teheran’s attack plans, opened their airspace to warplanes, […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 24, 2023 Saudi Arabia and Iran are among six countries invited to join BRICS as new members next year. The trading bloc BRICS, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has openly stated its desire to replace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. With the exception […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore, August 24, 2023 Natural gas is the world’s wonder fuel: cheap, abundant, made in America, reliable AND clean burning. So why are the Biden administration and environmental groups against it? There’s really no good answer. What makes the Left’s war against natural gas inexplicable is that the single biggest […]
FPI / June 28, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct President Donald Trump scored a major foreign policy triumph in bringing Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco into a joint normalization agreement known as the Abraham Accords. But, as with many tenets of the previous administration’s foreign policy, the Biden administration has shown little interest in maintaining […]
FPI / March 15, 2023 Geostrategy-Direct Soon after Silicon Valley Bank went bust on March 10 in the second largest bank failure in U.S. history, the Biden administration stepped in and bailed out SVB’s depositors, the majority of whom are wealthy donors to the Democrat Party. “For Washington, this was no big deal,” independent journalist […]
