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 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler, March 13, 2023 The theatrical pomp and circumstance of China’s National People’s Congress presents an annual political ritual on the verge of Spring. Nearly 3,000 delegates assembled in Beijing to participate in the week long sessions and delivered-on-demand results for the ruling Communist Party leadership; formalizing the unprecedented […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler A powerful wind from the East is blowing across the Arabian desert. During a significant but overlooked three-day visit to Saudi Arabia, China’s leader Xi Jinping has scored a “strategic partnership” with oil rich and strategic Saudi Arabia. For China in its presumably post-COVID era, the focus remains […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, December 8, 2022 In what many observers are calling the worst trade in history, Team Biden has swapped notorious Russian arms smuggler Viktor Bout, known as the “Merchant of Death,” for an America-hating WNBA star in Brittney Griner who just happens to check all the right boxes. Joe Biden signed the […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, October 13, 2022 Oh no. Joe Biden is being accused of lobbying Saudi Arabia to postpone cuts in OPEC’s oil production until after the 2022 midterm elections. If true, and the Saudi Ministry of Foreign affairs hinted it was in a Thursday statement, then Biden did what President Donald Trump was […]
FPI / July 20, 2022 Geostrategy-Direct.com By Steve Rodan, China in the Middle East Mohammed Bin Salman is young, brash and ruthless. What sets him apart from his Saudi colleagues is that he is the de facto ruler of the biggest crude oil exporter in the world. After years of stagnation, the Gulf Arab kingdom, […]
